1.  I rented two lenses this past weekend to try something new and I am in LOVE.  I got the 85mm and the 35 mm.  I used both in my last two sneak peeks.  GORGEOUS!!!  Now I have lens lust.  It is a bad bad thing.  Like anything else you get addicted to, you need more and more of it!

2.  The last few sessions I had available are booking up!  I still have a few spots in November.  Don’t wait.  🙂

3.  I have new holiday card templates.  Just like lenses, it is a sick sick addiction.  Fortunately buying templates is quite less expensive than buying lenses!  If you had a session with me this year and want to use some of your photos in a holiday card, let me know and I can design one for you!  You don’t have to have had a session just now to do it.

4.  In family news, Layne is now on the move.   Watch out world!  She can’t crawl but has mastered scooting along on her bottom with one leg in front and one leg behind.  She’s getting quite fast!  She is also walking clear across the room if you hold her hands.  The girl is SO not going to crawl.  Fortunately at 22 lbs she also isn’t quite ready to stand on her own just yet.  That’s a lot of weight for those little cankles.  😉

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5.  I have another couple shoot coming up in the middle of November and I can’t WAIT.  I am already super excited about it – they never had engagement photos done so they want to do anniversary shots.  We’re doing it in the Narragansett area and in the evening.  I have an idea that I want to try based on another photographer’s work.  SO can’t wait!!

6.  Speaking of shoots, I am getting to shoot on a dairy farm this Friday!!  I think.  Unless they change their mind and want it at their house.  Seriously, how much FUN with that be?  She talked about baby cows 🙂  Stay tuned!

7.  I am very excited to announce that I will be introducing you all to some of my closest photography friends right here on the blog.  There are going to be interviews, photos, lots and lots of stuff to look at.  All coming over the next few weeks and months.

8.  I am getting ready for my first of two weekends in Philadelphia!  I can’t wait to get back and see some old friends and old clients.  And meet some new ones, too!!!  This coming weekend is two sessions with brand new clients, and in two weeks I’ll be back again for five (!!) sessions with old clients.  And in two weeks I get two nights in a hotel all to myself.  Any mom knows that this is pretty much equivalent to heaven on earth.  Now if only I hadn’t scheduled shoots for 8:30 in the morning I could have added sleeping in to the list.  Ah well.

9.  I have developed (another) small addiction – this time to newborn hats.  If you haven’t discovered Etsy yet, you must.  I now, having finally integrated hats and other hand knit things into my newborn sessions, spend way too much time poring over the site looks for new goodies.  You can find just about anything on there you want that is handmade.  Such a great resource!!  And in today’s economy it also kinda feels good to give money to a person and not a big company.

10.  And last I leave you with one more shot from my mini this past weekend.  I just love the moment here – we have all gotten these kisses from our kids.  Full on running to you kisses.  Now a little secret – she had actually put a candy in her mouth as a joke.  But his reaction and the resulting shot – priceless 😉

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