One of my new scrapbook pages November 7, 2007
Here’s one of my new digital scrapbook pages that I love and I want to share it with you!
Prices!!!! November 5, 2007
Everyone is always asking me about how much I charge to take such beautiful pictures, so here are my rates. I know you will find them very afforadable, as I have to stay very competitive.
- Every month I will feature a discount or coupon
- My sitting fees are $55 for a visit to my in-home studio, or just an extra $10 to come to your livingroom.
- Individual portrait sheets are $15.99
- I have 2 great packages:
- One pose, 1-8×10, 2-5×7’s, 4-4×5’s, 12 Wallets, for only $37.99
- Up to 3 poses, 2-8×10’s, 6-5×7’s, 8-4×5’s, 48 Wallets, for only $72.99
- I do ORIGINAL personal insignias for only $20.00 that can be used on any or all photographs.
- Additional design work (Fairy pictures, etc.) is an additional $25. oo per photo edited.
- Zit and wrinkle remover are just $8.00 per photo
- EXTRAS: Digital Matting, Black & White, Sepia, Color, etc. is only $8.00 per photo
- Weddings: the sitting fee is $350 and the entire day is reserved for you. I will come and get photos of the bride getting ready, the ceremony and the reception (up to 2 hours for the reception, then just $25 an hour beyond that) Does not include any proofs and all fees are to be paid 2 weeks prior to date. Bridal pictures and pictures of the rehearsal dinner are an additional sitting fee of $55 each, and also do not include any proofs.
Families Photographed November 5, 2007
My family is the most important part of my life. I love thank God every single morning for my 2 beautiful daughters and my husband. Even when life is throwing me curve balls, my family is everything. I live to see my kids faces every day, but when they are not around (like when they’re with Gramma) I have beautiful pictures that fill my home with their loving smiles.
In a normal family sitting I take the family photograph first, then the children together with their siblings, then each separately. I also do the couples pictures. If the family has a unique home or would like their home photographed I can incorporate that into their family picture, as well as a favorite poem or scripture verse. There are a few examples of each of these options below.
I like to have fun when I am photographing a family. The best shots come from just playing around and letting the kids explore the equipment that I bring with me. I even love the best of the pouty faces!
Elementary School Age Kids November 5, 2007
These are some of the best kids I have had the opportunity to photograph. I hope you enjoy these smiles just as much as I do.
Jessi and Ashton November 5, 2007
This is my Godson Ashton and his mom Jessi. Jessi and I have been friends since 9th grade, and we adore each others kids like crazy! When Ashton was in Flag Football at YMCA, I made him his own football card.
Misty & EmmaLee November 3, 2007
This little girl is always so much fun to photograph. She has grown up right before my eyes! She also happens to have a very talented and beautiful mommy who works for Sears Portrait Studio. (But I took these pics!)
Something Profound to Ponder… November 1, 2007
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her “How could God let something like this happen?” (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, “I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?”
In light of recent events…terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said OK.
Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with “WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.”
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
