Lori’s photo display wall
I have to admit, I get really tickled to get updates from clients. They really make my day to get emails like this one:
Hi Dianna,
I just wanted to let you know I have given out so many of your business cards even to people I don’t know! I actually think my sister and cousin are going to use your for their kids pictures at some point. Anyway I finally hung up all of Molly’s pictures and I wanted you to see what I did with them. They are above open steps to our downstairs. It was difficult to hang (for Doug)ha but well worth it. I love them! It’s like my little Molly shrine. Some people may think I am obsessed with her pictures….I just say I am proud!! ha 
By the way I love your blog I read it everyday before I go to work! Your pictures are amazing!
Lori
No, not crazy or obsessive, I need to get more on the ball and get more pictures of my own kids up on my walls. I have this great picture that I had specially printed, framed myself even… and it’s still leaning up against a wall. I have a goal to make a photo book for each of my kids for every year. Maylie is 5 and has 2 books, Greg is 3 and has 2 books. So I still need to make 3 more for Maylie and 1 more for Greg, and in 2 months Vivi will be a year and she’ll be due for her first year book.
Speaking of photo books, Christina & Brian, the couple whose engagement photos I shot a couple weeks ago, purchased a coffee table book, which I designed and had printed (much better quality overall than the cheap with coupon Shutterfly (and other brands) books I do for my kids… although I’m now reevaluating that because the color is all off and wonky in the consumer-grade books, but the color is GORGEOUS on the pro-grade book. And for something for posterity that they’ll keep forever… it is probably worth it to spend the extra money for a really nice book. OK I’m rambling here). Maybe I’ll do that tomorrow, do a comparison of photo books.
So if you’re curious, here is the layout of Christina & Brian’s engagement coffee table book. They’re going to have it at their reception for people to sign (that’s what the white space on the pages is for). The final book is beautiful. They’re going to love it (she’s picking it up tomorrow). My new web site will have pricing and such for the new products (coffee table books, gallery wrap canvases, custom photo bags, etc), but like that picture that’s leaning up against a wall still… it’s a work in progress! (Of course I can send pricing, just email me to ask if you are interested.)
Vivi’s favorite thing to do is to take everything that’s on a shelf or in a box and throw it all over the floor, so my personal projects end up taking a backseat to picking up the potholders from the floor for the umteen zillionth time in a single day. That’s the joy of having a mobile baby…