Spring Portrait Mini Sessions

In the celebration of SPRING, my birthday this week, and to have some fun I am having Spring Portrait Mini Sessions. They are $150 for a 1/2 hour session which includes a CD of the images. I have two dates left for this special April 12th and May 10th. If you are interested in scheduling a session, feel free to call the studio 253.227.8074 or email me thru the website

Here are a few from a Mini Session on the beautiful non-rainy Saturday we had before the REALLY cold and rainy Easter where the rain literally went sideways and upside down. You have got to love March and the beginning of Spring.

Bridal Tea #2 in Olympia

Wow, our last Bridal Tea was a blast. We had incredible music, great food, and AMAZING vendors to meet. We are excited to have another. It is going to be bigger and better for sure. Feel free to call or email and come by to check it out. It is a lot of fun. To quote one of our last bridal attendees " I think this is the best event I have ever been to, I feel so relaxed and pamered" Wow we were so excited to hear that.



The next Bridal Tea is April 13th from 1-4 pm. Come and meet people that can help make your wedding unique. This tea is going to be AMAZING as we will have some fantastic vendors, pampering, and great prizes to give away, and even Horse and Carriage Rides. There will be many wonderful things to do and try so come and check out the tea, it is FREE, so bring your family and friends to help you in planning your wedding and enjoy a fun and beautiful event. This event is sponsored by Dinea de Photo, The Best of Budapest, and the Tumwater Masonic Center which is located at 455 North St. SE in Tumwater.

Spring Flirting

Spring is really my favorite time of year, awakening from a long slumber to the sweet smell of fragrant flowers and flirty sunshine and rain. It is really delightful to see rainbows and sunshine in the midst of clouds and rain. It is the time to come that inspires me because I know more flowers and warmth will follow.

I just had a great photoshoot with a wonderful woman named Joy, she was absolutely incredible with the camera and I had to include a few of my favorites here. I loved how the sun was flirting with the camera and the sweet patterns that came out of the shoot.


The infamous Miss Jane

Music, Art, and Community

Wow, I am so excited the Bridal Tea that my friend Kristi and I put on was a blast. We had such a fun time with all the vendors, people that attended, and the food was fantastic. My absolute favorite violinist, Geoffrey Castle came and played his soulful and inspiring music that literally made the event exquisite. We had some great people involved such as Sylphide Designs, my favorite couture dress shop, Fair Portia, Aspasia Day spa who has the most amazing skin healing techniques, and many more. I will post more about this later. I just wanted to say how great it is to have people work together for a common goal. It is something that is not that common these days, but it is super important. I have such immense respect and love for community and am grateful for the inspiration and beauty that comes from supporting small business and local economy.

This bouquet made by Potpourri Floral is full of spring flowers and I found it to be such a beautiful reminder that spring weddings are such a delight to experience because of the sheer bounty of spring fragrant flowers. I love spring a lot, partly b/c my birthday is in spring and partly b/c it is when we wake up from the slowness of winter to more sunshine.

I am so grateful to have had such a fun time with all of you that attended, and hopefully if you didn't get to attend or want to come to the next one you will stay tuned. The next Bridal Tea is on April 13th. So if you are interested in attending or exhibiting, let me know. This one is sure to be even more fun, with great prizes and more things to see and do.

Bridal Tea

Check out the upcoming Bridal Tea March 2nd, 2008 Sponsored by The Best of Budapest, Dinea de Photo, and Huber's Gasthaus. Attached is your invitation to experience an intimate event of exquisite proportion.

The many faces of Life

I am truly amazed by this video. It features so many of my favorite kinds of art, but what is really remarkable is that it is like the many faces and moods and changes we have thru our lives. As a woman, I feel there is a constant reinvention of myself, with a true thread that stays the same and constant throughout.

Purse Love- "A cute bag is a girls best friend"

I love great purses, it is amazing what a good handbag can do to an outfit and to every day organization. I just read this article on how a cute bag is a girl's best friend and it was all about the next "it" bag.

I am hard on my bags and I have found that having a bag that lasts a long time with a guarantee is key. Enter in the Persnickity Designs Bags. I found these bags on a trip to Bellingham last spring and was totally blown away enough to sign up as a rep for their company. They are made to last forever, have many style possibilities, and support local economy as they are handmade in WA. I have been so busy getting my photography business going this year I have yet to have a party, but thought I would post some about them. The bag I love the most is the small hobo, plus it has a place where I can put a scarf which I can change with my outfits and stuff. They also have these great wallets that can fit business cards and postcards in that are really fun and great for men and women.
If you go to the website www.pdsashbags.com you can find the bag of your dreams and play around with customizing it to make it you. So fun. If you decide to order, tell them in the comments section you heard about them from me.

I will have some photography posts up soon so stay tuned.