Lori's Annual Christmas Party - Pinterest-Inspired Decor

Yes, it's February and Valentine's Day is just right around the corner, but I'm going to go ahead and post pictures from my best friend's Annual Christmas Party. For over 15 years now, my high school best friends and I get together for Lori's Christmas slumber party.  We are all over 30, and yes, we still have our ritual pajama party once a year (maybe because we don't have kids) ;)

I don't post enough personal photos, but I'm trying to change that this year.  Lori, is one of my high school best friends, and she is super creative when it comes to party-planning, hostessing, designing and decorating, as well as baking!  Seriously, she is the epitome of Betty Crocker!  Our last Christmas get-together was so pretty with all of the Pinterest-inspired decor and party ideas that I just have to blog about it even if it's over a month ago! :)

Enjoy!
XOXO

Lori and Jason's Holiday Session - Jacksonville FL Wedding Photographer

Always a pleasure to photograph this beautiful couple!  Lori and Jason have graced my blog for a couple of years now especially around this time.  I am thankful that they get their holiday pictures done with me every year now since they got married :) Lori is my best friend since high school, and I would remember her going to a photo studio at the mall to get her Christmas pictures done ;) I am glad that has changed since then, and she is open to an outdoor photo session!

Our photo-shoot was so much fun!  Lori and Jason are always ready for the camera, and they rock for letting me pick the location for this year's holiday session.  Thank goodness for an old abandoned fire station because the red brick wall and the tattered red paint was the perfect background for them and their photo props!  Now,  I can't wait to get my Christmas card from Lori and Jason!

Enjoy!
XOXO
   
   

Lori and Jason's Studio Light Test Shoot - Jacksonville FL Portrait Photographer

It is very good to have friends that do not mind being my "models" when I need to test out new studio lights! Thankful for my BFF, Lori, and her husband, Jason, for agreeing to put up with me in my office/studio in San Marco as I played around with my new studio lights with my other photographer friend, Norman :) I'm a Pinterest-addict, and I've been pinning some fashion photos that I have wanted to try out with my new lights. So glad that Lori and Jason didn't mind posing and modeling for me after I showed them my "pinned" inspiration pictures on Pinterest :)

Here are a few from our test-shoot, and I cannot wait to play with my new studio lights again! Special thanks again to my best friends, Lori and Jason, for modeling and for Norman helping me out :)

Enjoy!
xoxo