Happy New Year!!

Ok, so I am a couple of days early. I have a couple of things in the work for the new year and am ready to get started.

The first thing is senior portraits. I know it' s a little early to be thinking about these, but I am looking for a couple of high school juniors who would be interested in being ambassadors for me. You will receive a waived session fee in the spring and some complimentary wallet prints. In turn all I ask is that you share the wallets and your online gallery with your junior peers. There will also be great referral incentives. I will only take 2 juniors from each school in the area, so if you are interested, please let me know.

I am also looking for expectant mothers in the Georgetown area for maternity and mother and baby sessions. I will offer 2 half price sessions in the month of January. It will be first come, first served.

There is more to come, so please keep checking back. I will post very soon about a January contest for Valentine's Day.

Have a happy and safe New Year's Eve everyone.

Winner

Congratulations to Angie who guessed correctly. I have 3 boys 9, 6, 4 and a girl 2. Way to go.

I probably won't be back until after the holiday.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Last Holiday Contest!!!

This is the last contest and is for a full weekday session fee ($125) and a 10 image mini album from that session ($60). This free sesion will be good any time from February, until June of 2007.

Here we go. I have to make this kind of difficult. Right? ;-)

Can you guess my children's ages and gender? Hint, there are 4 of them.

E-mail your answers to stephanie@familyphotosbystephanie.com

Good luck.

Congratulations!!!

To Wanda, who guessed the riddle correctly. The answer was a bad excuse!.

Check back soon for the next contest.

Wednesday contest!!

Today's contest is a riddle. The first person wo guess the riddle correctly will win a $100 gift certificate, good through July 2007. You cna use this gift certificate for session fee or apply to prints. Submit your answers to stephanie@familyphotosbystephanie.com

Here we go.

I'm all used up

When I'm used, I'm useless, once offered, soon rejected. In desperation oft expressed, the intended not protected. What am I?

Good luck.

The last one of the season.

One last fun family session before theholiday break.

Have a very Merry Christmas y'all.

well

I am sorry to say that nobody won the contest. :( Out of my 4 kids 3 of them are lefties. I will be back when I think of another one.

Monday blog contest.

Here we are in the homestretch to Christmas. I can't believe it's a week away. Every day this week, Monday-Friday, I will have a contest for all you blog readers. Today's contest will be for 2 movie passes to the new City Lights Movie Theater in Georgetown. This one is just to answer a simple question. Here you go.

I am left handed. I have 4 children. How many of my children are left handed?

Please submit your answer using the contact page on my website at www.srevellphoto.com

One entry is allowed per web address, and the first person to guess the right answer wins. I will let you know soon.

Good luck.

'Tis the Season

I hope you are all gearing up well for the coming weeks of holiday madness. It's already crazy busy here. Many of you may not know this, but before becoming a stay at home mom of four and then a photographer of your beautiful children, I was a pastry chef. I have a full degree in culinary arts and love to cook and better still, EAT!! In light of Christmas coming, and all the cooking I will be doing, I thought I would share one of my favorite holiday recipes with you all.

Cranberry Walnut Bread.

INGREDIENTS
3/4 cup butter
3 cups white sugar
3 eggs, beaten
6 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon salt
1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
2 1/4 cups orange juice
3 tablespoons orange zest
3 cups chopped cranberries
1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease three 8x4 inch loaf pans.
Blend together butter, sugar and eggs.
Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add to wet ingredients, alternating with orange juice.
Mix in the orange rind, cranberries and walnuts. Stir until just combined and pour into prepared pans.
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

There you go. Enjoy.

And don't forget to check back soon. I have some special treats for my blog readers starting Monday!

Check out the new website

Here you go. I will be adding more to this in the weeks to come.

http://srevellphoto.com/

All boy

I have been photographing this little guy since he could barely sit up. He's gotten so darn big and oh those curls. ( Believe it or not he used to be bald!) We had fun at the park. It's a favorite for this age because they sure do love to explore. After having to reschedule this session because of a nasty foggy morning, we were rewarded with a perfect day.

I have finally gotten over my technical difficulties. Of course the busiest time of the year is when the computer wants to go crazy, right? But a new hard drive and much work by my darling husband and I am good to go. Now I can make the most of my wonderful new camera in the year to come. I am really hoping to the the new website up and running by next week. Fingers crossed.

This year has been great, I can't wait to see what next year will bring. I am sure it will be wonderful.

Now booking 2007

Thank you everyone for a fantastic year. Aside from newborns, there will be no more sessions booked for the rest of the year.

Sessions are now booking for January 2007. Don't forget, gift certificates are always available.

Calm amidst the chaos.

Well the holidays are officially upon us, and doesn't the time fly by? I believe that nothing makes up stop and appreciate life like a newborn baby. It was my pure pleasure to photograph this sweet angel. I almost never get sleepy babies, but this one, she made my day. She was sleepy and curly and.....perfect. An absolute photographer's dream.

Black Friday Blog Special

I hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving. We had a very laid back and nontraditional day at the Revell home. It was truly wonderful.

In the spirit of the holidays I am offering one day only half price gift certificates, up to $1000. These extra special gift certificates will be good for anything, sessions or prints, even session albums. (the exception here is canvases and coffee table books) They must be used between January and June of 2007. There will only be 4 available and they will be on a first come first served basis. Please contact me as soon as possible to take advantage of this special offer.

