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Aug 07
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how we roll

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carly & chris are rocking the gallery page! …and rightly so! check out their love here:

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as usual, matt stabbed my last bite of dinner waving it at me and begging ‘eat me’ in a voice eerily similar to that of most inanimate objects around here. fighting flashbacks of asparagus and peas i laughed and shook my head…he persisted…i ran out of laughter…he held it there and begged long enough for it to become funny again before eating it himself…

this is his way of taking care of me.

some days- usually those days when i’ve downed a shockingly diverse (disgusting) combination of foods- he knows the only solution is a multivitamin. his game is smooooth- he catches my attention, ‘so kate guess what?’ -holds my gaze while handing me pill and water- ‘i just got this amazing email from client x and she has decided’ -i mindlessly put the pill in my mouth- ‘to have cotton candy’ -swallow- ‘at her reception!’ it’s a lie, but the vitamin is down and his purpose achieved, it’s no matter i’m crushed that everyone’s favorite spun sugar will not be available at client x’s wedding. gosh, he’s good. i’ve tried this tactic on him, you know, offhand- ‘hey babe, i read that starting your own microbrewery’ -slip two receipts into designated bowl- ‘will actually be possible in our tiny apartment! aren’t you excited!?’ -immediately- ‘what did you buy?’ bust.

i try lots of little games around here and always the same outcome- busted. i keep a seriously concentrated look on my face ‘going through my client emails’ and ruin it by giggling at someone’s blog. busted. maybe sometimes i even leave enough paper on the roll for one last use and forget that matt, well, doesn’t really need it and i end up, well, stranded. -matt says this last one is a weak example, duh he says that, he has no idea!-

all this to say -i’m laughing that i’m even considering bringing this post to a poignant close- we play. it’s not all work around here, we couldn’t pull it off…thank goodness. people ask us often what it’s like to work with your spouse all.day.every.day and our reaction is always the same; stifled laughter at our own ridiculousness, slight embarrassment because -again- we’re ridiculous and a sincere attempt to explain how we work like dogs but distract eachother often enough to love it. that’s just how we roll.

Aug 06
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the glittery details!

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i was around 3 when my obsession with teeny things became obvious. while mom shopped, i’d intently scour the department store floors for ‘treasure’ such as sequins, crystals (tiny pieces of quartz probably brought in on the bottom of a shoe), beads, buttons and the occasional diamond (rhinestone). before leaving the store i would evaluate the day’s finds; throwing out the dull pieces and clenching my fist around the best pieces to be tucked into my jewelry box at home.

i mentioned it off-hand a few posts ago and i should have explained it. i’m obsessed with glittery details. my degree from uga says ‘bfa, jewelry and metal design’ and yes, it’s real. :) working with fascinatingly small cut stones, shiny silver, powdered glass and teeny hammers is inspiring and calming to me. my eye for detail that began developing on the floor at belk’s had found it’s home…for a while…until i realized that i spent more time photographing my jewelry than actually making any…until i realized that i thrived on human interaction…until i realized that i wanted just take pictures and interact.

all this to say, if i ask for your ring don’t worry. ;) i’m just capturing all of those details i spent years studying and i appreciate so much. if i smuggle your fabulous shoes outside to take a few detail shots, they’ll be back soon. if i get so close to your delicate bouquet that you’re pretty sure i’m about to eat it, i won’t, most likely. that’s just me, in my element, capturing smiles and details and diamonds and most definitely creating ‘the shot’ i want for you.

for fun, i’ll leave you with a couple images of my rings from my last semester of college. i think maybe one day i’ll be inspired to get back into it, for now, i’m taking a break:

Jul 31
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with love, from me, to you

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it ended the same way it began, at mcdonald’s. embarrassing? yes, but my options were limited. i had just gotten married and moved to atlanta. i was jobless in a totally unfamiliar city clutching a brief resume and scared to death to begin the search for my first real job.

i considered a few jewelry stores before realizing i needed a little break from that (my degree from uga is in jewelry and metal design- it’s true) and then i thought of craigslist. the mother of everything accessible to any slightly computer savvy recent graduate. and i dove in. matt and i figured out how much it would be nice for me to make (to help with food, shelter, and other luxuries ;) ) and i realized that i was going to either work full time retail (tempting for the discounts, of course) or i would find a well-paying part time job.

so that little rant brings us to me sitting in mcd’s last september, over 45 minutes early for my interview (i was so nervous) with a small software company looking for a part time receptionist. that’s the story of how this entirely right brained jeweler ended up in tech support triaging calls. it was a great change of pace for me and at two days a week i was available the rest of the week to set up our new home…and help launch this photography biz.

today i sat in that very mcdonalds, having gotten to work before the building was unlocked and knew it was the end. matt and i had added the numbers until excel crashed (so, what, like five minutes?! i kid. i kid.) and it was clear that i needed to devote my time to our biz rather than someone else’s. i sat and waited with the same cocktail of feelings i’d experienced just 11 months earlier: excitement, apprehension, anxiety…and a slight upset stomach- totally unrelated to emotion- more related to the fried grease on grease i’d just consumed (occasionally stress related eating just happens, no?!). so to make an unnecessarily long story short, today i gave my two weeks. it might not seem like a big deal but that little bit of steady income will no longer be a security blanket for us. we are all in baby and we couldn’t be more excited to serve you better. because really, you just can’t hold a right brain down!! :)