Haiden Edward

Here's some more pictures of my cute little cousin and his parents! We took pictures at the farmhouse and surrounding areas on campus. We all got a little wet from the rain, but it was a pretty good time. :-)
























Michelle & Kenny: Thanks for coming! Hope you enjoyed the cake :-)

TEASER: Meet Haiden!

Thankfully the rain held off *just* long enough! My cousin (Michelle), her husband (Kenny), and their adorable 16 month old son, Haiden came to see me for a photo shoot! I had to dig into the pictures right away and post a few teasers before working on the rest of them.

A very hawkeye family:


Little Haiden:




How can you not love this face:

Sooo cute!!



Stay tuned for more when I get them all done!

Fun with Felt

With some inspiration from Princess Lasertron, I have been making things from felt lately. First of all, let me show you what I mean:

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She makes beautiful bouquets and such out of felt and buttons & I'm in love with her work! So, I've decided to play around with felt as well. First, I made Brad a heart (in Cubs colors) along with a felt card. I need to make more felt cards, I love them!

(The back of the heart had a little pocket for his I-Tunes gift card!


"Brad..."


"Be Mine?"

Next up on the list were Easter baskets for my two sisters and Brad. (There seems to be some holiday theme going on here.)


Lastly, I made myself a little pouch to carry around my CF cards and batteries. I've found that clothes-pinning it shut helps keep them inside.


I'm going to test out this little pouch *hopefully* in an hour. My cousins are coming for a family photo-shoot and I'm praying the rain holds off long enough! Hopefully you'll get some teaser pictures by the end of today!

The Search Continues: 5 more to the list

I have been a busy bee lately, with only 16 more days untill graduation things have been interesting. In my spare time, I've been searching for more album options. There are so many great choices out there!

First is Kingston albums by Bay Photo. These flush albums offer a variety of cover options.



Bay Photo Albums

Next is KISS albums. They are simple yet amazing! These albums only offer leather covers, but they offer them in great colors:



KISS Albums

Collages albums are another great option:

Collages Albums

Bijou from Pictobooks allows you to put designs on the cover. They offer a variety of cover colors and fabrics.



Pictobooks Albums

Lastly I found Finao. These albums offer variety of cover options including two-tone and patterns.

Finao Albums

You can check out these websites anytime and look at the variety of options they provide!

The Search: Finding an album provider

I am currently pricing high quality albums to provide all of you! As of now, I have three contenders:

These Tuscany albums from Black River Imaging just released photo covers for their albums, which provides more variety to the leather covers.



Black River Imaging Albums

Next are albums from Flyart, which provide these interesting acrylic covers as well as leather and regular photo covers.



Flyart Albums

Last is my favorite, but most expensive option. It provides a unique style presentation with the use of ribbon on some of the album types, various colors, and handmade boxes.





Cypress Albums

All of these albums provide "flush" designs which are when you open the album and there is little to no crease visible. So, what do you think? Do you know any other options you would like me to check into?

Sisterly Love...

I got my big paper done, now I need to start on 2 little ones, I sent out the majority of my invites, and this week/end is VEISHEA (hope it doesn't rain too much). But this post is the last one about last weekend with my sisters.

First off, whenever Sheena's around, I tend to give her a chance to play around with the camera. Thus, most of the pictures are hers:

We love shoes :-)


The Anytime at Hot Topic




hmm...it's me...



All above pictures taken by Sheena & edited by me!

As much as Sheena loves to work on her camera skills...she HATES to be in front of the camera! You pretty much have to force her, as I did here:


See, isn't she adorable? :-)

The other side of the camera...

Chelsie is graduating from High School and I'm graduating from college this May so we are having a party together. In other words, we needed a picture together to put on our party invite. My friend Laurissa (http://www.laurissanielsen.com/) was amazing and took our pictures on Saturday!
On a side not, Laurissa just got engaged on Friday! Hopefully I'll be doing her engagement pictures this summer! Of course, I had to take a shot of her beautiful ring:


Now to Laurissa's pictures:












So...which one did we choose?

... *drum roll please* ...

Presenting our invites: