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2009 holiday cards
Figured it was ‘safe’ to post these now as I’m thinking everyone has sent and received their cards.
I placed holiday card orders for no fewer than 43 bsquared clients. It was a very busy year. (that 43 doesn’t include the 10 or so birth announcements, thank you cards and invitations from 09 either.)
Here are some of the flat cards:
And some of the folding cards:
And also a thank you to my clients who used my pictures on their cards (but purchased the cards elsewhere) and sent me copies of their cards so I could see what they came up with. It was so great seeing all those different ideas and designs. Plus, it’s always nice to get some extra mail!!
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our shoot
Had to squeeze it in, but we did do a shoot for us this year. And believe it or not, I was actually in it. Needed my hair highlighted bad, so please try to ignore the black, yellow and grey mess that’s on my head. Other than that, it was so good to actually be in some pictures.
A big thank you to my friend Beth who came along with us and shot all of the pictures with me in them.
And I’m not going to go into how totally BAD my children were for this shoot. So freakin bad. So freakin bad that they were punished for three weeks immediately following the shoot. (there were a few things besides the shoot that lead up to the punishment, but the shoot behavior was the cherry on the cake of my day. week. month.) I know, you look at the pictures and watch the video and say that they were perfect. But John, Jerry (the videographer) and Beth all know the truth cause they were there. I tried to be calm but lost it after the first 15 or so ‘incidents’. We lost the light so fast but I did manage to still get some fairly decent ones in. In spite of them.
I had so much fun styling the boys for the shoot and shopping for all their outfits. It’s almost always sweatpants and some kind of jersey or sports related Tshirt, or a character shirt. It was so nice seeing them in ‘real’ clothes. And the best part? They liked them too and have worn them a few times since. Money well spent.
Here’s our video, too. Thanks, Jerry, for a great job and for not showing me losing my mind with my very misbehaved children!!
Beyr1file from Jerry Silecchia on Vimeo.
Happy New Year to everyone! We watched the ball drop with Grandpa Ken and John fast asleep and Jack, Patrick and even Timmy staying up til well after. Too funny! Then out to the balcony from the 20th floor to watch hundreds of different fireworks all over south Florida. We started the New Year with tons of giggles. Hope that sets a high standard of laughter for the rest of the year.
And we’re off to the ‘left coast’ of Florida for 2 days. Going to do a shoot for a high school friend and his family and getting in a visit to Ft. Myers Beach, Sanibel and Captiva Islands. I’ve never been there before and am really looking forward to it all. Don’t worry, there will still be blog posts while we’re on our adventure. Psyched for my first shoot of 2010.
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the year in numbers and pictures
Did my usual year end count up of…well, everything. Everything bsquared related anyway. And here’s the results:
187 shoots. (wow, no wonder I never slept this year! That’s a LOT of pictures!!)
Of which there were:
3 weddings
11 communions
11 video your shoots (one of which was requested by the client not to be blogged, but the rest can be seen HERE)
14 newborns
and 11 parties of various persuasions.
Thank you SO VERY MUCH for all your business, all your blog stalking, all your compliments. I am so lucky and have the best clients ever!! Can’t wait to see what 2010 brings. I have some ideas floating around in my head for this upcoming year, so we’ll see which of them actually makes it to reality.
Wishing all of you a very happy and healthy new year!
xoxoxo,
beth
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the schu baby
Haven’t had a baby on the blog in a little while, so here’s a sweet new pink little baby for your viewing pleasure.
Did a quick shoot for mom (I photographed the rest of her family this summer before the baby was born) so she could have a few just of the baby.
No real luck on getting her to sleep, but the blue eyes are gorgeous and the yawn priceless.
Still lots more new posts to come while I’m on vacation. Stay tuned for a year end summary, finally some pictures from my 40th bash (just the photobooth ones), a surprise 30th, a twins 40th, a kindle with 09’s reading list, our shoot, a holiday card recap, and some winter music. I think that covers everything I have left.
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the turn @ whiskey bar (hoboken, nj)
Been so busy with client shoots for Christmas, haven’t had much time to shoot the band, or really do much else of anything in fact. But, they asked (nicely) if I could make some new posters for them and come and take some pictures at Whiskey Bar. And how could I say no?
Although two out of the three are already done, you still have a chance to catch The Turn for New Years Eve. I highly recommend it.
The show at Whiskey Bar in Hoboken was awesome, as always.
A few things worth mentioning:
-Hoboken was nicer than I had thought it would be.
-I can’t wait for the Turn to make it big so they can get some good lighting during shows. Brian was bright and spotlighted, the other boys were waaaay too dark. So irratating for me.
-My new favorite Turn song is “you can’t make me let go”. So totally awesome!
-On my way into the bar they wanted me to pay the cover. I actually got to say out loud “I’m with the band” and didn’t get charged. So cool.
-big thanks to Nelson for coming with me.
-they put Chris (the drummer) behind some weird glass ‘safety gate’ looking thing. So weird. I’m sure it has some kind of musical significance but it just gave me bad glare for my pictures.
During one of the songs, Brian came off the stage to play.
This shot just cracks me up. The girls just lurve Brian!
Thanks for a fun show (even though I forgot my earplugs and due to shooting right in front of the speakers I was a little deaf the next day or two). Can’t wait for the new songs to be available for my ipod- hurry that up for me, k?