I'm so excited! After nearly a year on Skool, I've launched my very first 7-Day Profile Photo Challenge inside Photography by Cristal, and we're already on DAY FOUR! Seven days of fun, simple photography tips to help you feel more confident in front of the camera and make the most of your profile photos! Missed the first three days? Catch up here! 📸 DAY 1 📸 DAY 2 📸 DAY 3 ✨ DAY 4 IS LIVE TODAY! And there's more! 🎟️ Every challenge comment earns a raffle entry for a chance to win a $97 LIVE Remote Headshot Session with me! Whether you're an author, entrepreneur, or community creator, your profile photo is often your first introduction to the world! You don't need a photography studio to look your best. Just your smartphone, a hands-free stand, and natural window light. I guide and direct you LIVE from the comfort of your own home! It's not too late to join the fun! 📸 Come join us inside Photography by Cristal! Photography by Cristal

I’m so grateful to be part of Kingdom Peace and Prosperity. Lisa Vanderveen, thank you, my sister in Christ, for making me feel so welcome. 💛 @Lisa Vanderveen You were my very first monthly member; thank you for believing in me and trusting me with your images! I’d love to invite you all to my free challenge, 7 Days to Camera-Ready, running October 12 through October 18. Men and women, everyone’s welcome. You don’t need anything. Just read, soak it in and enjoy. Over seven days, I’ll share what I’ve learned in 30+ years as a photographer, actress and model: 💡 Lighting: how soft window light brings out your natural glow 🙂 Posing: relaxed, natural ways to feel at ease 💇‍♀️💇‍♂️ Makeup & hair: simple touches that feel like you ✨ Presence: letting your inner light shine through in every photo 🎟️ Every comment during the challenge earns a raffle ticket, and on Day 8, October 19, I’ll go live to give away a free remote headshot session. I'll guide you on a live call, and I'll capture every shot myself. I’d love to see you there. 🙏 Photography by Cristal Cristal & @Lisa Vanderveen 💗

Another reason we need Jesus! 'Turn your worries into prayers... Philippians 4:6 The Message 🙏✝️🙏✝️🙏 And God's peace will guard your heart 🙌💕 What fear is making us weird?

In the past year since I joined Skool, I’ve written 39 chapters of my memoir, I Escaped Hollywood, Barely. 📖❤️ And every time I think, Cristal, surely you have enough stories now 😂… another one comes back. Something beautiful has been happening lately, too. My daughter-in-law has been spending more time with me, and she loves hearing my stories. She’ll ask me questions, and suddenly I’m telling her something I haven’t thought about in years. And then she started helping me find things. ❤️ There was one photograph from Japan that has stayed in my mind forever. I modeled for Olive magazine, and when Tokyo Disneyland opened, I did a huge feature—19 pages and the cover, which I shared with another model. And somewhere in those pages was the photograph I always remembered: Me kissing Mickey Mouse. ❤️🐭🇯🇵 I had wanted to see that photograph again for so long. And we found it. That’s what is happening while I write this memoir. A photograph comes back. Someone asks me a question. I find a piece of footage. One memory opens the door to another. And most recently, I found my original CBS Scarlett O’Hara screen test. 🎬 I watched those 1 minute and 24 seconds, and the memories started pouring back—Malibu, what I wore, how I felt, the excitement surrounding the Search for Scarlett. And suddenly my 39-chapter memoir had chapter 40: The Search for Scarlett ❤️ This is exactly why I'm not ready to edit yet. My story is still talking to me. Right now, I'm writing it RAW and unedited inside my Memoir Skool, and I'm creating visual images to accompany these memories as they return. There will be a time to polish it, organize it, and turn it into the finished book. But I'm not there yet. Right now, I'm remembering. ❤️📖 And maybe that's part of writing our stories too—sometimes the people who love us start asking questions, and they help us remember pieces of ourselves we didn't even realize were waiting to be found. Has someone you love ever asked you a question that suddenly brought back a story you hadn't thought about in years? ❤️✨

@Ashley Welch just asked her community, “The Build Lab” what members do in a certain situation and shared that her mom called what she does, “Turtling Up” Such a great name for this and I was inspired by her question to share what I do and also led to me sharing what I did over the weekend … All of it together felt like WAY more than needed to be in my little comment, so I came here to share my weekend project: I switched up three big areas of my home and have been organizing all the chaos that erupted since Sunday and it feels AWESOME!! I’ll take pictures when I’m done but in a nutshell, our dream is to tear down our house and build new but if we can wait a few years it might make sense to subdivide in order to get some extra money to help with building costs. So I don’t want to spend more than I absolutely need to in order to make our home cozy again after waiting six years for permission to subdivide and then having the housing market be in the dumps…. We could be spending a LOT to renovate/paint something that will hopefully be torn down in a couple years. But since I’ve decided we’re no longer going to live like we are dirt poor with paint chipping and gouges out of walls, cupboard doors falling because I don’t want to spend any time, effort or money while we’re in limbo, I jumped into this project with just a tape measure and some vague ideas! After my hubby and two youngest kids left for church on Sunday, I asked my 19 year old son to help me figure out if we could switch a built in bookcase from my daughter’s room into the Master bedroom and give her our full size beautiful bookcase from our room cause she didn’t like the built ins and I wanted the extra shelving space for organizing my stuff. Since one of our big office desks has been sitting essentially unused except for filing documents and being resting place for clothes that have been worn but are not yet ready for laundry, I decided that to switch my rectangular office desk with this bigger “L” shaped desk.