"It's that time of year...

when the world falls in love! Every song you hear seems to say...Merry Christmas!" Holiday music on the stereo, the smell of cookies baking, the crinkle of wrapping paper in the other room as my husband wraps my Christmas gift (or maybe my puppy has gotten into the gift wrap!)...I love this time of year!

I also love my clients and making my clients happy! This has been a great week for it - yep, I'm definitely bragging, but you can't blame me! Not when you receive glowing emails like THIS:

"Thanks Denise, you are a star. Thanks for all your amazing work with the portraits. They came out beautifully and I am so happy with them. You can be sure that I will toot your horn to everyone who sees them!!!!"

That email made my day today! It's a privilege to work with such wonderful folks as Ellen, her husband Ben and her lovely daughter, Marilee - that's them right there at the top of this post. Thank YOU, Ellen, for your kind words, for letting me share them and for giving me the opportunity to work with you!

Happy Clients are the Very Best Clients!

Just wanted to share a couple of MY favorites from a recent one year old birthday session - yep, that's the adorable Stella again, looking absolutely gorgeous in a whole lotta pink! I showed off a couple "sneak peeks" of Stella's one year old session a little while back...well, her Mom (Cari of the fabulous Jewelry by Cari!) was finally able to winnow her favorites down to 20 images (a Very Difficult Thing to Do since Stella is soooo photogenic and we got sooooo many great images at that that session!) for a custom bound album to commemorate Stella's first birthday. I was very pleased with how the album turned out and I just have to share with you Cari's reaction to it:

"Hi Denise! I took the book back to the party and people were super impressed and checking it out! They were raving about it...the pictures are awesome and I just keep flipping through over and over. Thank you sooooo much!!!"

Thank YOU, dear Cari, for your kind words and the privilege of working with you and your beautiful family!