Search for spring

Last weekend my friend Amy and I got in her car and drove all around Fayetteville in search for some dogwood blooms. Dogwoods are trees and their buds are the state flower of North Carolina. The only bad thing about them is that they only bloom for about a week, and then they die. We did find a few trees like the tall white one pictured below, but we also found some lovely pink bushes with hibiscus-like flowers. I love exploring during a photo shoot. I generally pick a spot and just walk around and explore the entire time with my photographer, capturing my outfit as we go. It’s especially fun to shoot like that while traveling.

Let me start off this post with a summary of how I feel: deployments suck. For those of you who don’t know by now, I am a military spouse and my husband is currently serving a tour in Iraq. We are three months into the deployment (wooohoo!!) and we have six months left. Although I have …

This NYFW was a major success to say the least. I attended 25 shows, partied at multiple events, got lots of freebies, and finally met my awesome Style Collective girls in real life! This was my first time at New York Fashion Week as an influencer/blogger and not as media. I did bring my camera to …

Monday: My first few days in Utah have been epic. I went snowmobiling, snowboarding, saw wild deer, and drove around the gorgeous mountains of the Wasatch Valley. On Monday morning my family and I went on a snowmobiling trip and rode around for hours plowing through nearly a foot of snow. I was really enjoying myself …

In this day and age smartphones have become a useful tool that we use not only to check our emails and make phone calls, but also to make life a little more creative. For my following of fashion bloggers, Insta-lovers and the tech-savvy bunch, I have created a list of my go-to apps that I use …

The American Frontier is home to a rich history of cowboys, horses, gold mining, saloons and showdowns. This history came to life in my recent photo shoot in Heber City, Utah where there is a replica city built that looks exactly like a small town in the wild west. All of these rustic buildings are fully-functional …