popping in

My good friend, actor Langley McArol.

Friends, there is much going on in my neck of the woods at the moment.  With that being, I am working on some things that I hope will bring this blog back to life!  The above photos are of my good friend, Langley, an actor and all-around nice (occasionally grumpy) guy.  Ha!  

Have a beautiful week ahead!  And for those of you watching the Super Bowl at the moment, I hope your team wins.  ;D

celebrating a new year & new possibilities

Happy New Year friends!  I hope many of you were able to enjoy the ringing in of the new year surrounded by friends and family!  My own little familia had a simple, quiet celebration.  We decided to "camp out" on an air mattress set in the middle of the living room floor, with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin chatting on the tube as entertainment.  At some point we all passed out. . . well before midnight.  I woke up at what I thought was 11:30PM only to find out that I had missed the ball dropping in Times Square by two and a half hours.  Go figure.  But hey, cupcakes with sprinkles for everyone!!

So it's a new year and already there are some awesome projects in the works.  I'll be collaborating with my good friend Blaire Johnson of Green Hope Productions, on some fun & exciting ideas.  I love her down-to-earth personality and "go get'em" attitude.  She's like my own little groovy pirate cheerleader and I love her for it!  Our minds are working overtime and it feels great!  Currently, Blaire is filming a documentary called Bringing It Home, alongside another talented lady, Linda Booker.  The mission of their film is to help educate the public, and to raise support for the approval of industrial hemp production here in the United States.  Learn more about their crusade thus far, and the benefits of industrial hemp by visiting the Bringing it Home website.

Alright friends, here's to a fantastic, productive, and greener New Year!! 

Merry Christmas friends!

Wishing all of you beautiful folk out there a wonderful and merriest of Christmases!  I hope Santa brings what you asked for!  

keeping busy

Stopping in to say hello friends!  It's been very quiet on this blog.  Too quiet.  I hope this finds all of you well and geared up for the upcoming Holidays!  Can you believe we are already in November?!  Well, things are coming together in my little world.  The creative juices are flowing and things are happening.  Slowly, but surely.  This portfolio is being built!  

Last weekend, I was able to work with the beautiful young lady above, Sarah Elizabeth, who portrayed an Ophelia-esque girl for a photo session we had planned for months.  The stars finally aligned and we were able to pull it off on a gorgeous Sunday morning at Carolina Beach Park.  The water was awfully cold so attempting to have Sarah lay in the water (although she tried her darndest) was just not gonna happen if I wanted to keep her from catching pneumonia!  My wonderful friend Molly accompanied me as both an assistant and my MUA.  It was such a fun, creative morning!  Opportunities for more shoots are opening up ahead so hopefully this will mean more images for you to come!  

After much hesitation, I finally opened up a Facebook page that I will be using to upload some of my more current images.  So, if you'd like to follow up on new photo sessions, be sure to check it out.  Still trying to figure out which platform to use for my actual website.  Any suggestions?

Well friends, keep nice and cozy this weekend!  

  

I hope that your weekend is full of sunshine and beauty my friends.  Happy Sunday!

my dreams are adrift

upon a warm, gentle breeze

come back to me

sweet reveries

a blissful reality.

Today, I have started tumbling on Tumblr.  I thought I'd give it a try.  It would remain mostly a photoblog.  Don't worry, my Reveries & Chai blog will continue on, although things have started to get a bit dusty and cob webs are taking over.  I decided to do away with my www.katevans.squarespace.com account, or my website.  After the 1st of next year, I hope to have things a little more organized and together with a better representation of who I am.  Honestly, I'm still trying to figure that one out myself.  

Just feeling a little out of sorts lately.  

But I shall be back.  I promise.

xo.kat

so I've been rather anti-social

Okay, so maybe the title to my post is just a little exaggerated, but from my lack of online presence both here and in my other social networking sites, you could say that I've been rather anti-social.  The reason is real simple:  my daughter.  As long as my little girl is awake, I've been ignoring my computer.  At first it was hard.  Real hard.  Once she would get preoccupied playing with her toys or with an episode of Spongebob, I'd sneak back upstairs to work on editing a few photos, checking up on Facebook updates, and trying to attempt a blog post only to have her pop up next to me with a look of utter distaste on her face.  "Checking your email again?!"  I have to pick my battles.  I've got just a little under a year left with her here with me at home before she goes off to kindergarten.  So I apologize that I haven't been cruising here in Bloglandia much lately.  I've also been working later hours every week so online time at night has been pretty minimal as well.  BUT, I'm here tonight, at midnight, hoping all of you are doing well!

Now since I'm on the subject of being social, I just wanted to say that I am still focusing on this Return to Real Mail Revolution.  I bought a box of cards that I thought were pretty cool.  Now, I admit that I've been a little slow going with it all, having just mailed a few cards earlier in the week. After hearing this bit of trivia, I am even more determined to put my mail box to good use.  Did you know that more than 75% of Americans under the age of 18 have NEVER touched a postage stamp?   Isn't that insane?!  I also heard earlier this week on CNN that there is a chance that the United States Postal Service may be closing its doors, if not laying off over a hundred thousand employees, by August of next year if budget reform has not been made.  Don't get me wrong, I think that there has been a lot of benefits that have come with the technological advances we have made, yet on the other hand, I'm watching people lose their jobs because we have moved so quickly into this digital age.  I'll be honest.  It's kinda terrifying.  I know that "going digital" has made things much more economical and perhaps even a little "greener" but when I think about the possibility of my local post office being  completely shut down,  it makes me awfully sad!  So, I will do my part to help keep my postal workers employed and send out more mail!  

Just out of curiosity, what are some of the things YOU have missed since we've gone digital?