Have a great shopping day and a wonderful weekend.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

I hope you have a great Thanksgiving. I am so thankful for all of you, my fantastic wonderful clients, friends, and family. Thanks to you all this has been a great year in business. I couldn't feel more blessed.

Check back on Friday, because I am going to have an extra special blog special for Black Friday.

Blessings to you all and don't over do it on the turkey. ;)

Twins!

I'll be honest here, I have been wanting to photograph newborn twins for as long as I can remember. I finally got my wish. These boy/girl twins were 2 weeks old and so cuddly. Pure joy.

Adoption is a wonderful thing.

What makes a family? Seems like a simple question huh?


Sometimes you find them and sometimes they find you. I love seeing families come together through adoption. I am adopted. It's the best thing that ever happened to me. My mom is the greatest gift to me. There is no doubt in my mind or hers that we were meant to be a family.


I had the honor of photographing this family. It was such a blessing to see first hand how one little angel from another country can make a family. I can say for sure that we wore her out with this shoot, but it was so worth it.

Maternity and newborn models needed.

As I am curretnly updating my website and galleries, I would like to update my maternity and newborn galleries with some fun, fresh new looks, I am looking for a few models.

If you are between 27 and 32 weeks pregnant, have a baby less than 2 weeks old, or are expecting a baby after the date of November 18th and would like a complimentary session, please contact me as soon as possible. I am only going to take 2 or 3 sessions for each, so it will be "first come, first served."

Thank you.

**Thanks to everyone for the response. The newborn sessions have been filled, but I still need one maternity. **

Happy Halloween Everyone.

I love this holiday. Dressing up and being someone different. How fun.

Things are very busy here and that is a good, no a great thing. I have only about 2 more openings left for sessions that will have guaranteed holiday delivery of prints. Don't miss out, call or e-mail me ASAP it's not too late.

I am making some big changes as well. For starters, I changed my web address. It will now be www.srevellphoto.com Do not worry, as the old address is still ok and will redirect you to the new one. I had to change servers so I can launch a new website coming very soon. All of you and your beautiful families have given me such great images this holiday season how could I not want to refresh my look??

Another big change is I am now offering in person ordering sessions. In person ordering is great if you would like me to come to your home and help you choose wall portraits, galleries, anything. We can go through each image together and even discuss custom collages so it's perfect the first time. It's all part of the custom photography experience that you are investing in. After all, isn't a personal touch one of the reasons you hire a custom portrait photographer? Please contact me and set up your sessions today.

Have a safe and fun Halloween everyone.

A day in the park.

Here's just a taste of a fabulous day of mini sessions. It was a perfect day with beautiful families and fun energetic children. More to come.

Saturday Mini sessions. One opening left.

I am doing Saturday Mini Sessions at San Gabriel Park. Mini session is $40 and will last about 30 minutes. I have one opening left. Please call or e-mail me if you are interested.

4 Generations

There's something so special about the first grandbaby. You can tell how much thes women are enamored of their new little lady.

Just one mermaid. Mine.

I adore this capture for so many reasons. The look on her face, her crazy hair, the color, the composition, those toes. All of it just comes together here to make something really special. I love it when that happens. :D

Are you ready for Halloween???

How to hang your portraits.

A lot of people tell me they have no room for large portraits, or no idea how to hang them. This is one of the reasons I am now offering wall gallery recommendation pages. I can work personally with you to help you create beautiful wall galleries perfectly suited to your space. I can even show you what they will look like with the color of your own walls. These galleries can be as simple or as elaborate as you like. They can be canvas, or use your own frames. They can be for a staircase, a corner, or a big great room wall. These are things we can discuss at your session so that I may take them into consideration when creating your recommendations.

We can work together to create the perfect portrait wall.

Columbus Day Blog Special

Just for today and tomorrow I am will be offering half price gift certificates!!

Here's how it works. Purchase a gift certificate today or tomorrow up to $400 and receive half off the price. These gift certificates will be redeemable January-April of 2007. They can be used toward session fees AND print purchases, but not specialty items such as photo purses, or cards.

These would make a wonderful Christmas gift for any family.

The offer starts now and will end at 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. So, please call or e-mail today.

Some Christmas cards.

I know I said I would show these last week. But here are a few examples of Christmas cards for this year.

Baby picture contest!!

Next week I will be holding my first cute baby picture contest. I will post 5 of my favorite baby pictures from the year and take votes for 4 days. Thre will be one vote per e-mail and to keep things fair, all voting will be done through the contact page from my website. The winning baby will recieve a complimentary 8x10 of their winning image.

Check back soon for the finalists.

October is almost booked!!

I have about 3 sessions left in October, and November is very limited and filling up fast.

Please don't forget that orders must be placed by November 20 th to guarantee a Christmas delivery!!!

Reserve your session today to avoid getting left out!!!

A laid back day at the park.

Berry Springs park is a beautiful location for portraits. We had great weather and even though this sweetie was a little bit tired, she did a great job!!!

Just a girl with a tutu.

Having fun in the sun. These were so much fun to take. I think she enjoyed herself, too.