PREPARE FOR A NEW BLOG>>>

So I have decided to transform this blog into my salon blog. It will show what is new in the world of my industry and I will post what is new in the world of my work as well. There are so many exciting things going on right now, I am so excited for 2010 and what is in store for me in my career.

So a couple of months ago Caylen and I did an amazing photo shoot with James Jaggard. It was an all day event starting at 8am and ending around 6:30pm. We got so many great shots from James that are going to be posted on the website and hanging in salon. Thank you to all of the models who helped with this really great day, if it wasn't for you we wouldn't have such amazing pictures. I am so excited already for the next photo shoot. Here are some of my favorites from that day!!

Another really amazing thing going on in my career is to have the opportunity to work along side LOreal Professionnel as one of their educators. I am so grateful to be given this opportunity it will advance my career leaps and bounds because of the education LOreal provides for their educators.

Hair Cut

It is always amazing to me how when you cut a good length off your hair how liberating it is. Sad to say this is the most liberating thing I will probably do this year. I love getting a good hair cut, it is almost like I am able to shed anything that is causing stress in my life and become carefree once again. I tend to forget just how great it feels to have my haircut, I need to really take more care when I have clients sitting in my chair. It is so relaxing.

I am also working on finding a great location to publish my graduation cards. It is so hard to decide on what style of invitation I want to have. I think I am going to use one of these two pictures on my invitation. Graduation is harder than going to school, just kidding. I am so stoked to finally be done, only one more term left and I will be done with my Bachelors of Fine Art and Minor in Art History. I keep thinking about all the people in the world who want to go to college but never get the chance, and it makes me appreciate all of the help and assistance I have gotten during this season in my life. I hope that I have made everyone proud.

Preparing for Change

As I sit here working on one of my final papers for this term my mind has begun to wonder. I start to think about all of the amazing changes that are going to happening in my life this year. First I am able to give my whole heart to my sweet little niece Kaytlyn, we were granted full legal guardianship just last week. I know that God had his hand on this, there hae been so many people praying for this precious girl, knowing that a miracle would have to happen in order for her to stay with us, and it did. Second, I will be graduating from college this June with my bachelors in Fine Art and a minor in Art History. I know I know, it is about time right. I can hardly wait to work fulltime and really have a mellow life. I feel like I have been crazy person with no direction for way too long. This is a goal I have been working on for 9 years, it will be so good to finally complete this goal. Which reminds me I better get back to my paper before I forget all about it.

Horiscrope of the Day...

Are you devoting too much time right now to things that are too idealistic? It's nice to want to have fun and relax with people you love, but there is a time for relaxation and there's a time for work. Today, you should stop thinking that everything will work out fine. Instead, start working to make sure that things work out fine! Double check recent reservations. Call up friends and make sure you're still on for the weekend. Don't take anything for granted.

The Joy of the Season

Well it is Christmas Eve and what a better time to rethink my life and where I am heading and going, and coming from. It is hard to think how just a year ago I was so trusting in the Lord and all his people. Man what a change has happened in me inthe last couple of days, it is almost like I have looked in the mirror and seen someone who isnt me. Someone I dont really want to be, but today I feel like my oldself. Having so many amazing people in my life who show me God's glory has been a great gift. It was really nice to talk with my cousin Heather yesterday, she always knows how to help me regain my footing next to the Lord, she is such an amazing woman of God. Her and her husband are starting a new season in thier lives as well and are having to put all their trust in Lord to see what he is planning for them. When I started to think about it was a reflection of where I am as well, which proves God understanding of who we are. To see how strong her and her husband are in the Lord and how they give their lives to him and God blesses them over and over again. She one person who makes my fire for the Lord strong and more direct, I am so excited to begin meeting with her and see where the Lord takes their family and where he takes me this next year.

"Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching." Heb 10:25

Another tidbit

As I was signing off my computer this came on as my horiscope today, so amazing that it is a summary of what I just wrote. Crazy!!!

"Your prestige is growing right now, and a powerful person is suddenly seeing you in a brand new light. Try not to let this new level of attention make you feel uncomfortable, though. Now is the time to step boldly into the spotlight and make the most of this time in your life. And if you have to fake the confidence for a while, so what? Show people that you are worthy of the trust and respect they are giving you, and they will give you more of it."

New Season, New Devotion

It is amazing to me how faithful the Lord is of us and how he continues to find reasons to pull me back to him. I am a stubborn one and it takes him knocking me over my head a time or two to realize it is him trying to talk to me. Sometimes I feel like I should have been born in the stoneages and he could have really gotten my attention. This is the first time I have felt like I wanted to participate in this blog for reasons other than trying to see what family and friends are up to. Each day I am planning on writing my devotional studies on my blog, whether anyone will read it or not that doesnt matter. It is going to be a way for me to communicate with the Lord and continue to grow in him. This mornings devotion was a mix of a couple of places I have found online and in a devotional guide I have. It amazes me everytime I reconnect and recognize God is trying to share with me his glory how much I have been missing out on and how clear his message is for the day.

So in my searching I found a womens devotional studies (well a couple actually, and all of them contains identical information) catching my eye. It began with the title Mountain Climbing, which is perfect for me because I an adventerous sort of woman, but what grabbed my attention was the scripture quoted.

"Do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord, no matter what happens. Remember the great reward it brings you! Patient endurance is what you need now, so you will continue to do Gods will. Then you will recieve all that he has promised." (Hebrews 10:35-36

This scripture is exactly what I needed to hear today, because I am adventurous and an adrenaline junkie I have an incredibly hard time being patient and waiting for anything. So to really begin to understand how my patience will be rewarded with the greatest gift of all God's love. It is always scarey to begin new seasons in our lives, I can never tell if it is suposed to happen on a certian day or time of the year, but understanding that it happens when God feels you are ready to embrace what he has planned for you. There is no timeline or date to tell you when it is going to happen or how to prepare for it, mostly it is a feeling you get knowing something has changed and God is the guiding the change.

God knows where he wants me in life it has been planned for a long time. There is no need for me to fear the future, because in my life God is already in my future.