This bug's for you -- this is one of my new classes in June at Green Tangerines - I LOVE WORKING THERE!

Happy Birthday, LaLa!

We are all getting together for lunch today for Leslie's 27th birthday -- gosh... 27 - whew has time flown! I had a lot of fun putting together her birthday present... Green Tangerines has certainly bitten me, and now I have the bug again :) Here's what I made for her...

Awhile

That's what it's been... Many things have changed in the year of 2008, with 2009 a change of the numbers...

I was asked in November to join the teaching team at Green Tangerines... I've been having a BLAST. Everyone there is so nice and it feels like a big family. I'm mainly doing Cricut stuff, but chatting now about teaching photography and photoshop classes, which should be very fun, too!

Photography is going GREAT - just have a goal of two weddings a month and enough portrait sittings to fill in the rest. Over the past month, I've done quite a few seniors and have had a great time and gotten rave reviews from my clients. It's a nice feeling to be appreciated for your "art". I must find time this week to update my apertureartnorcal.com website to add all of my recent shoots.

More tomorrow!

Toosday Triv

Okay, the movie was really cheesy and campy, but being with Bob and friends made the late night/early morning totally a treat!

I've been a busy Mrs. B... doing a lot of photography - this one I did yesterday of the sisters, and we had so much fun. I've known the Bartley's since Sara was 2 - now 21! The new restaurant downtown Roseville was nice enough to allow us to take photos inside - love how they turned out! Today, I'm headed to the old field to take more senior portraits, and hopefully can get a hold of another youngin to squeeze him in before dark tonight. Then tomorrow I have 3-4 more guys to shoot - should be fun - they want "urbanisc" shots. Saturday two family sittings... I'm so glad I'm busy this week! Now, just two weddings a month is what I need!

Here's a little collage I did of the girls!

After Midnight!

It's finally here... well, in a couple of hours, that is! TWILIGHT... Can't wait... 10 of us are meeting up at 10p tomorrow, starbuck's in hand! Planning a nap tomorrow, too :)

For the first time in 20 years, I am going to work for someone else - YUP... and doing something I totally LOVE, love, love - scrapbooking! Green Tangerines offered me a job on Saturday, and today I accepted. Beth brought up a lot of good points and enlightened me :) Thanks, Beth! I will head up one of their creative design teams, and I am a bit excited about the whole prospect. Kelly is very savy in the business world, having an MBA and all :) Of course, I will continue building my photography business, which I love, but need to get a bit of dollies rolling in - LOL.

Next week, I have portraits scheduled all week - mainly senior portraits, but also a couple of families and some children. Now, just to get a wedding or two a month - then I'd be set!

Catching up

What a fantastic day! The wedding was awesome, and it was so wonderful having our ENTIRE family there!

The drive down was fun, the stay at the OC fairgrounds was great and very comfortable. I am so glad we chose to take the trailer - it is truly our home away from home. The day at DL was very fun, and seeing the little people enjoy themselves was the highlight!

After we got home on Sunday, my sister and I celebrated her birthday by going to see Tina Turner - the show was over-the-top, and we are still talking about it. That woman, 69 years old, is awesome and looks fabulous! Her voice is still amazing, and she can really shake it up the tina turner way!

We are in the throws of Halloween preparation... The ship looks awesome and Bob is helping Paul get everything together for the "carnevil" across the street. We estimate about 300 kids showing up! He's added so much this year! We will also be showing Pirates of the Caribbean in the front yard! He has about 2 hours of piratey music on the ipod that is hooked up to the palm trees and the lights blink to the music. He also added this cool light that makes the ground look like water - he's soooooo smarty piratey! Arrrrrr, Matey!

Football is also going great - looks like we are headed to the playoffs, which is a first for our HS football! I am starting to get a little sad, knowing that this is my last season as the field photographer for the team... I am a senior! :)

Triumphant Thursday

So we won the vote and we will be highlighted starting today on KCRA3 Playbook! Gooooo Woodcreek. I have also tagged all the local radio stations that the kids listen to, to see if one would like to come out and join our school spirit, either tomorrow night or for homecoming. Tonight I'll help serve the JV/V supper, and then we'll all go out an enjoy the frosh game. I did get a new camera yesterday, the D90 and boy is it ever SPECIAL! Can't wait to use it tonight, and especially tomorrow night's V game in the dark! This camera is supposed to have no noise at 3200 and boy will that ever make a difference with quality!

Late nights

for over a month now, I've been burning the midnight oil... and it's caught up with me! I caught a summertime cold a week ago, and now it's moved down into my chest and I feel like CRAP! Tonight a friend told me to drink hot tea with sympathy... had never heard of it, but it is hot tea with Grand marnier in a brandy snifter - wow, not only do I feel better, I'm a little tipsy ;) So last nights games - well... the JV blew them out of the water, 62/18 woodcreek. Not such good news for the varsity, however... we lost 14/32 :( We were so hoping for a win. Collin had to sit this game out, but hopefully will get some playing time this coming Friday against Placer - we are home, so that will be waaaaay nice. I'm glad I'm only shooting the JV/Varsity games this week... shooting 3 games in 24 hours, really burned me out... especially with all the time involved, shooting, editing, downloading, making a movie, finding the right music. I can now say I am a "bad ass" at leveraging from google. I found a bunch of music from SpiralFrog (great site), but then found out all the music was "protected" and I couldn't use it anywhere but on my computer to listen to... well, going through the backdoor, I found AllMusicConverts and am happy to say that now I can access ALL of the music for my needs, even downloaded to my ipod. I also found that KNCI has streaming, so nice to sit and listen to the radio - too bad that the Wolf doesn't have the same, as they are my fave country station. I did contact the promotions department at the Wolf to see if they would come out to the Homecoming game on the 26th and broadcast live from our field. Last night at Casa, 107.9 the End was broadcasting from their field - kinda cool! I just figured, we have a good chance to get the Wolf, since we are the "Wolves!" :) Was supposed to go to the MinPin show tomorrow in the Bay Area, but just feeling so punk, I don't think I'll make it. Which is really too bad, considering I was supposed to talk with the minpin club's pres about co-owning a show bitch... maybe next time.

Football Friday

Wow... I can't believe how fast this week has gone! I really wanted to keep up daily with my blog, but... I've been super busy with the two websites - AANC and WHS. I do fully understand now why I've put so much time and effort into the HS football stuff - it has led me to this path of photography and knowing how to navigate and set up my own website. I watched all of the tutorials for my PS actions this week and learned SO MUCH! I know how to retouch any photograph - it's awesome! I will be so ready for Isaac's wedding :) Shot the frosh game last night and really had a wonderful time - they won, 28/20! Tonight is the JV/Varsity game, which I will also be shooting. Should have seen Collin this morning, all ready for Football Friday at school - all dressed up in black - way sharp dressed man! I edited the frosh photos and put them on snapfish in the wee hours - the frosh boys were so excited to see them already up this morning :) I also made a movie with "wipeout" as the music and added that to their page. Okay, back to it... more tomorrow! GO WOODCREEK!

TaDa Tuesday

It's much cooler.. by far. The Delta breeze is up to 15-20 mph. Had to lower all of the umbrellas in the backyard :) Somehow I've caught a cold - damn... but I won't dwell on that!

Yesterday the ad art session for de ja'vue Salon in Roseville was very successful - had a lot of fun in PS doing up her biz art, and my hair looks AWESOME. Cindy is such a wonderful colorartist! Here's a peek at her new ad art. I had Bob stop by a specialty store today to pick up this same mirror that Cindy has in her studio, for my photography studio - I just think the reflection photos are sooo cool off of this mirror.

Football is going great and the players are loving the website, and I'm having so much fun adding and playing with the site. This Friday we play Casa - GO WOLVES! Here's a line of merged photos of Collin from last Friday's scrimmage - so fun to see him back in the game, even though now he is on the injured list again after using his head to tackle someone in practice yesterday - ugh!

Today we have Miss B and Juno - nothing like having two babies in the house, even though one of them is only 2 lbs and wears a pink collar - LOL. I figured out in PS how to set up my web pages for ApertureArtNorCal, so will be starting to put that together - this is all so very exciting - my new venture!

Wishing you all a wonderful day!