for the bookish...

Quick post: if you are a book-worm, or have a friend who's a bookworm (besides myself) you MUST check out this giveaway! It's over at Stephanie's blog. Enjoy!

   ~Bailey

little girls in cowboy boots, part 2

Click here to check out part one of this four-part series. :)

      This is outfit # two from the photo shoot with lil-sis. :) I love how elegant and grown-up she looks in these.
       She'll always be the 3-yr.-old who decided to wear Mom's mascara {which she decided would also look good as blush, lipstick, etc.} and yet she's definitely turning rapidly into a little lady. It's scary, sometimes... when I get mad at her for something that seems really major and out of character for her. Come to find out, it is. It's like when I get annoyed with her, I'm really getting annoyed with me - the one who unknowingly taught her how to argue so well. So as she gets older, I realize more and more I have to let her be herself - not push her into being me, since she seems to imitate me on her own. Instead I should be the person God wants me to be, and let her be the person God wants Shelby to be.
Enjoy these pics of little miss independent!

                                     

~Bailey

little girls in cowboy boots

Shelby Dawn. My favorite sister! {a.k.a. my only sister} Part of my photography project was to do a photo shoot. Shelby is such a natural at things like this, and she lives with me, so she was my first choice. This shoot doubled as an eye-opener for me. As the four-hour session came to a close, I realized how much closer her and I had become. It wasn't just the pictures. 

It was pinning up the too-big-skirt of mine, washing up the worn-down boots that used to be mine, and experimenting with hair-do's. I got to work on perspective both in my only big sis-little sis relationship and in my photography skills, both of which are forever-changing. 

These are the select few from outfit #1. Enjoy!

 Sorry the last one's a little blurry, that's just the way it loaded. :)

                  <3 Bailey

The Aeneid

Hey all! Check out what I wrote in my Dialectical Journal this morning for school! http://paynebookworm98.blogspot.com/2012/04/aeneid-book-4.html
Thought some you would enjoy that. :) And coming soon: a post with pictures from the photo shoot with my sister...
In Christ,
      <>< Bailey