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New Product: Flush Mount Storyboards

09-30-2008

This summer I spent time researching new products that are modern and cost effective for clients. I now offer high resolution digital file JPEGs for all my sessions. But I want my clients to walk home with a unique custom art piece featuring the photographs from our session.

Now, every new product that I offer is ready to hang or ready to display art piece. No additional framing is necessary, which saves you money and time.

First new item: Storyboards.

My storyboards are now a modern and cost-effective way to present your images as a finished piece and display them without the additional time and cost of traditional framing and matting. All my storyboards are a 10×20 print that contain 2 to 5 photographs from our session that tell a “story”. They are a ready to hang flush mount print. The print is sealed with a durable transparent laminate, then heat-fused to a densely engineered substrate board. The edges are flush to the wall and finished with a 3/4 inch bevel. A keyhole opening is provided on the back, making it easy to hang and self-leveling. These are really a conversation piece…and are a great way to display multiple images from a session.

As always, I brings samples of all my products with me to every shoot so you can see what one looks like up close. These are included in every CD collection I offer.

First here is the original set of photographs laid out as a story…my nephew Hank at the Beach this summer with his bucket…he is some kind of cute!

And here is the finished product. Forgive my bad “product photography” here. This was shot in my office against a folding chair.

And here are the side and back views.

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where my heart resides

09-29-2008

This past week I celebrated my 10th wedding anniversary with the man who is and will always be the love of my life. Our story is not that interesting or unusual. We met as teenagers. We dated through high school and in college. We broke up and got back together. We lived together, married, bought a house, and started a family.

Having watched my parents’ marriages dissolve more than once, I don’t have a good example of a what a great marriage looks like. I mean no disrespect to my parents, I know they did the best they could with what they had. But it made that moment of standing in front of our friends and family 10 years ago feel somewhat like standing on the brink of the abyss. I had no idea of what lay ahead for us and if we would make it through together. But I knew if I was to take the leap into the unknown, he was the one I wanted holding my hand.

He is my best friend in the whole world. He makes me feel safe when I am scared. He has made me a better person, a better mom. He helps me face my fears and celebrates my joys. He takes care of me when I am sick, and nurtures me when I am well. He is an incredible father to our boys. After all these years he can still make my heart skip a beat just by walking in the door. So here is the man that I have spent more of my life with than without, given me the gift of our amazing children, and the only person who even after 10 years of marriage and 24 years together can still make me pee my pants laughing.

This first image I took almost 20 years ago. A scan from an old black and white negative.

And below is from our trip to New York

Finally all my boys decked out in their Redskin’s jerseys. It is always a much happier week when they win!

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Holiday Cards

09-16-2008

Holiday Card designs are here and ready. You are never too early to get your Holiday session planned and your cards ordered. So plan early and beat the rush.
All Holiday orders need to be placed with me no later than mid November to guarantee delivery before the Holidays.

Below are a sample of the card designs I will be offering this year. This year I will have flat and folded card designs.

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Apple Fritters

09-06-2008

Just in case you did not hear that giant sigh of RELIEF last week…school has finally started. I love summer; lazy days, long evenings, and for some reason the pressures of the world don’t seem so heavy. But I love a routine too. My kids NEED a routine. In my opinion kids thrive off a routine.

School was set to start on Wednesday. At 5:30 am, Cal woke up vomiting and feverish. My first thought was Oh Cr@p! Then I thought well maybe this is first day jitters. But as his temperature kept going up, I knew he was really sick. He missed the first day and then the second.

So he started on the third day. By this point he was really nervous. I mean he almost made himself sick all over again because he was so nervous. But he went and by all accounts HIS first day went great. He came home blabbering away about his day and how awesome school is going to be this year; all the cool new things he can do because he is 2nd grader, who his art teacher will be, the new log-in for computers, how cool it is that he sits at a desk, the routine in the classroom, the color of his new math book. Not a single detail was left out.

And as customary in our family, the first day of school deserves a special treat. Since the Ben and Jerry’s ice cream closed, we now have to make do with Starbucks and apple fritters…nothing like deep fried dough, sugar and apples to celebrate the start of school and the end of summer.