{image (c) jessica burke, styling & florals by lovely little details}

i am writing this late in the evening on wednesday from the guest bedroom of my lovely bride’s family’s house just outside of seattle. we had a wonderful site visit today and i spent the afternoon with the bride and her sister, followed by an evening crowded with her entire family around the kitchen, chatting and getting to know each other. i’m telling you - this family makes me remember why i love my job so much. they are the sweetest people and they wouldn’t even have thought of me staying in a hotel for my quick in-and-out site visit - they insisted that i stay with them, like family. but more on these wonderful people will come soon, i promise!

i feel like owe you a tiny bit of an update, as a few weeks ago i alluded to something pretty big going on over in LLD land (no, not the baby bump kind of big). a few months back, a publisher reached out to me to write and create the content for a book they wanted me to do. i immediately jumped at the chance and enlisted one of my absolute favorite photographers, jessica burke, to take all of the pictures {the picture at the top of today’s post is a little sneak of some projects we’ll be posting in the next few weeks}. without getting in to too much detail, in the end, as exciting and amazing as the opportunity sounded, i decided to turn it down. as a full-time small business owner, every single decision i make impacts not just me, but my husband, my clients, both present and future, and lovely little details as a whole. sometimes the road less traveled is not necessarily the popular route to take, but you end up discovering something beautiful off the beaten path. and who knows what else you might find along the way? i’m willing to take my chances :)

stay tuned for a weekly installment of some pretty projects jessica and i put together. until then, i’ll be enjoying my last few hours in seattle before heading back to SF for a few more to-dos before our trip :)