Friday, February 19, 2010 at 3:00pm
A quick reminder to submit your stories for the person or family you feel deserves a free session. Today is the last day to submit your entries and I will be sending all of them in for judging tomorrow. Turn them in by email to marie@marieq.com by midnight cst.
Today’s special is going to be 25% off cutom framing orders. You’ll need to contact me to make set up an appointment and the frames you purchase from that appointment will be 25% off. I have a good selection of frames ranging from traditional to whimsical. I’ve been to visit some of your homes and many of you tell me that you have the pictures but just haven’t found the frame yet. This is your chance!!
If you see me around town in the next couple of days its going tobe hard not to laugh. Over the course of three days my back has gone from bad to Hunchback of Waxahachie. I have to laugh at myself because I know I look just like an aunt of mine who has walked like this for 20 years. I’m hoping some massage therapy and staying active will get me over this phase of being the human question mark.
Be Good!
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 7:46pm
I spent the afternoon in Dallas photographing a newborn baby girl. I’ve been waiting for a week to hold a baby. If you are a facebook friend of mine, you may have read last week that I had to go and photograph a Now I Lay me Down to Sleep session. One of the hardest things to get over is the feeling of holding a lifeless baby. I often come home and wash my hands hoping that I can wash off that feeling. It’s something that sticks to you until you hold a tiny miracle again.
Today, one of the first things I did was hold the baby. I was trying to get her to sleep. She was in that in between state of bliss, neither awake or asleep but just hanging on to that very edge. I looked down, grateful to be holding a healthy baby when it happened. Something that has never happened before, a newborn giggle – real laughter from a baby who is just a week old. I was so thankful for that tiny gift I was given. She was perfection today. This was the first home I have traveled to where the home was heated exactly where it needed to be and the result was… the wet noodle baby. She slept through everything.
And now for my Week of Love give away today. I know its late, hopefully some of you are paying attention. That tapestry album pictured at the top will be a gift to the first person who claims it by sending me an email to marie@marieq.com. I will fill it with ten 4×6 images from one of your past sessions or I can leave it empty for you to fill. E-mail me at marie@marieq.com to win the album. It’s a great purse size and might even make a great gift for a grandma.
Be Good!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 10:27am
Good Morning!! I got some great responses for nominees for my Big Week of Love Give away. Keep them coming in.
All day today we will be offering 20% off of online orders. No worries if your gallery has already expired, we can easily put it back online for you today. Best way to get your gallery re-published is just to send me an email to marie@marieq.com. It’s a great way to get those last couple of pictures you really wanted to get but couldn’t.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful week! Don’t forget that I am offering $25 off sessions. Schedule your sessions this week for anytime between now and the end of the year and get the discounted rate.
Be Good!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 1:42pm
After I graduated high school, I decided I wanted to leave home. I wanted to go far away. I attended college in California. It was a pretty sweet deal, I had good scholarship money and my parents only had to pay for room and board. Some kids get home sick, some just can’t take it. Not me… I loved it. If I could live in California chances are I would. My love for the outdoors really grew while I was there. I have always been a runner, but the best shape I have ever been in was while I was there running the hills of Northern California. My one and only problem was that classes were inside and I wanted to be outside. By the end of the academic year, my grades reflected that I had been playing. Playing quite a bit actually and over the course of a year I managed to lose my scholarship money. There was no way my family could pay for a private college tuition. NO WAY.
I waited on tables at my parents restaurant that summer and a regular customer, Mr. Gaddy, asked me when I was going back. I teared up and said I wasn’t going back. I explained to him that I had lost my scholarship money, that I had a chance to get it back if I could pay for one semester and bring my grades up. He wiped his mouth with that green polyester napkin and put it down on the table. He asked where my father was and I took him to the kitchen. I took him back and he called my father by his first name and said, “Richard, I want Marie to go back to California”. I wish someone could have taken a picture of the look on our faces. STUNNED. We sat there nodding our heads. I was crying. I had already told him I needed $8,000 to go. He pulled out his checkbook and wrote out a check right there in the middle of our family’s restaurant unairconditioned kitchen. Work stopped. STUNNED… EVERYONE. And so I went back to California.
Have you ever had someone just give you something? Buy something for you just because? Have you ever been to Starbucks and the person in front of you at the drive through has paid for your drinks, a complete stranger who just drove off? I have…all of them. My sister doesn’t get it, but I think I do. I’ll continue to receive these gifts as long as I am open to giving them. I don’t have an extra $8,000 to send someone to college today but I have photography and I can give that.
The biggest gift I can give to you or someone you know is the gift of photography As I mentioned in the last post, I will be giving away a session to a deserving person or family. Think of someone you know, maybe its yourself, maybe its someone else. Stun them, surprise them and be open to being the one responsible for the gift. I can not tell you how wonderful it feels. Submit your story to marie@marieq.com for consdieration.
I will be selling all my DVD slideshows fromy our sessions today for $75. That’s half off the normal price. Contact me if you would like to purchase your sessions slideshow. Everyone loves it and it makes a great gift for grandparents and family.
Share the Love!
Be Good 
Monday, February 15, 2010 at 9:46pm
A couple of years ago I did this thing called, The Week of Love, in conjunction with Valentine’s Day. Many of you may remember it. It’s the one and only time I have offered sales, discounts etc. It was that special time of year to say THANKS in a big way. Come back every day this week to see what I’m giving away, what’s on sale, and what I’m doing to say thanks for being a client, a reader, a follower, and a friend.
Over the entire week (ends Saturday at midnight), I’ll be offering $25 off all sessions scheduled this week. Call in (972.937.9511) or email me (marie@marieq.com) to schedule your last minute seniors, your children’s birthdays, you Christmas sessions etc anytime between now and the end of the year. Payment is due at the time of booking and let us know you are booking a week of love session to get your discount. So I know all of you who just scheduled your sessions last week are stomping your feet and saying NOT FAIR:) I’ll extend the $25 credit to you if you go ahead and buy a $75 gift certificate for $50 to use toward your future sessions print purchase.
And as I did last time I will be giving away a session with a complimentary slideshow and a $200 print credit. Submit why you or someone you know deserves this session. Submit your story by e-mail (marie@marieq.com). On Saturday, third party will be reading the entries and will decide on the person or family that deserves this gift of photography.
Share the Love!! Tell your friends.
Be Good!
Monday, February 1, 2010 at 6:52pm
I photographed this sweet pretty girl back in December. She’s one of those who just lingers around in my brain quite a bit. Not in a scary way, but in the “she reminds me of my daughter” kind of way. I am in the process of picking out some images to update my websites and I have been going back and reviewing all of my old sessions. When I went past this one it happened, I laughed and I was in a room all by myself. This is what is so great about photography… one picture and it instantly takes you back to that time and that place.
I asked her what her stuffed animals name was and she answered, “Polyester, its on the tag“ . Even writing it makes me laugh.
Be Good!
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