Tired of bronzers that just make you look orange or artificially sparkly? Buy a powder foundation in a very dark color, like Maybellene’s PureStay in Golden, if you’re fair. Just dust a little across the cheeks, forehead, bridge of the nose and chin…you will look sun-kissed with a soft, natural tone.
Kendall is one amazing girl. Ever since her mom told me her story I knew she was special and was gonna do some amazing things. I’ve had the privilege of photographing her nearly every other year since then and it’s been awesome to see her blossom. I’ve cheered her on and I know she cheered me on too. Here she is in the city!
I think it’s very fitting that on this random day in February that I write about New Years Resolutions. Long after all the faithful blogger’s have listed off theirs and they are already knee deep into other topic’s I am just now writing and declaring. But I will say it’s not like I am just now thinking about mine.
Since I was a kid, I loved summer but not for the reasons you might suspect, and for the same reason, I loved the begining of the school year, the end of Christmas break and the beginning of a new semester. The reason is this, … I could make these silent resolutions to improve myself, at these pivotal points in life I could decide, this is the life I want and this is the way I am going to live, and these are my goals to get there.
I have learned at this point, that I am very good at making resolutions, but sometimes I lack a little follow through. Though as I look back on all the things that even happened in the last year, I am farther along in the journey of improvement. Since January 1st 2010, I planned a wedding in 3 months, got married to the love of my life, painted every room in our house, opened the studio in our house, added a master bathroom to our house, shot 83 seniors, 13 weddings, potty trained a puppy, and just in the last month accomplished with the help of my husband 2 major items on my Molly Grace Photography to do list, which I am not kidding had been on my board of to do’s for a year. ( Run on sentence J ) So yes, I am better off… each day is an improvement upon the last. Never mind that for the last 11 months of marriage I have been failing each day to get up at the early hour of 6:05 with my husband, but each day I resolve that I grow comfortable getting up a little earlier and closer to that goal. So hey, I’m improving, right?
So now that you know all my accomplishments and that one daily failure that mind you sets the course for my day, where do I go from here? Not to mention those 4 other goals that are somewhere between accomplishment and failure, and have improved none the less.
So here are my resolutions and also a deep inside look at Molly Grace, and the owner of Molly Grace Photography, who is unfortunately in some respects very human…
#1 Get up and seriously out of bed at 6:05am
#2 Walk Bailey daily
#3 Workout 3 days a week
#4 Stop biting my nails
#5 Stop biting the inside of my checks
The declaration and essentially the pledge of that list is kinda, humbling, and truly might be a little TMI for some of you. Perhaps, it might discourage you from booking a session with me? Oh no she bites her nails! I don’t think that’s very professional! And truthfully my response is, “ hey, you run a business and see if the pressure and the pressure you put on yourself doesn’t cause you to bite your nails or acquire some crazy bad habit, so I bite my nails, it could be worse.”
But in truth… this year is about resolutions, it’s about dealing with things, accomplishing things, setting up habits and a rhythm that is workable for my life and for the life of Molly Grace Photography and Vrai. To use what I got, and get myself ready to accept more of the good, more clients, great opportunities, and maybe in a couple years, children.
I will say, hopefully by writing today those resolutions to the world today, I will feel a stronger desire to keep with them. I will say also that in the time isn’t taken to write this little post this morning. I have managed to accomplish two things so huge on the hierarchy of resolutions they didn’t even make the list. So that’s exciting!
So my love to you all as you life the life you want, weather you make silent resolutions or public declarations. And remember that you life is your Art, and for the most part it’s constantly in the making.
- Molly Grace
