Christmas was good, lots of celebrating and time with family. I celebrate the 24th and not the 25th, I sleep in on Christmas day :)

This looks like a city of Lights but its just a street and and an unsteady hand. But I love the magical aspect that it does look like a city and its colorful. As if the spirit of the city is alive and beckoning you to come and join in on the fun.


my goddaughter is running past the lights, beautiful in motion <3


few more pics here

going on

life keeps going on no matter what i say or do or happens. I will be jobless for 2 weeks, when I already only work part time and that is costly. But nothing I can do about it and yes it could be worse and all. But after an interesting day at work and realizing it took 3 of us to get the hot chocolate to work properly.

I come home stressed about work and wondering what to do, why cant I get a good job (my mind is saying look at the economy and how many people are applying too). I look at some job posting the flight stewardess looks like fun but i also worry with mischief since he was just sick, would that be a good idea? I saw cleaning jobs, and found some design firms to apply. No they are not hiring but might as well toss my resume in there anyway, you never know right?

In the middle of thinking how to do my design site again (leenstar.com) I decided to work on my Photography only branch of my website. Yes make it separate from my design, with maybe its own domain name, or just a whole section alone. I came up with a new logo and I enjoy it much more since its new and playing with the "a" as well. As you can see its fun and still sticks to my original idea of my name being upside down since designer/photographer dominates my non working self. Literally I am a workaholic.

Now I am lucky to have a great set of parents who have helped me out massively this last three years. But now dad suggested what all I would need for photography (lights...ect..) and make a list and see how we can get them and get started on pushing more photography. And push making books as well for customers. So Photography + design sounds good.

Also i started brainstorming ideas for the first children's book I want to make. I should get another small sketchbook just for the ideas since they are swarming in my mind.

light & dark

into the light of the tree light I look over to see the good.


falling down the tree i see no hope or desire to breathe

St. Lucia

St Lucia was on Dec 13, but I was at a local celebration in a Norwegian church here in Houston. It was a real treat to see Swedish Jule traditions, and very different from my Mexican and American upbringings.

It was beautiful and fun to be a part of this year. It started with a Fika of glögg, Pepperkakor kaka, bröd, skinka, och smör. Then followed by some words from the paster, and a poem reading that beconded for Lucia to enter the room. Then the Lucia train enters with Lucia first followed by girls dressed similar to her then the tomtoms, gingerbread kids and boys with pointy hats and stars. All so cute and very different to what I am used to seeing.

Once the singing of songs was done they emptied the church to bring in the tree and sing and dance around it. It was cute to watch them sing and dance all in Swedish. At the end of the long song they pillage the tree for the candy wrapped gifts. Beautiful memories and I was glad to have had an opportunity to photograph it as well. My teacher and 3 other classmates where there as well :)

more pictures here on my FB Fan page

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