One of the prettiest looking Valentines can be the album set that holds your
wedding pictures … because you fell in love with the cover material …
“Inside and Out” – it’s a “lotta love” …

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What about Valentines Day for you today?
Favorite holiday to celebrate or not so much?
In my case, a million times more preferred is an often expressed “I Love You”
and a Milky Way or Ghiradelli delivered when least expected,
over a box of chocolate or flowers brought home
just because the calendar says “it’s time”
(but that’s just me)

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A fresh new baby in a fresh new year

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2018.
New things to do and new people to meet, holidays over and we’re back to the
daily work routine with all the family back in (their way too far away) place.
Resolutions? … Lets say ‘goals’ …

This year
You’re still offered print in new and beautiful ways.
I’ll encourage you to not store pictures on your phone (small),
let them sit on a CD (forgotten), or become buried in a Facebook feed (sad).
Last year I deleted almost all of my personal albums and now share
only the most recent with family and friends online … have disconnected from
“social for the sake of being social”, and time and ‘life’ are restored.
Keeping up with social media is a draining activity in more ways than one!
The current every day is displayed in our home in plain sight, and a
major goal for the year is to “connect more with the real people around you”.

I encourage you to do the same.
Why not fill your actual LIVING space, instead of the internet,
with the people you love and occasions that are unique to you?

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Who do you want to see every day this year?”
Create a feature wall or tabletop to make that possible!
It can be changed or updated with the newest family member or latest
special occasion, and it will offer a million times the feeling
of anything you keep online.
(It will also grow in value as an heirloom, unlike images online buried and forgotten).

Make the decision to “print and display” instead of “storing” this “year”!

Portraits of the newborn, graduating senior, engagement and wedding pictures …
and back to the beginning with ‘new baby’.
There’s quite a gap though between newborn and senior!
Most of the pictures many of us have from that time are the awkward ‘school pictures’.

Fact is that pictures displayed are a great way to show our love.
In a practical way, pictures confirm that love and quietly say
“You’re important … You’re very special.”

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Often overlooked … the “Tween” – age 8 to 12.
Truth is that even in these years girls are doing remarkably grown up things …
discovering who they are and what talents they own.
Some are ballerinas, avid readers, creative writers, some are
exceptional athletes, and others are talented in music, art, or drama.

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Born with a heart defect at birth, she had surgery at 1 week,
and again a few years later … her heart “Mended”.
At age ’11’ we celebrated ‘Jayci’ with a portrait time devoted to showing
who she is right now (why wait for graduation?).

“Who I Am and What I Love”:
the Boutique “Tween” Portrait Session for girls ages 8 to 12.

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