I attended my first ZooTunes concert recently to hear to ukelele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro. Jake is from Hawaii (!) and a truly amazing musician. Plus, he looks like he’s having so much fun on stage, it’s infectious. The ZooTunes concerts are wonderfully casual, and we snuck in some wine along with our picnic foods. “Professional”...
Last month I had the opportunity to attend a powerful networking event called The Creative Connection. Subtitled Women*Passion*Business, it brought together women who, as co-founder Jo Packham described it, “express their heart with their hands.” There were sessions on blogging, developing a business, working with sponsors, to name a few. Ultimately, my takeaway message was,...
Photo booths are my new favorite thing to do at a party. Take a few silly props, add some enthusiastic friends, shake well and voila! Here’s a recent photo booth from Bonnie’s birthday celebration. There’s music, so turn your speakers up or down, accordingly.
I’ve been doing pro-bono work for Amara, a non-profit adoption agency, for about three years now. Originally I was just helping out a friend who worked there when she asked me to photograph at their National Adoption Day celebration. And, as these things go, she no longer works at Amara but I’ve continued on, having...
On Saturday, April 2, a group of Microsoft employees will be taking photos of individuals, couples and families to raise funds for disaster relief in Japan. I’m proud to say that my husband, Lucky, was the person who came up with this idea, proposed it to the photo club at Microsoft, and almost overnight a...
