One of my besties posted a quote today from THE Elizabeth Taylor and I quite liked it so I made a little something something with it.
Wouldn’t that be fabulous framed in a dressing room?
Annnd since today IS Halloween, why not get a jump on next years costume?!
You can go total drop dead gorgeous glamazon Liz Taylor!
Or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in a vintage slip Liz Taylor!
Either option would be stunning!
Well….not really. But I have started my christmas shopping! Is it too early to be talking about christmas you guys? Halloween hasn’t even passed us by yet.
Halloween has always been my favorite holiday – but I think christmas may be beating it out this year. Maybe me being stuck in North Alabama with no friends that are interested in Halloween and a husband who could care less about it too has gotten me a little down over the past few years. When we were home in Mobile, our friends would dress up and go out with us, which made my husband a little more excited about it. But here – nah. We pretty much dress up and sit around the house watching horror movies-and I have to make him do that much. Can anyone say downer?
I have however been pretty excited about christmas. I’m trying to hold off on pulling out the tunes and movies until after Thanksgiving though. We are going to the hometown this year and I can’t wait to see everyone. I have been really missing my friends over this past year. We are going to get our butts to Bellingrath Gardens while we are there too! If you don’t know about Bellingrath – they are beautiful gardens in Mobile, Alabama – at christmas they put up these spectacular light shows that you can walk through and explore and I haven’t been in five years. Here are a few crappy images taken with a point and shoot from that trip five years ago – just to give you an idea. I will bring my camera this year and take some good images to share with you guys.
and one from the web.
I hope it isn’t hot this year though. There are pictures of me from the last Mobile christmas wearing my pea coat so that seems promising.
(me with my Granny, mom, and stepdad – Mobile Christmas 2009)
Anyway – I have been waiting for A Very She and Him Christmas to come out and its here! I had to at LEAST give it a listen before black Friday! You guys take a listen too. Zooeys voice is just delightful.
If you guys would like more christmas music suggestions I have another for you – One of my favorite albums is Ella Fitzgerald Wishes You A Merry Christmas and my favorite christmas song ever is Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas performed by Judy Garland.
(subliminal message for Marsha if she is reading this….I sure do hope there are some buckeyes this christmas – wink wink!)
Good Morning All! This morning I am sitting on my couch, enjoying my second cup of coffee and watching Urban Legend. Remember that movie? I haven’t seen it in a long time but it is kind of nostalgic for me. My 13 year old self watched it a million times on a plastic VHS tape.
I am also window shopping on the web! I was browsing dresses on Macys.com and stumbled upon somthing I thought I’d share just in case someone had been looking for this.
You guys remember Jennifer Lawrence on the red carpet at the Oscars last year? There was a lot of buzz about her in her simple red dress? Here is a little reminder.
I myself was not super impressed. Sure she looks dang good – but the dress was boring to me….. BUT I know a LOT of ladies out there loved it!
If you have some special occasion coming up and have been looking for a dress like Jennifers – here ya go!
Yes I know the picture is tiny – but its all I could get. Here is the link for a better look.
http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=595215&CategoryID=5449&LinkType=#fn=sp%3D21%26spc%3D1130
This weeks episode of Community (Remedial Chaos Theory) was so excellent that I had to tell you guys. It made me really miss my hometown friends that I can be as goofy as I want to with! I don’t get to see or talk to them enough! Here are a couple of videos from the episode.
My brain is always full of ideas buzzing around that I either don’t have the time or money to deal with. Some things I can do are in the works though!
I am slowly but surely working on rebranding Jacquelyn Jackson Photography and getting a new website up.
Getting rid of the red. adding kraft and gold.
You like? I like.
Next.
Our “dining room” which has always been the room I pile all of my photography equiptment in- is in the process of being turned into a brand spankin new in home studio! WOOOOOO! Excitement abounds. I am so ashamed of my piles upon piles of disorganization that I am not even going to post a before shot. But I will update ya’ll with an after.
I’m cooking up something big in this head of mine that I would like to do with myself. But it is so big that I probably won’t be able to actually see it through for three or four years…..
Or maybe I should say Jam Of The Night since it is past my bedtime already. I just got done watching one of my favorite movies – The Virgin Suicides. The music by Air is so dreamy and a perfect fit. Give Playground Love a listen.
I love how the song comes from pieces of Luxs gum.
I have to say – I am not a person that is way into politics or even stays 100% up to date with things. I definitely have my views on things – but find it frustrating to emerse myself in all of it all of the time as some people do. There is so much negativity and I am a pretty mellow la-dee-da type of person. I don’t like to add unnecessary stress to my life. One thing that I do believe is that, as an American, whether you agree with your president all of the time or not, you should show them at least a tiny bit of respect. You should not root for them to fail. You should want your leader to be successful right? Sure let it be known that you don’t agree, by all means. But why be blatantly disrespectful?
I am also the type of person who believes that everything you say or do has an effect on something or someone and that you are responsible for that. If you put some false idiotic statement on your facebook status, people are going to read that and take it as fact and talk about it and pass it on and this whole cloud of negativity over someone is created – by you.
But who are we? In the grand scheme of things we aren’t much as individuals. Who cares what our facebook status says right? Well what about major news sources. Like the FOX Nation. I do not watch FOX news. They do all of these things that I mentioned. All of these little, unnecessary, negative things that I find toxic on a small level like facebook is all that I see on FOX news except blown up a million fold. I see them trying to create fear, hate, and anger.
This was the headline page on the FOX news website recently.
I find this to be just obviously racist and offensive and cannot believe that they get away with things like this on a regular basis. FOX Nation picked out the African American people who attended and left out all of the white folk to stir up fear and hate amongst their racist viewers.
One would hope that most people know that FOX tends to ignore facts that everyone knows anyway so what does it matter. But, I know that there are some people who ONLY Watch FOX news and take what they say as 100% fact. (like my grandfather who once told me that all news is false, except FOX news which is the only balanced news that gives all 100% truths and NEVER exploits/exaggerates. And he said this in all seriousness, he really believes this which leads me to believe he is delusional in his old age.)
That is all. I obviously just saw this and needed to rant a little. Thanks for listening – whether you agree or not. And before anyone gets on here saying blah blah blah all news is false. I am fully aware that all news leaves things out and bends the stories to fit their agenda. But never have I seen so much omitted information, false information, and exaggerated information from one source.
I have been really digging navy and and deep magentaish pink lately. For parties and weddings and such. Very modern prep.
Maybe even throw in some yellow or turquoise?
