what I saw while waiting for my clients on saturday…

hope everyone had a great Thursday. : )

real pictures coming soon…promise.

This is a post I’ve wanted to construct for a long time…but I needed just the right picture (and the permission to go with it) to get it right.

Although I’ve never mentioned it before one thing I do a fair share of is boudoir photography.

I know it’s not for everyone and that’s ok, but before you discount it entirely just think about it for a sec.  As someone who has been on both sides of the camera for this experience (I gave Dereck a boudoir album for our fifth anniversary present this past December) let me tell you it was worth all the nerves and hesitations. (You get over that real quick by the way.) He LOVED it. I mean LOVED it. The look on his face when he opened it is something I will carry with me forever – he was over the moon. : )

The shoot can be anything you want it to be. It can be modest it can be risque. It can be inside it can be outside. It can be themed (like above) or it can be simple – a bed and a white sheet (like mine.) It can be at home it or can be in a hotel room. The possibilities truly are endless.

So before you waive this off and think “it’s not for me” just do me a favor and think outside the box for a second. Think about the last thing you did that got your adrenaline going. Think about how nothing worth doing is easy. Think about how if you really look back in your life that it’s probably the adventures that scared you a bit at first that hold the greatest memories. Just think about it…

Email me with questions, curiosities or if you just need someone to talk you into it – I’m the master at that last part. : )

: ) j

Thanks so much guys – ya’ll did amazing – see ya soon! : )

is the first shot you pull off the card and it looks perfect straight out of camera…

this girl gets crap on a crap stick happy. : )

and guess who just turned three? (THREE!)

Never, never, will I be able to properly articulate just how much these people mean to me and just how much gratitude I have for all that they have given me over the last three years. So instead I’ll just do my best to help them remember all these great days in their life.

: ) j

OK, back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Remember on my last post when I went on and on about how AMAZING my clients are? Well in case you didn’t believe me I have proof…

What started as an ordinary (and somewhat long) day of work and day care and such ended with an amazing surprise in my mail box from a client…

The note itself would have been more than enough on its own. (Honestly, thank you notes always bring me to instant tears and overwhelming gratitude.) But for her to top it off with this bracelet, well I was a bit beside myself. This lovely client of mine has FOUR kids, under 8. Four kids under 8 people – where in the world did she find the time for this!? The pictures she used? They’re from my Xmas card – brilliant! (And I can’t believe she held onto it for four months!)

Here’s the thing about stuff like this…

I provide a service to people, a service they pay for. As far as I’m concerned that’s really gift enough. I mean, the business, the check they write, the loyalty of returning year after year, the friendships, watching all these kids grow up, being a part of people’s lives – all of it is just an amazing experience and gift on its own as far as I’m concerned. When someone goes above and beyond like this I am so unbelievably grateful for this business and all that it gives back to me.

OK, off to write my own hand written thank you notes to the people in my life that I’m so grateful for…this was a lovely little reminder of just far a little note can go. : )

I should be able to keep up with emails thanks to my beloved iPhone but editing, blogging, etc will take a hard hit until I can get up and running again.
Thanks,

jaymee

Well I do. Some days I can’t get over the amazing people who have come into my life because of this little biz of mine and this family is no exception. They are heaven with hazel eyes – all of them – and it was so great to see them again.

Last time I saw them we did this…

(the full new guy post is here )

And “poof!” here we are now… : )

Thanks so much guys, it was so great to see you!! : )

SO glad these guys went first. I was nervous and unsure as to how this was all going to go but 5 minutes with these guys and I was laughing hysterically and bit weepy by the magic of it all. Just like that the nerves were gone and I felt honored to be in their presence.

Four generations. Four generations this close, this happy, this amazing – I was in awe.  : )

I’ll try and get the rest up as I go.

: ) j