Focus

Hello! Hope you all had a lovely weekend! 

I decided to pick up my camera and start shooting some photos with Chance.  I've been wanting to do this project for a while with him.  I have always wanted a collection of photos of us in surreal situations.  Since I'm usually the one behind the camera, I don't have a lot of photos of Chance and I besides selfies I make him take with me.  

I was really inspired when I recently purchased Terri Foss's Oracle Deck: HERE.  I suddenly got the strong urge to create my own deck through my medium of Photography.  I have been wanting to do photos so badly again but I hate the task of putting makeup on and getting my hair done and blah blah blah.  I decided to show little of my face in these photos and make sure that chance would be in each one.  I think this would make it easier for people to relate to as well.  

If you scroll down to the photo with the word Focus written on it you will see that this would be the complete oracle card that would go in the deck.  Wait let me back up... you make be asking:  "what the hell is an oracle card/deck Shannon?"  Well here's a quick explanation: "Oracle cards, also known as wisdom cards and tarot cards, are cards used for divination, fortune-telling, astrology and spiritual guidance."

I started to read Tarot cards recently and decided it would be fun to try out oracle cards too:) 

I hope you enjoy the first photo of the set- I will make small posts of before and afters as I go through the project- I don't know how many I will decide to be in my deck yet but I don't need to just yet :) Enjoy!

Oh and here are some fun outtakes :)  

 

This is me. Trying to get Chance to look up!

I got a few good shots of him looking up but I ended up liking this one and went with it :) 

Goodnight all and here's to another work week :( Boooo!

4th of July

     For the 4th of July we drove out to meet up with our good friends Haileigh and Alan in Brockway, PA. What an adorable little town out in the country!  Haileigh and I work together but she works from home while I work in the office.  She comes in every now and then but I don't get to see her nearly enough. She is truly an amazing soul and I just adore her and her husband!  They had this wonderful festival going on with arts and crafts, music (Bon Jovi cover band) and a magician that was the funniest and most awkward I have ever seen.  I can't even begin to explain his antics but the best part was he threw some adult humor in there and it went right over the kids heads and we were all laughing.   We walked around and got some food and just enjoyed our friends company!  We had about a 2 hour drive home but after I snapped some photos of the country side I fell asleep.  The sun wore me out.  We got home and both laid on the bed and passed out.  Brian was just as tired as I but the day was totally worth it!  So here are some photos from our day:

Mom's 65th Birthday

Two posts in one day!!! I know- I couldn't really wait... they start to build up and give me anxiety and I have had a lot of that lately. 

So for my Mom's 65th Birthday on June 24th (I know, she doesn't look 65!) we took her to do something she has always wanted to do- a train ride!  We drove about an hour and a half to Ohio for the experience.  We had some snacks once we got there, explored the small town and then hopped on the train!  It really was a nice, relaxing 3 hour ride (went by very fast) and we enjoyed chatting a glass of wine.  It was a beautiful day and was wonderfully spend with family! I'm going to let the photos do the talking for this post as it was a pretty simple day so I hope you enjoy them!  

Well- Happy Birthday Meems- we love you to the moon and back and then back again!