The photo disappeared...

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So I'm replacing it... strange things are afoot! (

Look closely...

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creepy isn't it? My daughter and her friends helped to paint faces in our churches booth at the Market in the Park today. They did a fantastic job.

Thanks ladies!

Not as illiterate as I thought...

So my old site is back up... yeah me! and I'm working feverishly to have a brand new image by the 1st of November.  We'll see if I can pull it off!

Website currently down...

I apologize for the inconvenience.  I'm getting a new spodey odey one and I didn't realize that my current site would become invisible in the meantime.  I'm pretty tech illiterate... so please bear with me.  I can still be reached at info@willowdawnphotography.com if you have any questions.

Thanks for your patience during this time of transition!

Strange things are afoot...

Name that movie!  Hint:  It's a really stupid one from 1989.

But seriously, while not really strange, definitely exciting things are happening in the wild world that is Willowdawn Photography.  The portfolio building chapter will close at the end of October. Beginning November 1st, look for big changes.  Why all of the sudden? you ask.  Well, after filing my business taxes for the first time, I finally felt like a grown  up business owner!  So, on a whim, I decided to apply to the business side of a popular photography forum.  It is by application only, and low and behold I was accepted!  Yeah for me... but now I have at least 50 hours a week of reading to do to catch up!  Oy vey.  I've learned so much in just the past 4 days, and have begun to do revamp my entire business model.  

So buckle up!  It's going to get interesting around here!

Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen!

It's been a productive and quiet week.  Little one is in Iowa with her grandmother, visiting her great-grandparents.  Hubby is in Estonia, and the oldest is in school 7 hours a day...

So I've made myself complete some tasks that are more difficult with the normal interruptions of life.  I've put together my welcome packet (printing as I type), assembled one of two sample Asuka books, and next on the list to make my business cards and appointment reminder cards.  I hope to be done today, so that tomorrow I can fix the little details left over from home renovation projects.  But I was tagged by Christie, and while I'm not sure which "tag" I'm supposed to answer, I'll take a stab at both of them... 

"8" Interesting Things

1. I'm adopted.  I spent almost 6 years as foster child.  My older brother and I are siblings adopted together.
2. I've been to every state except for Alaska.  I will get there.  
3. We move a LOT!  My oldest daughter has lived: California, Texas, California, Hawaii, Florida, California, Rhode Island, Florida, Hawaii and now Virginia.  My youngest joined us in Florida the first time.  
4. I home school my youngest daughter.  I've home schooled the older one as well, for 5th and 8th grades.  We play it by ear each place we move. 
5. I'm a gourmet cook.  I love to bake and cook.  
6. My birth family has been briefly written about in a book by Peter Coyote.  
7. I'm very mechanically inclined.  The best compliment my extremely talented older brother once gave me was "You'd be a better mechanic than me if Mom hadn't taken the time to teach you all that girl stuff."  I lived in the garage with my dad as a little girl.
8. I told my mom that I was going to marry my dad when I grew up.  When she mentioned that she was already married to him, I told her she could live next door.

"4" of Everything

Jobs -

• Manager of the Business Center at Office Depot (back when it was called Office Club), 
• Recruiter for Physical/Occupational Therapists,Supposed to be sales for Canon Copiers, but really I just made color copies for artists and graphic designers.  I think it's were I developed my eye for color.
• Sales @ Macy's
  
• Sales @ Pottery Barn and Williams-Sonoma (twice - the discount is hard to ignore!)
  

Places I've lived - We'll go with the last four...

• Virginia
• Hawaii
• Florida
• Rhode Island

Favorite TV Shows - 

• Law and Order
• Scrubs
• The Daily Show
• Gilmore Girls

Places I've been on Vacation - 

• Okinowa
• Canada
• Maine
• The Big Island of Hawaii

Movies I Can Watch Over and Over Again

• The Princess Bride
• The Princess Bride
• The Princess Bride
• The Princess Bride

Favorite Dishes - This is harder than Movies...

• Maverick Grits
• Baked Pasta with Tomatoes, Shiitake Mushrooms and Proscuitto
• Island Pork Tenderloin Salad
• Sweet Potato Cake with Brown Sugar Icing

Places I'd Like to Be - 

• Camden, Maine
• Salem, Massachusetts
• Sonoma, California
• San Francisco, California

Musicians You've Probably Never Heard of but Really Should Know - 

• Ani DiFranco
• Patty Griffin
• Loreena McKennitt
• Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu

Another sweet newborn.

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Meet four week old Rheannon. So beautiful and pink!