Jennifer wanted to get her and Stephen’s pictures made for their 5 year anniversary Congrats on 5 years and i wish you guys many more!!!

thanks so much for asking me to take these for ya’ll

Linden

Items you need

• Purse
• 1” Thick foam
• Fabric
• Velcro Strips
• Quilt Batting
• Someone that knows what they are doing haha

I actually had bought another purse that i decided i didn’t like so much and i remembered that Marshall’s had this one so i went back and got it. I liked the fact that it had pockets on the front also more storage!!!

You will need to pull the lining out of the purse and measure the width and height, we found that we needed to have cut the fabric a little bit smaller when we were putting the padded lining into the purse.

  Cut a piece of foam that is the length of the bottom of your purse and place it in the purse.

Then take your fabric that you measured and cut and the quilt batting you are going to want to cut another piece of fabric (we used scrap fabric for this )the same size and put the quilt batting between the 2 pieces of fabric. Mom took seams down the length of the fabric so it wouldn’t be so puffy.

Meanwhile i was ironing some pockets we made to stitch into the purse.

then i didn’t take any pictures of the next step whoops! But what we Mom was doing was sewing the 2 pieces together. I really am not sure how she did this she had cut it to short so she had to make a piece to go into the bottom, then we took the Velcro and ironed it onto the fabric, we also realized we should have done this before we stitched the batting to the fabric because we ended up melting the batting…. so we had to stitch another piece to the outside. but once that was complete we put it into the purse.

These are the foam dividers, we measured the width of my camera and cut them that size (6”), then we ironed velcro strips to these.

Then mom whipped stitched the padded lining to the lining that was already in the purse. I really didn’t do very much besides cutting items she told me to and ironing oh and melting the before mentioned batting…

This is the inside with the dividers Velcroed in, we choose to use Velcro because you can move the dividers around if you need more space. you could always sew them into place if you would like.

The finished product, it took around 2 hours I’m guessing… It would have taken me days to figure out how to cut it out and sew it together if I would have attempted this by myself… I’m just being honest!

I can’t wait to take it on photo shoots it is the softest leather and quite light and easy to carry all in all I’m quite happy with the outcome.

So i’ve been MIA i know… many apologies.

I shot my first wedding in August. thanks to Megan for trusting my work to allow me the experience to do her wedding pictures.             

thanks again Meg!  I hope married life is all you expected and more.

Mackenzie just turned 16 and graduated school so she wanted some pictures to remember this special time in her life.

she also told me she wasn’t photogenic and i would have my work cut out for me… of course she was totally photogenic and i had so much fun talking to her and taking pictures

thanks so much for letting me take these special pictures.

when her cousin found out she was getting her pictures made he insisted that she get some made with this hat.

you are beautiful.  

her & her horse cassie

you are lovely mackenzie i hope 16 is everything and more to you!

on may 8th matt & i got married! the wedding was wonderful, the weather was lovely everything was just amazing. we went to St. Thomas for our honeymoon and it was beautiful and we had a wonderful time, but there is truly no place like home!

arriving at the airport. neither one of us had ever flown before, needless to say my nerves were about to get the best of me. so matt calmly waited while i did anything but sit still! ha-ha

we had just landed in st. thomas and were waiting to go to the resort!

all the views were amazing!

and there were iguana’s everywhere, they were definitely not my favorite!

one night a cruise ship left the harbor.

farewell

the island life was nice we had a wonderful time!!!

I promise this is no “the dog ate my homework “excuse! Seriously the dog ate the computer cord!!

Linden

 A detail shot of Cecily’s bracelet

Well until next time

Sittin’ on the dock of the bay… name that song because I can’t! haha

I debated about uploading this picture but I love it… sorry if it offends anyone.

Well that is all… better than nothing right???? I thought so

While I was going through these pictures of Cecily the song “Cinderella ” by Steven Curtis Chapman is playing in my mind and I feel like it is  fitting.

She spins and she sways
To whatever song plays
Without a care in the world
And I’m sitting here wearing
The weight of the world on my shoulders

This is a typical Cecily face

Sabrina made us yummy Lemonade slushies!! and they were yumtastic

This is her i’m tired of the camera you can take two more pictures look… little does she know I took like 20 more!hahha

Then I became a true “redneck ” and rigged us up a slide!

I hope you enjoyed them! Hmm I think I want another slushy!

P.S. Do you like the pictures bigger sized??

More to follow!

Meredith Thanks for modeling!