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Posted on January 25, 2011
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Are you ready to take your Newborn Photography to the next level?
Learn about Pure Posing, using natural light, set up, camera techniques, baby tools,
prepping the parents, post processing and MORE!
Pure Baby Workshops listed in St. Louis, MO and Salem, OR
One or Two days of PURE BABY! Each attendee will receive my Newborn Posing Book and Nest Wrap!
Email Robin at long.robin@comcast.net for a Registration Packet.
THE ORGANIC BLOOM will be our Guest Sponsor at the St. Louis Workshop!
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Posted on January 23, 2011
Cristina….please contact me at: long.robin@comcast.net to set up your Free Portrait Session!
Thank you to everyone for playing and passing the word around! We’ll be sharing pictures of Cristina’s sessions once completed.
THE CLIENT CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED
WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED BY RANDOM.ORG ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 2011
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
CLIENT CONTEST!
Giving Back to YOU for a wonderful year of beautiful clients and special memories
PACKAGE VALUED OVER $1000!
January 23 – January 28, 2011
It’s time for a Client Contest! To Celebrate my Granddaughter’s 4 Week Birthday on January 28th, we are going to have a contest!
This is for all those that would like to win or know someone who would like to win, a Maternity, Newborn, or Baby up to 1 year, Portrait Session with Robin Long Photography.
Here’s what you need to do. Read all instructions BEFORE you begin!
For each one you do, you get 1 entry. Each person can get up to 4 entries if you do all 4.
You need to post a comment here FOR EACH one you do. So if you do all 4, then post 4 comments.
The contest starts now and will end on Friday, January 28th at 8PM PST. The winner will be drawn randomly by random.org and posted here sometime on Sunday, January 30, 2011.
Ready! Set! Go!!!
1. Post this saying on your facebook, twitter, blog, or any social network site: “Robin Long Photography is having a Client Contest! You could win a FREE Custom Portrait Session. Go check it out and enter to win before January 28th & say I referred you!” Add a link in the post to my website AND Facebook page. Come back here and leave a comment that you have done this, with a link to where you posted it.
2. Send an email out to all your friends and family telling them about the contest with a link to my website. Come back here and leave a comment and tell me how many people you emailed. (this is on the honor system, so please play fair!)
3. Where is your favorite place to shop for your baby or child? Post another comment with a link to where you love to shop to share with others.
4. Spread the word: Tell your OB, doctors, yoga instructors, 3D ultrasound clinics, boutiques, spas, massage therapist clinics, any business….ask them if they would like to have free portrait displays for their offices and give them my website and phone number (503-930-1006) to contact me. I’m looking for places of business to display portraits. These can be local here in Salem, or Portland, Lake Oswego, Tigard, any surrounding areas. (this is on the honor system too, so please play fair)
If you can’t use this yourself, you are welcome to win for a friend and gift it to them. I can give you a nice gift certificate if you’d like! Please do not post other comments on this thread except for the ones to this contest. I will be deleting all posts not associated with the contest or duplicate posts. You have 6 days to complete the tasks. If you have questions or don’t understand something, please contact me vial email to: long.robin@comcast.net
All Posts are Moderated and will need approval before you see them. So don’t post twice because you think it didn’t show up….If it doesn’t show up within a day, please post again.
Here’s what you’ll win!
* Print Package valued at over $1000!
* 1 FREE Custom Portrait Session – up to 2 hours – Maternity, Newborn, or Baby up to 1 year old in my Salem, Oregon Studio.
1 16×20 Wall Gallery Portrait
2 11×14 Gallery Portraits
7 Gift Prints (either 5×7 or 8×10)
16 wallets
A goodie bag full of wonderful gifts and coupons
Thank you to all my wonderful clients over the past year! It has been a great year with so many wonderful memories and dear friends I have made.
God Bless you all.
xoxo,
Robin
Posted on January 18, 2011
They placed you in my arms tonight
I can hardly believe that you are mine
Tiny fingers, tiny toes, a tiny life that’s gonna grow
I’ve waited so many years for this day… I want to make it stay
I want to remember this
My beautiful Granddaughter | Nora Leigh Nelson | Born: December 31, 2010 | 8:24am | 7lbs 11oz | 19.75in
Barbara Ernestina (Schleicher) Brown, Nora’s Great, Great, Great Grandma (09/22/1884-08/28/1971) made this brightly colored quilt, piecing and quilting it by hand on an old wooden quilt rack she kept in her living room in the early 1930′s. She used fabric from family clothing, aprons, house coats, feed/flour sacks, etc. The pattern she used is called String Piecing and used a piece of muslin or white fabric as a ‘foundation’ to sew each of the strips to for extra stability. The pattern is very quick and easy to do (by machine in the 2000′s) but I’m sure it took her quite awhile to do it all by hand. This technique also helped her use up a lot of small scrap pieces of fabric that she just couldn’t bring herself to throw away.
The quilt was passed down to her daughter Harriett Elizabeth (Brown) Branson, Nora’s Great, Great Grandma, upon her death at 86 years old in 1971. In 2004, Harriett passed the quilt down to Robin Denise (Lambert) Long, Nora’s Grammie (me!), on a visit to Oregon with her youngest daughter, Tricia and son-in-law Mike.
Feed and flour sacks are so unique and a little expensive ‘now’ if you could find one with the fabric designs and colors printed on them. Back ‘in the day’, the manufacturers of the sacks started printing pretty designs on the sacks using nice colors, knowing that the women would ‘encourage’ their husbands to buy ‘that brand’ and to buy several bags at a time so she would have enough of the same fabric to make a nice dress for herself or someone in her family. They’d store the flour in metal, closed containers to keep it fresh so the women could wash the sacks, cut ‘em apart and start making their new dress.
Barbara lived in Wellington, KS most of her life. Nora’s Great, Great Aunt Tricia Gail (Branson) Darrah in Highlands Ranch CO is also a quilter and taught Nora’s Grammie, Robin and Aunt Heather, how to quilt too when they came to visit in Highlands Ranch, CO in 2008….written by Tricia Darrah
This quilt was made from Nora’s Grandma Nelson’s mother. I’ll update the story about it when I get it.
Posted on January 12, 2011
two little miracles arrived
together they will someday share their secrets
giggles and smiles will touch their faces
as they grow and connect with one another.
Welcome Grace and Lola ~ 7 weeks old
These little girls came all the way from New York for their very first photo session!
