What a wonderful weekend! If you’re reading this, I hope you’re doing so in your pjs ready for bed after a completely exhausting, but “oh so worth it” holiday break.

Fall session schedule update: A quick note and then a blog share: August and September are now booked for sessions and the deadline this year for conducting your session and having all holiday cards ordered/completed is Nov. 12, so if you’re thinking custom-designed holiday cards, call/email now to grab one of the few remaining October session dates. Except for regularly-scheduled First Year baby session clients and yet-to-be-born newborns, I won’t be booking sessions in late November and December this year so that I can spend holiday time with my family and retool business items for 2010. I can’t believe I just typed 2010! Yikes. Time flies.

Speaking of custom-designed cards, here are two recent 5×7 designs for clients I’ve been meaning to share (last names/addresses blurred for privacy):

Custom-designed cards can showcase one or several session images, custom text, unique colors and – as in the birth announcement above- unique items from the nursery (like the “ABC” print hanging in his room). Each design comes in your choice of art paper (such as linen, watercolor, matte stock and pearl).

In the next card, my client had a great idea to turn their “we’ve moved” cards into a birth announcement, too, since they hadn’t previously done birth announcements after Lauren’s birth. I love this idea!

Front and back: