moving over to a new blog today! hope you all join me! its a hybrid of photography and craftiness and my sweet sweet family! hope you like it! come over and stay for a few. oh yeah...there will be a giveaway too... here is the link: http://imagewisephotography.net/blog/ Continue reading

and of course we will work in a bit about the Nutcracker! we survived another year of the ballet. and truly we had so very much fun! but the day to day work schedule i have had plus the rehearsals and the challenges of three growing kids just pushed blogging way into the background. but we are going to try it again. and we may even pull out the old sewing machine this week. i know. don't be too shocked! Continue reading

That was the after school activity on friday. Abby learned it in science class last week and it is all the rage over here these days! dish soap + water + counter space + a bendy straw (bendy not required but way funner) = huuuuuge bubbles! and a clean counter. that's my favorite part. that and the kids not arguing for a solid hour! did i mention that my counters were clean now? still my favorite part. 100ml of water + 2ml of dish soap pour 10 ml (ish) on the counter and lather swirl straw in remaining water blow! Continue reading

only serious ballerinas need apply. yeah just kidding on that one. i had a house full of ballerinas getting their pictures taken for the new hair guidelines for nutcracker. you know, so all of the buns and such look the same. pizza was involved. insane chocolate cake was involved. parker playing limbo and nearly knocking himself out on the corner of my desk was involved. yup. serious times. i think we had 3 hours of constant giggling. the evening ended in this pose. yup. those are my girls. Continue reading

every once in while when i am on a shoot i have to sneak away to take a few pictures for myself. i found this fabulous chair in a tiny shop and wanted to take it home! since it was huuuuuge and a thousand dollars i thought that taking a picture of it instead. i love how the paint chips off of it. i adore the colors. swooooon. i suppose i will have to settle for the picture! Continue reading

i absolutely had a blast taking pictures for grape escape at the Topeka Performing Arts Center friday night. the food was unexpectedly good. i don't want that to sound bad. but it does. topeka is not a huge market with lots of chichi restaurants and uber fine dining. but there it was. friday night. amazing wine (which i could not taste being as i was working) and food that was out of this world. the caterers in this town have true talent. so do some of the restaurants. just need to take more time in being selective i suppose. a... Continue reading