Alright!  I received the last shipment of samples on Friday, and am eager to share them with you.  I’m completely thrilled with their quality and color – they’re even more terrific in real life!

I’ve posted the pictures of them in the “Your Product Options” gallery, which you can find along the top menu bar under….you guessed it: GALLERIES.  :)  Check it!

My blog is 1 year old today!  For some strange reason, considering how fast the weeks and months slip by, it seems like much longer ago than 52 weeks since I started blogging.  I’ve enjoyed it…I hope you have too!  :) 

In celebration (in addition to eating those scrumptious cupcakes), I want to give you all something as a thank-you for being such faithful blog-stalkers.  Thanks for the comments here and on Facebook – I love hearing from you!

Are you planning/dreaming/hoping to getting your pictures taken this year?

I’m giving you a free 11 x 14 print!  This will be a matmounted, professional print; picture of your choice –  to be taken in your next 2011 photo session with me.  All you have to do, is email me through the “contact” form above, mention “birthday giveaway“ and I’ll sign you up! :)    {there’s no deadline on this giveaway – everyone who emails me will receive a free print!}

I look forward to hearing from you…and capturing you and yours in the coming year!

Cheers to you all, and the next 12 months!

…..latte anyone?!?…..

I’m so excited to announce that Kristy Klaassen Photography is now offering a wonderful variety of printed products, in addition to my digital photo CDs:

Prints 4×6 – 20×30/mounted prints, canvases, acrylic prints, flat-mounted books, metal prints, metal murals and more!

 Samples to show my clients are coming soon, along with updated 2011 pricing.  I’ll keep you posted! :)

I’ve been dreaming about completing this gallery wall for ages.

I purchased these frames a few months ago at Liquidation World, but the cost of 9, 15″x15″ prints from a London Drugs was holding me back (since I’m trying to save for the Nikon D700, and me and saving don’t exactly go hand in hand), so yesterday I got a brainwave: get the pics printed a printer for a fraction of the price!  When I get these things in my head, every thing else (like scrubbing toilets and mopping floors) must wait! :)  I’m totally happy with how they turned out – and at least this way, when I feel like switching up the pictures, I won’t have to raid my D700 piggy bank to do so! :)

I filled my lamps with sand and shells again today too.  Last year, a good friend of mine was going to Mexico and I asked her if she could bring some sand back for my lamps.  Well…she smuggled home 18 lbs (a tad more than I’d imagined!!) of white Caribbean sand  – her luggage was VERY overweight, but thankfully they didn’t check why, or they would have confiscated it! (Although, she did have to pay an enormous overweight-luggage charge, which she refused to let me pay for!!  Thanks again, J!)  I LOVE the sand in my lamps, it’s like a slice of Mexico right in my living room.  I also purchased these great lemon branches at Pier 1 Imports this week - just couldn’t resist their tropical feel.  Aahhhh…I love re-decorating my house; almost as much as I love takin’ pictures! :)

Have a great weekend!