Not Only did the Studio move, but so did the Blog!

It's time to move your bookmarks folks! We have moved the studio and now we are moving the blog. You can find it here . The new blog will have way more options for linking and way bigger photos.

It's Officially Official!

We are moving the studio! I have had my fingers crossed about this for a long time and I didn't want to blog about it earlier as I thought maybe telling everyone would jinx it somehow. Yesterday was a long day as I was tying up the loose ends in the office and processing as many orders as I could. I have to move the computers tonight and "with my luck" who knows how long those computers will be down!

So Marty's Business and mine will still be together and I will be housed in the back of his space. Officially I will be down there Mon-Friday 9 until 5 starting tomorrow. So all future sessions, meetings and pick ups will take place down at the studio on the bottom of Scholten hill.

I am really super excited to start this new venture with all of my past, current and future clients. Madchen Studios will have more room and the space is being practically built before my eyes with the comfort of you guys in mind. I hope to post some photos soon.

Until then I will close with one of the sessions shot in the old "home base". *sniff the end of a great first official era of the studio's progression IT seems only fitting that the shot is of this little sweetheart who is a membership customer. I had three sessions with him this year and it has been absolutely astounding to watch him grow!

sweethearts

I did a session with these four little cuties a few days ago and have been wanting to post their sweet little faces ever since they stepped foot inside the studio. I first met them at a wedding I shot in July, and I was so very lucky to have such adorable children in the wedding party. the only one I hadn't met yet was the baby as she was still nestled in her mommy's tummy that weekend. I just found out that she made her appearance only a week after the wedding. These kids got along awesome in the studio and they all seemed to enjoy themselves (with exception of the little one who did super awesome as well) I really enjoyed seeing them again and can't wait to do another session with them in the future!

New life

On the evening of the "laptop incident" I did a really fun session with Adam and Holly. They are expecting a brand new bundle of Joy right before Christmas. They are honestly super excited about their new arrival and it seemed like the more time I spent with them the more I was getting excited for them. Their easy going nature and tenderness that they displayed was contagious. These two are going to make a great Mommy and Daddy to this little one!

TLC

I don't even know where to begin this post. It's so sad to me I imagine myself telling the story in another dimension wrapped in a wooley blanket in front of some fireplace hunched over cuddling myself with the fibres and some very nice scotch. Instead though I am writing this in my husbands warm long underwear and a cup of java in my cool office. It seems as though one of "my best friends" is very sick. Last night after a super long day of shooting and processing I went downstairs to watch television with my hubby and blog about these 'oh so cute kids" that I had photographed in the last couple of days. I grabbed my laptop and plunked my very heavy midsection on the couch. I noticed right away when I tried to open it's beautiful silver lid. The bracket holding my mac was bent and where it closed, it was giving me this wonky half smile. "marty, something happened to the mac". He just looked at me and said " I know" . So now this panic sets in, I open it up and it looks okay, but it won't find the network. So as I do a restart so I can hook up to the computer upstairs he tells me this horrible story about how he took my "work friend" up to the washroom to check his facebook after work. He tells me that the dog came in to say hello. He the tells me that the dog used his nose and flipped my "friend" out of his hands and sending it crashing into the bathtub beside him. For those of you that know me even a little bit, you know that I love my family, my hubby, but I also so love my electronics. I was debating this little fact as I looked at him and the dog so comfortable on the couch, waiting for the mac to restart. Needless to say it didn't restart, just a blue screen. I got that "unreasonable and inconsolable" tone in my voice as I told he would probably never see me again because now that the laptop was gone I would be changed to my desk until Christmas because there was now no option of taking work anywhere else as my silver little buddy was dead. That they and facebook killed my machine that made late night blogging possible. Late last night as I was falling asleep I thought about my macbook and all of the little trips we took together. I thought about us in the dominican airport, on the patio sipping drinks, and camping out at Elkwater. I took it everywhere I went and it makes me so sad. All of it seems so long ago and so much like a dream. However this morning when I woke up I still got the blue screen and nothing else. A few hours of sleep did give me some clarity though...MY friend will be fixed...it just needs to go to the doctor for a few days. Now on to search for the perfect professional to work on my baby.

Anyways just because it does indeed make me feel better to look at these photos of the these cuties I will leave you with a few photos that I shot over the last two days. There were delightful to photograph and were so different even though they are fairly close in age.

