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    • a beautiful mess

      Posted at 8:00 am by jasminedesirees, on January 8, 2016

      Exciting news! I, a girl who never wins anything, except for that plastic container of cinnamon hearts when I was in fifth grade, won a set of Photoshop Actions from the DIY blog A Beautiful Mess right before Christmas.

      I’m not amazing at Photoshop by any means, I’ve taught myself slowly for different jobs over the years, and we met a fellow traveller in Australia last year who gave us a copy of the program for our laptop (thanks Jake!) but I would definitely say I’m still a beginner. These Actions are cool though because you just have to pick one, and it automatically edits the image for you.

      From there you can adjust the level, and turn certain layers on and off within the Action itself to play with it a little, but it makes it a lot easier.

      Full confession, I have been writing for over three years on this blog, and I’ve never edited one. single. image. And not just because I’m lazy (although that’s part of it). It kind of feels like cheating to me? Anything can look amazing if it’s edited enough. I hate when I see a picture of something and it looks incredible, and then I see it in person and I’m like wait… why is this water brown?

      But it’s nice to have the option, and I’m having fun playing around with these new Actions.

      I picked an image from our trip to Cambodia last year, of a monk sitting on a building inside Angkor Wat and one of us snorkeling near Komodo Island to showcase some of the different options here:

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      Posted in art, Cambodia, Indonesia, other things, photography | 0 Comments | Tagged a beautiful mess, Cambodia, photography, photoshop, photoshop actions
    • loveliness

      Posted at 8:00 am by jasminedesirees, on December 3, 2015

      A few lovely things for today, when I’m snuggling up under the covers and dreaming of Christmas in Mazatlan. Wake me up when December ends.

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      Posted in art, favourites, inspiration, loveliness, poetry, quotes | 0 Comments | Tagged Alice in Wonderland, inspiration, Lewis Carrol, loveliness, photography, quotes
    • loveliness

      Posted at 9:34 am by jasminedesirees, on September 23, 2015

      A few lovely things for today, when I’m back in Arizona for 11 days in a row, the longest unbroken stretch since May.

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      Posted in art, inspiration, loveliness, photography, poetry, quotes | 0 Comments | Tagged art, inspiration, life, loveliness, photography, quotes
    • a year of mornings

      Posted at 8:30 am by jasminedesirees, on August 11, 2015

      a year of mornings

      A few weeks ago I was sitting in a salon waiting to get my hair done, and I absentmindedly picked up a book to flip through while I waited. I was immediately captivated by the imagery in the book, which turned out to be A Year of Mornings.

      The book is based on this blog, where two women who had never met in person decided to collaborate to share one image of their lives, every morning.

      I am guilty sometimes of thinking that it’s only the big things in life that are worth sharing, but this book, and the images inside, immediately struck me as so beautiful and powerful, even though they were of nothing more exciting than the normal, every day struggle to get a family up, and fed, and off to meet the day. It might take a little bit more creativity and imagination, but that’s the point anyway, isn’t it?

      It only took me about 15 minutes to flip through from start to finish, but I had ordered the book before I even left the salon. I had been staying with my parents in Montana the week before, and spending a lot of time with my mom, who paints in her spare time. We had talked about working on paintings together while I was there, but I couldn’t think of anything that I really wanted to paint.

      The colours and composition of the images in A Year of Mornings were so inspiring that I texted my mom immediately to let her know that I had found my subject.

      I’m sometimes hesitant to buy books anymore, I try to live as minimally as possible (just don’t look in my closet), and I have SO many books in Canada still that I haven’t been able to bring with me (I have my own library, basically. It’s a sickness.) but I know this book will serve as a source of inspiration for years to come.

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      Posted in art, books, inspiration, photography | 0 Comments | Tagged a year of mornings, blogs, books, inspiration, life, photography
    • loveliness

      Posted at 8:52 am by jasminedesirees, on April 1, 2015

      A few lovely things for today, when it’s 93 degrees. It’s only March and it’s already too hot to wear clothes. Summer is going to be a fiery hellscape.

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      Posted in loveliness | 0 Comments | Tagged don draper, emily dickinson, inspiration, loveliness, photography, poetry, quotes
    • loveliness

      Posted at 8:49 am by jasminedesirees, on March 4, 2015

      A few lovely things for today, when I am having a House Hunters: International marathon, and making firm plans to one day live in an olive grove in Tuscany.

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      Posted in favourites, loveliness | 0 Comments | Tagged art, House Hunters, inspiration, loveliness, photography, quotes, travel
    • loveliness

      Posted at 8:00 am by jasminedesirees, on October 9, 2014

      A few lovely things for today, when I am on my way to Gili, and hopefully am not seasick.

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      Posted in loveliness | 0 Comments | Tagged art, joan didion, loveliness, photography, quotes
    • loveliness

      Posted at 8:00 am by jasminedesirees, on August 22, 2014

      A few lovely things for today, because I’m procrastinating and because job hunting is the absolute worst.

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      Posted in art, inspiration, loveliness, photography, quotes | 1 Comment | Tagged art, hunter s. thompson, loveliness, photography, quotes
    • cambodia- part 2

      Posted at 8:00 am by jasminedesirees, on August 9, 2014

      A few more photos from our time in Cambodia.

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      Posted in Cambodia, travel | 0 Comments | Tagged Cambodia, photography, travel
    • cambodia- part 1

      Posted at 8:00 am by jasminedesirees, on August 7, 2014

      I wanted to share a few extra pictures from Cambodia that didn’t really fit in anywhere else (I only took about 6000 photos). It’s such a beautiful country, and the people there are so wonderful and friendly. I felt truly lucky to have had the opportunity to visit.

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      Posted in Cambodia, travel | 0 Comments | Tagged Cambodia, life, photography, travel
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