11.30.2010

Rainy Day.

xoxo martha mae.

11.29.2010

This is part of my daily life. It defines my life when I'm home, regardless of how sad that may be. But Great Harvest is one of my favorite places in Oregon. I work with my friends, and now family. Its been a consistent part of my life and I love it that way. I know the customers, the product, and the owners. What could be better.

So my photo of the day was taken there. And this one (even though it is kind of weird) has the colors of the store. The photo is of the mess made by rolling out our delicious sugar cookies. And I love the color of our kneading table, especially with flour sprinkled all over it.

xoxo

Martha Mae.

11.28.2010

Today's photo of the day, is several. I love making these things from cut outs of magazines...but today I decided to take pictures of words all over my house. Words that mean something to me/ were even sort of applicable. Because it turned out harder to find words in my house than I thought.

xoxo

Martha Mae.

11.27.2010

Tree Shopping! Today after work the family plus Kayla jumped into the car and drove off to find a tree.

and we did. find one, that is.

xoxo

Martha Mae

11.26.2010

LASER TAG tonight.

So much fun, but between that and shopping it left little time to shoot my photo of the day. So here was my 5 minutes of shooting.
Kayla is a thug.

 

the end.

xoxo Martha Mae.

11.25.2010

Today I'm Thankful that I live in such a beautiful state, and that I have wonderful friends and family that constantly surround me.
This Thanksgiving was wonderful, delicious, and so much fun.

My photo for today was taken in Forest Grove...a place I really should give more credit to.

xoxo
Martha Mae.

p.s. I kind of wanted to edit out those branches in the top of the image, but a. its past midnight and I'm sleep typing right now and b. I kind of like that this photo is, as is...without Photoshop magic. But I understand if you disagree.

11.23.2010

Today is not only photo of the day, but photos. Because one is the picture I took, and one is a picture Julene took. But I love both of them.

Today we had the first snow of the year.
And Today Zach, Andy, and Spenser came to visit.
It made it a pretty awesome day.

XOXO

martha mae.

11.22.2010

I was almost asleep.

But here is my photo of today.

The idea credit goes to Julene.

goodnight xoxo
Martha Mae

11.21.2010

I'm just going to lie to all of you, and tell you I'm doing an indoor series this week. All photos will be taken late at night, inside my humble abode, stretching my very small amount of creativity to its limits. Because that seems to be the only time I can remember the one goal I have. Seriously I don't really have any other goals right now.
(okay another lie... marriage, college, children, painting a giant picture) are all goals still inside of me. Just less urgent.


Tonight it is shadow puppets/ random shape shadows. Because me and Julene (Julene and I) really struggled with forming actual animals. But it led to many giggles...so enjoy.

I've always loved creating hand puppets, so next time you're bored- done with studying- or on a cute little date. Get comfy and make some sweet shadow puppets.

xoxo (hugs and kisses)

Martha Mae.

11.20.2010

POPCORN EMOTIONS!

I once again forgot till the last second tonight. So luckily I have an awesome friend to remind me.
Kayla to the rescue. We made popcorn for our movie. And I just started taking pictures of her eating it. Then we decided to do different faces when watching movies. So here they are. And if you have never watched a movie with Kayla....these are legit. This is real life. :)


xoxo. Martha Mae

11.19. 2010

So not proud. But all I could think about this morning was Harry Potter.
And I didn't have any creative way to photograph that.
So this is what my photo a day might, turn into. A Cat Calendar. haha So sorry folks. I'll do better tomorrow. I promise.

meet sophia.

xoxo Martha Mae

11.18.2010

NEW SHOES! 

and what is better than that. So my new babies are my photo of the day. I went for a short "run" outside this morning- with my camera. Mainly so I could wear my cute new shoes and jacket!!! Don't judge. :)

Also not sure why...but none of the colors are not right when I upload it on to here. But its more colorful I swear, when I look at it on my computer.

xoxo Martha Mae.

p.s. Also I know my legs look kind of freaky, but just don't judge them. 

11.17.2010

Today I had assistances which almost made things more struggl-ie because I felt like I needed to do something cooler. And changing your lens in the rain is fairly difficult. So Thank You Kayla, and Julene.

It has now been documented, November 17th was a Rainy Day.

xoxo
Martha

11.16.2010

Someday I will take pictures before the sun goes down- outisde. And they will be sweet. But today it just didn't happen. But I did remember before going to bed...so results!

xoxo

martha mae.

RESULTS!

If you haven't seen Angus Thongs, I highly recommend it.

But after something good happens/ her plan works and she gets "results". The main character always yells "RESULTS".  And I just love it.

And since I'm afraid of the G word (goal), and mainly failing to achieve them. I have decided I'm going for RESULTS.

and I'm trying to take and post a photo a day. Which I have tried and failed at doing a thousand times before. But today I almost forgot but then remembered. So I'm doing this. And since it is 11:44 at night and I have no natural light, and nothing beautiful to photograph I just sent for silly.

This is a little taste of my current life as a nursery teacher- I love it.

so obviously don't get to excited/ expect anything from this uh- project. Its just because practice makes perfect (ish).

xoxo Martha Mae

p.s. Anyone else excited about Christmas?!

p.p.s. Here is the photo I took yesterday.

J* Fund needs to be started like TODAY.

I can't decide if this fund should be to pay for going to one of her workshops or just for her to shoot my wedding. Either way, I've got to start saving today. Does this sound crazy, because I honestly don't believe it is. Let me justify myself with my top 5 reasons I need Jasmine Star to shoot my wedding.

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5. I NEED to look/ feel/ be this beautiful on my wedding day.

and then I need to learn how to do that for people....because that is why I want to do wedding photography.

xoxo Martha Mae

Rain.

I love the rain, and I wasn't even born in Oregon.
My favorite thing about the rain is that it somehow has the magical power of giving you full permission to dance, full on... in it.
But my second favorite thing about the rain is...using my windshield wipers. I don't know how to exactly describe it. But my favorite thing is having the wipers set to the exact speed required to get that feeling of blurred vision until you almost feel like you have lost control and can't see anything anymore- to sudden clarity. Its a brilliant feeling. I recommend everyone learns how to control the speed of their windshield wipers.
Third favorite thing is how everyone rushes about in the rain, but only till they are undercover then they pause, take of their hood, shake out the umbrella, or wipe of there now spotted glasses.
And then you have a instant reason for some Hot Coco and a warm fire.

The Rain is Brilliant and Perfect.

This is a Photo I took when with Alyssa Cook, who I could also describe as Brilliant and Perfect.

(thanks for making me want to be a cuter/ better me)

xoxo Martha.

Tina Fey

Tina Fey is so great. And I honestly don't believe she gets enough credit. 30 Rock is the funniest show ever. And I just got back from Megamind where she was the funniest character. So I really think everyone should slow down and take the time to really appreciate Tina Fey. Watch some SNL, some 30 Rock and go see Megamind. Because its super funny, and Tina looks great all animated out. haha

Favorite Person Ever award for sure goes to Tina!!!

xoxo Martha