Day #2; "Messy Mishaps" and "Simply Me"

Today was a VERY productive day, I already checked two things off of my list!
And for dinner I made Tyler and I vegan pink sauce pasta~

Which was basically an alfredo sauce I made from tofu + a can of marinara sauce poured on some mini shells.
It was super easy and sooooo gooood~ We each had two huge servings.

Haha, okay, enough food talk, here's my images~

For my drawing today, again, I turned to Tyler and said, "what should I draw?"
And since I had just finished making us dinner he said, "a chef! no wait, two chefs! like.... a boy and a girl chef........."
And I mean, how could I resist a request so cute?!

"Messy Mishaps"


My photo today is in the backyard again but it's a little bit different than yesterday's.

"Simply Me"

Just a self portrait because I haven't taken one in awhile~

Well alright, I can't just hang around a chat, I got a million things to do so I'll see you later!

Whatever Wednesday #1

Breaking up the work week with a lil just, you know, ~whateva~
Mostly like an update-type-thing with maybe photos or links and stuff~
Since this is the first one I guess I'll start with a lil update about what's been happening in my life for the past couple of months...

I left my job at the theatre in the beginning of October.
So that I could party it up in Vegas for my friend's bachelorette party~
Was a maid of honor in said friend's wedding.

Celebrated my sister's 19th birthday.

And then I moved to Fresno the same weekend!
Since I have been here I have been on the job hunt but haven't had much luck.
I spend most of my time hanging out with Tyler and our friends or Tyler's family.
It has been very nice to just relax, though, I'm not gonna lie~

But enough relaxing it's time for things to change!

Since it's the new year, I guess I can let you know my New Year Resolutions~

Let me preface by saying, yes I know that most people nowadays think New Year Resolutions are dumb and pointless but I like to see the new year as just a great way to motivate myself because it's like a "fresh start" (even though it's just another day... haha) where you can just forget the past "year's" failures (it's all your fault, 2012!).

So this year I'm going to be blogging, photographing, and drawing daily to motivate myself to achieve more daily and hopefully my life will change accordingly over time.

It's like I'm making the resolution to change what I do, to change who I am, to become who I want to be.

But because that's not enough for me, every Whatever Wednesday I'd like to have a couple of weekly goals to accomplish and then I'll report on my successes here~
To set myself up for year-long success these goals will definitely help me out for a long time to come...

• get a library card
• turn in filled out job applications
• get more job applications
• schedule volunteering orientation at dog shelter
• organize my closet half

It's gotten a little out of hand...

Well, that's enough just talking about doing stuff, time to go do it!

I'll be back soon with my photo and drawing of the day~

Day #1; "The Kids" and "Jupiter: King of the Gods"

Happy New Year!

Have fun last night? Excited for the new year? Could you honestly not care less?!

Haha~ I hung out with the beau and chums drinking Hello Kitty champagne until the wee hours of the morning.

So we've had a quiet day in today but it was a nice start for the year.

And I'm super excited for the new year~ I'm excited for blogging and this simultaneous 365 project I'm setting out on.

So with out further ado, here are my images~

"The Kids"

I asked Tyler what I should draw for my first photo of the year and he said "our children~*" which is Bella, Patches, Bookworm, and Wasabi & Ginger.
Bella is our cat, Patches is the stuffed dog I've had for forever, and the other three were gifts from Tyler over the years.
I think it's a pretty nice lil family portrait~

"Jupiter: King of the Gods"

A simple panorama of the view from our backyard in Fresno.
I was surprised when I pulled out my skymap app that the brightest spot at the very top is the planet Jupiter!
And it's hard to see but Orion is lying on his side below him in the trees.
I'm pretty pleased to have this as my very first photo for this project. (:

Happy New Year! And Tasty Tuesday #1~*

Happy New Year!

2012 was a great year filled with ups and downs~

I graduated from Mt. SAC with an Art's Associates in Humanites.

I was one of the maid of honors in my best friend's wedding.
I finally turned 21.
I left a pretty lame job that had some amazing coworkers.

I finally moved in with my boyfriend Tyler in Fresno.
I converted from a pescetarian to a vegetarian to a vegan.
And much more that I'm sure I'm totally forgetting~

While 2012 was a pretty good year, I want 2013 to be even better!
And I want to document it all, so I'm going to start blogging daily.
Monday through Friday will have different blogs each day, and since the new year starts on Tuesday the first post will be for
~Tasty Tuesday~ 

And as the days go on, each of the day's blog titles will be revealed.
I'll be queuing my blog to post automatically every day at 9:15am but besides the scheduled posts,
everyday I will post a photo that I took and a drawing that I drew~

I'm very excited to be blogging more and for what this year will unfold into~

So okay, enough mushy rambling, let's get started!

Thanksgiving this year was spent at Tyler's home with his family and my sister came to visit! 

I spend the day before and the day of cooking soooooo muuuuuccchhh~
I wanted my first ever vegan thanksgiving to be delicious as hell and guess what! It was~

I started my day by attempting to roast some pecans.
It didn't end well.

Even though it was totally disheartening for the FIRST thing I did to go horribly wrong,
everything else went quite smoothly afterwards~

I made a tofu-based pumpkin pie~
Everyone who tried it said it tasted just like normal pumpkin pie so aw yeah~~~

I also made a tofu-based sweet potato pie.
It probs look way cooler with some pecans but you know...
Also tasted pretty normal so that's good, too~ Haha

This is some green bean casserole!
I had to make a roux and it was so weird but cool.
Cooking is such an awesome hobby,
it's like chemistry but then you get to EAT IT!

