Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 7:18PM This blog is just so funny, sometimes I actually can't breathe for laughing so hard. Heather and Jessica never fail to amuse with their hilarious analyses of celebrity fashion gone bad. Coming up this month - Fug Madness 2011, their annual tournament-style contest which pits badly dressed celebrities against one another to determine who is the "fugliest". Check it out!
Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 8:53PM We're lucky for a lot of reasons. I could list a million of them, but the Oscars speech I hear dragging on in the background is motivating me to be succinct.
We're so lucky to have found success doing what we love to do. We're still an emerging studio, but lately we seem to be emerging very, very quickly. 2011 is going to be a busy year, and 2012 is looking like it will be even busier.
We've always been fortunate to have clients who trust us and are willing to play along with our oddball ideas. Take last weekend for example. Nathan and Carla came to Regina for their engagement pictures. I doubt they expected us to pull out a deck of cards and ask them to create the odd vision we had in our heads. Without even flinching, the two played along like it was completely normal to have a fake card game in front of two women with large cameras who can't stop giggling. This is what we love most about our clients. Sometimes we have weird ideas. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. But it's way more fun to try them out than to wonder if they'd work. I'll be honest, the post-prod card images didn't exactly match the vision I had in my head, but we had a great time testing it out.
So to all of our clients who have danced, jumped, or been victims of our nerd shots (anyone who's worked with us will know exactly what we're talking about!) - thank you! It's been a pleasure working with you.
Don't worry Nathan and Carla, we'll have a separate post with some of your other engagement shots :)
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 8:03PM Hola!
My husband and I just returned from our second trip to the Mayan Riviera, Mexico. About an hour south of Cancun, on the north-western corner of the Caribbean Sea, this area of Mexico is so beautiful! We would go back again and again. There is so much to do and see in the Mayan, whether you are up for adventure, ready to explore the ancient cultures, or just want to relax on one of the many beautiful beaches. We had a couple of rainy mornings on this trip, but it cleared up into hot, sunny weather by 11:00 a.m. We also had one rainy day, but it wasn't so bad that we couldn't go into the nearest town (Playda del Carmen) and check out some of the shops and pubs. We ate lunch in a little hole-in-the-wall pub on 5th Ave in Playa, and also stopped at the local Senor Frogs for a drink. On another day we checked out the Mayan ruins in the town of Tulum. Many of the ruins here are set on cliffs high above beautiful beaches and the turquoise Caribbean Sea. Our trip also included lots of snorkelling, zip-lining, cave swimming, catamaran-ing (catamaran-ing? Probably not a word, but I'll use it anyway!), margarita-drinking, and of course just relaxing on the beach.
The pictures below are a few snaps from my trip - the town of Playa del Carmen, a boat on the beach in Playa, Mayan ruins on a cliff in Tulum, and the beach at the resort we stayed at.
Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 7:10PM Anyone who has met Brandi and me has probably noticed that she's the trendy one of our dynamic duo. I'm rarely seen in the winter without Grandma-made mittens and my well worn Uggs. It's not that I'm completely fashion-challenged, it's just that my world revolves around someone who's a lot more fun to shop for - my daughter, Taelyn. Via the wonderful world of facebook I was recently introduced to a company called Joyfolie. Joyfolie has the most amazing children's shoes I've ever seen. They look like something you would find smack-dab in the middle of an Anthropologie catalogue for babies (oh, if only there was such a thing!). Joyfolie was started by a mom who decided to make a pair of shoes for her daughter, and has now evolved into a company that sells out it's new stock in a matter of minutes.
I pulled this image from the Joyfolie website. I have to go back there now to figure out which pair Taelyn will be wearing when she makes her flower girl debut in April...
