Dream Dinners -- yum!

Our client Tracey Christiansen recently opened a Dream Dinners store in the Northeast corner of town near Powers and Research. I finally visited them a couple weeks ago and gave them a try. What a neat concept!

I went online and viewed their monthly menu items and selected the ones I wanted, picked a day and time to assemble the food, and paid. Then I showed up at my designated time, put on an apron, and got to work. Keri, the very nice store manager, showed me how to assemble each menu item. Say you're making Shrimp Creole. You go to the Shrimp Creole station, get your ziplocs, and read the recipe, adding each ingredient to your bag in the quantity that they specify. When you're done, put the cooking instructions label on the bag and pop it onto your designated refrigerator shelf. Then you just move on to the next dish. When you're done, you have 12 meals that are ready to freeze and then defrost as you need them (or if you have a small family and are splitting them in half, you have 24!).

Best thing is that they taste great. Even my 5 and 9-year-olds have been happy with the meals. Kaya actually got up from her chair and danced around the dining room because she thought the rice tasted so good.

Who ARE all those people?

After sending out our studio's New Year's card, a friend asked me "I got your card, but who are those people? Are you sure you got the right picture on there?" Well, we thought it would be obvious, but those are all OUR kids. Between me and Stephanie, we have 8 of 'em! And they're the reason we do what we do, so it only seemed appropriate for our studio greetings to have a photo of our own kiddos.

With all those blondies, good luck figuring out which belong to her and which belong to me. I can hardly tell the difference myself!

Handbags & Jewelry

Ashley Photography has added some fun new products to our offerings, including handbags, pillows and jewelry. I'm especially in love with the handbags, and the quality of this product has to be seen to be believed.

We have some gorgeous samples at the studio, and I can hardly wait for my own personal bag to arrive. I would never have considered myself a photo purse kind of person, but I love these things!

New Year, New Building!

Whew! January is supposed to be the slow month for photographers, when we have a chance to take a breath and catch up on all the little things that we let slide during the crazy holiday months. No such luck this year, as we are moving the studio again. I signed the papers yesterday, and we will be open in our new space on March 1st!

Watch this space, as I will share the transformation here. The new building is located at 15 S Wahsatch. By the way, if you have a business and need new space, the guys at Hoff & Leigh were great to work with.