origami

Its the way you think about things. Its your measurements and use of levels. Its how I just eyeball things and use shoes and books as hammers.Your symmetrical and love puzzles, I'm scattered and love collages and overlapping.
Your all science, Im blind faith and magic (with a little vampire love thrown in).

It was two weekends ago when your parents held a family bbq that really reminded me of how much I love our differences, and how much I think we compliment one another.

Your mom bought an origami kit for your cousins to play with when they came over. But you couldn't resist tearing it open and getting started hours before they arrived. You said it was because you just wanted to practice so if they needed any help you knew what to do... We all knew it was really because you can't resist a puzzle... You started with a simple (so you said) crane (mine was more Lochness monster than elegant crane, but i was all "whattevvss I dooo what I wannt") Then you moved onto the paper cube, it took you few tries and a couple youtube vids but you finally did it, and it was beautiful.
The girls loved following your instructions and making the little paper animals but I loved watching you patiently show them the folds and where they went wrong, and what to do to make it work. It made me think that sometimes its the simplicity and tiny folds that really can make something wonderful out of the boring and mundane and all you need is a little patience and a knack for not getting paper cuts.

So although I don't always have the patience or the knack for solving puzzles, it doesn't matter because you do :) And I just wanted to say thank you for loving all my crazy outside the line scribbles, because I couldn't live without your origami skills.Photo cred goes to Matts mom, Carmel!

xxx
JAD

alyssa + kael engaged.

Alyssa and I have been emailing back and forth for a few months and finally we were able to crinkle out all the details and scheduling conflicts and get together to do some engagement photos last weekend. Alyssa and Kael brought along Alyssa's sister and the 4 of us met in Streetsville, we wondered around the train tracks and eventually made our way to a sweet little park near the river. It was such a beautiful morning with fantastic light :) and we all had a lot of fun!

Engagment photos are really cool to do because the couple is so relaxed and we can all take our time and enjoy the process and get to know each other better. Whereas if our first meeting was on the wedding day, it makes for a lot more confusion and no one knows what to expect, not to mention added stress. Which is why I always give my clients a free engagment shoot because I want their day to be as easy and stress free as possible.

Let me first say congratulations ladies. I think that you are both wonderful and I was very honored to get to share in your love and excitement. The love that both of you showed for eachother had me in awe. It was the looks and the smiles, all the laughs and the thursday night piggy backs. It was so real and fearless and I think that kind of love is the forever kind. Forever, because it will hold you close through hard times and it will show you how to appreciate the simple little things and continue to grow as you do.

Im so excited to be apart of your story and to share in your happiness and laughter. I can't wait for the wedding!

Heres to a lifetime of thursday night piggybacks :)Enjoy the sneak peak of some of my faves!

-jad