new coffee table (we bought it from my friend joanna, $30-score!) i've been wanting a coffee table for a year and a half...



new side table for our guest room as well (we bought this from them as well, $10!)



and i made a batch of cookies because i'm crazy.

happy birthday to my little swedish chef:


my favorite things about you are...

-that you snuggle at night
-that you make amazing meals
-that you have confidence
-that you may be a year older but you will always be capable of having fun.
-that you are so creative.

i love you!

though i'm not feeling the thanksgiving charm, i had to post this for the sheer tradition of it all.

i want to see this:

yes

Nor'Easter 09

I have written in this journal since September 2001, and have written 2,438 entries. One day I would love to print out the entries and bind it together in a book, but that would be INSANE.

There's only a handful of us left still writing on here, but I am curious to know how many entries other people have written on here and when they started their LJ...

i want to be this girl (minus that pearl necklace):

i'm tired of saying no to myself.
it's time to say yes.

I'm reading Shopgirl again. That novella is like poetry.

i'd rather be getting styling ideas off of this site rather than magazines.
http://www.thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

this is a good place

Letting the Light In

alright, so this may not be funny, but it's funny to me. matthew broadwick is on this stupid show on bravo and if you watch closely you will notice that he is NOT happy being there. in fact, i think he goes so far as to make fun of the host of the show.

Ferris from Erica Emmons on Vimeo.

love this

Lady Gaga from Erica Emmons on Vimeo.

so i haven't been posting pics much lately it seems of our current blue shutter jobs. that's because i want you to check out our blue shutter blog! we post a photo of the day, and our best photos from each job.
blueshutterstudios.com/blog

but i couldn't help but post pics from our last session with bryn and brian. we were so happy with the photos. here are some that i took:) this was for their one year anniversary




( bryn&brian )

so this ralph lauren ad recently ran in magazines and because of all the complaints it recieved, they released a statement:
"After further investigation, we have learned that we are responsible for the poor imaging and retouching that resulted in a very distorted image of a woman's body."



Maybe this is a testament to when photoshop is used TOO MUCH! GEEZE.