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You’ll Want To Touch It | Cincinnati Child + Family Photographer

You haven’t experienced an album until you experience a Dream album.  This is a fact.

Your images should be displayed, whether that is in the form of an album, framed prints or a gallery wrapped canvas.  The choice is up to you, but please, my friends.  Pleeeeaaase.  For the love of Peter, don’t let your digital images just sit on the CD, collecting dust.

Pshaw.  Tsk-tsk, my friend Jackie would say.

Print them.  Display them.  Show them off.  Be proud of them.  I want you to look at your images every. single. day.  And have your heart feel happy.

Over the past 5 years, I have tried many different album companies (5?… 6?), and the Dream Album Company, in my humble opinion, is the absolute best.  When the UPS man knocks on my door, it’s like Christmas every time.

Here’s a recent 9×9 album that I designed for a client.  You’ll want to touch it.

The dense, 2 mm thick archival fuji pages are handcrafted from artisan Japanese paper.  It’s not your typical album.  At all.  Have a looksie…

The albums are so beautiful and unique (I feel a wee bit like a car salesman, and if you know me, you know that I am so not salesman-like).  They truly are beautiful.  Each is a work of art.  I wish you could reach through the screen and touch the quality.  I love these albums.  Can ya tell?  Yes?  Yes.

The cover is waterproof and so durable.  And I don’t know how they do it, but it doesn’t attract fingerprints (and I have a lot of little fingerprinting fingers up in here).

The seamless binding allows the album to open flat into one big spread.  Here are a few 2-page spreads from the same album.

Can you picture it?  The album is open and lying flat here, and I’m shooting from above.  Got me?  Good.

The Dream Album shows off your photos with such impact and impeccability (here I go again, all salesman-like).  I am proud to offer these albums in three different sizes: 6×6, 9×9 and 12×12.  One day, I’ll have one for each of my 3 kids.  One day.  When I hire a full time nanny, a cleaning lady and I sit around and eat bon bons all day.;)

xo

Christi

P.S. Want to see them in person?  Here’s how it works: I come to your house.  We do a photo session (a.k.a. family snuggle-fest, tickle-me-silly party, bed-jumping extravaganza).  I digitally edit and perfect each photo for your viewing presentation.  I come back to your house.  I bring with me samples of albums.  You ooooh and ahhhhh and tell me that I was right about the Dream albums [wink, wink].  You can be in your jammies, with your feet up, enjoying a nice glass of red.  Sounds pretty great, huh?  It is.  Want to read more about what a photo session is like?  Click here.

P. P. S. Thanks for the well wishes the other day.  Baby’s stomach bug is gone and all is well.  He’s back to crawling all over this place and getting into everything.  And when I say everything, I mean everything. Saddest moment of the day ——> when he crawled up, and got stuck under the end table for the 14th time.  Tears.  And anger.  What Mom doesn’t rescue her baby right away, but laughs and snaps a photo?  I couldn’t help myself.


Rockin’ The Email Inbox | Cincinnati Baby Photography

I rocked the email inbox today like a superstar.  Yes, my friends, it can be done.

Have you ever felt like you will never, ever be able to conquer the mountain of emails in your inbox?  Yeah, me too.  There were hundreds.  Thousands?  Too many.  Way too many.

I decided that I would go through my inbox and organize, delete, unsubscribe, organize, delete, unsubscribe.  And that I did.

I created folders: follow up, save, to do…you get the picture.  Then I organized the emails, one by one.  And then, guess what?

The heavens opened up.

And then I started running around and dancing.  And singing.  And doing Zumba moves.  And singing some more.

Amazing how a fresh, clean, empty inbox can make a girl feel.  

I challenge you to do the same.  Go ahead.  You’ll be Zumba-ing all over the place, too. 

Happy sigh.

xo

Christi


It’s Baby Time | Cincinnati Child + Family Photography

It’s midnight.  And I have to get up in 4 hours.  To welcome our sweet baby into this world.  But I can’t sleep.  Not yet.

Not before I publicly declare that this baby?  This baby that we’ll meet in just a few hours means so much.  I know.  I know I’ve said it lots.  How excited we are.  How loved this baby is.  But I must say it once more: This baby symbolizes so much for us.  And I am overwhelmed at the thought of meeting him.  Of loving him.  Of our family of 4 becoming a family of 5.

This trust in God, this faith that has grown and changed in ways that I couldn’t have fathomed – it is the foundation that makes life worth living.  And I am grateful.  Grateful beyond words.  To soon be a Mommy to not 2, but to 3 wonderful (I can’t even think right now of an adjective that describes how I feel about them) children.  Thank you, thank you God for what you’re doing in me.  And for my husband who loves me like I couldn’t ever imagine being loved.  And for this family of mine.  That I still can’t believe belongs to me.

Phew.  Hot tears.  Goodnight y’all.

xo

Christi

P.S. I must have this baby before these emotions and hormones drive me clear to nutty-ville.  Sappy, emotional me.  One day I’ll be back to normal.

