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Photographer Diarist, gothic heroine, housekeeping, monster enthusiast, she/her, 🏚️

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Rachel @rachelakelso.com · Dec 9

I'm really proud of this one, I love my family so much

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The first week of November we drove to Oklahoma to visit our families. It’s two LOOOOONG days of driving but worth it to spend a couple of weeks with all of our people. I probably could have …

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🦇🎃💀👻

Late Birthday Date and Preparing for Halloween

October 13 – Our first full day home was a day off for Shaun, so we dropped our car off to get our State inspection and walked downtown. The only thing open at 7am is Hyperion, so we had oat …

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Rachel @rachelakelso.com · 1d

I think we all need this right now

Trick or Treat Possum Style

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Rachel @rachelakelso.com · 4d

My friend Summer has changed her gofundme goal, their rent got raised and they're going to try to move somewhere cheaper. Any shares or even the smallest amount of money could help so much! Thanks for looking!

Donate to No hope left. Help us move., organized by Summer Foovay

When we married, we knew he had a chronic illness, but we built our lives around the hope th… Summer Foovay needs your support for No hope left. Help us move.

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Rachel @rachelakelso.com · 4d

Thanks! 💞 It was so many of my favorite things!

Rachel @rachelakelso.com · 4d

Grateful for time with my people

Oklahoma in October 2025

We spent the first 10 days of October visiting our families in Oklahoma. We go every year and it’s a whirlwind of fitting all the family time and Tulsa favorites into less than two weeks. We …

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Rachel @rachelakelso.com · 6d

August and September, covid, my birthday, a little bit of Tulsa

Catching Up

I haven’t blogged since July when I did a day in photos! August 2025 August 7 – I hung these mirrors in the powder room. August 13 – Shaun got me a book nook for Christmas a coupl…

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Rachel @rachelakelso.com · 12d

This is my dear friend Summer and her husband James, they lost a lot of their assistance this year and are struggling to get by month to month. They're super good people and I love them! I would appreciate a share or help if you have the ability!

Donate to Help Us Keep Our Car, Storage, and Hope, organized by Summer Foovay

My husband and I have been facing a series of challenges that have left us strug… Summer Foovay needs your support for Help Us Keep Our Car, Storage, and Hope

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Rachel @rachelakelso.com · Sep 25

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Collected Quotes | Notion

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Rachel @rachelakelso.com · Sep 25

In 2014 I did a photo project that I paired with quotes, I have been going through and putting all the quotes in one place as a distraction and they're so good! Words are magical.

We quiver before it. - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

She blushed and so did he. - Candide by Voltaire

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? - Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery

If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives. - The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket

“Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. - Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. - Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use. - Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again. - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Love builds itself unconsciously, he thought, out of the momentous ordinary. - Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust. - The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe

This is my knife. it is very sharp and very eager to hurt you. - The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket

I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act. - Evelina by Fanny Burney

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Rachel @rachelakelso.com · Sep 24

Dang! What is up with this year and bad birthday health luck!? Rest up and feel better, happy birthday!!! 🎈 🎂 🎈

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Rachel @rachelakelso.com · Jul 23

😂 I didn't even think of that, amazing