+ Aarean & Glitter

If you don't follow my sisters blog then you should! 
The Color Issue is her blog about food, fashion, interior design, DIY projects, and lots lots more. 

Sometimes she gets ideas for her blog and since I am finally home we did a shoot for one of her ideas to post about on her blog. She loves glitter and color and this is a little mix of the two for a post about the new year [ I think ]

She is cute.

+ Sadie

Sister Shoot # 2

Christmas

Santa Clause was too good to me this year

Well not just Santa... thanks to Shane, Aarean & Josh, and my parents I got the Canon 7d and a beautiful wide angle lens [ 10-20mm ]  

Lets just say I am HOOKED UP for Rome. I got all my necessities for my future living abroad.

I was very blessed this Christmas. 

I have spent good times with a few friends that I hadn't seen in a while, I have spent lots of fun times with my family, been eating way too much food in my moms kitchen, and been eating lots of Golden Spoon :)

Its been a wonderful past few weeks. 

Now its time to prepare for my departure in 12 days. YEE!

Dont worry we don't all wear red lipstick on a daily basis or something, we were at SEPHORA playing around!

+ Paige

Sister Shoot # 1 

I got my new camera which meant it was a must to have a new shoot !

Love my new Camera and Lenses!!!!!

Merry Merry Christmas!

Saw this cottage instantly wished I was THERE tonight on christmas eve. 

How dang cute is this little thing??! 

All cozied up with a fire, hot chocolate, in a winter wonderland

I miss this snow, so so so much.

Anyways its been a great christmas eve and off to bed to wake up to lots of goodies.

Merry Christmas to all my friends, family and loved ones !!!

I gave Hudson a terrible present

You might have to turn it up because he talked quite although my voice is loud. 

But still, it was the reaction I was precisely wanting! CLASSIC. ahahah

I felt so bad. 

So I also gave him a huge ice cream filled with m&m's and gummy bears afterwards as " gift #2 "

Five minutes after I gave it to him though he came up to me and was like "thanks rachael I really really love my gift, you know I asked Santa if I could PLEASEEEE have a blue cd holder and now I have one! So thank you I love it"

Such a sweet boy. 

Although I feel to bad to ever do that again. 

hahaha

The Alphabet: by me

Over the past year I have accumulated way too many videos that I shot for ideas for small projects. Those small projects sometimes get stuffed under the table and you forget to touch them!

I shot some of these for a project I was doing for my final last spring... 

I shot some of these on lonesome leisure-ish walks...

I shot some of these while adventuring with Shaney 

I shot some of these while roaming with my girlfriends

I shot lots of these while driving [unsafe, yet worth it]

I shot these all because in my mind these settings sparked something.

I walk around on a daily basis and take in the things that inspire me

I take those natural things that inspire me and try to make something of it

Through: pictures, creating ideas, ways of thinking, ways of viewing, art, finding better ways of treating people, appreciating more, recognizing little things

So I suppose this video is a plethora of all the things that inspire me 

and in a funky way make me happy [as of now]

Its kinda a busy busy video but I really really like it.

Hope you do to!

The Alphabet from Rachael Clegg on Vimeo.

Funniest thing!

My friend Heather posted this on her tumblr and I don't know if I was in a giggly mood or what, but I was literally laughing out loud CONSTANTLY while watching these videos. Oh my gosh!!
I had to re-share them because I think they are hilarious. Greatest idea ever to give your kid a bad gift and see their reaction. I feel like a kid's true personality comes out after opening their present.

These first kids are adorable and so well-behaved.
The second video... the kids reaction is priceless.

Friday when I go to Whitneys, I'm going to give Reagan and Hudson a terrible gift and video tape it.
Its gonne be great, I can't wait.

Fisheye + City

Found my fisheye camera in my trunk of the car. Which is sadly a complete disaster back there.

Which will in fact be wiped clean by Friday. I am doing a sweeping and cleaning of the car because that car needs to have room for all my belongings to be stuffed in there to move back home. 

:( 

:( 

thats two sad faces for that comment. 

But I'm making this last week of mine in Berkeley a good one. 

Me and Shane went into the city Saturday to go ice skating in Union Square.

Well showing up at 4:00 wasn't early enough, it was sold out until 9:30 so we shopped around and grabbed dinner up on the 7th floor of Macy's at The Cheesecake Factory. 

Christmas time in the city is so much fun and so festive. Its lovely!

We played around the city a little yesterday again then back to Berkeley for a last time meal at my favorite Fillipos Italian restaurant on College Ave. We brought fisheye camcam along...

Now some of these images are VERY grainy and bad quality because it doesnt capture darkness AT ALL. So bear with, but its still good memories so I had to post them. 

Aarean + Josh + Sage

I mean there isn't much to say besides perfect.

I had these ideas of Aarean and Josh's pictures this year, which were originally supposed to be taken in the Muir Woods. I wanted big bulky trunks of the beautiful Redwoods to give this "feel" to the images. Mild tones and a pop of a color [i.e. red]

But things changed a little bit and early morning drive to Muir Woods with a baby probably wasn't going to work out haha. So I scouted out a location in the Berkeley Hills [with Paige and Sadies help] and found this tiny street and loved it. So we came back and shot the pictures here and they turned out wonderful. Aareans outfits for everyone turned out adorable. I love when the colors and patterns flow. Not matchy matchy, USA. 

But a perfect blend of colors.

bye bye camera

Oh my! 

If that wouldn't be the most terrible feeling, I dont know what would!

[as far as owning anything that is]

polka

Archived this image of Paige. Forgot I took these and re-liked them! So then I created a little something that has not much meaning at all, except for eye candy of Polka dot tights that are adorable and Paige, who is nice to look at