2014 and a little bit of history

So if you visited the blog lately and was nearly taken out by a lone tumbleweed, I apologize. I blogged a pathetic two times last year and am totally annoyed with myself. Truth be told, 2013 was one of the those years I would have hid in bed every day if it weren’t for photography. Life is given and taken everyday, but one in particular didn’t make any sense to me. On July 1st, colon cancer took my close friend who was diagnosed 9 months prior. She was 32. And as I watched her husband, their three year old son, and 10 month baby say goodbye to her, I figuratively shoved all that anger and sadness up cancer’s ass.  I don’t like to talk about sad stuff so I started reading everything I could get my hands on because books, other people’s stories, gave me an escape. And consequently caused the blog to suffer.

But 2014 is here so 2013 can suck it. On the business front, we are currently working on selecting our proof packaging for our wedding clients. This wooden box with our logo carved into it came today and I squealed like a prepubescent One Direction fan. Actually, I squeal when I see our logo on anything. The logo was really a labor of love. Hence the heart shape. I have never been formally trained in Illustrator and could not afford a designer so when it was time to create something to represent the brand, there were very many versions but this is the one that survived and will continue to embody the company’s image. As for Lucid, the word was part of my AOL name in 1995, so we have a long history together.