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I know it’s a bit early to be thinking about summer, but since we’re booking up FAST through May already, it’s time to start thinking about June!  We’re very excited to announce our first ever mini sessions will be taking place on Sunday, June 6th in Eagan from 9:30 am – 4:30 pm.  Here are all of the details!

Twin Cities on Location Child Photography

Who: Just about anyone!  Families, kids, couples, you name it!
What:
Kickoff to Summer Mini Sessions
When:
Sunday, June 6, 2010 between 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Where:
Holz Farm, 4665 Manor Drive, Eagan, MN

We have 2 great packages available for you to choose from:

Pink Lemonade Package – $175 ($50 due at time of booking)

  • 20 minute mini session
  • 10 edited images in online gallery
  • 8 gift prints (8×10 or smaller)
  • Disc of web-sized, watermarked images for online sharing
  • 20% off a la carte prints & products

Lemonade Package - $100 ($50 due at time of booking)

  • 20 minute mini session
  • 10 edited images in online gallery
  • 5 gift prints (8×10 or smaller)
  • Disc of web-sized, watermarked images for online sharing
  • 10% off a la carte prints & products

How to book:
Click here to book online.  $50 is due at the time of booking to reserve your session time.
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We will be taking requests for mini sessions on a first come, first served basis and will accept them via email so that we can accurately determine the date and time of requests.  When sending in your request, please list 3 time slots that you would prefer and we’ll do our best to meet your request.  Emails should be sent to us at amy@tentinytoesphoto.com or through our website or blog contact tool.

We’ll have many of our favorite props on hand, but as always, you’re encouraged to bring anything you’d like to use as well!

The atmosphere at Holz Farm is a charming old farmhouse and barn with many options for both unique and classic backgrounds.  It’s a great little place to have your portraits taken!

Session Times available (most up to date available time slots can be viewed here):
9:30 am
10:00 am
11:00 am
1:00 pm
1:30 pm
2:00 pm
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm

The fine print:
Mini session includes up to 2 children (plus parents).  If more than 2 children, we cannot guarantee both individual and shots together due to time limitations, so we recommend that you book back to back appointments for an additional $25 charge.

A deposit of $50 is due at time of booking to secure your session, which is put towards your package purchase.  Sessions that have not been paid within 3 days of booking will be opened back up to others for booking.  Should you need to cancel, we will give you a full refund up to 3 days before the event.  Cancellations within 3 days of the event will not be refunded.  Full package fees do not include sales tax.

Online galleries will be posted within 3 weeks of the sessions and will be live for one week for ordering.

If we need to cancel due to weather, you will have the option of receiving a full refund of your booking fee or the option of keeping your same session time on our rain date (yet to be determined, will be sometime in June).

Wow.  You guys are going to have a TOUGH time with the voting.  I’m sure glad that I can’t vote, because I honestly don’t know how I would ever decide!  Thank you to ALL of our participants and submissions to the contest!  Just a quick recap of our amazing prizes we are giving away!

First Prize ($900 value):

  • Free Mini Session up to 30 mins either on location or at the studio
  • Disk of 10  images from your session with a print release
  • 2 5×7 prints

Second Prize:

  • $200 Gift Certificate to be used on any future session or prints with us.

VOTING INSTRUCTIONS!!!

We’ll have two methods of voting each day beginning Tuesday, March 16th through 11:59 pm on Wednesday, March 24th.

How you can vote:

  1. The first and easiest way to vote is here on the blog, in the poll below. It is set up so that you can vote once per day from your computer.  It will reset  24 hours after your previous vote for you to vote again the following day.
  2. The second way is to vote on our Facebook Fan Page. To vote there, comment on the photo within the Baby & Kid Contest album that you would like to vote for with any sort of comment (example: “Here’s my vote!”)  One vote is allowed each day per Facebook account.  Multiple votes/comments on the same day will disqualify your votes for each day, so please just vote once per day. :-)
  3. All of the votes from the blog and Fan Page will then be combined and we’ll determine our two winners!

Want a piece of advice?? Get as many friends and family members over here voting and onto our Fan Page for your best chance at winning!  It’s easy to share this blog post by using the share bottoms at the bottom of the post.

So, are you ready for them????

Here they are!!  Have FUN!!!