The Sanders Family

I had the awesome opportunity the other night to meet the rest of this little gals family. I must say that they are this little perfect threesome. I must admit I felt badly for the daddy as he had to squeeze into my basement studio as he was very well over 6 ft tall. I think the cosiness of it turned out rather nicely. I think the little one did extremely well since about half way through the session her teething symptoms really started to flare up. It a terrible way to get nice rosy cheeks, but they photograph so well. Here's your early peek mom and dad!

Two Weeks

I have been very blessed in these last two weeks of business, and I want to thank everyone with their patience. Some of you didn't get your galleries up within the first 48 hours and I am very sorry about that. Also to all that are emailing and leaving messages, tomorrow will be the day that I sit behind my desk and get back to each and everyone one of you-Scouts honor. I did want to do a fairly large post because I have had so many favorite shots in the last ten days and I really want to share. So tonight I thought I would blog and put up some of the awesome moments I witnessed of these families and their interaction.


Also I just wanted to clear something up. My husband pointed out something horrifying to me today. I have been complaining for days about my sore mouth. the sides of my mouth keep cracking. It reminds me a lot of when I was a kid and freezies (being my favorite cold snack) would leave me mouth cut on the sides perpetually for the entire summer. In fact my whopper junior with cheese craving came to an end when I took my first bite and my split open. BTW I whimpered for a bit then finished my hamburger not caring whether I still wanted it or not. Anyways I was complaining to him again about it tonight and he says that they are cold sores. I looked at him and exhaustedly fell into his lap exclaiming "oh great everyone's been looking at my mouth this week wondering if I have cold sores!" He nicely kissed me on the forehead and said..."no honey they have been looking you all week and KNOW you have cold sores." Somehow his comment didn't make me feel any better. Mind you it's better than the "you just must have talked, shouted, opened your mouth or yawned too much response. Personally I think it's just winter settling into my skin and letting me know that I shouldn't have eaten that junior whopper. Does anyone else have this problem where their mouth just cracks? but I want to just say, so what if they are cold sores...that's obviously just going to be a part of my life and that's why I have photoshop! ;)

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween blog readers! I trust that all of my little gys that I have shot this year are looking as scary and fabulous as ever! Feel free to drop them by for some candy. Oliver just had to be the Batman this year. I think he's pretty believable even though he's only 4 ft tall. (or at least he thinks so and has us all convinced, Moira was something a little different this year. So I thought we would play a game. Can you guess who she is? The first person to comment and guess correctly will receive a free 8X10 on any photo of their choice form a previous, current or future session. Good luck and happy haunting!

My Christmas Promo family

This family was the winner of my Christmas Promo Contest. I was so excited to meet them and I think everything turned out pretty awesome. All of their products have been sent away for production so hopefully we will have a really good sneak peak of the actual items next week. I must say their daughter looked "oh gosh so cute" in the black tutu! They will get a ton of prints, cards, a story book and a canvas after the tenth of December. If you want to take a stop by and look at these goodies please call or email the studio. All of the products ordered can be found in the christmas packages.

Here is the sample of their 5x5 flat card.


and here is the sample of one of the folded cards

I am starting to get jealous (lol) Dara and Curtis

I must say after my photographing my last two engagement session I am starting to get jealous. I am considering getting my husband some sort of lessons on how to be romantic. nah, he doesn't need it, he's romantic in his own 11 year marriage way. coffee brought home from work is a romantic gesture I am sure. Okay time to get back to Dara and Curtis. This is one girl who is super comfortable and home in her man's arms. I don't think I have ever seen a girl who is super care free and free spirited melt and get this romantic sereneness in her face when her man holds her, but Dara does. It makes me want to ooh and ahh a little. (of course in my own 11 year marriage romantic way).

There is one more thing I want to note. These photos were taken on saturday a few hours before the Medicine Hat sky went dark in the middle of the day with impending snow. It would seem to me that the Kraskos are very good with the weather and manage to avoid climatic catastrophe very well. (I think they may have a bit of X-men's Storm in them) I shot her brother's wedding in the summer and there were all sorts of thunderstorm, hail and tornado warnings all around them the day of the wedding at the farm. But low and behold all we got was great lighting under the clouds and great stormy skies. It's funny that his sister managed the same fate for her engagement shoot. As I drove away from the session I was looking at the snow coming and thought, wow those Krasko's are a lucky bunch. (in love and in weather!)