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Category: Children and Families

  • Helpers.

    When I was a kid, I was instructed to run across a street to help an elderly women cross the street.  If I saw a neighbor hauling in groceries – told to go help them carry in their groceries.  When someone came home, I was to jump up and run out to the car to…

  • VALENTINE: for the love of life

    LOVE VALENTINE SESSIONS Painted feet, and crowns, vintage cards, hugs and kisses… we are making these Valentine’s sessions all about the love and loves of your life.  Fully styled set that will be beautiful and fun for kids, couples, or families – and the PERFECT images to customize some Valentine’s Day Cards too! __________________________________________ January…

  • Keeping the kids busy

    So many of us are a little over a week into winter break with our kids.  They have played with their holiday toys & gifts and now we are in the home stretch before they return to school in a week.  We have hit the zoo lights, the museums, walks, and now we need to…

  • MY STYLE sessions

    Over 25 years in the industry and I’m here to tell you – there are only so many ways you can spice up a studio session on a plain background over and over again.  Clients are becoming well aware that their portraits need to mean something.  Their children should have a fun experience during a…

  • How does your memory work? The power of a printed photograph.

    How does your memory work? “How does your brain lay down and retrieve memories? Your brain is made up of 100 billion neurons. As you grow and develop, these neurons are ‘wired up’ to each other, and communicate through thousands of connections – synapses. Memories are formed when certain connections are strengthened.” ~sciencemuseum.org.uk Regardless of…

  • A head of stars.

    His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations. ~Elias Canetti I find freckles fascinating.  I use to have freckles as a child and wondered why people would continually comment on them.  As I grew older, I didn’t hold onto mine… they became faint or disappeared entirely.  Once in a great while…

  • Love Inspired: In a little girl’s world

    Little girls are precious gifts wrapped in love serene, their dresses tied with sashes, their futures tied with dreams. It’s so much fun watching little girls dress up and play.  Skip the playgrounds and letting them explore a set that is entirely new to them.  Letting children be themselves and use their imaginations, lightly guided…

  • Photography forward project: Happy Camera Monsters 1.2

    10 little monsters came into my house.   They jumped on some cards and will start wandering all about.  ONLY 2 days left until they get released… then monsters to be found… where will they be? Info: Happy Camera Monster – Pay it forward project

  • Love big families all together

    The day after Christmas this year I had this beautiful family in the studio.  I know how hard it is to get everyone in one place at one time – but it is so worth the effort to get a family portrait all together!!!!

  • Scratching the “craft project” for a Science/Art project.

    I am a worker.  I own a business, and as much as I love my kids – I will be the first to admit – the thought of them being home for two weeks from school puts a little scare in me about what in the WORLD can I do with them to keep them…

  • Memory Books

  • Baby models needed.

    January 2013 4 WEEKS OR YOUNGER (PREFERABLY 2 WEEKS OR YOUNGER) __________________________________________________________________ We currently stocked up on some amazing little newborn hats and props and can’t wait to get some little babies photographed with what we have. We are starting a new little newborn hat & prop line (via Fototails own Jenny Bonfiglio). If you…