• re·fur·bish (r-fûrbsh)
    tr.v. re·fur·bished, re·fur·bish·ing, re·fur·bish·es
    To make clean, bright, or fresh again

  • mem·o·ry (mm-r)
    n. pl. mem·o·ries
    An image or an impression of one that is remembered

    "Refurbished Memories"
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Baby E {Sun Prairie, Wisconsin Newborn Baby Photographer}

Check out Baby E! This little girl snoozed almost the entire time during our session:D

Client gifts {Wisconsin Wedding Photographer}

I believe I can safely make this post as the Holidays and New Years have been sadly put behind us!  This was the first year I sent out gifts for my wedding clients… check them out:D

Organic Bloom ornaments:

Mini calendars:

Holiday card with my little Gabby Lou!!!

Here’s to a GREAT New Year!

 

I feel home.

Well in the end we can all call a friend
well that’s something I know as true.
And then a thousand years and a thousand tears
I’ll come finding my original crew

cause to me throughout eternity
there’s somewhere where you’re welcome to go
I said it’s something free that means a lot to me
when I’m with my friends I feel home.

I feel home,
when I see the faces that remember my own
I feel home,
when I’m chilling outside with the people I know.
I feel home,
and that’s just what I feel.
Home to me is reality,
and all I need something real
Home to me is reality,
and all I need something real

I feel home.

I Feel Home {O.A.R.}

In continuance with my 2012 business goals (hello, to blog more!), here’s a few images from this past weekend.  A bunch of friends who were in the Army with my husband got together for a birthday (Happy birthday Baby Z):D  at the Chula Vista in Wisconsin Dells.  Not only was it awesome to see everyone again, but it really put things into perspective… sometimes it’s important to slow down and enjoy the good things in life:  good friends, good beer and good fun (and not necessarily in that order).  I will now take the opportunity to pimp out Rumchata… to which I was first introduced to this weekend:D

Home Office {Sun Prairie, Wisconsin Photographer}

I’m so excited to finally be able to make this post!  Over the New Year’s holiday I embarked on a BIG project.  I completely made over my home office.  2011 taught me MANY things about my work flow and time management.  I was able to take everything that I learned throughout the year and make it work for me – ok, and I decorated it cute too:)

I found the desk on Craigs’s List for $20 and painted it a bright burnt orange.  All the paint was from Sherwin Williams  I really wanted a bright pop of color and think I nailed it!  The frames above it are from Organic Bloom and the print is a metal print.  The white dresser was old – from my husband’s bachelor pad and I painted and distressed it.  The knobs are all different and from Anthropologie.


I took the closet doors out and made it into a packaging station. The curtains are from Overstock.

When you walk into the room, immediately to the right is my “dump station” – when I come home from weddings or shoots, I have about 6 different bags, purses, etc. and practicality won over cuteness here. I wanted a place when I could dump everything and have it be out of the way. The end table is from Ikea and again is practical. It’s light enough where it can double as another table – especially useful if my second shooter needs to set up a lap top, etc.


The frames are from Good Will and painted the same color orange as the desk.  I’m obsessed with fun file folders too!  I get a lot of them from Paper Style.

The dresser drawers hold extra packaging supplies, props, frame samples, thank you cards, price lists, brochures and more!

One of my favorite things in the office is this little pencil holder I “found” at my husband’s mom’s house… he had made this for his mom when he was in boy scouts over 20 years ago! My favorite part of it is the spider drawing on the side.

Yes, those are Kelly Moore bags!  The brown one is the Juju and the mustard yellow is the Posey.  The big black bag underneith is a Lowepro Magnum 650AW.

Of course I need an office greyhound … she is laying on a rug I got from TJ Maxx.

2012 Imaging USA {New Orleans, LA}

One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time. – Annie Leibovitz