Savoring little successes...

Today is a day that will go down in the dewindesigns history book. The day of my first installation! Yes, today I redecorated my father's office with my photography. All three exam rooms. Surprisingly, it was a pretty cool experience. When he first asked me to do it, I was excited. But until I saw them up on the wall, it didn't hit me how cool an offer it really was. It was the first time I really felt like this was my job. And what a cool job it is! His office manager has also asked me to do some custom work of people wearing frames and putting on contact lenses, which I'm really excited about! I never really had a custom request before!

Then, to top the day off, I went to hang out and watch my husband play at Sun Dog, where I am now up to five photos on display (I almost have an entire side of the restaurant)! And, one of the guys who works there said he liked my work and asked if I would do my own art show there. They would play host and I could hang my work throughout the entire place, including a display in their back room, and serve wine and cheese! My very own art show! Needless to say I was stoked at the idea and had trouble wiping the grin off my face the rest of the night. My own show. Not the downtown art show, not the beaches show, the dewin show!!! And, that is exactly what I shall call it! The dewin show! Starring.... dewin! I can't wait! But, first I have much preparing to do.

Then...to put the cherry on top, one of my husband's friends was in from out of town. A friend who just so happens to be a super successful artist who travels all the time showing his work. I got to sit for a spell and chat with him about art, and he took a look at all my photos on the wall and gave me the greatest compliment I have gotten to date- "Your work has a lot of emotion." Wow. That is the one thing that I look for in other people's artwork, as well as writing. And, he said I have it! He said that when you look at my photo, it creates it's own ambiance. I write this partially to pinch myself so that I know it really happened, and partially so I never forget it. Tonight was definitely a successful one for dewindesigns.



As I was watching my husband and his friends play I paid close attention to their faces. Just like watching Donavon sing with his eyes closed, you can see when they've joined with the music because it's in their faces. It's like when John Mayer plays a solo and his mouth gets all contorted. It's rad. I feel like I finally have found that with my writing and my photography. That moment when my fingers are typing at the speed of light without a thought pushing them along. Or like the moment when I just start clicking at nothing and suddenly I have a shot that I end up blowing up to 11x14 and hanging in a doctor's office.