Check out Corey and Lynn from Green Halloween hard at work!   And I love seeing the photography I did blown up huge on their banners!   Look at that cutie!!

What is Green Halloween?  Be sure to check out their website for tips on being green, offering healthy alternatives for our children, and products safe for the enviroment at www.greenhalloween.org.

Here are a few tips from their “Getting Started” section:

• Make a big deal of your child’s costume – getting dressed, taking pictures, etc.
• Have a neighborhood party and forgo trick-or-treating all together. Ask your child’s school to consider making their Halloween celebration green as well.
• Have a charity-themed party. Instead of giving out prizes for games, allow children to pick from a list of charities and make a donation in their name.
• Have a Halloween gratitude party. Deliver handmade cards to your local farmer and take a tour of his/her field. Arrange before hand for each child to bring a mini pumpkin home.
• Talk to your neighbors about what they will be giving away in advance. One option is to trick-or-treat only at homes where you know Green Halloween items will be passed out.
• Show your Green by displaying your own Green Halloween sign and ask your Green Halloween neighbors to do the same. Turn looking for the signs into a hunt for treasures. The Green Halloween sign on your own door will announce to trick-or-treaters that they’re in for a great surprise!
• Give kids a full, healthy meal before they go out trick-or-treating so they are not hungry.
• Talk to your kids about what is in candy and why it is not healthy. Ask them to come up with creative, kid and Earth-friendly alternatives that your own family can hand out and feel good about.
• When trick-or-treaters come to your door, shout, “Happy Hallo-green!!!

And if your child does collection candy:

• Invite the Halloween Fairy to come to your home. Tell you child a story, or use our book to talk about how the Halloween fairy turns candy into magic fairy dust and so needs as much candy as she can get her hands on. Explain that if a child leaves his bag of candy outside on the porch, the fairy will gladly come to take the candy, and because she will be so grateful for the help with her fairy-dust-making, she’ll leave in the candy’s place a very special gift. Some parents make the exchange while their child is brushing their teeth, others wait until their child is asleep. Either way, make a big deal of it! Act surprised! You may also want to consider letting your child keep a small amount of candy and leaving the rest out for the fairy. Please don’t donate your leftover sweets to charity, though. Other people’s kids don’t need the candy either.
• Have a candy trade: let your kids trade their candy towards other little gifts or give them a “pumpkin point” for each piece of candy they collect. Use pumpkin points to “buy” a toy or do a special activity with your child.
• Let them choose a limited amount of candy to eat (for example, one piece for each year your child is old). In many cities, the leftover candy can be recycled and turned into compost! Just be sure to remove candy from its wrapper first.

*We are big fans of the Candy Fairy at my own house!

My babysitter asked me what it was like photographing weddings when she saw these on my computer tonight  and well… I don’t photograph weddings right now! LOL, but I make cakes that look a lot like wedding cakes I guess.  It really wasn’t my intention as I just wanted to make a really nice cake for an auction for my daughters school this evening for the dessert dash.  It was a alot of fun… I loved how it turned out with the fresh flowers and spring colors.

In addition to a “freshening up” I’m hoping to be able to offer all collages and wall portraits framed and ready to hang!!  I know how hard it can be to take those prints to the frame shop, pick out a frame, and put it all together.   Hopefully soon it will be easier than ever to get your images up on the wall.  With just a level, hammer, and a couple nails you’ll be enjoying your images for years to come!

I created a little e-card this year.   HappyHolidays!!!!

I used sprint for years and even though the signal was always bad, at least their customer service was very good. At&t…well, they have very limited options for working this out.  I’m just hoping I don’t have to wait as long as she told me it would take to ship me the new one.

November 25th – all holiday cards, storyboards, collage, coffee table books, canvas…etc.

November 30th – everything else (desk prints, enlargements, etc) must be in.

Dec 1-1oth – orders will be accepted with a 10% rush fee added to ensure on time delivery by Christmas.  No guarantees.

Dec 11th-  Orders will wait to be processed in January.

SOOO, if you have something in the works now and I’m still waiting on you to approve previews OR if you are still deciding on your order, please take a moment to do so. It will help me out tremendously to get your orders in as quickly as possible.  Thank you!!!!

Aren’t these kid’s SO cute! I swear they would be awesome models… I see it in their future… and more fairy homes!  :)

Carmen and Jeff- your family is beautiful!!

How awesome that her outfit matched the playground equipment so well!

It was a gorgeous fall day.

But um…. mom…dad…?  What are ya doing up there? {hee hee}

She definitely has them wrapped around her finger. :)

Here are a few images from a project I worked on with some of the business in the group this year. Aren’t these kids the cutest?  I love how patriotic this one is!  Makes me proud that I just voted!!