2011 January | Ruby Nite

Muckross Raven

I was revisiting some of my pictures from our Honeymoon in Ireland and Scotland and realized I have not really posted anything about that trip. So instead of bombarding you with a tonne of photos all at once I’ll post some here occasionally so I can slowly relive that amazing trip. This particular photo was taken in Killarney while we were staying at The Lake Hotel. Our two wonderful nights there was our one true splurge of the trip and the bath alone was worth every penny. On our...

Mumford and Sons

For Christmas, Gary bought me a Mumford & Sons CD and I have been listening to it on repeat pretty much consistently since. Every single one of their songs fills my heart with a sense of beauty and longing and I just can not seem to get enough of their music. I know that they are becoming popular as of late and rightfully so because the raw emotions they invoke through their music is not something you can deny. Here is one of my favourite songs called White Blank Page from their Bookshop...

Bike in the Night – Amsterdam

The last night we were in Amsterdam Gary and I walked around for hours. He indulged me while I took photos and learned how to use my new camera. For some reason the only thing that kept running through my mind is “photography is about the play of light…keep thinking about the light”. I am sure I read it somewhere but even so, it made me look at things...

Amsterdam for New Year’s Eve

Back in November Gary and I decided that we wanted to go away to celebrate New Year’s and my 35th birthday. We had both been working pretty hard on a side project and we needed a break. At first we thought we wanted to go somewhere warm where we could relax on a beach but once we started talking about places we both realized that what we really wanted to do was to go back to Europe. After tossing some ideas back and forth, Gary reminded me that he loved Amsterdam when he traveled there...

My take on the “secretary” look

While I listen to the “tap tap” of water leaking from the roof in our spare bedroom I thought I would take my mind off of all the damage and post an outfit I wore a while ago. I have a couple of outfits sitting in my “to post” folder but I think this is one of my favourites. I am a sucker for the black, red and grey colour palette, and when I found this scarf at a local Value Village for $1.00 I had to have it. I picked up the sweater at Torrid a few months earlier but...