Emma J Photo

Dont be fooled by the fall colors.

It’s actually winter…

Have a lovely evening!

~emma~

“stay there”

snap. (x8)

~emma~

Happy thanksgiving!

~emma~

If any of you don’t follow me on twitter (then you should and..) then you haven’t seen my scrapbooked wall.  But even if you do you have only seen a crappy picture of it taken from photobooth.

The other day i decided to scrapbook my wall.

I started by looking through 5 or 6 Real Simple magazines.  I pulled out random articles that I thought were unique.

Then i printed off some of my favorite blog posts.

I put up some song lyrics.

Articles i found on stumble. Like: How to Tick People Off

I put up some instant pictures and some from the big camera.

I dont know why i like the idea of my whole wall being filled with things that caught my eye in random places.  I love it.  and i cant wait to let it grow!

Let me know if you have any ideas for it!

I will update more about things on this wall (is it weird how giddy i am about it? yes.) because i have some fun ideas for it!

have a lovely day!

~emma~

PS- lots of new posts of PEOPLE coming soon. because its been a while. ha.

42 hours in the car

4 hiking trails

4 fruit loop meals

1 trip to Jackson Hole

2 trips to Jenny Lake

2 Trips to Salid, Co

1 two week trip to the other part of the country.

have a lovely day!

~emma~

I really like summer hair…

it’s not the same as any other kind of Season….. because in the summer time it’s allowed to be messy.

I got these pictures when the sassy post nap six year troudled (is that a word?  lets go ahead and say it is) out of her bed to get a juice.  She whipped her head away to avoid the camera.  snap snap.  caught the hair.

have a lovely day!

~emma~

a sweet birthday party;)… more to come:

a project on my wall… more to come:

this past week has been CRAZY! in case any of you follow me on twitter and don’t know this, but i have completely fallen off the face of the internet for the last 5 weekdays.  therefore, not many updates.  But I will be better at it this week;)

WEEKEND UPDATES:

all Summer my mini fujifilm hasn’t been functioning.  I figured it was because I dropped it at some point.  It turns out i had the batteries in wrong.  haha. welcome to my world. But,  My evening was officially rated AMAZING after i got it to work again.  I forget how much i love the ghetto-ness of it.

My weekend was filled with cupcakes, fujifilm, old pictures at my grandparents house, Swimming, my sealion, Mumford and Sons, The National, LA ink, brunches, Scrap booking my wall, sleep, a one year olds birthday party, and a purple chocolate cake.  In case you didn’t catch on I didn’t use the weekend for updating any of you too much, besides a few twitter chirps. It was a much needed break after a freak week which, by the way, was anything but ideal.  SO, to spare you my pitty ramblings,  i’ll just update you on the weekend. It was documented mainly by the instant, which makes me love the weekend even more: no messing with computers, editing, an 800 LB camera or putting my mind on a creative setting.  The instant does all that for me :p

let me know what you think!

have a Lovely evening!

~emma j~

while driving the two and a half hour drive to Salida, CO, and while people are arguing and stressed with the windy and confused route, i decided to stick my head out the window and maybe get a lucky shot of river and Mountains.   My kind of escape…

this was my lucky shot…

more to come within the next few days!

have a lovely day and tell me what you think

~emma~

im introducing a new category… elements.

This new category of elements needs some explaining.

Elements are the result of explosions, which to me are the result of somebody’s identity being expressed to set in stone themselves, their emotions, their intentions, or their heart.  Explosions are the act of putting something out there for other people to see.  In my mind it’s vulnerability.  Beautiful vulnerability.

to be cliché… people obviously have to express themselves in a unique way  “Each heart knows its own bitterness and no one else can fully understand it’s Joy” If we don’t find a way to explode in a way that compliments our personalities we will eventually drive ourselves insane while trying to be sane.

the explosions aren’t necessarily the way of expression it’s the result of the attempt to express:

Writers: books/articles/papers ect…

Painters: the painted canvas

Photographers: the picture

When somebody expresses himself I believe it’s an internal act of swallowing any fear or pride for the mere purpose of changing the society in any way.  It’s putting the God given identity out there for people to see.  But only a few people actually see it as the something it was intended. You really have to set your mind to see everything as the story that it was and is… It could be just a good song, just a pretty picture, just a good book, just a pretty painting Or it could be an amazing and inspiring story.  When you allow yourself to dig deeper and to be inspired it creates a gorgeous process: it repeats itself for whoever allows it to work through them. unity.  If we don’t accept and respect these explosions we don’t become what God intended us to be in the world.  When we change our perspectives and see them as what someone intended them to be seen as we come closer to seeing what God sees: The person and the intention not the element as an object with a worth tagged on it depending on the surface quality.

“Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the spirit, binding yourselves together with peace for there is one body and one spirit, just as we have been called for one glorious hope for the future.”

explosions lead to Inspiration, inspiration leads to emotions, emotions lead to ideas, and ideas lead to explosions: the cycle of  forming bonds.

It is so beautiful that this little act of compassion can be so eventful to the soul.  In this way passion is recognized, pain is identified and a bond is made.  Fellowship as a whole.

Explosions are what allow us to enjoy things, it’s what allows us to thirst for growth, its what allows us to grow, its what gives us the option of learning.

pictures…

cooking… kind of;)

have a beautiful evening

(and tell me what you think)

~emma~

I love that a relationship with a baby can determine how it will take part in society

I love that a relationship with a baby can be as pure as one with an adult

I love that we can capture the empathetic actions that ultimately will be used as a the default for a child’s relationships ahead

I love that God made a system as perfect and needed as this.

and i love that He lets us know it.