Posts Tagged ‘Minneapolis Family Photographer’

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!

I’m sure I’m not the only one that is SO sick of Winter already.  It’s always this time of year that I think we all start getting spring fever!  Warmer days (aka – 40 degrees!) begin to appear and the snow slowly starts to melt.  It won’t be long before those little crocus flowers are peeking through the last little bit of snow. 

March is already upon us and with that, our calendar has been filling up quickly with Spring sessions!  So, if you are hoping to get a session scheduled in the next couple of months, you’ll want to act quickly!  We only have one opening left in March and two openings left in April!  We’re also taking bookings in May and June now as well.

Worried about the weather?  No reason to worry now as we now have indoor, natural light studio space at my home in Rosemount.  Of course, we will prefer to stay on location for most of our sessons, but it’s a nice alternative in case the weather is an issue.

Of course since no post is complete without a photo, here’s a recent one of some snowflakes that were on my car window one morning. :-)
Flakes

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!

Wow…you guys are going to LOVE these!  One of my new product offerings for 2010 are these stunning Custom Image Boxes.  These photos just do NOT do them justice, you have GOT to see them in person to appreciate their true beauty.  They are part of our new Meadowood Lane Collection offering (and can be purchased as an add on to your a la carte order) and are an awesome choice for when you want to get all of the images from your session.

They come with a 5×7 print of each of the proofs from your session (or you can just purchase the box) and are custom designed to be a one of a kind heirloom for your family.  Seriously, these things are amazing and I’m so excited to be able to offer them to my clients now!

Gorgeous Custom Designed Image Box to hold your portraits

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

It’s time for another addition of What to Wear!  I figured these would be a good way to fill in the gaps during the slow season of sessions.  And besides, this is sort of like shopping for me too, and I can’t say No to that!

I’m working on a “wintry” theme one, but this one would be great for fall photos or even those late winter photos when it’s not quite “spring” yet, but more of an early spring.  I love combining blue and orange and these outfits bring out some great combinations of those colors.  All of these outfits can be found at Old Navy.

Visit our website! Ten Tiny Toes Photography and our senior portrait site T*3 Photography.

There’s nothing like the bond between a boy and his favorite baseball.  This ball is pretty meaningful to my little man. We went to one of the last Twins games at the Metrodome this fall and had some amazing seats courtesy of my full time job.  So amazing, that we had about 15 or so foul balls fly over our heads!  Now, one would think that it’s an easy feat to catch one of these foul balls, especially when you’re in the 2nd row, but I’ve decided it’s one of the hardest things to do, and that the baseball God’s have to be on your side if you are to become a proud owner of one of these.

Well, one of the many flew *right* past us, and of course, I was distracted by Joe Mauer’s cuteness and not paying attention!  Thankfully, a woman a couple of seats over from us caught it.  She was SO sweet and decided that Tyson was to be the proud new owner of that little ball and gave it to him.  I think it may have only been use for a few short minutes in the game, but it was SO awesome to see the joy on Ty’s face when he got it.  He held onto it so tightly for the rest of the game, and it now has a special place on his shelf in his room next to his other sports momentos.

So, when I wanted to practice on my new seamless paper, I told him I would let him take some pictures with his special baseball.  He quickly decided that he wanted to put on his Twins jersey as well and well, they turned out pretty cute, if I do say so myself!  We now have a fun storyboard that I’m going to get made into a canvas for his new room (when we hopefully move in a couple of months!)

Visit our website! Ten Tiny Toes Photography and our senior portrait site T*3 Photography.

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. :-)

I try not to post too many photos of my kids on here, I leave those to our family blog.  But, I just couldn’t resist sharing our Christmas card photo with you all.  These two are the reason that I fell in love with photography and they are the ones that drive me to get better and better and to do what I love. 

So, from our family to yours, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas!  Thank you for a WONDERFUL first year for Ten Tiny Toes Photography and I know 2010 will be even better!  We hope that your family and friends have a wonderful holiday season!

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