Isn’t it refreshing? I love it :-) I love the background, I love the header, I love the colors and I love the layout. I have a couple more things to do on it, but overall, it’s ready. A couple things that you’ll notice about the new layout and hopefully things that will make my blog easier (and faster) to navigate through.
- - It’s a new web address. www.missprissiness.com/blog If you visit my old blog, you will be re-directed to this one.
- - The new layout. The most recent post will always appear in “full post form” and then all the following posts will appear in “exceprt” form in order to provide a MUCH faster loading time. Below is a picture of what “excerpt” form looks like and you’ll notice that at the end of the excerpts, it says “read more…” just click on that and you’ll be able to view the whole post.
- - You can now contact me directly from my blog page. Just simply click on the Contact Me tab at the top of the blog and you’ll be taken to an information form that you’ll fill out and send to me.
- -Archives. The Archives tab is now up at the top of the page. When you click on it, you’ll be directed to a page that looks like the images shown below. It will have all my posts archived by month/year.
- - There are icons in the upper right hand corner of the blog that are for Facebook and Pinterest. You can now easily get to my Miss Prissiness Facebook Page and you can also view my person Pinterest page just by clicking on these icons.
- - Rather than having a Categories section on this blog, my Categories (Belly, Babies, Kids, etc.) are all listed on the Sub-navigation bar as shown in the picture below. The “Personal” category goes into sub-categories such as any posts pertaining to my family (which then break off into my family members blogs), travel, Monday’s With Bella (yayyy!!!) and other random and uncategorized posts.
- - I still have the Resources Tab, but it will link you to my old blog Resource page. I haven’t figured out how to transfer it yet, so this works for now :-)
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Now that I’ve introduced the new blog to you, I have a couple things to talk about and a sneak peek to show you.
First up….My 1st (and 2nd) Camera Class ever……………Both were AWESOME and went SOOOOOOOO much better than I expected. It was also a pretty big turn out, considering it was my 1st class. We had 14 people in the 1st class and 9 in the second. I was totally prepared for it to have all sorts of bumps, mistakes, have everyone leave more confused than they came in, etc. I wasn’t nervous or anything, I just figured that since it was me hosting the class…it was going to have all sorts of disasters along the way :-) Turns out I’m actually not that bad of a teacher and people really caught onto things, asked questions, used their information booklets I made them and then they left the class excited to go home and take pictures. It was so much fun to be running around helping people during our “Practice Shoot” times and all of sudden hear people say things like, “Oh that’s way better than automatic!” or “I did it, I understand it now!!!!” or “that’s awesome, I didn’t know that!”
Granted we had our batches of not being able to figure stuff out (we had FOURTEEN different types of DSLR’s) and some people’s cameras not having certain features that others had on their cameras, but overall….people learned how to use THEIR specific camera. They learned about basic things (options) they could switch them cameras to in order to make their final pictures better. They learned how Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO, Exposure, WB, etc, all work together. They learned when to use their different Creative Modes on their camera so they could get away from the Automatic side of their camera dial. They learned easy ways to improve their flash photography at night. They won fun prizes. etc. I sent everyone home with information books that had space for each of them to write their own notes, in a way that they could understand and rememebr.
Now you all just all need to KEEP PRACTICING!!!!! It’s not like you’re going to be super quick at it right away. Now you have the tools and the knowledge, you just need to keep practicing so you’ll get faster :-) I should also let all my “students” know that I will be running a contest amongst you all and it will be announced on Sunday night. You’ll be taking all the lovely things we taught you and putting them into action. Contest and Prize to be announced on Sunday :-)
I owe several people GREAT BIG THANK YOU’S for helping me out on Saturday & Sunday. Thank you so much to Emily Buckallew (from Infinite Joy Photography) for helping me teach the class. There were a lot of people and a lot of questions, so it was GREAT having some one there to run around with me. Lindsay (from St. Louis) was going to come up and help me as well, but it ended up not working out at the last minute. Long story, short….her Cape Air flight was cancelled on Friday night and then there was freezing rain on Saturday morning, so we opted to go with saftey and had her stay in St. Louis. I know she was very bummed about not making it, so we’ll have to do another one and makesure she makes it this time :-) BIG, BIG, BIG thank you to my parents for letting me take over their house on both Saturday and Sunday from 10-4. Thank you for making the Coffee that I forgot about ( I don’t drink coffee), thank you setting up, thank you for visting with everyone, etc. My mom and some of my sisters actually sat in on the 2nd class :-) Thank you to Miss Ellie (my niece) for being our live model for the 1st class. She is a TOTAL girl and was LOVING being our model. She stode up on the coffee table and would slowly turn in a circle as she switched her poses and smiles every minute or so. She took it VERY seriously, it was hysterical. She is actually quite in love with herself right now (it’s a phase) so I encourgaed people not to “feed the monster” and just stick with taking her picture and maybe cut back on the “you’re SO cute!” Thank you to Caroline & Jared for making a last minute run to Wal-Mart for me, thank you to Jared for hole punching these little cheat sheet things I made (I could NOT, for the life of me, get them to hole punch. I think I bruised my hand) . And on and on. Thank you to everyone :-)
Believe it or not….I didn’t take any pictures. My mom did take one with her point and shoot, so here you go!
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Last weekend I also did a quick shoot for Jack’s 2nd Birthday Party! I have to admit, seeing him run around the studio in his diaper, boots and cowboy hat that was too small for him, it ended up being my favorite thing of the week :-)
So that’s what I have for now! Tomorrow kicks off my weekend marathon of Valetine’s Day Mini Sessions. It turned out being a MUCH bigger hit than I thought it would be and I ended up having 28 sessions….so I believe I will probably pass out on Sunday night by like 7:00 :-)
