We're BACK!

Hello all! We're home :)
Vacation was great! Very hot, but the water was great and the snorkeling was fun. Jasmine was a real trooper. She fell totally in love with the ocean and only slept when it was dark! lol. She did great in the car as well - 3 days down and 2 days back up.

I brought back some fun pictures which I will be posting in the next few days. The one on the left is my little bro as "Peter the Barbarian." I now have a facebook account (Erin Beutel) so you can check that as I will be planning to add more vacation photos there as well.

I am very tired so I will leave you with a few pictures of lovely florida!

Vacation

Goodbye rainy Ohio, Hellooooooo sunny Florida! It's that time of year again, vacation. Many thanks must go to my Parents for this trip, I'm sure it will be wonderful! We'll be camping in the Florida Keys for 5 days. Snorkeling, swimming, beach combing and sun tanning. I'm sure that 3 days (approx) in the car won't be quite as restful with a 15 mo. old, it will be worth it. :) I can't wait to get her on the beach-what a shock!
A note on what will be coming afterwards: Photo Notecards. I'm very excited to start offering these in my store www.maddoxstudios.etsy.com. Marketing will be kicking into high gear on our return. Hopefully I will be returning with many photos as well. Here's some photos of the state park we will be camping in for several days: http://www.floridastateparks.org/bahiahonda/Photos-Visit.cfm
Until later.

Wedding!

Today was the wedding of our good friends Dustin & Amanda! It was a lovely wedding. Jasmine had fun running around and making friends with british flower girls! (Here she's having a snack and wandering through the bridal party.) Adam was a groomsman and looked handsome in his tux. Since she just learned to walk, Jasmine amused herself by spending the entire day walking around. Not going anywhere particular, just cruising. We also had fun watching one of the photographers break out into some sweet moves on the dance floor :)
Not too much new here. I've been listing about one new photo a day, so keep stoppping by. (http://www.maddoxstudios.etsy.com) We'll be leaving on Friday for vacation in FL!
Once again I'm changing my favs at the bottom of the page...

For the Love of Art

Wednesday = T-minus nine days till vacation!!! A toast to the sunny beaches of the Florida Keys.
I now have photos for sale in my store! I know it's been a while, but it's coming now. This is one of my new favs. My lovely cousin combined with a sweet color study. I'd like to work on some more like this.
One of the reasons it takes so long for me to get things posted for sale is because I keep second guessing myself. Is this photo really good enough? Would anyone actually want to buy it? Hang it on their wall? I can always find something about it that's less than perfect. I think I'm too much of a perfectionist in that arena. . .
Maybe if I can sell enough photos I'll be able to get a better camera...........................................sorry, dreamin' a little.
Peter comes home on Tuesday! YAY, I haven't seen my little bro in 6 whole months.
I'll leave you all with a question and one more new photo. The question: WHAT kind of photos would you look for/like to see???? Help me out here! That's all for now. Peace out homeys.

Saturday

The weeks pass so quickly. I have nothing particularly interesting to post today. I did FINALLY get pricing figured out for my photos so as soon as i get all the pics together I will start listing them on Maddox. I know it's overdue, but I can only do so many things at one time so we're still waiting. It's very late and i'm tired so I will keep it simple: Check out the new Etsy favorites at the bottom of the page!