Behind the Lens

Well, after a few fall seasons of friends asking me if I would do their family photos and me saying, "No, I don't do that" I have finally decided to do just that.  In August, I set up my website, purchased my domain name, made a facebook page and ordered business cards.  This all of a sudden became scary!!!  I was really going to do this and get paid for it!   What was I thinking, I didn't need more stress! 

My first project was to get my name out there to friends and the public to let them know I am "doing" this now.  So, I decided to do a photo fundraiser for Sackville Minor Baseball.  At our September tournament I took about 1000 action shots from the weekend and donated all of the sales back to SMB.  It was a fun day at the ball field and I in turn booked some family photo sessions from it.

Well my first family photo session was in September and I was terrified!  I have been taking photos for years and for an instant forgot everything I knew.  Deep breaths and told myself "You got this!"  Well, the pictures turned out great and they were thrilled with them!  Since that first photo shoot my confidence has increased and I am loving this new adventure that I have added to my busy life! 

Some of the fun photo shoots I have been on since September:

I have so enjoyed spending time with these families and all of my photo families and capturing their beautiful family memories.  If you want to check out more of my portfolio you can see some sneak peaks on my Facebook page and my website:  Beth Thomander Photography

I am looking forward to setting up my studio over the winter so I can offer indoor photo sessions. 

I can help you capture your memories as well...

Warmly,
Beth

Simple Pleasure Designs by Jennifer Fehr - Get to know her!

I have loved getting back into designing again!  Thank you to Jennifer Fehr who invited me to design on her Creative Design Team for Simple Pleasure Designs!  I am loving her designs and creations!  I am inspired to create!

Created with Real Life Grunged FREE Mini Kit

Jennifer is being featured on Real Life Scrapped and she has a beautiful mini kit as a FREE gift!  Real Life Grunge is a sweet little kit with 38 pieces and she also has a Fan Freebie.  And to add to all of this sweetness she is offering a SALE of 30% off her entire site! Pop over to Real Life Scrapped to get your 30% off coupon!  

Check out Jennifer's story and her designs!  I love seeing what she is going to create next and I love that I can call her my friend!  

Here is the preview for Real Life Grunged, you know you want it!  

You can see more pages created by Jennifer's Design Team on her facebook page - Simple Pleasure Designs by Jennifer Fehr.

I can't wait to see what you have designed with her kit so please visit my facebook page Making Memories, Capturing Moments - Beth Thomander and start posting your pages!  

Enjoy!!! 

Disney First and Last!!!

Disney First and Last!!!

Not my first and last time to Disney but I completed my cover and my first and last pages in my Disney album!  

When I think about my Disney Album from our 2013 Vacation I get overwhelmed!!!  I took soooo many photos!!!!  This weekend I cropped with the Pixels2Pages Vacation Crop and I got inspired to get some pages completed!!!  I am loving the Magical Moments kit from Simple Pleasure Designs by Jennifer Fehr.   There are so many sweet elements inspired by Disney and the papers are gorgeous!!!  

If you are looking for some unique Disney content look no further!  Her designs are like none other!  They are fun and whimsical for a Disney theme!  

I love the poka-dot paper for the front cover and my black and white photo pops off of the cover.   

Opening page using Serendipity Squares Template from Pixels2Pages  which was doubled with the Serendipity Squares Challenge.  I love Jennifer's designs for the squares I made from her papers and embellishments from Magical Moments!  

My closing page using the Photo Blend Background Challenge from Pixels2Pages and Paper from Magical Moments in the Waltograph font.  

Back cover is simple and fun and I always add my name to the back of the book so people will know I created the book!  

I am far from done but this is a start and getting started sometimes is the hardest task!  I have a few pages done in-between these pages, but still lots of memories to capture!   

I will add some more pages here as I complete them!  In the meantime you can check them out on my facebook page Making Memories, Capturing Moments - Beth Thomander by liking my page.  

Thanks for dropping by!  

Big Sunglasses!

"The bigger her sunglasses are, the more manicures she requires and the more complicated her brunch order is going to be."

I saw this quote on a friends facebook timeline and it describes Lauren perfectly!  I just knew I had to do a layout with this quote and I remembered I just took a photo of her with her Christian Dior sunglasses that cover half of her face!

 Well Lauren has only gone for manicures a couple of times, but she doesn't have to as she can do an awesome job herself!

This manicure and pedicure I have to give credit to Sandy at All 4 U Esthetics!  She did an awesome job!

As for her brunch order, well her ice cappuccino order is complicated enough!  Medium caramel ice cap made with chocolate milk instead of cream because they fill it more when they use chocolate milk and you might as well put in a large cup so it doesn't overflow and can you ask that girl to make it because she does it better and can you put some whip cream on top and do you really have to charge me the extra! Well I might have exaggerated that a bit but she is pretty particular about her ice cap!!!

I designed this page with Simple Pleasure Designs by Jennifer Fehr using her new kit Vintage {Sugar}!  I LOVE all of the sweet elements in this kit!  Can't wait for it to be released so you can all enjoy it as well!  COMING SOON!

You can shop now in Jennifer's store to pick some of her other beautiful designs!  I love her Disney inspired Magical Moments kit.  I will post some pages soon featuring this kit!

Simple Pleasure Designs   link for your shopping pleasure and to browse her wonderful gallery!

Have fun!!!

Designing Again!!!

I am so excited to share that I have started designing again!  My friend Jennifer Fehr from Simple Pleasure Designs asked me to join her Design Team to create digital pages. Well I jumped at the opportunity!  I love designing and it inspired me to work more on my own pages.  It doesn't just inspire me to work on my pages, it does something for my entire being to be creative.  I had no idea how much I missed designing until I started again.  Thank you Jennifer!!!

Jennifer has an elegant style in her designs and they are a pleasure to work with!  I am sharing my first frame cluster that I designed for her freebie collection.  The link is here for you to enjoy downloading the freebie for your own collection.  The Vintage Inspired Collection is beautiful and so much fun to use to create pages!  Check out Jennifer's designs also on her Simple Pleasure Facebook page 

Here is the page I completed with the frame cluster:

Get your free frame cluster here:  Vintage Inspired Freebie #3

ENJOY!!!