Valentines Day Mini's

I had so much fun working on my Valentines Day Mini Sessions! I cannot thank my wonderful clients enough for coming! Check out all these little cuties!!

My beautiful daughter Blakely!

Sweet Kambri and Berkly!

Miss Jessica! How adorable is she?!

I can't get over their cuteness!

How cute are these sisters??

Sweet Kambree

How adorable is Easton??

Easton is such a Ladies Man! Love this cute little guy!

X's and O'x from Leo!

This stud is Q! 

I can't wait to get my St. Patricks Day and Easter backdrops set up!

New Year - New Goals

K so I am trying to practice a little to start doing some newborn sessions. This year is going to be a big one for me and my little business and I am slowly but surely building up my studio and props. Here is a little bit of practice that I worked on with my own daughter. She is 4 months old but she still is easy to use as a model. 

This face! I know she is my daughter and all but I can't stop staring at her!

Valentines Day Mini Session Fun

I'm so excited for my Valentines Day Mini Shoot that will be on January 30th and 31st. I wanted to have a little trial run with Berkley and  Baby Nash. They were so much fun to hang out with and take pictures of! Berkley is such a doll! She has the cutest little personality! How cute is Nash?! He was so much fun to take pictures of. And of course there is my Miss Blakely modeling as well :) Let me know what you think of the backdrop choices?

Could Berkley be any cuter?!

How sweet is Baby Nash? He was such a good sport!

He's too cute not to kiss!

Miss Blakely

O Berk. You have stolen my heart!

Love this little munchkin!

My little Cupid!

If interested in a mini session please contact me!

Learning New Things

It's been a bit slow lately which I have quite enjoyed. I was able to learn a few new things recently that I am so excited to incorporate into my post editing! I've always loved the Matte look when it comes to final images and I am slowly but surely learning. Here is what I have been playing with with images from a previous Bridal session.

On the left is my new Matte Finish and on the right is how I edited the image the first time.  

Matte Finish vs. Original below

 Matte vs. Original Edit

I am continuing to learn and grow and I couldn't be more excited to learn new post processing techniques. Please please please let me know what you think!!!

Our New Family Christmas Tradition

I know this has nothing to do with photography but here is a little Christmas fun from today. As Christmas is coming near I wanted to do something that would commemorate my sweet baby Blakely's first Christmas as well as I wanted to create a tradition with her that we can do each and every year. I chose to do salt dough ornaments with Blakely's sweet little handprints and foot prints.

This was honestly the easiest recipe I could find... For the salt dough I used a 1+1+2=dough approach. Here are my step by step instructions.

1 part water. 1 part salt. 2 parts flour

For my self I used 1/2 cup salt, 1/2 cup water, 1 cup flour

I used my Kitchenaide mixer to mix up the ingredients. I Mixed the flour and salt first and then added in the water. 

The dough will be a little sticky

I kneaded the dough for a minute

Be sure to use flour to control the stickiness

My lovely daughter thankfully was very cooperative. I put a small hole in the dough so that I will be able to thread a ribbon through so that I will be able to hang it on our tree for many many Christmas's to come. 

How sweet are her little foot prints?

After I was finished getting the hand and foot prints I needed. I placed the ornaments on to a pan and placed it into the oven to dry. I'm a little late in doing this so I need them to be dry faster than just air drying them. 200 degrees for about 4 or 5 hours should do the trick! 

I'm so excited to see how these turned out and to have a new tradition in my new little family!