smile

( me, today!)


i'm gonna go ahead and blame every "strange" thing i have done today on the solar eclipse.

everyone else is doing it

ANYWAYS... i don't think many of you realize what MJ meant to my little sister and i growing up. i wanted to be famous because of Michael Jackson. i wanted to do something AMAZING with my life. i wanted to dance like him! and dress like him! (haha) and luckily i already had jerry curls. (hahaha) but, seriously, i had a major time period of my life when his very existence changed me.

so, i assume you've heard him sing the song Smile by now, right? the words are amazing.

"Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by... If you smile with your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow, you'll find that life is still worthwhile if you'll just... Light up your face with gladness, hide every trace of sadness, although a tear may be ever so near. That's the time you must keep on trying, smile, what's the use of crying? You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you'll just... Smile..."
(Words Written by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons. Music Composed by Charles Chaplin)


my big thing on this blog has always been HONESTY, but without a smile honesty can seem like complaining.

i just finished a 6 hour professional photo shoot with hair and makeup and costumes and different locations and everything! we rocked out to MJ the whole time. it was AMAZING, and MAN did i SMILE :):):):):):):):):):):)


it was a 1950's glamour shoot. abbie warnock is my friend/photographer and vivian williams is my other friend/genius amazing makeup artist. we had SO much fun. (yes, that was me at the fruit stand in a coral halter top dress and white heels with dramatic makeup and a hundred million men cat calling at me, and in that black beaded dress down at city hall under the streetlights.) i have only seen a few of abbie's photos of me, and she does a lot of artistic work with her photos. (check out her website) i will get them in about 3 weeks. i couldn't resist snapping a few shots of myself when i got home.

BUT, i will only share those with you if you see me in person and ask to see my phone!!! i am looking forward to the airbrushing effects of abbie ;) the only problem i have now is that my falsies (lashes) won't come off. oh well, i am sure adam won't mind.

to be completely honest i was shocked after vivian finished my makeup. i went into the other room alone and just stared in the mirror, wondering who that other person was. she was so beautiful! it was SHOCKING to see the few shots on abbies camera that she had taken. i was sure she must have accidentally pulled up a different shoot. that couldn't be me... right?

i feel like a woman. i wanted to do these photos for me and for my husband, but then it turned into something else during some of the shots. it was like i was doing these pics for all of us burned out moms who lost our knockout bodies once we had our miracle babies, never have time to doll up, feel frumpy and unattractive, and maybe even had their female organs removed.

THIS ONE'S FOR THE GIRLS!

Because owning what you've got, right when you got it, is what it takes to make a real smile!

love,
lynsie