Author Archives: Maggie

Dinosaur Hall at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles

Posted by: Maggie

While Brian was is town we wanted to entertain him a little. We figured he probably didn’t want to do what we normally do: sit on the couch and eat ice cream. So, we took him to one of our favorite places in L.A., the Natural History Museum. The museum has just opened their new Dinosaur Hall, and we had been waiting for Brian to visit to check it out. The Dinosaur exhibit at the museum had been closed for years with only this display in the entrance hall of the museum:

That’s Brian, being adorably scary. Now the exhibit is finally reopened in a gorgeous new display!

Okay, that’s not it, that’s just Josh and Eleanor enjoying the Discovery Center at the museum. Fun stuff if you like taxidermy.

Here are the Dinosaurs:

I wish I could tell you something more about the exhibit, but if you’ve ever been to a museum with a 3 year old you know that there’s no chance you can stand in one place to read about what you’re looking at for more than 30 seconds.

I now realize I should have grabbed a stranger to take a photo of all of us, but I had my nice camera and it’s always scary to hand your very expensive camera over to a stranger who 1) could walk off with it, and 2) can’t follow your instructions on how to take the photo anyway.

More adventures with Brian up soon!

Make Art a Part & a Giveaway!

Posted by: Maggie

If you follow my photo business blog, you’ve heard that I had the pleasure of contributing a project to Kaitlyn from is a virtue’s new ecourse, make art a part (of your life). make art a part is an eight week course with contributions from a number of fabulous artists, who each give you a project in their medium to help you make art a part of your life. It looks like an amazing class with so many interesting projects. Registration is now open! You can click the image below to check it out.

To celebrate, Kaitlyn has offered to give one very lucky cranky reader a set of camera stationary created just for my readers!

You’ll win five envelopes, ten sheets of writing paper and five envelope seals!

How to Enter:

All you have to do is leave a comment below with your favorite item from Kaitlyn’s etsy shop!

You have until this Thursday August 11 at 11:59pm PST. I’ll announce the winner on Friday!

Fabulous Friday: the Summer to Fall Dress

Posted by: Maggie

I was super excited to find this dress at Target the other day! It’s the perfect summer to fall dress. The colors work well for both seasons. Right now I’m wearing it with just a pair of sandals, but come fall all I have to do is add a cardigan, a pair of tights and boots and I’ll be in perfect autumnal style!

Xhilaration Juniors Challis Kimono Dress – Orange Print; Target, $20

Do you have a favorite summer to fall dress yet?