{beautiful}

beautiful in color, originally uploaded by briemarie.

Last night we hit the Baraboo Light Parade. It's always freezing, of course, although this year was slightly less cold than last year. We were still wearing our thick jackets, hats, scarves, gloves/mittens. Next year, I need to bring a blanket. Although I met up with my dear friend Karen, isn't she gorgeous? Seriously I am loving this shot of her. So, my dear friend Karen and her two lovely little ones, and her new puppy, Pixie, and they have a blanket, and then my dear friend Jess shows up with her two little girls and they have a blanket. Oh, my friends, I am totally a mooch and grabbed one little girl for my lap (to keep her off the cold cold sidewalk, or just to keep myself warm!) and we wrapped up in a blanket. Lovely.
The parade was a blast, they still don't give candy out to the adults, but I'll keep holding out.

Anyways, hope the season is going great for everyone! Happy holidays and a happy Thanksgiving!!! PS. it's Thursday in case anyone was wondering, and I'll be at work, so if you've got extra food you can come visit me up at the shop!! Don't worry, I'll understand if you're spending the entire day with your own family!

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Rockstar weather

rockstar children, originally uploaded by briemarie.

Isn't this weather crazy?!!! Today it is perfect out again, all week it rained, last week it was freezing and then the week before that we were out swinging in t-shirts!! I'm not looking forward to the snow that I'm sure will be coming and staying very soon, but a couple more nice days like today and I can get all my leaves raked.

Everyone enjoy the weather while you can!

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{albums} september 2008 issues

covers, originally uploaded by briemarie.

We got in a couple of albums last week and they are so totally gorgeous! Look at the covers on these babies! This is the front cover of Aaron and Kristin's wedding and the back cover of Jeff and Joleen's wedding. Aren't they gorgeous?! The covers are metallic prints wrapped around the hardcover books, the inside pages have a linen texture and they are just amazing!!!

I really don't want to give them up because they are so gorgeous, but you know I will. I've still got a couple of albums to get finished up, so I really should run now and get those done, plus we're working on a couple more sample albums for the 2009 Bridal Fair at Ho-Chunk, if you've got any ideas for us, leave a comment, we love to hear from you!!!

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Happy Belated Halloween!!

up the walk, originally uploaded by briemarie.

I know that I have been a little slack on blogging. I've been touching up albums and getting others ready to send out while also working on a couple of family shoots. I'll get more pics up soon, I promise that I have not forgotten about you, November is just a little crazier than some months. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. I went out with a friend trick or treating with my niece, my goddaughter and her little sister, they were so adorable. Here's a shot of them so excited for the first house, which didn't have candy, but that's a whole other story!

Cheers!

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{updates} life + work

I know, I know, I've been slacking, or so it seems! In truth, I've been super busy getting some albums finished up to send out for printing, doing some family shoots (which I need to blog!) and just living my life. It's been a crazy hectic couple of weeks and I will soon return to my normal semi-regular blogging, but there's still so much work to get done. So, I haven't forgotten about my loyal bloggers, but I have been working even though I have not added anything new here.

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Our brand spankin' new sample album

I got home from my long day at work today to find, well I knew it would be waiting since I'd been checking the tracking number all day, my Finao ONE sample album!!! It is utterly gorgeous and so substantial, you won't have to worry about hurting this baby, it's one tough cookie. The album, which is our new offering for 2009, is completely handmade, which we love, and is packaged completely green, the album is wrapped with handmade paper made from recycled pineapple leaves and wrapped in a ribbon from recycled mulberry leaves. Take a look:



Now, here are a couple of our albums with the new ONE on the bottom. The ONE is a 12x12 flushmount with metal armor cover, then we have an 8x8 Element in Lady Danger, and to top it off a 5x5 Upper Element in Bomber Jacket, which is such a gorgeous leather, I could just hold it all day!


Look at this gorgeous spine, and the pages are so thick and smooth.

This baby lays flat, yeah you heard me, flat! We've got a gutter running down the center, but we can also do creased prints, but you can barely even see the gutter. Now, you may remember some of these images, we shot one of my high school friend's wedding in August and they had the most amazing wedding so we just had to use their wedding for our sample.


I am so happy that we finally got our sample in, I love it, have I said that enough? Now I really can't wait to start designing these for our clients, I know you'll love them just as much as us!

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{real life} milller session - paquette park - portage, wi

So, last week I met up with my best friend, Karen, and her super cute family for their photo session. I love my job. She has two little ones and I did not believe it was them at first - they have grown up so fast and are getting so very big! Sylvie is walking and talking and Seth was adorable in his fancy black shirt and cowboy boots, I know Steve was jealous that Seth had cuter shoes! Haha. What sweeties. Karen even brought a little red wagon for the kids. Love!

Take a look at the teasers, let us know what you think, we had the perfect day for it, not too much sun and it wasn't cold hardly at all! And if these aren't cute enough, I've got a senior to blog and another session from Paquette Park from today!! Yay!

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