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  • hi! i’m jan…

    welcome to my little home away from home!
    stop by often to see my most recent work with my amazing clients & my frequent antics with my first loves... my family!
    i have two littles, a busy husband, a naughty siberian husky, & a havanese puppy! i'm also in love with traveling, so expect to see some of the world from time to time!
    i've got a rad shoe collection that i'll tell you all about on tuesdays... check back to see what i'm gabbing about the rest of the week! i love to share my real life craziness... the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful, the random, the grammatically incorrect, the uncensored... if it's personal & real, i love it! i hope you love it too!
    i am based in durango, colorado... i would love to come meet you in your part of the world asap!!!

    --CHANGE IS IN THE AIR... COME BACK TO SEE ALL OF THE YUMMY NEWNESS AS IT UNFOLDS...!!!--

    thanks for stopping by!
    blessings, js

hello, may!

oops, i did it again!  another well intentioned month of blogging & i got too caught up to publish.

i did celebrate a birthday… a really wonderful one at that!  i rode the train with olivia.  ran with my besties.  booked a trip to visit my photog besties in austin.  walked all over creation with harper lynn.  nursed shasta puppy post-hip surgery.  took care of andrew post-lasik.  traveled to albuquerque, denver, and mexico.  so, yes!  april was blessed & blissfully insane & full of… life!  now if only i can complete my bookclub book before tomorrow evening i’ll be almost back on track!  almost.

let’s cross our fingers, and toes, that i make up for lost time, and not yet given away presents, and blog my heart out this month- shall we!  in may i am thrilled to have oodles of work-work & personal-work to do to at least blog a few times.  and you won’t want to miss my full blog post of the wedding in mexico that we just returned from shooting.  yes, surely you will want to see the gorgeous wedding… and the antics that ensued post-vows!  coming up is a sneak peak… “the wink” as i like to call it!  i will see you soon on other topics of personal interest… like the color orange, promise!

i. blogged. march.

i did it!  it’s day 31 & i stuck with it!  i blogged march!

thank you for coming along for the ride!  thanks for allowing me to “heart” so many things & tease you with my future posts about peru!  i do love to blog… but this everyday stuff is a bit much, don’tcha think!  so, now that march is over i will not drop the ball or drop off the face of the earth & get so busy that my blog is left with march posts… but it’s august!  i’ve made a plan & i’m sticking to it!  here’s what’s coming up in april…

GIFTS… yes, gifts for you!  a few session giveaways to announce, some gift cards, and maybe even something from anthropologie!

TRAVEL ANNOUNCEMENTS… i might be coming to a city near you!  in the works for the rest of the year is travel to: albuquerque, denver, washington d.c., lima, hamburg, amman, beirut, & hopefully somewhere in southern california!  i’ve got my fingers crossed that by may i’ve got it all ironed out!

and much more… better come back tomorrow!  and that’s no joke!

peru… another wink :travel:

it’s coming very soon… a full picture of what i did in peru!  i’ve been obsessing over it for months.  i’ve missed the people.  i’ve wished i could bring home the children.  i’ve prayed for them.  i’ve rejoiced at the sight of their first drink of fresh, clean water.  and finally, i know i will see them again soon.  i have wanted to see them again so desperately that i have put off the possibility of a #3 in order to see their smiling faces later this summer.  to say these people are life changing is an understatement.  here is another peek at my story in peru… stay tuned for more…

i left a piece of my heart with these children… eating chocolate right off the tree, picking slightly less than ripe guava and limes just walking through the jungle.  smelling dirt and trash and citrus and fish frying in the afternoon after a short rain.  i am absolutely going to see these faces again.  i will hold the hand of the little girl in the yellow dress & bask in her gorgeous, shy smile.  i will see the change in their lives since they received two fresh water wells in their small village provided through the hearts and passion of tom & paula redding of mission outfitter.  the villagers will call me sister again soon.  and i will be abundantly welcomed and feel at home… missing my own precious children, but being welcomed back to the people in the jungle that i fell in love with one photo at a time.