Saturday, October 23, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Christmas Cards!
You know what I love about Christmas time? My mailbox over flowing with red, green, and cream colored envelopes, containing well-wishing, holiday photos from my family, and friends. I save every one and display them again, and again, each year.
This is the photo I wanted for last year's Christmas Card:
Alas, husband chose one where he wasn't getting an onslaught of puppy kisses, but to date, it's still my favorite family portrait.
So, you're thinking you'd like your own Christmas Card goodness without the time commitment of a 2 hour photo session. You're in luck. I am offering 30 minute mini sessions specifically for Christmas cards for only $50. This includes a 30 minute, on location family photo session. You will receive 10 fully edited images on a disk to have printed on a Christmas card from your favorite printing site of choice.
If you are interested about my other services, take a look under my investment page near the top. I'd love to hear from you!
Love,
Shalayne
This is the photo I wanted for last year's Christmas Card:
Alas, husband chose one where he wasn't getting an onslaught of puppy kisses, but to date, it's still my favorite family portrait.
So, you're thinking you'd like your own Christmas Card goodness without the time commitment of a 2 hour photo session. You're in luck. I am offering 30 minute mini sessions specifically for Christmas cards for only $50. This includes a 30 minute, on location family photo session. You will receive 10 fully edited images on a disk to have printed on a Christmas card from your favorite printing site of choice.
If you are interested about my other services, take a look under my investment page near the top. I'd love to hear from you!
Love,
Shalayne
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Leonard Family
Every once in a while, I come across people who have something about them that I hope and pray will be instilled into my own daughter one day. The Family below is exactly what I am talking about. Kind, genuine, brilliant, talented, passionate, gentle, hilarious, and, forgive me for sounding cliche', beautiful inside and out.
Meet the Leonards:
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Bald 'M'
They say the four season of Texas are:
Hot, damn hot, football, and hunting. Currently, we are smack dab in the middle of football and hunting seasons. Hunting is bigger than huge in my community. Hunting camps and gun safety courses are offered to children, we have quite the NRA chapter, and the annual Game Dinner feast draws scores of ambitious hunters from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida.
I married a hunter. A bona fide hunting, gathering, trailing, avid gun collector, "Babe, we need to buy more ammo", kind of hunter. Do I share his enthusiasm for slaughtering adorable warm fuzzies with antlers? Absolutely not. However, I will un apologetically mow over your grandmother to be first in line for his famous fried deer meat. Delish.
My sister and her boyfriend both share a love for all things hunting. Justin, her boyfriend, takes it beyond the kill, and offers his artistic talent of preserving game in trophy form, ensuring any Southern gentlemen bragging rights amongst his group of friends.
I suppose not too many people would consider taxidermy an art form. Oh, contraire. The detail Justin puts into every animal is so intricate and precise, only a skilled artisan of his caliber could resurrect these trophies into pre mortem form.
Justin is not only an artist, but an entrepreneur. His brand new deer processing and taxidermy shop is the new jewel of this communities' locally owned business. One reason I am so excited about his new shop is the unexplainable urge I have to make a giant pot of chili, and enjoy it while watching a college football game from one the metal picnic tables that reside inside the shop. I asked him if this would be acceptable, and much to my delight, this is part of the plan all along. I had to double check to ensure that the shop is not a "He Man-Woman-Haters Club". Yeah!
So, I can't wait to surround myself with the ones I love on a cold winter day, eating homemade (deer) chili, and watching a football game from the comfort and warmth only a taxidermy place can provide. Time to scratch this item off the ole bucket list.
Many blessings on your new venture, Justin. We are proud of you!
Just your everyday, average, hippo of the Texas variety:
Hot, damn hot, football, and hunting. Currently, we are smack dab in the middle of football and hunting seasons. Hunting is bigger than huge in my community. Hunting camps and gun safety courses are offered to children, we have quite the NRA chapter, and the annual Game Dinner feast draws scores of ambitious hunters from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida.
I married a hunter. A bona fide hunting, gathering, trailing, avid gun collector, "Babe, we need to buy more ammo", kind of hunter. Do I share his enthusiasm for slaughtering adorable warm fuzzies with antlers? Absolutely not. However, I will un apologetically mow over your grandmother to be first in line for his famous fried deer meat. Delish.
My sister and her boyfriend both share a love for all things hunting. Justin, her boyfriend, takes it beyond the kill, and offers his artistic talent of preserving game in trophy form, ensuring any Southern gentlemen bragging rights amongst his group of friends.
I suppose not too many people would consider taxidermy an art form. Oh, contraire. The detail Justin puts into every animal is so intricate and precise, only a skilled artisan of his caliber could resurrect these trophies into pre mortem form.
Justin is not only an artist, but an entrepreneur. His brand new deer processing and taxidermy shop is the new jewel of this communities' locally owned business. One reason I am so excited about his new shop is the unexplainable urge I have to make a giant pot of chili, and enjoy it while watching a college football game from one the metal picnic tables that reside inside the shop. I asked him if this would be acceptable, and much to my delight, this is part of the plan all along. I had to double check to ensure that the shop is not a "He Man-Woman-Haters Club". Yeah!
So, I can't wait to surround myself with the ones I love on a cold winter day, eating homemade (deer) chili, and watching a football game from the comfort and warmth only a taxidermy place can provide. Time to scratch this item off the ole bucket list.
Many blessings on your new venture, Justin. We are proud of you!
This is how I found my sister behind Justin's shop, today:
Just your everyday, average, hippo of the Texas variety:
Moss Family
Goodness, gracious.
What an adorable family. Kesha and I attended school together. These days, she's a busy mom of three beautiful girls. I photographed the Moss family at their beautiful home. The house was built in 1927. I was super excited when Kesha asked me to take their family photos, because I've always wanted to not only meet her little girls, but get a glimpse at this gem of a house. It is old, old, old, has beautiful wood floors, wide entryways, and the original doors complete with original fixtures. My favorite has to be the ivy growing up the sides of the house. Now that it's Autumn, the leaves are turning orange and red, only adding emphasis to why I love this house so much!
Introducing, The Moss Family:
What an adorable family. Kesha and I attended school together. These days, she's a busy mom of three beautiful girls. I photographed the Moss family at their beautiful home. The house was built in 1927. I was super excited when Kesha asked me to take their family photos, because I've always wanted to not only meet her little girls, but get a glimpse at this gem of a house. It is old, old, old, has beautiful wood floors, wide entryways, and the original doors complete with original fixtures. My favorite has to be the ivy growing up the sides of the house. Now that it's Autumn, the leaves are turning orange and red, only adding emphasis to why I love this house so much!
Introducing, The Moss Family:
Saturday, October 9, 2010
P No. 1
Hi, P,
T-minus five days until you are 1 year old. You are beautiful, witty, tempermental, and drive me absolutely crazy. (Crazy in love, that is.)
You know the blowing snot bubbles, fit throwing, neck hugging, half teetering, half walking, throwing the phone into the bathtub full of water and Mamma stage?
We are so there.
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