charcoal & ash: Sparkle in the New Year!

Happy 2015! I am so excited for another year full of adventure, excitement, and new hopes and dreams. I could list all of my New Year resolutions but I think I will just keep them to myself and vow to work on them as hard as I did last year. This photo shoot was done at Suncadia Resort in Cle Elum, Washington. Paul and I visited family at one of the beautiful rustic cabins. I am still in awe of the gorgeous view of the mountains that surrounds the entire community. I felt sort of weird doing fashion shoots like this, but then I ask myself why? I love fashion and I love designing shoots. I guess it's just the fact that I am NOT in anyway a model but that really should not stop anyone from feeling gorgeous or worthy. There is this beautiful quote that I read somewhere that talks about this and I thought I would share it going into the New Year.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

-from A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson.