Tuesday, January 4, 2011

NEW BLOG and Mexico Wedding!!!

**THIS BLOG HAS MOVED**CLICK HERE FOR NEW BLOG

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I have been so excited to announce my new blog. I have been working feverishly with Andrew Childress at Shutterhive. He contacted me with some ideas after he saw me on the Jasmine Star/CreativeLIVE event and I told him I wasn't quite ready to create a new blog yet. About 1-2 weeks ago, I emailed Andrew and told him let's get things rolling. He started working on it right away and started the creating process.



Andrew as unbelievable to say the least. First off...I'm a bit picky (understatement). I'm honestly probably not a great graphic design client. I don't know how he put up with me constantly asking for things to be tweaked. He did a phenomenal job. He was able to take my vision and ideas and put them into the works in an incredibly timely manner. He helped me with all the things that I have no idea about, like CSS, and SEO and HTML code and jabberwockies and all those things that are seriously over my head. He made it possible for me to continue to work on Photography while he worked on my blog. My biggest fear before was that it would take me two months to create a new blog that I liked, and that my actual photography business would suffer because of it. Andrew let me focus on photography, and did all the things that would have taken me months to do (and I still wouldn't have got it all right).



So after countless emails, and chats, and screen shots, here we are. I hope you love my blog as much as I do. Have a look around. I've uploaded all of 2010's posts from my blogspot blog. Feel free to drop me a comment or message. I would love to hear from you!



As of now, this will be the LAST post on this blog (I'll still leave this old blog up), so without further ado, I'd like to introduce you to the new blog of Nate Perkes Photography (click here). (and MEXICO WEDDING)



**PS...As if you can't tell, I have been so SO happy with Andrew Childress. He is currently accepting web design on a first come first serve basis. You can contact him directly at andrew@shutterhive.com


Monday, January 3, 2011

Life Thru the Macro: Traditions...

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The sweet man that married Nate and I gave us quite a wonderful list of marital advice; I wished that we could have written everything down. One thing in particular has stuck in my mind: he told us that now is the time for us to start writing our own "books"... with our own traditions, memories, mistakes, travels, friends, etc.

I thought that this was fantastic advice and Nate and I have had a blast making up our own traditions [pina coladas with Thanksgiving Dinner] and combining our favorite traditions from each of our families. One that has stuck, coming from Nate's side of the family, is to have what they call, the 'Jerusalem Dinner' Christmas Eve. Since Nate and I were in Mexico on Christmas Eve, we had our Jerusalem Dinner right when we got home. It consists of foods that we assume would have been eaten by those in the Middle East during Christ's life. Our favorite items include: Naan bread [or Pita], crackers with assorted cheeses [Havarti, Gouda, Goat], Humus, Olives, Tapinade, Dried Fruits, Figs, Dates, Nuts [Cashews, Pistachios, Almonds] and Grape Juice.

This is one of Nate's favorite meals of the year. It really helps us remember the meaning of Christmas. I LOVE traditions in general... they seem to help us define our family culture and bind us together in beliefs, customs and memories.

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