Sometimes I have to force myself to bring my camera with me and take pictures just for the sake of taking pictures! I used to all the time, and I’ve forgotten how much fun it can be. Here are some photos from over the weekend. Aren’t my boyfriends sunglasses awesome!?

I’ve been in a really good mood recently! The weather has been lovely and I’ve just been bouncing off walls thinking about all of the weddings that I get to photograph this year! My next wedding couple is Elizabeth and Oz on April 3rd. Do you guys remember their engagement session? They are so cute! Anyways, I’ve decided it would be fun to take some pictures and let you guys know a little more about me. So here I am in 6 photographs, complete with explanations:

1. Me! My full first name is Kamailehihiokalani and I was born in Hawaii. Maile and Lani are the two nouns in my name. Maile is a vine they make leis out of to wear at weddings (how convenient!) and Lani means heaven. I love my name, but it’s not fun filling out forms that don’t have enough spaces for all the letters!

2. I’ve been playing piano for 11 years. This is a photo of my original Fender Rhodes and I am so proud of it! I bought over on the north shore and it’s in such wonderful condition. I like to play it loudly… very, very loudly.

3. I love flowers in vases. They just completely brighten up a room and make me utterly happy. They’re fun to arrange too!

4. Toy cameras make me melt inside. The large negatives, the dreamy blurred out edges, who could ask for more? I mainly use my Holga, but my Diana works really well with black and white film and it’s so cute that I couldn’t resist including it.

5. Keds are the best shoes ever and the cherry ones that came out in 2006 are even more awesome. These are my favourite shoes and oh so comfortable!

6. It’s me again, but I’m 7 this time I talked to everyone and was really bad about talking to strangers. It’s funny because I’m still the girl that talks to random people it and it’s actually how I met my boyfriend almost 5 years ago! We were both staying at the same hotel in Montreal and I just started talking to him… and didn’t stop talking.

Anyone who has known me for any amount of time knows that I LOVE colorful kitchen things. I have colored bowls, measuring cups, colored Le Creuset pots, knives, you name it and I have it in some crazy color. I also love anything in the shape of an animal. I have a monkey salt and pepper shaker, geese measuring cups, an elephant funnel, a dog shaped cake server, oh the list goes on. Well, I finally decided to give in and buy a new colander (in purple!) and my first salad spinner (in lime green!). The colander came in today and I squeeled at the postman. He’s quite used to me getting overly excited about my mail so he just laughed. I opened the box and it was SO fun I just had to take a picture of it with some of my kitchen collection