Tyler's mom is very awesome and gave me a portion of stuffing/dressing that I kept vegan with a vegetable broth. She also shared some mashed potatoes and broccoli salad~
So there was absolutely no shortage of different kinds of food.

 These dinner rolls were made from scratch!
Yeast, flour, and water. And I guess time.
For my first time every making bread from scratch, they came out pretty flavorful~

And the pièce de résistance... the Trader Joe's brand holiday roast~

Tyler was the one who very nicely laid out this platter and doesn't it look great?~ 

I typically get the Tofurkey brand but decided to try the Trader Joe's one out and oh man, it is amazing!

I've got nothing against the Tofurkey one, but the Trader Joe's one looked better, had a better texture, and tasted better! 

It was seriously so good....... I want some right now........ omggggggg..g...g.g..g.......

After the seemingly endless amount of prepwork and cooking, this was the most delicious Thanksgiving I've ever had~

Autumn

Autumn is probably my favourite time of year.
My birthday is in autumn~ (September 4th!)

The weather is always cool and nice~
And it's usually when school starts and I kind of like school, haha.

But now that I have an Arts Associates in Humanities from Mt. SAC,

I am going to take a year (or two...) off from school-learning and try out some of that life-learning~

So in an attempt to get myself going, I'm going to start running this blog full-force!
I'm going to continue posting photo sets but I'm also going to share other things, like vegan recipes and DIYs~

So I guess I'll give you some background about myself, as it will pertain to what I will post about.

I'm Jacqueline Zebraskiin~
I'm a 21 year old vegan from Los Angeles County.
I'm moving to the ~ fantastic~ Fresno County to live with my boyfriend and his family at the end of October.
My boyfriend is an awesome dude named Tyler Zebraskiin and we've been dating for 5.6 years!
That's so ridiculous, haha~
I'm Maid of Honor in my best friend Laurren's wedding on October 20th and I'm equally excited and infuriated by it all...
I love photography, especially film and analog photography.
But I'm just as equally skilled with a TLR and negatives as I am with a DSLR and RAW files. (;
I love to create. Just any form of creating is fun to me~
Whether it be sewing crafts or cooking food or making a music video, as long as I'm creating, I'm having the time of my life~



Well, I'd like to go get started on some "real" blog posts so I'll wrap this up here.
But I'm excited for you to learn about me, so I can learn about youuuu~ (:

Jacqueline Zebraskiin~

Marquie

This was the first time I worked with Marquie after I have known her for several years.
This was actually back in March! I can't believe I'm such a slacker...
But we had a pleasant afternoon and we got some really great photos!

And I just had to save the best for last.
This may be my favourite picture I have ever taken.

A mixture of 35mm, Polaroid 669, and 120 film.









See you soon!


Jacqueline Zebraskiin

Victoria

Victoria is probably my most frequent model and we always manage to create some gorgeous photos (even when the sunflower 'field' turns out to be a single sunflower plant).

This is a combination of 35mm, 120, and one Polaroid 669.
This was a great day and I am so super happy with all of the photos. And I can't wait to take pictures with Victoria again! (:





See ya later~

Jacqueline Zebraskiin

Max

One of my best friends is Max. He goes to NYU and is someday gonna be a big movie marketer!
So I figured I'd take some pictures of him before he gets all famous and stuff and then he has Terry Richardson taking his photo~

We had a very nice hike in Pasadena and then lunch at One World Vegetarian and it was pretty legit~
Max will be graduating this May from NYU and that is so freaking awesome! Congratulations!
Now get your butt home so we can eat some tacos, burritos, and nachos~



Until next time!

Jacqueline Zebraskiin~

Elvis

Back during the first weekend of January the theatre I work at had performances from Scot Bruce who is a young Elvis impersonator.

My coworkers and I had a great time working with Scot Bruce and his band and I was able to sneak a couple of shots during their performances.
(please click a photo to view larger)

Jacqueline Zebraskiin

Film Photos

Yesterday I got my photos back from being developed after what felt like 100 years (actually 2 full weeks), and I came to the startling conclusion that this was the first time I have developed film all year.

All 140 photos in their ultra-organized glory~

Isn't that nuts? It's April! Midway through April, now!

Freaking crazy.

So now I'm going to be pumping out photos so that I can have some actually recent/relevant work up and then I can shoot new stuff too!

Prepare for the onslaught~

April

It's the first of April and it's an absolutely beautiful spring day!

And it has me super inspired to start things off with a fresh start~

First off, a new blog!

I know, I've had a thousand and one blogs but this is it, if I don't keep up with this one, I'm done, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to keep up with this one~ (:

Along with starting a new blog I'm going to be changing some other things in my life as well:

• I am going to exercise daily
• I am going full vegetarian and not just lame pescetarian (because I really ultimately want to go vegan)
• I am going to take more pictures and do more for my photography (like get business cards and network)
• get my to-do list at least 50% done! (there’s seriously like 30 things on this list so I hope I can get shit done)
• save and make as much money as possible any way possible
• stop slacking and being lazy and anything negative like that. only positive productivity with maximum motivation~*

And to get things started off on the healthy, motivated foot, here is the smoothie I made this morning.

There is an orange pictured but I didn't end up using it... Haha.

Bu there's vanilla almond milk, spinach, a frozen banana, frozen strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries. It came out a really cool purple color and it didn't even taste bad! Haha, especially since I was just throwing stuff in the blender that sounded healthy. But whatever, now I have my servings of fruit, a serving of veggies, and my calcium for the day~

Well, it's already 1:15pm and I still have to clean my room, exercise, and then get ready for the Ariya show that I'm taking photos at tonight!

I hope you all enjoy your day and April!

See you soon~*

Jacqueline Zebraskiin