It’s been a long time coming. I’m excited to finally say “Welcome to my new blog”! For those of you who are following me on my old blog please subscribe to this one. Please be patient while navigating the site, we are still working on getting out any possible bugs.

I started my re branding  journey officially in May of this year. I spent hours upon hours looking at flash sites and wordpress templates. I was in the mind set of ” I need something that looks professional”, something legit. Site after site, I just couldn’t find what I was looking for. I just couldn’t find one that fit me. I needed something that fit my style and personality.

I threw out the idea of keeping it strictly professional and decided that I wanted to be personable. So I wrote down ideas. Flash site. Splash page. Inspiring floating words. Blogsite. Just a blog. Thats what I wanted. Just a place that I could write about my photography and personal life. I follow photographers that have gone through rebranding themselves and I was given great advice from many people. I read a forum about a photographer who used a designer out in San Luis Obispo. I wasn’t planning on using an out of state designer. I thought  to myself “well I might as see what all the fuss was about” and checked out their site. I was instantly engaged with their style. Mostly the great music…kidding, but they do have great music on their site. As I was scrolling down, I noticed that they did the website for the band Delirious,which I found extremely rad. Being in a youth group my whole preteen/teen life I spent many a times listening to their cd’s. ”We’ll see miracles, we’ll see angels sing  we’ll see broken hearts making history” After I spent a few minutes listening to my delirious Pandora station I sent 805 collective an email.

I wrote about how I needed a custom blog-site. I crossed my fingers for a reply. I had a reply email from a guy named Jeremy a couple hours after I sent it. He said he could do what I was looking for. During the nights that I was in rebranding mode I had a dream about peacock feathers while trying to decide on designs. I make peacock fascinators (aka feather hair clips). I told him about it and asked him to run with it. I then sent him a photo of an anthropologie window display that I was in love with.(photo above found here)

We emailed back and forth and rest is history. He has skills. Thanks Jeremy! You Rock. He also designed my logo,letterhead,thank you business cards. That’s all for another time.

Now I couldn’t of launched my site without my wonderful husband Caleb who supported me. He put up with my whining. Those who known me would be surprised that I whined…

My indecisiveness on every aspect of re branding. “Light blue or navy blue”

“Does this look too big to you” “do you like this one or this one” “Does this fit my style”

Not only did he help with that part,but he made my site work. All the links,the gallery,the menu, everything..all the coding. So a special thanks to him for putting all those hours in so that I could launch today. I love you..(ps thanks to nick r for helping caleb with whatever it was on this site you helped him with I’m not that technically savvy.

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