snap snap...

i've been shooting photos since i was born.

actually i was born with a camera in my hand.

i started showing pictures in the fair at age 5.

it has been an obsession- and the past 5 years I have been getting side jobs to shoot.

newspaper assignments, sr pictures and weddings for friends.

then candide couture was born.

i made up candide couture on the way home from girls weekend in kc a year ago and decided to run with it.

candide couture is now growing up.

my favorite style of photography- candide (french for candid), spontaneous and full of life.

my favorite style couture- original, creative and funky.

now introducing my new website:

www.candidecouture.com

we love you allen, o yes we do...

Oh yes we do
We love you Allen
And will be true
When you're not near us
We're blue
Oh, Allen, we love you!


Kudos to Dr Allen and his lead roll as Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie at the Chanticleer Theatre.
He rocked the full house off with his mad beats, tap dancing and killer moves.
Who knew?

We did.

devotion...

devotion: going somewhere to support someone you love.

for him going somewhere to support a team he loves.

for me it was buying suprise tickets and going to somewhere i never wanted to go-to support the one i love.

the things you do for love.

Do you know the way to San Jose?

Honeymoons anyone??

What is a honeymoon?

American Heritage Dictionary defines it as follows:

hon‧ey‧moon  [huhn-ee-moon] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a vacation or trip taken by a newly married couple.
2. the month or so following a marriage.
3. any period of blissful harmony: Their entire 60 years of marriage was one long honeymoon.
4. any new relationship characterized by an initial period of harmony and goodwill: The honeymoon between Congress and the new president was over.
–verb (used without object)
5. to spend one's honeymoon (usually fol. by in or at).
[Origin: 1540–50; honey + moon]

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So where to go?

Well- we didn't know where to go.

We wanted to go to Europe-since I visited last spring I'm in love with everything about it...But let's face it-its freezing in Jan.

So I wanted somewhere warm. But I didn't want to go somewhere with tons of gawking tourist, I hate that. And we want to save up for Europe, to hopefully get there this summer...So I started asking around. I wanted somewhere fresh and hip.

My cousin Jim, said something about Austin- and I have always wanted to go there...One of the indie music meccas of the world. So he looked into it more for me. He heard about this cool place called the Hotel San Jose.
Link







I'm in love. It's perfect.






Very simple and modern but has Texas charm. An 'ultra hip urban bungalow-style hotel.' Sounds good to me. And you can rent a manual Remington Rand typewriter, Polaroid cameras, I will be blogging old school- and scanning them in when I get home. You can also rent music, movies and old fashion bikes from the hotel. How cool is that?







And they have a ubber cool courtyard lounge that has cheese trays (Joel is obsessed with cheese lately- how perfect) with wine and beer! I love it!! They also host Rock n' Reels: They have bands play on Thursday nights in the parking lots then the band picks a movie and they show a movie hour later...Bring your own chair and rock out dude...How neat. They even have a coffee shop and art gallery.




I might just move into this place forever!!!



I can't wait to be honeymooning...

smiles on the inside-glow on the outside...

I, I'm so in love with you
Whatever you want to do
Is all right with me
'Cause you make me feel so brand new
And I want to spend my life with you

Since, since we've been together
Loving you forever
Is what I need
Let me be the one you come running to
I'll never be untrue

Let's, let's stay together
Lovin' you whether, whether
Times are good or bad, happy or sad

Whether times are good or bad, happy or sad

Why, why some people break up
Then turn around and make up
I just can't see
You'd never do that to me (would you, baby)
Staying around you is all I see
(Here's what I want us to do)

(repeat to fade):
Let's, we oughta stay together
Loving you whether, whether
Times are good or bad, happy or sad

this one goes out to my ladies...

today i found myself in an all to familiar place.

a place i have actually dreamt of.

a place where handbags were involved in these dreams can actually become reality for a poor girl like me.

a place some, cough- molly and jimmy- hear me speak of and crindge.

a place i have gone probably one to many times, but not enough to keep me from returning every other tuesday.

i simply call it 'my purse guy or purse day.'

it is scribbled in my planner and i set my phone to remind me on special weeks.

this week i had birthday money to blow- so i did both of the above mentioned things.

my 'purse guy' can get me anything i want.

he goes to ny and hongkong regularly and works on trades.

which was great when i worked for lancome...i traded many things to get new bags and sunglasses.

my past obsession was prada.

i have 5 prada bags (four black and one hot pink) and love them all.

i have 1 fendi and marc jacobs (this is not counting the coach i gave to my mom...that my sister took and some punk stole from her.)

and pairs of gucci, chanel and dolce and gabbana sunglasses.

anyways today i went on a mission and i found it.

a glorious teal chloe' paddington bag.

he threw in a pair of white and pink dior glasses- for my birthday...

he might be a somewhat scary man- who never fails to say you can't pay in lapdances everytime...

but i can't resist the thrill of searching for a new desinger imposter handbag in the heaps of bags in his livingroom- and finding that perfect one.

the rules are simple there, if you are smart enough to learn them...

1. if you are halfway interested in something- grab it and don't let go...until you do have enough time to decide.
2. cash is king--unless you are with me and promise not to write bad checks
3. don't take the first price he tells you...its probably off a few hundred dollars...he barters- don't play dumb or be dumb and pay $300.
4. don't take him up on the lapdance... no matter how hard you are up for a purse.
5. if you really want it- be quiet...he will give it to you.
6. go back and see him- he always remembers you and gives you a deal...sometimes free things. (3 pairs of earings, 2 pairs of sunglasses and a purse...if he loves you)
7. don't park in the drive way you will get parked in by the lunch ladies craze- they are nuts and won't move their cars.

basically, its a goodtime and always a good story.

be strong and go for the gold-
or black purse its always classy.

friday night and the lights are low...

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen



Friday night and the lights are low
Looking out for the place to go
Where they play the right music, getting in the swing



You come in to look for a king
Anybody could be that guy
Night is young and the music’s high



With a bit of rock music, everything is fine
You’re in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance...




You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine



You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen



You’re a teaser, you turn ’em on
Leave them burning and then you’re gone



Looking out for another, anyone will do
You’re in the mood for a dance



And when you get the chance...



You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen



Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine




You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life












See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen