Julia Christine Photography

06/26/2021

I spent the last year renovating an old house. I spent the last month building this bookshelf in it. It finally feels like home with a place to look at all the books that have made me who I am and been my friend on nights alone.

Ive been shooting mostly real estate lately, which is quiet and peaceful and easy. I shot a wedding today which is fun and loud and energetic.

I bought a remote for my camera this week. I've realized self-portraits all alone can help you understand how you're feeling how a guitar or piano or painting might.

I've shot about 1 million photos of messy and fun life this last year. As always, rarely post them. Maybe one day I'll hire a social media assistant 😂😂😂😂

03/15/2021

Spent last week in this new construction that was just finished in Banner Elk. Love the modern and Scandinavian style, mixed with natural finishes. Unbelievable construction and artistry in this build. 7.5mil. The phone pics suck but it's what I got lol.

03/15/2021

Spent last week in this new construction that was just finished in Banner Elk. 7.5mil build. Unbelievable construction and artistry in this home. Phone pictures suck, but it's what I got lol.

02/17/2021

Swipe for
27 yr old me as a real estate agent assistant vs
16 year old me as a real estate agent assistant.

My very first job was as a realtors assistant as well, but for my neighbor. I was psyched on $12 an hour and she got what she paid for. I think I skipped out on my last couple days of work to go to the beach with my friends instead of finish my MLS training. 😂

Agent training is online because of covid and zipping along. Just bought some snow tires. Guess I'm going to be in Boone a little longer after all.

02/10/2021

LIFE UPDATE: today I started real estate school for my 75 hour prelicensing exam to become a NC real estate agent!

Last month, I started with an incredible real estate company in Banner Elk, NC buying and selling luxury properties and doing land sales on the coast and it has been an absolute blast. I love this stuff and am having so much fun learning each day and clarifying my dreams.

I almost finished with the house flip I bought in July and it has been an incredible ride. I've never learned so much, doing anything, as I did on the buying and selling of that foreclosure with a hard money loan. About to get it reappraised and see how we did.

01/30/2020

I am 26 today. When I was young, adults would consistently echo, oh to be young again! Enjoy it while it lasts! It's all downhill from here!
I don't know what these people were doing with their lives, because it's been the opposite for me.
Every year I am older, wiser, more independent and free.
No one tells me what to do anymore and I am wild and free.
Each year I do my work, and am a little more free from childhood trauma and wounds.
Each year I've built more of a chosen family and community who are safe and know and see me.
I know God more. I know myself more. I have self control, meaning I can tell myself what to do and know I'll do it!! I'm more loving. I'm more patient, tolerant, easy.
I'm out of school and know what I want and each day feels like a game working towards financial freedom and travel.
I have best friends and wake up each morning to the sweetest cat. Everyday is like the sleepovers i used to beg and plead for, a never ending play date.
I'm not alone anymore like I was for so much of childhood and it feels like joy made manifest.

If getting older feels like losing something, you're doing it wrong.
I start each year with new years intentions and at the end of each year get to check things off gleefully and see what God did in my life that year.
At age 26, I am the most fit I've ever been, even when I ran track in high school.
I am stronger, more determined, more disciplined.
I feel safe in my own mind because I've asked the hard questions and wrestled with God and myself.

Heres a photo of me skinny dipping in blue Croatia waters this past summer, alive and free and loving every single day I still get to be alive.

The days are long but the years are short. Be present and don't miss a single one!!

01/24/2020

I am buying another rental property because real estate thrills me and I'm dreaming of financial freedom that allows me to travel and do as I please.
It has no septic system and needs $70,000 in repairs.
What a journey it's been, 6 months of calculated steps. Staying calm and level headed, like a game of chess, moving forward when I can, then waiting.
I received an offer from the bank today at the price I was hoping for... but instead of accepting, I took a chance and counter offered again, knowing that extra $4000 might make the difference in affording it or not.
I could be so nervous right now, half a years research and planning on one property, hinging on failure if one person breathes wrong.
But I'm not.
This passage from the Tao Te Ching has been grounding me through the whole process and my peace is the same at the end as it was at the beginning:

What is rooted is easy to nourish.
What is recent is easy to correct.
What is brittle is easy to break.
What is small is easy to scatter. Prevent trouble before it arises.
Put things in order before they exist.

The giant pine tree
grows from a tiny sprout.
The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet.
Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.

Therefore the Master takes action by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm
at the end as at the beginning.

He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.

I am buying another rental property because real estate thrills me and I'm dreaming of financial freedom that allows me to travel and do as I please.
It has no septic system and needs $70,000 in repairs.
What a journey it's been, 6 months of calculated steps. Staying calm and level headed, like a game of chess, moving forward when I can, then waiting.
I recieved an offer from the bank today at the price I was hoping for... but instead of accepting, I took a chance and counter offered again, knowing that extra $4000 might make the difference in affording it or not.
I could be so nervous right now, half a years research and planning on one property, hinging on failure if one person breathes wrong.
But I'm not.
This passage from the Tao Te Ching has been grounding me through the whole process and my peace is the same at the end as it was at the beginning:

What is rooted is easy to nourish.
What is recent is easy to correct.
What is brittle is easy to break.
What is small is easy to scatter. Prevent trouble before it arises.
Put things in order before they exist.

The giant pine tree
grows from a tiny sprout.
The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet.
Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.

Therefore the Master takes action by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm
at the end as at the beginning.

He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.

01/24/2020

I am buying another rental property because real estate thrills me and I'm dreaming of financial freedom that allows me to travel and do as I please.
It has no septic system and needs $70,000 in repairs.
What a journey it's been, 6 months of calculated steps. Staying calm and level headed, like a game of chess, moving forward when I can, then waiting.
I recieved an offer from the bank today at the price I was hoping for... but instead of accepting, I took a chance and counter offered again, knowing that extra $4000 might make the difference in affording it or not.
I could be so nervous right now, half a years research and planning on one property, hinging on failure if one person breathes wrong.
But I'm not.
This passage from the Tao Te Ching has been grounding me through the whole process and my peace is the same at the end as it was at the beginning:

What is rooted is easy to nourish.
What is recent is easy to correct.
What is brittle is easy to break.
What is small is easy to scatter. Prevent trouble before it arises.
Put things in order before they exist.

The giant pine tree
grows from a tiny sprout.
The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet.
Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.

Therefore the Master takes action by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm
at the end as at the beginning.

He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.