my love goes free

you're a bird//
with a pretty mouth//
you're a bird//
with songs to shout//
and the same refrain//
continues//
singing out//
if you love her //
let her go//
if you love her//
let her go//
she sings beautiful//
and slow//
a tune//
that only caged birds know//

my love goes free | jon foreman


,
abby

take that leap.

sometimes, we feel discouraged to paint, to draw, to craft and create really, because what we have isn't as good as what everyone else has. we have plastic brushes, they have wood, we have washable watercolours, they have the real thing. but for me, right now, eight watercolours is plenty along with the blue plastic paintbrush with the blue part chipping off. honestly, whatever your passion is, go for it. don't let what you don't have hinder you. don't let your own self-doubt push you away from what you really want to do. you're into photography and you have a kodak point + shoot instead of a mark iii? that's okay. work what you have. you're a writer and you feel as though everyone else has said all there is to say? that's okay. say it your own way. whatever it is you want to do, just do it now. take that leap. get a new perspective, and i promise the world will look so much more beautiful than it did before.

art journaling

I recently took an online art journaling class & have found my newest hobby. I love art journaling, it's like scrapbooking... but without your personal pictures. My art journal has a music theme. I like creating a page based upon a song lyric, a certain type of music, inspiration I found from music or a song, etc. Art journaling is a great way to unwind and feel creative. (:

xo, Hayley

oh anna sun.

simply a song. and i think that as we reflect on summer (as it's almost gone), we should sing along.
xx, jocee.

- channel your inner creativity -

If you're bored, which everyone gets eventually, we tend to drift toward the computer, and then of course we get sucked into the vortex which is the internet. And we often seem to lose track of time in this world, and then our day has been wasted and we pound our fists into the table and look to the heavens screaming "why!?!?" because pretty soon it's time to go to bed. 

But my dears, I have a solution. No matter how much your mind is convincing you to get on the computer, stay away and do something creative. Like making collages! Channel your inner creativity into snipping up magazine clippings into something significant to you. 

Like mine up above. It's about summer and all the things to come. Like boating, dresses, sandals, flowers, traveling, the beach, sun&shade, picture taking, bird watching, friends, and I added the number 6 in there because that's the month summer starts. Making collages makes me feel like an artist and makes me happy.

So try it out! (:

xo, Hayley

the filmmakers journey

i hope you enjoy this lovely post by morgan! it is very informative and entertaining about the world of filmmaking, something that i (jocee) want to possibly get into in later years. do read and show her some love at her blog!

It all started with a daydream. I was thirteen, the summer of 0'9. I have always loved building forts and dressing up and calling all my friends over to play house. That was my utopia.

So on an ordinary summer day , I was cleaning out "my" land (actually it's the backyard where all my "houses" are built). And then, boom! An idea for a movie struck me! Which was weird because making movies was never anything I had ever thought about. But suddenly here I was in my dress up skirt determined to make a movie about the mid-west. So, what I did was quickly emailed all my friends and started writing out my ideas. All of them quickly agreed and only a few days later we shot my first movie; Little Clinic in the Woods. The story was about three girls moving from New York city to a place called Sikeston Missouri. Being use to the city life they were, the girls naturally had a few struggles adjusting to their new life. I was so proud of my first movie! But we had a few problems..  Back in those days my family still owned one of those big clunky video cameras that took vhs, so the battery was either dying or I was running out of tape space. But all to say we had alot of fun, and I was forever hooked on movie-making.

A few years passed and I was still making movies , but I felt like it was time to move on to more interesting stories, and not just my amateur comedies.  So last Fall, I came up with yet another idea. Robin Hood. Well, technically it's Robin & Rowan Hood, the epic story of a peasant girl who has skill with the bow. I spent seven months on that film, when all my other movies just took a few hours. But I learned so much, and enjoyed every minute! I am very proud of it, and I am looking forward to my next movie idea ;)

 

I have learned alot about being a director. Mostly about myself. I have always liked organizing, directing various projects and of course sewing and dressing up. I found it pretty cool how everything I am interested (almost everything) falls under the category of film. It has been an amazing journey. Last year I won a library video contest in which the reward was $50 gift card to Best-Buy. I used that to buy a more in depth software. That same week I was blessed with a really really good video camera, which I still use.

And this summer I am filming my Uncle's wedding.

 

I am a dreamer. I can't wait to see what the future holds for me. Right now I am almost seventeen, I am a photographer, writer, designer and many many other things.

I hope you enjoyed a little bit about my story. The place at where I am now, is because I listened to a daydream the summer of 09.

xx,

morgan

10 things to do

xo,

abby

mistakes

xo. megan kristine

hues

I love color combinations. And some of my favorites come from picking colors out of photographs I've taken. Do you have a favorite color combination?

xo. Megan Kristine

for when you're stuck

xo. Megan Kristine