The best compliment ever….
I just had to share this because I thought it was so cool. I had a bride who came in a few weeks ago to review our albums and information…we were the first photographers she had looked into for her wedding and after her appointment, she told me that she already had some other appointments set up to meet with other photographers but that she would let us know if she wanted to reserve her date. Well, she came back in today to reserve her April '08 wedding with us and told me that she had talked to 15 (yes, FIFTEEN) other local photographers over the past few weeks and ended up coming back to us. How cool is that?! To have been chosen over 15 of my peers and colleagues was such an awesome compliment. 😀
Remodeling is near completion!
These were my "before" shots that I took last week of our front & back office rooms…I can't believe I'm showing these…LOL…I felt like it was time for a change, a make-over for my "home away from home"
Then they told us that we had to move ALL of our furniture in 3 feet from the walls so the painter and trim guy could easily get in and out with a ladder. Not an easy task! :O I had to laugh though…once we got all of the furniture moved in, one of our clients e-mailed us asking if they could pick up their order. (It was sitting on the bookshelf below….) I couldn't even physically get to it at the time! LOL 
And yes, we had to remove the slipcover and turn the couch on its side to make it all work…eek!
But in the end, it was ALL worth it! 😀 We had them paint the top half a light pink, the bottom half a light lime green with white crown molding, base boards and a cute chair rail throughout. I still have a lot of decorating to do and my walls are still bare!! I'm having a hard time deciding which pics to put on my new walls….I'm thinking of having a wall gallery of framed prints and canvas prints along one wall (my back was against it in the pic below) and then some other fun prints hung throughout both rooms. Hmmm….any ideas? 
My new back office space…we re-arranged the furniture for a more organized, efficient workflow and I LOVE IT!!!!
In this shot below, you can see my new favorite chocolate velvet slipcover with matching pink pillows….except all of our old frames are sitting on it for now. 😉
My snazzy new chair rail…I LOVE it!! I hand painted each flower along the rail. The petals are in the shade of pink above it and the center of the flower is painted in the green color below it…
It's all about the details….:) 
What to post first?
We've had such an incredible week of shooting that I don't even know what to post first! LOL I guess I'll go in order of the shoots though…last Wednesday, we photographed my dad's football practice. He's in training for the Notre Dame fantasy football camp which takes place in just a few weeks up at ND. Some of you probably remember my post from last July when he played quarterback for the first time on ND turf…and he was on the winning team too, pretty cool! He's got his picture up on the wall at the famous Rocco's Restaurant near campus now, he's been seen on the Travel Channel's TV promo of the football camp and he's been training hard every week for another awesome win at ND soon. 🙂 These are a few of my favorites from last week's shoot…dad going for the ball (above)….touchdown victory (below) and his after practice drink of choice…:)
If only John had been there to get a pic of me getting this shot…yeah, I'm laying on the field…LOL…I'll do anything for a good shot. 😀
Pics coming soon! :)
On Thursday morning, we had our final planning meeting for the upcoming Summer Bridal Show…we're so excited! We have more vendors participating, more hits coming to the website than we did for the first show and some cool surprises in store for the brides and the participating vendors! 🙂
I spent most of Thursday afternoon painting ("Erin-izing") the new chair rail going in our front consultation room today…it so cute!! I guess all of those art & painting classes finally paid off…LOL
Yesterday we had an AMAZING wedding at Meridian Hills Country Club that I can't wait to show off! I'm downloading the cards now since we actually have today off! Can you believe it?! 🙂 It's kind of nice to have a day off now and then…it gives us a chance to get a little caught up. John is at the office right now checking on the progress of the renovation work. They're installing the crown molding, base boards and chair rail today and hopefully after some touch up paint is done later this afternoon, everything will be ready to start moving back in either late tonight or sometime tomorrow!! 😀 Yay!
It’s painting day!
This morning, the painter arrived with our new paint for our office….I think I did a better job at picking out the right shade of pink this time. It was more of a "cotton candy pink" rather than "Barbie" pink. LOL I think it looks awesome though. I guess when he had our doors open to rid the paint fume smell, our neighbors have already been peeking in to check out the progress and all of the girls loved it! 🙂 I went on a mini shopping spree today to pick up some new stuff for the snazzy new look. I found this awesome SureFit chocolate brown velvet slipcover (for the couch in the back office) from Bed, Bath & Beyond with fuzzy pink pillows to match…then picked up some more of those white wall ledges while I was there. I found an adorable lime green frame from Hobby Lobby today that has some pink accents on it so that will probably go in the back office. Tomorrow I get to add my finishing touches to the chair rail ("Erin-ize" it as my friends say…LOL) and then on to choosing new images for all of the frames!! 🙂 We also measured out the space this morning so that we can move our furniture around into a more efficient workspace in the back office and everything fit perfectly! I was SO excited….it's all coming together…