Incidents and accidents

Prizes, originally uploaded by Heather-L.

7/52 - Prizes for a local contest.
2 trifold brochures rolled and tied with a ribbon. 1/4 of sheet of cardstock, printed in home printer. 1 Business card. Cards have holes punched in them and are tied to the 1/4 sheet cards which are then tied to the rolled brochures.

New leaves, originally uploaded by Heather-L.

6/52 - New leaves at the garden!

My younger brother got married in Ohio over the weekend! I adore his new wife, and he just can’t wait to be a daddy! It was about 23F out there that day, but they allowed me to torture them outside for a few photos.

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Note to photographers:

When your subject bites through her lip,  the shoot is over.

I was shooting a charity program for the homeless shelter here this morning when one of the ten kids tripped up the playground stairs and bit through her bottom lip. She started crying right away, but I was RIGHT behind her and thought “Oh, she’s just skinned her knee.” Then she turns around and is GUSHING blood. Oh, it was bad. I yanked the poor kid up and she’s got her hands over her lip, but she’s still covering herself and me in blood. I rushed her out to her mother who was unconcerned until she saw the girl’s lip, which obviously needed stitches. Since they’re homeless though, she didn’t have a car. Poor baby had to wait 30 minutes for a cab to get there so they could go to the ER. Luckily, the girl was fine (as fine as you could get with a gigantic hole in your face) about it all, quit crying not even 5 minutes after it happened. Her mom (5 kids and 6th on the way) was all pragmatic about it too, thank goodness. I was calm, but I don’t think I could have handled a crying mom and the little girl. I just hear back from them; she ended up with 17 (!) stitches.

I can now add this to my list of interesting things that happen on/during photo shoots.

I totally suck at updating. Honestly, nothing is going on! Work has been slow, which has given me time to get my business up to speed in terms of new policies and junk. Nothing you really want to hear about, just new ways of doing things and new products to offer. Booooring. I have a few things in the works for the future, but nothing I can really talk abut yet.

January really blew in terms of emotional stability. I was up, then down, then up, then down. Feb is looking better, but it’s still been a little bit of a roller coaster. I need a real vacation that doesn’t have anything to do with work or friends getting killed. Valentine’s day is small this year (like every year, really). John and I had planned to go to the Tenn. Aquarium, but it’s just too much $$ in my slow month. Instead, he brought me breakfast in bed (Diet Coke in bed day!) and he hid a hand-colored note in my laptop. Awww!

I’m out of things to type about. More photos!

Wii, originally uploaded by Heather-L.

5/52 - We finally got our Wii!