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2019 favorites

rivensyx — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:00:57 +0000

Here are some of my favorites from 2019! There is such an array of images and I KNOW there has to be many more I love… but here are a few that stood out to me!

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2018 Favorites

rivensyx — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 03:20:01 +0000

Here are some of my favorite images from 2018! There were so many to pick from, like thousands upon thousands haha! It’s been an amazing year! We got our 2 pups added to the animal house. Now there are 5 of us (Chloe, Murphy, Fluffy, Rupp, Roo, Jake, and I)! The pups make it feel like a completed home…until children come hahaha ! That’s when we will really be a full house. Jake and I also got married and started to finish up some work on our home! It was an amazing year for business and growing in other ways. I took some time off for vacations and wedding planning. I really felt like I needed to take it a bit slow last year because for a handful of years it was hustle, hustle, hustle!

But there is one thing for sure I know about myself… I ‘am a busy body. I could only stay in a chill environment for so long until I was really ready to work again! I am so excited to hit the ground running here in 2019. Im excited to try new things and work more out of my comfort zone!

I hope you all enjoy some of my favorite images from 2018!

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Home Renovations-Our One Year Journey From Looking To Owning

rivensyx — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 04:03:54 +0000

In late October of 2016 Jake and I weren’t even thinking about buying a home! We planned to start looking in summer of 2017. But for around 2 years we looked on zillow for the kind of home we wanted. We knew we wanted an older home with character that was in the eastern part of Pgh. We set a budget and knew what we could afford. Randomly one day Jake was on Zillow and seen this house a few blocks from his parents that was priced 30,000 below our lowest end of our budget. It was everything we wanted it just needed a bit of TLC! We crunched the numbers to see what we could do and out of the blue just set up a walk through. We didn’t look at any other houses and knew this was the one! I guess after spending 2 years on zillow you kinda know what you want!

Right before Thanksgiving 2016 we found out our counter offer was accepted and we were buying a home! It all happened so fast I couldn’t believe it! We are so thankful for all the help our family has done as well as thankful for all of those who helped us with work. There is no way we would of made this home as cozy and unique as we did without the help from loved ones and friends! We love having friends and family over in our house because this house was redesigned with so much love and support! We walk into this house every day and say “this is our home”. I pray this feeling of happiness never goes away. There are so many good vibes in this home Its so hard to think we might not be here forever!

We closed on the home in early January and started work immediately. We are so happy that we got to get all the big projects done and out of the way earlier in the home owning process. The whole 1st floor was redone as well as the bathroom! We plan on getting the bedroom done in 2018. And as time goes along we will redo our guest room and office!

Huge shout out to Mark and Rita for all the help! As well as Marks connects Red and Rick for all the labor work they did! Jake and I are not super handy and this house looks the way it does because of them! Rege was our main man with the painting! Thanks for all your help! We also want to thank My Mom, Dad, Sister, Jess, Trent, Blake, Jill, Sam, Nick, Tyler and Gus for all the work inside the house! Everything from ripping up carpet (Jess and I did almost all of it!) to moving boxes and painting!

We love our home so much!I rediscovered my love for interior design and decorating this year! All those years of pinning really came through haha! Cant wait to see what the next few years has in store for us!

Here are some before we bought the house, during renovations, and after the work is done photo! As well as a video of the before and after!

BEFORE WE BOUGHT:

AFTER WE BOUGHT:

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Experimental Self Portraits-CTG Photography

rivensyx — Wed, 24 May 2017 15:21:07 +0000

Experimental Self Portraits-CTG Photography

I’ve been a photographer professionally for 5 years. And I dabbled in photography for about 12 years. Within that 12 years I cannot tell you how many times I actually created something for myself. I am always creating for others. I’m always busy “doing my job” that I never sat down and said to myself “What do you want for yourself?”

I love everything about what I do but iv recently felt lost in my own personal creative expression. I randomly decided one afternoon to put some makeup on and grab some things around the room to just create something. It doesn’t have a meaning, I had no real thought behind any of it. What this impromptu self-portrait session did was open up a floodgate of ideas I have for future shoots!

Sometime the most spontaneous decisions can create something that moves you in ways you didn’t know possible!

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