Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas!

To all of you, I wish you a joyous Christmas and Happy New Year. May your stocking be filled with everything you want and may your New Year be a safe and full of wonderful memories for years to come!

Broadening my Horizons!

I'm proud to introduce my new Zazzle store! Here you can find 24x36 poster sized prints of some of my artwork. I'm in the process of selling my home to buy a new one with a little land. I plan on getting some of these myself to make my new home uniquely mine. Hopefully you will find something you like here as well. Here is just one of my posters I have created recently.

Sisters

Me, my sister, and our families did a photo shoot last weekend. We had a good time, but in the back of our minds we knew what was missing, my baby sister Stephanie and her two adorable kiddos. I'm posting one of my favorite photos that my daughter Samantha took. I enhanced it with my touch. Hope you like it.

Oh Claire... you do inspire me!

Claire Mountain

Princess Claire

Hello September!

Oh I can't tell you how happy I am it is September! The temperature dropped about 20 degrees in one day and has been beautiful for 4 days. I went to the doc on Friday and finally got some answers. I have torn bicep tendons in both of my arms! I guess I got a little carried away working out. If I don't have them healed up in a month, I can get some shots to help speed up the recovery. I also I got some new meds for my migraines. They make things happen in slow motion a little and wear me out, but I'll take that any day compared to what I've been suffering with for years. Who knows, maybe it will make these beautiful days last longer!  I just finished a piece of art using the photograph of a beautiful orchid I took at the botanical gardens in Oklahoma City. Hope your day is a blessed one!

Sick and Tired...of being sick and tired.

Well the Oklahoma heat just got me this summer.  We had over 50 days of 100+ temperatures.  Because of health problems, I can't venture out of the cool house for more than getting in the car to go to another cool place. It's really put a damper on my usual "Out and About" photography. Everything in Oklahoma looks dead like in the middle of winter. To top it off, I messed up my shoulder several months ago and it has not healed at all, add my normal migraines and you get the picture. Being self employed has it's advantages, don't get me wrong, but with the prices of health insurance and high deductibles, (not to mention a few other snags in the road) I haven't been to the doctor. Hopefully September is the month for me!

This did open up a new venture for me with the greeting cards avenue. I have been using my creative juices in photoshop using my existing photography and art. I just purchased a new bundle of Kim Klassen textures. I'm very excited to see what I can do with all these wonder overlays! I'm looking forward to autumn like no other year. I have a few senior sessions to do and am planning on taking advantage of the brisk air.

Well, I'll stop my belly-aching for now and leave you with my newest piece of art. Hope you enjoy!

Greetings!

I was so excited to wake up this morning to find one of my greeting cards featured on the home page of Greeting Card Universe as "Design of the Day".  They have hundreds of thousands of cards on the site to chose from. It gives me a huge boost to keep up all the work I've been putting in!  Here is the card:

Can't wait for the heat to die down so I can take some more photos!