girl gets nerves of steel tattoo'd.

How does she do it?!?

I’m feeling a bit lazy today even though I really haven’t stopped working and doing stuff around the house I’m just in one of those moods where I feel like what I’m doing just isn’t enough; it’s a Monday, enough said. The fact that we stayed up super late last night watching a movie probably doesn’t help the “mood” of today either.

Tattoo’s are on my mind today, addicted? Ya think! It has been the topic of our conversations for a while now-my mom has been wanting me to design some things for her and today I decided that I would work a little while on it. I have a couple ideas for what I am wanting, I have been thinking about it for a while but I’m quiet sure just yet, but the urge has hit and I am ready to go. The hubs is ready to add to his, I never thought he would get the last one but he did, it’s awesome, now he wants to add to it- although, it may take him two years to figure out what he wants, he’s just like that. I (we) like to get things with meaning, however, I feel like I may be running out of places that I want one, which is a seemingly sad thought actually. There are a lot of places that you can get a tattoo of course, just not where I want or am comfortable with having them at.

On a more serious note: Mid-way through this year our life changed what I think was drastically and well it seems like things, good things, keep happening for our family, but recently something a little bit more personal… I have ALWAYS loved photography and enjoyed practicing the art, took a couple classes in college to enhance a God given talent. A little over a year ago, a minute after Logan was born and I became a stay at home Mom, I decided that I would start or open a photography business, that I would be a free-lance photographer, do something that I love with freedom and contribute to my family. Never did I imagine that people would respond to my work, my art the way they did. God has truly blessed it! I built a nice clientele who I was eager to get to know and work with for years to come. Well, the move came and I basically was leaving behind what I had really worked hard for, had hoped for. It was heartbreaking thinking about having to leave behind something that I loved so much, all the people I had met, to start over! My husband has been so wonderful to take lil’ ole’ me back and forth two hours down and two hours back to make appointments with clients that so graciously did not want to give me up, which I’m so very thankful for. We have been so busy trying to get settled and the business up and running that I haven’t really had lots of time to put myself out there, get my name out in the Great Smokey Mountains. My grandfather has recently build a new building for B and my brothers store. The way he built it is kinda like a strip mall with separate areas in the one building. One section for the parts, one for motor home sales, and one for…”drum roll please!” b.L.c Photography’s new studio. I have been offered the location and I guess I’m gonna take it. I say that, but I am really nervous about it all and excited at the same time. My nerves give me mixed emotions about the whole idea. I have a few ideas of other things I would like to do and incorporate, my indoor studio equipment, I, of course, will still be doing outdoor portraits (because those are my favorite), on location photography (meaning, in peoples homes or special spots that they want portraits made, weddings, special events, etc…) andddd I was thinking that I could also offer a place for “artists” to consign their products. For example: jewelry, paintings, pottery, anything unique and different that out-of-towners or even locals would love to have. I want to reach tourists and the locals, those who travel to the mountains for the beauty of it and want to remember their time here and those that live here and are constantly surrounded by its beauty. I am up for anything and everything within my power. I am excited about doing what I love, expanding my business, contributing more to our family and the best part, I still get to be a full-time Mom while doing it, pretty much a dream come true. Everyone is pushing me and behind me 150%, if only I could just get behind me that much. Now, if everything just goes as planned! You never know about my crowd, always changing their minds…however, it seems as though it’s all on me, it’s all my decision. I’m eager to see where the future is taking us; it’s exciting and nerve racking all at the same time. By the time my life does a complete 180- I should have nerves of steel.