sunday best...

I just watched a video by one of my favorite bloggers and artists...

the video was about her favorite blogging tips.

It made me start to think about my own little corner of the internet,

about this little blog that I have called home

for the past 8 or so years.

I have evolved a lot during the time I have been blogging

and I attribute a LOT of that

to the blog.

I doubt that I would have ever, ever gotten into photography,

especially to the degree that I have,

if not for this blog.

I started this blog in april of 2005...

i didn't even know what a blog was, really...

i had just wanted to comment on another blog

and had to have a blog account to do it 

(or so i thought, heh)

and so i wrote my first post...

initially the blog was called bloody hell.

obviously i was feeling some frustration in my life at that point, heehee.

we were trying to buy a house

while living in a house that had virtually no heat

and it was incredibly frustrating...

my kids were young,

i was running a home daycare,

i was without adult company for most of the time

and i was at my wits end.

so i wrote rants to collection agents 

and funny anecdotes about the kids...

but as i read other blogs,

i found that there was a WHOLE other world out there,

a world of other people LIKE me!

who liked to read what I liked to read,

who liked to make things and create things

and 

it was like a bolt of lightning

went off in my head

and exploded into pretty fireworks...

so I started doing new things...

card making, doodling, knitting, painting.

but my photos were HORRENDOUS.

embarrassing really when I look back on them now...

and then

i was back to being frustrated again.

so i bought a new camera

and started playing with it...

and eventually,

it no longer had anything to do with the 

knitting, the baking, the painting...

it was all about the photos.

and then i shot my first family session...

and then i shot my first wedding (both in 2009)

I had 6 weddings that first summer and last summer,

I shot 19 weddings and a number of family/engagement/commercial sessions

while working full time.

it has been busy.

like crazy busy.

but I feel like the little thing that brought me to this point,

this little blog,

has been neglected...

passed over for the instant gratification of my facebook photography page,

of instagram, of twitter feed that I am just learning how to navigate

(i had to google what MT meant today...i thought it might mean "me too", heehee)

so 

i want to get back to the blog.

and Alisa Burke talked about scheduling 

(which I used to do...haphazardly...remember poetry thursday?)

and, because I also struggle with the fact that I am not really sure how to 

tie the two things I love together (shooting weddings and my blog)

as I feel like they are two different areas of my life in one sense

but...not really...I am proud of what I do in a wedding

but I don't necessarily want to use my blog as a tool for creating more

photography business.  

I want my blog...this blog anyway...to remain a creative outlet for myself...

I am worried that if I am using it for the photo business, I will begin to censor myself.

There are other things I want to do beside photography...

I would like to write...{but I am terrified...that is a different story}

SOOOOO.

if you have stuck with me this far,

my long winded point is that i am going to try to get here more often,

for myself if nothing else...

and that maybe Sundays will become 

Sunday Best

where I can share some of my wedding photography...

and a place where I can look back and see how that is evolving as well.

it's all about moving forward.

one foot in front of the other...

And so...today's Sunday Best :)