The 20 Something Society

This really should go up on my photoblog for JJP – but I don’t want to post it there quite yet.  We whipped up some follow up postcards for the folks we met at ye olde wedding expo.  I like em.  Do you?

I know you guys are wondering where that last post disappeared to.  You know, the one with all the beautiful new babies?  My new boss told me it was alright to post those and then she decided it wasn’t such a great idea so I took them down, sorry.  But if you’re interested in learning more about what I’m doing you can go to the website – Bella Baby Photography .  Since I can’t post a me for Bella Baby photo I’ll just post a me for Jacquelyn Jackson Photography baby photo!

We planted many peppers in our little garden bed this year.  Jalapenos, sweet banana peppers, hot banana peppers, cayenne peppers, and bell peppers.  We have so many that we can’t eat them all right now!  We, and when I say we I mean The Husband, have been spending the day pickeling them!  I can’t really tell you the steps…because I didn’t do it.  But it smells bad, involves sterilizing mason jars, boiling water, a big pot, some jar tongs, and mustard seed.

Panini here I come!

Yeah you know me!

Between editing pictures and….editing pictures, I have been putting together a new pricing guide for clients…..I thought I’d share the cover with you guys.  Just a little peek.

So, we are trying to finish getting our shiz together for our booth in our first bridal expo coming in August.  I need a little help with this one decision.

I feel like I should explain to you guys who I am marketing towards before you help me out.  I love working with a younger, more modern crowd.  A crowd with a little edge and their own creativity.  So no big bows and tulle for moi.

So, on the wall behind my table I am going to  display some of my work mounted onto styrene and matboard.  I am having a bit of trouble deciding on what to you use to display them on.  These are the three options I have been mulling over.

Aluminum Sheeting.

Three sheets of this hung vertically.

Chain Link.

Chicken Wire.

What do you guys think.

As you can tell, I’m going for metal.  If you have any ideas that you feel are better you certainly can share those too…but I do love my metal.

When I stumbled across this image over on Fashion Chalet, it fit perfectly in with my life right now.  I have been feeling very overwhelmed…yet excited about my blooming photography business.  People have been having more interest in me, and that is exciting!  But I’ve been SO busy.  I’m not yet comfortable enough to leave my “day job”, so working there full time and doing what I love full time has kept me working through all of my waking hours.  But I can’t help but know deep inside that this will all pay off one day.  Hopefully one day very very soon.  I am about to start another venture starting August….a pretty exciting one, that involves the words freelance and photography.  But that’ll be a post for another day.

Changed the music up over on JJP

Song number one is Roger Millers England Swings.  Cute little ditty huh?  Go to the site to hear the second pick.

We went on a little trip this past weekend.  We (Jacquelyn Jackson Photography) had a wedding to shoot in Gulf Shores, Alabama.  We left friday so we could be there for the rehearsal.  I prefer to be there just so I can be extra prepared on the wedding day.  My mom and step dad live in Gulf Shores so we didn’t have to pay for a hotel or condo – we just stayed with them!  Klaus loves to stay with them so he can play with their dog, Bailey.  The car ride there didn’t seem too bad.  When we go on road trips we have this little deal.  We listen to my music half the trip and for the other half we listen to podcasts of Lex and Terrys radio morning show.  We used to get them in our hometown, but they aren’t in our current town so The Husband downloads all of their shows and listens to them.  They are hysterical and the only morning radio show I would ever listen to.

And yes people, there was oil on the beaches and you could smell it in the air.  It smelled like someone was burning tires.  Here is my mom trying to “catch” oil.

I stole these pictures from a friend of mine who was also staying in Gulf Shores this past weekend.

Due to the oil and rain the on the beach wedding ended up having to be moved to an indoor plan B venue.  I so wanted to shoot some white sand!

In between editing pictures from our last wedding and getting ready for this weekends wedding we HAD to get some good eats in right?

For lunch?   DOCS!  Its where the locals go…so much better than some touristy place.

My favorite thing on the menu?  Fried stuffed crab, grilled shrimp, and hushpuppies of course!

On to the wedding…

And after the wedding?  Late night pizza dinner from Papa Roccos!  My uncle D used to work there many a moon ago.

Alas, the trip/visit was over.  We were on our way back home.  We did make a stop to pick up the sister in law.  Shes going to stay with us for a couple of weeks.  The Husband starts is prelims today for entry into the PHD program, so he was studying the whole weekend..and even the car ride home.  He was glad his sister was there in the car to go over flash cards with him – she knows the math jargon.  Me…not so much.

And that concludes our broadcast this morning.

Hi-Fi Weddings is putting together a wedding fair!  WOOT.

Not just any wedding fair though folks, attending this wedding fair will be some of the most awesome, creative, beautiful people in the area!  If you are nearby, or not, and would like to meet with some of them you should be there…Lowe Mill…Huntsville, Alabama, January 29th 2011.

Jacquelyn Jackson Photography is definately going to be there.

Fee admission people!  Lets have some fun!  Go check out the Hi-Fi Weddings blog too!

My birthday present from my mom came in the mail today.  Yummy, delicious, delectable macaroons from Sucre in New Orleans!  Next time we go to N O we will go to the brick and mortar store.  I had never eaten a macaroon in me life!

My first ever bite of macaroon.

Do I look like an evil zombie squirrel.  Yeah maybe thats what I was going for MEH.