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Now place your vote!  Voting will reset 24 hours after your last vote, so make a note as to what time you voted, or try to vote around the same time each day.

Now, jump over to our Facebook Fan Page and vote over there!

I hope you’re ready to see some of the most adorable little people!  I’m loving all of the submissions for our first ever Cutest Baby & Child Contest!  There’s still one more week to submit your photo of your favorite little cuties in your life and then the voting will begin!

Scroll down to get the full details about how you can join in our contest to win a prize package worth over $900!!

We’ve been SUPER busy at our household moving into a new house, so I apologize for the lack of blog posts lately.  I’ve got a TON of fun sessions lined up for March and I can’t wait to share the images from those.  But in the meantime, I thought it would be fun to hold another contest to spice up the action on the blog!  This is our biggest contest EVER and our first Cutest Baby & Child Contest!!

What will we be giving away?  We’re going to actually have TWO awesome prizes for this contest!

First Prize ($900 value): 

  • Free Mini Session up to 30 mins either on location or at the studio
  • Disk of 10  images from your session with a print release
  • 2 5×7 prints

Second Prize: 

  • $200 Gift Certificate to be used on any future session or prints with us.

Here’s how our Cutest Baby & Kid contest will work and how you can enter:

  • Send ONE favorite photo of your child(ren), any past or current photo will do, anytime between today (March 2nd) and Tuesday, March 16th to our email amy@tentinytoesphoto.com  **If you have mulitple children, you can either submit a photo of them together, or separately, but you can only vote on one photo per day (they can all be a part of the mini session, even if entered separately).
    • Please add the following information to your submission email…(this information WILL NOT be included in the postings of your pictures! This is just information for us to use to contact you if you win and to send you special deals on your child(rens) birthdays!)
  • Parents Name(s)
    Phone #
    Email Address
    Name/Age/Birthday of child(ren) in picture

  • We’ll have two methods of voting each day
    1. The first will be here on the blog, where we’ll upload the photos with an assigned number and voting poll within the post and you and your friends and family can vote once each day. 
    2. The second way will be on our Facebook Fan Page, where you can vote once a day by commenting on the photo of your choice.  Your comment can be as simple as “This is my vote!”. 
  • Send EVERYONE you know to our Facebook page and blog to vote! 
  • Voting will begin on Wednesday, March 17th and will run through the 24th, so that gives you a full WEEK to get everyone voting for your cutie!

So, start sending your photos!  I can’t wait to see all of your adorable little ones faces!

Minnesota Kids Fest St. Paul Children's PhotographerWe’re gearing up for our appearance this weekend at the Midwest Kids Fest!  I’m so excited as this is the first time we have done something like this and we can’t wait to get our name out there some more and meet some new friendly faces!  If you’re family is anything like ours at the moment, you’re DYING to get out of the house after this awful snow we’ve gotten this week.  Well, this is the perfect opportunity to get everyone out and about to burn some energy and have some fun!  Be sure to stop by and see us as we have a special gift for everyone that stops by and we’ll be having a drawing for a free session for anyone that signs up for our e-Newsletter!

We’ll also be offering a special discount on any sessions booked at the event, so if you’ve been meaning to book, stop by for this fantastic offer and book your Spring session!

The Midwest Kids Fest is running this Saturday and Sunday from 10 am until 5 pm each day at the St. Paul River Center.  Admission is free for little ones one and under and we have ax exclusive coupon for all of the big people too!  You can get our coupon here: Midwest Kids Fest Coupon  Feel free to share with anyone else too!

They have some pretty fun stuff going on for little ones of all ages and lots of neat vendors and companies for parents and grandparents too.  You can even enter for a chance to win a brand new SUV!!  They will have appearances from all sorts of characters and the Teddy Bear Band!

Hope to see you there!

Thank you SO much to all of you that participated in our Facebook Fan Page contest!  I drew the winner last night and the winner of a free session is…..

Random And the winner is.... | Minneapolis Family Photographer

Free Photography Session Giveaway

 Jeanette A!!!!

Congrats, Jeanette!!  We’ll be in contact to let you know you’ve won and how to redeem your free session! 

Don’t fret if you didn’t win.  We’re giving away two free sessions this weekend at the Midwest Kids Fest, so if you missed out here, then be sure to visit us and enter for your chance to win another one!  :-)

Thanks to all of you that entered!

