New Products!

I found this site via another photographer's blog, Pinkle Toes. The photographer focuses more on kids photographs. Anyway, she had a reference to these amazingly cute wallet albums. Super cute. Anyway, I found the site she must order them from- looks great! It's called Perfect Distributing. The albums are really cute. Check them out.

I'm so excited! I purchased my new website from Blu Domain yesterday and I'm now just waiting for them to hand over the reigns to me. It will be a big task getting everything up and running the way I want it to. (Side note, it's almost 10 am out here and my 2nd is still fast asleep - why does this happen on the day that we need to get to preschool? Guess no preschool today:)) Anyway, still a lot to get done. Here's a shot of all the frames I bought the other day to prepare for the photography fair coming up on the 25th...yikes. That's an easy way to blow through more than $200. If anyone has a suggestion of how I can buy frames, mats, etc. by spending a bit less...I'm all ears! I also went to Hobby Lobby and purchased one of their huge frames and will be buying the glass and mat seperately...still adds up to almost $70 for all that...who knew making things presentable could be so dang expensive.


and of course there's clothes from Walmart for the kids (on clearance of course) and Sparkling Grape Juice for Tim and I to enjoy on Easter...didn't quite manage to get to that point unfortunately. Would have been nice, but we were so crazy on Sunday that the day seemed to slip away without much help from us :)

Perspective

Does it ever feel like life is absolutely running you out of control? Sometimes I find myself able to take that step back and really try to figure out what matters. Here I am thinking about a hundred different things regarding my business - which website change mine to, which images to highlight, how best to market myself to those interested in my photography, should I focus more on one type of phtography or really just go balls out for all the different kinds that I love, should I spend this money on this new product, should I invest more money into the idea of a studio or just keep it the way that it is and enjoy the idea of creating whereever the opportunity presents itself...sometimes I seriously wonder if I have ADD...not sure. But, while I'm typing all this - I'm still running through my list of to dos. :)

Do you know what grounds me? The idea that in the end there are only a few things that truly matter. Not that following your passion doesn't matter...because I absolutley believe that it does...but, all I know is that I have such a strong desire and need to take care of my family, to be the mother I need to be for my beautiful children, to be the wife my husband deserves (and believe me, he deserves the best) and to know that I am living a life worthy of one day returning to my Father in Heaven and to hear Him say, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant...well done."

But, I also believe that He gave us talents and we are to take advantage of those and serve others as we are given opportunity to do so. I just barely volunteered to "auction" of my services for our church's boy scout group. I am honestly really excited about doing it. I think it will be a blast. It could be for any time of session.

Saturday is going to be insane. I will be out running all morning for church stuff and then at 3 - I am having a senior session with two sisters. One is a senior this year - Kjerstin. And the other, Krystel will be a sophomore next year - so I guess they are more like just fun pictures...but, since they will help increase my pictures that have the "feel" of senior shots - I'm calling it that.

I found this great site from a photographer (can't remember which one or I would attach the link) for banners and I was thinking it would be really cool to pick a couple images and put them up on one of those huge banner signs...fun huh? I'll post an image as soon as I get around to getting it done.

So, I'm so excited about getting my new website. I'm 99% sure I'm getting it through Blu Domain and I have a bunch that I really like. So, my goal is to get that done by this week!! Yeah! I'm still on my trial run with Pictage. I am anxious to order my sample album. I would love to keep it running right now, but after the trial run I may have to wait a bit for business to pick up with the onset of nicer weather. It's been a bit slow unfortunately = but that has given me a chance to really study my business and look for ways to improve it, and be with my family. Both of these are things that I am truly thankful for.

So, in other new...I'm hoping to buy a MacBook Pro. They are definitely a pretty penny - but since the demise of my former laptop, I am in the market and I LOVE my MAC!! Can't say enough wonderful things about it.

So, I thought I would post some of the images I have been editing for my sample album...enjoy!