It's a whirlwind

Hi everyone. Wow, I must say that since July it's been a whirlwind. Even the last couple days have been non stop. I've been covering the Marian Community Hospital Ball, the Keystone College Homecoming, The Central HS class of '49 which had quite the turnout last night at the Raddison and just this morning was proud to record the activities for the Little Sisters of the Poor as they honored my long time friends (and probably my most photographed personalities) Dave and Joyce Tressler. That was out at Mt. Airy Lodge & Casino. Wow, what a place! So now I practically am ready to collapse but still have things to do like get my overdue Holiday schedule out to you. Add to that tomorrow's daycare job, and the SBDC's woman etrapreneur award luncheon on Tuesday. It is like this until Christmas. It is about now that I proclaim to my fami.y that " your wife and mother has left the building - she's been replace by her evil twin..your wife and mother will return about December 25th". They understand by now and do everything in their power to help and to keep me happy - they know what it's like when I am not so happy! Thankfully my husband will even do some of the Christmas shopping for us.

No one can believe that we've had snow already. Not alot but some in the higher elevations. Had a senior Friday morning who is a die hard skiier. He decided he wanted snow in his outdoor portraits so up to the mountain we go to the county park. He froze his butt off...teeth chattering and all. But having snow on the colored leaves was awsome.

I don't think I mentioned in my last post my new person, Stephanie. She's awsome. An artist in her own right, creating her own jewelry. She is in charge of our production - getting your order ready for pick up. She will also answer the phones and help clients when they stop in. She's fun to have around and we have alot in common.

So anyway, looking toward the holidays with various specials and our holiday open house on Sunday, November 15th. We also have new items in to order for gifts. Special ornaments that your imaage can be baked into the ceramic, purses and now Terra Traditions albums. Stop by and check them all out.

We also have some available Saturdays that we kept just for portrait appointments for the holidays. So call today because we only accept a limited amount of appointments on those days. Of course we are happy to have appointments in the evenings too. But call today before it's too late! Really, don't wait - you know how fast time goes and I hate to say no or have to charge rush fees.

With that - I can't wait to hear from you for the holiday portraits. And stay tuned as we are really planning some cool things for 2010.

Today is the day

Well, it's a day...a Monday to be exact. Part rain part sun and some wind. I took in the portrait off the porch easel and flag off the pillar so it doesn't blow away. Ever have one of those days when you don't seem to get anything done? Today was it. I had some appointements and spoke with people who called, booked appointments but that to-do list didn't get any check marks. Oh well, tomorrow is another day. Stephanie and I are having a good time. We finally got in some missing items in that we needed to finish all the orders we had in house - so we worked together on Saturday to get all the orders ready for delivery. Boy, we were efficient!

Looking foward to this week. It's busy as usual but I seem to thrive on that... How does your week look?

So what's going on??

Wow, the summer went by fast! I looked at my last post and realized that the whole summer has passed by. Hopefully you had a chance to get away this summer. We stayed close to home. Our daughter had time away but we stayed close to home.

The summer has been busy with seniors as the summer has progressed and there is no end in sight. i've had a blast trying something new with just about everyone who has been in. It makes it fun for everyone and it's great to be creative.. and of course we have our regular babies and have had many newborns coming in for their first portrait. There is nothing more precious than a newborn.

And while we said "goodbye" to Caitlyn in August, we are looking foward to saying "hello" to a new friendly face. Nope - can't say who yet until things are finalized so stay tuned!

More rain?

Holy crap I'm getting so sick of the rain. We have the deluge and then nothing. Friday I watched as my little beach scene practically washed away. Had to do beach reclaimation over the weekend. Monday my early morning outdoor portrait session was cancelled - rain. He is rescheduled for today and hopefully it will happen for the poor kid. Many of my seniors are getting rained out. Some are lucky that the sun came out long enough for us to get images. So the sun is out again and I'm hopeful that even though our feet will get wet, we can do this.

Our world is rocked.

Oh holy cow. Our world has been rocked. Well, the other day I got a phone call from my husband telling me that Kodak announced that they will be discontinuing Kodachrome film. I know, you are saying "so what". Well this film is an awsome film. The truest color, finest contrast and detail of anything I've ever shot. You can make bill boards of the images and not see any grain or imperfection because it is so fine. I used it quite a bit in the early years. Granted it isn't a forgiving film. If your exposure was off, it was off. Unlike print film that you can expose the print a little longer - it is just off. I have boxes and boxes of slides as does my husband, of our family memories and professional work on this film. Of course in the greater scheme of things - it isn't the end of the world but it just seems like another hit to the Big Yellow Father, Kodak.

Have you seen it???

We have a billboard campaign running on some of the various digital boards in the area. They include Chinchilla, on one side of the board at the entrance to Wegmans/Target and on Davis St. in Scranton!

And the one below is the hospital in Carbondale and I provided them with their photography.

ONE DAY SALE

Wow, it has been crazy here today with the one day sale. Class of '10 are calling and taking advantage of 50% off their session. We've booked alot of seniors day! We purposely didn't book any appointments to day so we could be available to answer the phone. Anyway, it should be a fun summer. On the list are all sorts of cool places that we will be going to do sessions - let's see, Browndale and Justus Fire Companies, a horse, one girl does fencing and is bringing her equipment for that, we have guitars and flutes booked, as well as cars. I love the inspiration that I find when kids bring their stuff (or we go to it!)