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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):

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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:

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The word that kept coming to my mind when as I was processing the images from this recent baby photography session was “boutique” … especially the shots of beautiful little Mia on the chocolate zebra throw. She’s just begun to notice her toes, so this was definitely a “must have” shot and we worked really hard to get catch her with foot in hand. She didn’t disappoint. I also especially love the one of her smiling in her sleep … perhaps dreaming about the day she can sink a little fist into the coats of her many fur baby siblings. And, I had to include one outtake shot that makes me laugh every time I look at it (the last one below … suffice it to say Mia already has her own opinions about things and lying down in that hammock wasn’t exactly one of them!) Enjoy my favorites from this session!

Next up on the blog: Newborn Evie and a sunrise maternity session that was sooo worth the early hours traipsing through fields.

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