{Love Day}

Hope you all had a Happy Valentine's Weekend! I made these amazing Sprinkles cupcakes from their DIY (do it yourself) cupcake mix

and recipe!

{Sorry for the Intense Lack of Blogging}

Wow, I apologize for my lack of blogging!! It has been way too long and just down right unacceptable! Unfortunately, January has been a slow month for me and not to mention the rain and dark weather have kept me in the house way too often when I should have been out and about exploring with my canon in hand. I promise to share some more of my personal art projects that I have been working on... photography and mixed media paintings are both in the works and they just may cross over from one to the other.

Lately I have been extremely inspired to get back to my mixed media art that I fell into while at The University of Arizona. I was there getting my Bachelors of Fine Art Degree w/an emphasis in photography. Many of you may not know that photographers usually take pictures because we can't draw (hehe) or maybe it is just me who is worthless with a pencil in hand. So I was forced to take a few other art classes among the bazillion photo classes I was taking. My last semester I had to choose between watercolor 101 or painting 101... so naturally I thought watercolor (I had done watercolors when I was a kid) how hard could it be right? Well let me tell you I wasn't very good and our first assignment was to paint four lemons and mine didn't depict the perfect shaped and lovely shaded lemons that the others had. Mine were kind of long and skinny and bumpy and bright yellow and I threw a turquoise one in there too. My professor got to me durning the critique and I was terrified and then she said... wait for it... "I like your lemons, they have character." I was pleasantly shocked and I think she was too! So from there on out I did every assignment however I wanted to and although my paintings weren't always a realistic portrayal they had their own character. From there I stumbled upon different mediums and techniques and now I continue to make all sorts of things. One of my favorite artists is Robert Rauschenberg and his combined paintings and love his work.

Here are a couple of my old paintings from that original Watercolor 101 class!

{The Wedding Chicks Blog}

Ok so hopefully most of you brides out there are in the know when it comes to the The Wedding Chicks Blog. It is a fabulous blog with endless resources for the bride-to-be or should I say the wife-to-be! You have got to check it out. I also, recently had a wedding blogged on their site by the fabulous and talented wedding coordinator Lindsay with LVL Events. Please take a moment to check out our post!

Wedding Chicks Real Wedding post by LVL Events and Katelin Wallace Photography

{The Edwards Ladies}

Those of you who know me personally know this fabulous lady and one of my best friends, Chanel. If you don't know her then you should get to know her! Chanel and her 2 sisters and her amazing mother all were in town for the holidays and decided it was time to get some new updated pics so we had a super causal and relaxing shoot over at the park. If you ask me these four ladies look like they could all be sisters!

{A Winter Summer}

God is the ultimate artist.

{Lee, Crystal & Bentley}

Somehow whenever I shoot out in the fields God decides that he should send some rain down in lovely Southern California. It rains probably 20 times a year in Orange County and twice now those days have been durning my outdoor shoots!! All is ok though because as we drove up to the fields the rain just stopped! It was awesome. Then we had an extremely fun shoot. Lee and Crystal were great and they brought along their puggle Bentley. He is so cute and he was very well behaved. Here is a little tip for you photogs out there photographing dogs: Place a little doggie treat on top of your mini soft box on your flash. The dog, in this case Bentley, will sit still and smile at you for as long as you like!! Then of course feed him, lots :) To say the least this was another fun shoot, in one of my favorite locations, and Lee and Crystal got some fun Christmas pics! Oh, I should mention that since we shot in late November Lee still had the remains of his "Movember Mustache" so we used it to our advantage and had a little fun with it...

{Kaia}

I have two words that describe this shoot: BLUE EYES! Wow, I have never seen any baby with as bright blue eyes in all my days of infant shoots than I have with Kaia. Her eyes are outrageously beautiful., she got them from her mom. This shoot was so awesome because Kaia's dad is one of my best and longest friends. He is am amazing dad and so lucky to have such a precious little girl.

{Olivia & Rocco}

Plain and simple, kids crack me up. Rocco and Olivia being two kids that made me laugh almost the entire shoot. We basically ran around down at the fun zone on the Newport Peninsula. We took some photos, they ate some hotdogs and we just had fun. PERK of living in SO CALI is it's bright and sunny at 70 degrees in December!!