Author Archives: Maggie

A Song for Saturday: The Good Girls Are Home with Broken Hearts

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This song reminds me of summertime growing up. I just love Tom Petty and I really love songs about Los Angeles.

Happy Saturday!

Fabulous Friday: A Perfect Summer Sandal!

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I completely realize that what I’m about to say is going to be very unpopular, but it’s how I feel and so I’m just going to say it.

I hate flip flops.

I know, I know, I live in Southern California and here a statement like that is blasphemy! But people, I just hate them! I think they’re ugly and too casual for pretty much any occasion and I cannot stand that sound they make when they slap the wearer’s heel. If you want to wear them to the beach or to the pool that is just fine with me. Those are the places they are appropriate for, but  I don’t want to see them at the mall, at the grocery store, at the coffee shop. Really, I don’t want to see them at all.

I mean, c’mon people, can’t we all just try a little harder and get a pretty sandal that slips on just as easily and is just as comfortable? Please?

For example, I recently picked up a pair of sandals from Payless that I just love. They are perfectly comfortable, slip on and off easily, and make it look like I put a little effort into my appearance.

Please folks, ditch the flip flops and try a cute pair of sandals. I’m begging you!

Hey Maggie, what’s going on with your photo website?

Posted by: Maggie

Well, I told a bunch of people that it was going to launch on the 4th and now it’s the 15th and it’s not up yet! What’s the deal?!

Well, Josh was basically ready to have it up, but I didn’t have the content ready. So I spent a weekend or so getting the content written and moving my photography posts from this site to that, resizing images for the galleries, and cropping images for the header. And now that part is complete, which means that the site should be up, right? Well, no. So, as it turns out Josh expected to launch without the portfolio image galleries done and then just add them later. And to a normal person I’m sure that would seem fine. After all, I’ve written a post about all of my shoots so the images will already be there, but just in the individual posts and not in galleries. So, no big deal, right? Wrong.

I’m not so much a normal person. I am a person who when moving has to unpack as quickly as humanly possible (no more than 2 days!), I cannot stand to have unpacked boxes around. I’m also a person who purchased basically all of the furniture in her home in a single shopping trip. Basically, I just can’t stand for something to be unfinished or incomplete. I guess that makes me sort of a perfectionist or maybe just a little obsessive compulsive.

I also just decided that I want to have some new headshots done for my bio portion of the site. So I don’t think that I can launch the site before that.

I do realize that all of this is a little crazy, or maybe a lot crazy. I should just launch it and add the photos and the galleries later. But, you know what, I don’t really want to. It’s my business and my website and I want it to be how I want it, which is complete when it launches. Please feel free to tell me how crazy you think I am.

So, right now, I’m hoping for the first week of August give or take a week.  Stay tuned and I’ll be sure to keep you updated!