Happy Holidays 2011
Thank you all for a wonderful year and happy holidays!!!
Five Days of Birthday Giveaway – Day 5
All righty. It has been a great week of giving away things that I love. Some of them totally related to my job and others, eh, nothing to do with my job (although wine and coffee sometimes get me through, the wine afterwards of course). But that is what makes it fun! Thankfully my server has been able to withstand triple the regular traffic I’ve gotten LOL! And hopefully you’ve had a chance to check out my photography and will come back to visit after this is all over as well. 🙂 Today is the last day and I am ending with one of my absolute FAVORITE things that I love and cannot live without especially at this time of the year. Kind of like how I started the week with two types of coffee, I end the week with two types of shopping. Yay shopping!!!
Target and Amazon
Love love love love. I can find pretty much anything I need between those two stores. And, as a side note, I am also obsessed with my Amazon Prime. In fact if I cannot find it available with Prime shipping that person is not getting it. 😛
So! Today I am giving the last winner their choice of either a $50 gift card to Amazon.com or to Target. Anyone across the country can enter today! And as a bonus, the gift certificate will be sent via email so you can use it right away. Just in time to get yourself a little something special for the holidays or for someone else. Simply leave a comment below, you have until midnight tonight.
Good luck!! And thanks so much for visiting!
Five Days of Birthday Giveaway – Day 4
I was going to start this off by saying that today’s giveaway is for photographers. But really, it’s for anyone who has an SLR camera and who knows a baby. 🙂 Two things I LOVE and absolutely cannot do without in my business life are my hats and headbands from Click Knits and my Phat Straps camera strap lined with minky. Love does not properly express how I feel. So today, a two part giveaway (winner gets both):
$40 gift certificate to Click Knits
Jacqui (the woman behind Click Knits – find her HERE ) comes up with the most beautiful designs. I have been working with her for about three years now and I have yet to be disappointed. Not only does she turn out beautiful products (and quickly!) but she is wonderful to work with. Very communicative, very helpful. She is just flat out wonderful and is far above and beyond my favorite vendor. From adorable newborn hats to delicate headbands she offers a wide variety of products. And they are not only for newborns – she can often make things for older babies too. 🙂 Definitely take a look at her page and become a fan if you’re not already!
$30 gift certificate to Phat Straps
My camera gets really heavy, especially depending on the lens I have on it. And I learned right away that the straps that come with the cameras are crap. Well, that’s a touch mean, but really, they are not made for comfort; after a while they dig into your neck. Plus, it always bugs me that they just scream out Canon! or Nikon! in bright lettering. So early on in the game, I went on the hunt for a pretty and comfy camera strap. And I found Phat Straps on Etsy (they’re no longer on etsy, now they have a standalone site). They make adorable camera straps in a variety of fabrics. But the main thing that sold me on them was that they offer an option lined with minky. Minky is that super soft furry-like fabric with the raised dots. And when that is on your neck, heaven!! Check out their website HERE – you can customize your strap with different colors of minky, or add embroidery or buy something ready to ship for a little bit of savings!
Jen and Audrey | Rhode Island Photography
I would love to tell you everything that Jen and Audrey do here in Rhode Island. But honestly I couldn’t even begin to list it all. Let’s just say they do a LOT. Like a LOT LOT (on top of having three and four kids, respectively). You have seen Jen on here before, we did photos of just her a few weeks ago (in fact go read that and then you can see everything she is involved in!) But this time we included Audrey with her in order to do some pictures for Rhody Mamas. If you have not discovered them yet on Facebook you simply MUST. It is the THE place to get all of the info on sales and things going on in RI and on the internet. They just launched their website HERE and have a very active Facebook page HERE. But since they started this and had no photos we decided to get some done for them. (Let me tell you, between Dani that morning and these two that evening my self-esteem took quite a hit. Such gorgeous gals!) We hit up the Capitol building, an area down by the river and ended up in Prospect Park overlooking the city with the setting sun. Love it!
Dani | Rhode Island Maternity Photography
I have known Dani what seems like forever now. I knew her before we moved to RI and she is by far my closest friend here. I’ve done several sessions with her now – her first maternity with her daughter, their newborn session and then a family session last fall. So if she looks familiar, well, she’s been on here a lot. 😉 Now she is pregnant again and they are expecting a little BOY anytime in the next few weeks yay!! 🙂 I started bugging her early on about planning her maternity session. Her complaint? She thinks winter maternity clothes are ugly. HA! Take a look at these and see just how “awful” she looks.
Truly one of the most breathtakingly beautiful pregnant women ever, I think. 🙂 And before we all hate how amazing she looks at 36 weeks it is very important to know that she is also a runner and very health conscious. She has run (I believe) three half marathons this pregnancy or two halves and one full – including a half at 28 weeks!! 
And being the great friend that she is, we did some realllllly funny stuff. Most of it is going to stay with just her in the fear that someone would think it was real and submit it to Awkward Family Photos. But here’s just a little tiny hint. This is just the tip of the iceberg 😉