P.P.S. I’m gonna be MIA for awhile.  But I’ll be back.  With lots and lots of photos.  Pinky promise.


Who Wants It? | Cincinnati Child + Baby Photographer

There’s one spot left.  Yep.  Just one.

Ice cream mini sessions are this Saturday, and I have the 12:00 slot open for the first taker.

Who wants it?  Get on it, and you’ll be happy dancing.  The first person to contact me gets their session fee erased. Gone.  Buh-bye.  Cya.

Details are HERE.

So sorry for the blog neglect this week, friends.  I’ve been one busy Mama.  See?

Room painted.  Check.

Crib painted.  Check. (it was a big.fat.pain.in.the.you-know-what.)

Cushions ordered for rocker.  Check.

Dressers sanded, primed, painted.  Check.  (oh, Goodwill, how I love thee and your bargain furniture.)

Crib skirt made.  Check.

Nesting is going on over here in full force.

22 days.  Booyah.

xo

Christi


It’s Mini Session Time| Cincinnati Children’s Portrait Photographer

What time is it? 

It’s Mini Session time.

It’s ice cream time.

And it’s have my baby and hibernate time.

You’ve been asking for a Mini Session – and I want to give you one.  Let’s get this thing rolling before my little man makes his entrance into this world (the countdown is on. T minus 32 days).

Here’s the scoop:

(Get it?  Scoop. Ice cream. You follow my totally awesome humor?)

  • Saturday, July 9th from 11-3
  • Double Dip Ice Cream in downtown Lebanon
  • You + your kids + big pregnant me = a slappin’ high five of a time

You show up.  I’ll shoot some rockin’ photos.

I buy your kids ice cream at the end of the shoot, for some super fun shots of ice-creamy goodness.  Slappin’ high fives, like I said.

Double Dip is a FABULOUS, family owned ice cream place in downtown  Lebanon.  They have close to 50 rockin’ flavors like these (WHICH they’ve worn awards for): Raspberry cocoa crunch, almond brickle, blueberry pomegranate… need I say more?  I should mention that not only do they serve ice cream, but pizza and sandwiches too.  And It’s right next to the bike trail, which connects to the Little Miami Scenic Trail.  Oh, and remember this shot?

That was taken at Harmon Park, which is just across the street.  There’s a great play structure, picnic shelters, tennis courts, lots of green space and fun hills to roll down.

If you’re a hill rolling down kind of person.

I’ve done it, with the kiddos photographed above.

But I will not be doing it now.

Unless my belly makes me lose my balance and I fall down the hill.  Which we surely hope doesn’t happen.

But it could.

Okay.  I get all excited and then you can call me Mrs. Sidetrack.  The other part of the SCOOP (me funny again):

Ice cream + kids + super cute photos [and the ice cream's on me].
CD of images [+ print release, to print wherever your heart's content].
Biggest [well, only] sale of the year [think $1500 value for $500 + session fee].

Let’s recap.

$500 for your Mini Session + $100 Session Fee + a CD of images (10-12 total) + your kids pick of ice cream + super fun high five of a time.

There are only 5 slots available, and… AND the first two people to sign up get their $100 session fee waved. How about them apples?

You can pay your session fee HERE to reserve your spot.

Any questions?

xo

Christi

P.S. We can’t forget about the train station (you know you can walk there from Double Dip, right)?

And you can walk to all of the downtown shopping [The Open Hearth is a great one to visit] and antique stores.

And then you can walk to my personal favorites: Manna Cupcake Cafe + the Golden Turtle Chocolate Factory.

Because baby reeeeealllly likes cupcakes + chocolate these days. :-D


And The Winners Are…? | Cincinnati Family Photography

FIRST PLACE goes to…

[Sarah does big happy dance] —-> Sarah Mullins, you are the happy winner of a Snickerdoodles Photography custom photo session + 5 digital images of your choice on CD + $100 gift certificate to The Spotted Goose.

SECOND PLACE goes to…

[Carie sports big happy grin] —-> Carie Masoner, you are the happy winner of $100 gift certificate to Snickerdoodles Photography + $50 gift certificate to The Spotted Goose.

THIRD PLACE goes to…

[Christy does big fist pump] —-> Christy Reynolds, you are the happy winner of a complimentary 11×14 from Snickerdoodles Photography + $25 gift certificate to The Spotted Goose.  And Christy dear – sorry for the boring photo with no smiling face looking at you.  Lily tried to take an in-focus photo of me holding your winning name about 54 times.  Fail.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL 3 OF YOU!

And big, big thank yous and a huge holla to everyone who entered – we wanted all of you to win!  Call me crazy, but I had butterflies as the kids were drawing the names.  I was so dang excited.  True story.

Sarah, Carie and Christy – again, congrats!  Please contact me by Friday morning at 9:00 to arrange to get your goodies.  Yipppeeee!

xo

Christi


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