I’ve shared a few times about how nervous I get when I go to meet ups with other photographers. This shouldn’t be news to anyone. Really, everyone should just be fully aware that I get nervous before I do anything. It’s just what I do. When I decided to go the Creative Connection LA meet up I was nervous, as usual, but I was a little distracted from my nerves because my thought process was more along the lines of “If I’m going to go to this meet up I really need to buy cute boots. I think every creative person owns a pair of cute boots… I need cute boots… and cuter clothes.” I didn’t get cute boots, or cuter clothes. ;]

As I walked towards the Tea Exchange on Saturday morning I kept asking Alexis “why are we heeeeeere???”, in an annoying whiny voice, the nerves got to me, she said something that struck me. She said, I don’t know why we’re here, but the bible study that we’re doing keeps telling us over and over that if women put aside their differences and band together we can make a difference in the world. So spending Saturday morning hanging out with a group of women is probably where we need to be [or something brilliant along those lines]. I was struck by how wonderful the idea of this group is. It’s not a group of photographers, it’s a group of creative people. There’s no exclusivity, if you’re creative, you can come! It’s for bloggers, designers, photographers, event planners, social media gurus, marketers, fashionistas, bakers, writers, actors; female creatives. Ladies who are wanting to put aside the competition that often comes with creative jobs like these and support each other. I love that.

Big thanks to the wonderful women who put this event together. Emilee, Joanna, Lizzie, and Kathy.