Wow, you guys are AMAZING!!  Over on our Facebook Fan Page, we just hit………..400 fans!!  I can’t even begin to express how grateful I am to each and every one of you for your support and to getting us to 400!!

So, as my way of giving back, I want to have a giveaway to one of our blog readers and Facebook fans!   Here are the details and what you can win!

Prize: Not only will you win a complimentary session*, we’ll throw in a 11×14″ wall print! 

How to enter: To enter, just comment on this blog post that you’re a fan on Facebook!  Want an extra entry?  Just tell your friends and family about us by Tweeting, on Facebook and post another comment with the link!

The contest is open to anyone in the Twin Cities metro area and I’ll pick the winner on February 7!

So, from the bottom of my heart, you guys…….. T H A N K   Y O U !

*excludes newborn and senior sessions

Happy New Year everyone!!  2009 was a wonderful year for us and we are SO excited for 2010!  I have a lot of exciting things that I would like to implement this year and one of those is a new referral program!

Did you notice the new look to the blog?  I’m SUPER excited with how it turned out and think Nancy Lary of Monkey Tails did an awesome job!  What you think?

And now onto our other exciting news!  You guys are the number one way that we find new clients, from your wonderful word of mouth.  And since we appreciate you and telling your friends and family about your experiences with us, we want to reward you for that!

So, we’re excited to announce our new referral program!  For those of you that have been referring people to us for the last few months, fear not!  We’ve been keeping track of those for you and you will be able to redeem your referral credits as outlined below as well. :-)

Client Referral Program 2010 Referral Program and a Blog Makeover! | Twin Cities Child Photographer

November is the month of giving thanks.  And I can’t express how thankful I am that I have been given this opportunity in my life to capture your families and children as you all journey through life.  The past few months have been a whirlwind of excitement and opportunity and for that I will always be grateful. 

3874699671 5eaf1114bc Our way of saying Thanks to you!

So, as our way of saying “Thank You” I will be offering a 15% discount on all Gallery Wrap canvases through the end of the month!  If you’re a past client and wished you had gotten a canvas of your favorite portrait, well, now’s your chance!

To oder your canvas, visit our online store here and choose the size you would like.  Be sure to enter the code GIVETHANKS at checkout to receive your discount!

As always, feel free to email us with any questions about our canvases or other products at amy@tentinytoesphoto.com

The first year of your child’s life goes by in the blink of an eye.  The changes that they go through from the time they’re a newborn until when they’re blowing out that big candle on their first birthday are utterly amazing.  Don’t let a moment slip by!  We are now offering 2 different baby plans to capture your child as they journey through their first year of life.

This plan might be different than what you are used to seeing, where you are told to come at specific intervals.  We wanted to do something different and more flexible, so you can capture your child at whichever moment you want (or if you’re past the newborn phase, you can use it for moments later into the first year).  So, while our plan does have a recommended timeline, we are happy to be flexible and see you whenever you’d like within the first year!

Here are the details and both of these packages can be purchase through our online ordering site.   These are also a great way to give the mom-to-be in your life a gift that will stay with her forever.

First Footprints – $275

Our first year baby plan takes you from capturing your tiny newborn in the first weeks of life, all the way through their first birthday.  This package covers 3 separate sessions through the first year at whichever increments of time you prefer.  We recommend having newborn, 6 month and 1 year sessions, however we are happy to do whatever suits your style.

This package also includes:

  • 10×20” Storyboard after the last session, featuring your favorite image from each session
  • 20 page 8×8” coffee table album featuring a combination of your photos from all three sessions
  • 10% off all announcements
  • 10% off all regular print pricing

We also have a combo maternity/first year session as well.

Bump to Birthday – $500

This is a combination of our first year baby plan with an additional maternity session included.  This package covers 4 separate sessions beginning with a maternity session and 3 additional sessions taking you through the first year, at whichever increments of time you prefer.

This package also includes:

  • 16×20” Framed Print from Maternity Session
  • 10×20” Storyboard after the last session, featuring your favorite image from each session
  • 20 page 8×8” coffee table album featuring a combination of your photos from all three sessions
  • 10% off all announcements
  • 10% off all regular print pricing
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