7 Ways To Rock Your Double-Up Voucher ~ Wisconsin Photographer

The Cyber Monday Double-Up Sale is the year's biggest and most fun sale, for sure. But, what can you DO with that voucher? So much! SO SO much....check it out....

1. Portrait Sessions
There's SO many opportunities throughout the year to take advantage of a portrait session: spring, summer, age milestones....the vouchers do NOT expire so you can squirrel them away until NEXT winter for holiday sessions as well! 

2. Senior Sessions
I separate Seniors and Portraits because they're just "different"....Seniors deserve their own category. It's such a special session and special time in their lives. They deserve to go all out. 
I will be restructuring Senior offerings for 2017 so now is a great time to reserve your date or to hang on to that voucher for your upcoming Senior. 

3. Mini Sessions
Throughout the year I have mini-sessions when the mood strikes. This year I did Holiday Minis. These typically run $150-200 for a quick and fun session for you or your kiddos (or your dogs, sometimes!) 

4. Albums
I tell all of my wedding clients to wait for this sale because they can score themselves a gorgeous flush-mount album for 50% off. This is KILLER!!!  I also do lay-flat parents albums

5. Prints and Products
Prints, gallery wraps, metal stand-outs...the skies the limit with ways of displaying your Type A portraits or wedding images! This is a great way to build that portrait wall you've been Pinning all over Pinterest! 

6. Digital Files
Did you already HAVE a session with Type A at some point but weren't able to score the digital files at that time? Now is your chance! I archive all of your images, so if you want digital copies of your session, picking up a voucher is a great way to save! 

7. Gifts
Portraits are literally the "gift that keeps on giving" (Clark)......so give a voucher to a friend or relative for the holidays. If you'd like, I can even wrap up a certificate for you and send it out!

The Type A Images Cyber Monday Sale drops on MONDAY NOVEMBER 27 and will run ALL WEEK until December 1st. That's 5 days to pick up your voucher and save! 

Follow THIS LINK to easily purchase your voucher online: https://squareup.com/gift/K6T4H1JQAT6BK/order

choose one of the popular pre-set amounts, enter your own, or shoot me an email for assistance.

Any amount you pay AUTOMATICALLY DOUBLES. Crazy!! Have fun shopping and support local business this holiday season! 

Eternally Thankful ~ Wisconsin Wedding Photographer

Let's face it, 2016 was kind of a crap year. 

On a macro scale, at least.

On just a "me and my kin" scale, we did pretty well. It has been one of the best years ever for Type A in my nearly 9 year history. We "cut the fat", so to speak, and got back to what was really important: more time with family (working on improving that) and less time with ventures that were not worthy of our attention. 

We welcomed Miss Bridget Frances, who has completed our family in ways I cannot even describe. She's a phenomenally awesome baby. My heart grew 10 sizes the day she was born, I think. 

We committed ourselves to moving....and put the wheels in motion to make that happen in 2017. Because of Dave Ramsey (holla at cha, D-Ram!) and getting our act together financially (and, lets face it, Type A kicking major booty this year)....we are on our way to building a home next year. We were gonna just buy but came to the conclusion that the husband and I are never going to agree on what we want. I'm a little bit country. He's a little bit rock n roll. 

This means leaving Beloit, but I'm really really excited for new places, new towns, new faces and new opportunities. Beloit will always be my birthplace, but we are looking for home.

I'm eternally thankful that we have choices. That we have flexibility. That we are so fortunate. 

I had THEE best clients this year. Seriously, each wedding was just FUN....and I was able to churn out some work that I'm very proud of.

After numerous years of strategic marketing, seniors have really taken on a life of their own. My goal was 20 and I shot past that with relative ease. I can't wait to see what next year brings! 

I found a studio space that isn't a dark, dank hole.....that has a great, attentive landlord....and is WARM and CLEAN and has a ton of natural light. 

I found Hamilton. (Along with the rest of the free world, I guess). My God, Hamilton. Life changing....seriously. It's that good. The obsession continues. 

I got to travel all over Wisconsin, farther than I have in previous years, and experience parts of our state I never had before. I know some photographers travel all over the world....but I'm not much of a traveler....so all over Wisconsin is pretty good for me. However, if anyone in Seattle or Prince Edward Island Canada would like to book with little ole me, I ain't gonna be mad at cha.

I wrote my first published piece for someplace that wasn't my blog (Scary Mommy)...and hope to do MORE of that in the future, for sure. I'm eternally thankful for notebooks and pens and any tiny amount of time I can carve out to write. 

I celebrated 10 years of marriage with Mr. Reseburg. Even though we get at each other sometimes, I'm eternally thankful to have a partner that gets me. 

Sometimes ;)

I am eternally thankful that I lost all my Bridget weight.....even if I have no idea how that happened. I won three free months at Planet Fitness through a silent auction for hospice....so now my goal is tone, tone, tone! 

I'm eternally thankful for incredible friends. We don't get to see one another as often as I'd like....you know, life and stuff....but when we do get together, it's good times.

Even if there is no literal new life being brought into a year, new life can still be breathed into every day....every hour....every month....every plan. 

I have an amazing life....and I'm eternally thankful. This year and every year. 

Photo credit: Stephanie Natale ~ Natale Photogaphy

Bad Decisions Are Part of Our Story ~ Wisconsin Wedding Photographer

 

 

 

Well, it's been a week.

That's for sure.

I guess depending on which way your political pendulum swings, it could be a great week or a horrible week. 

I'll leave that up to you to decide.

But, it's been a week. One week...a drop in our life bucket filled with many, many weeks. Some that fly by with nary an important event to mark their passing. Some that weigh on you so heavily you feel like you're going to drown.

I've been weighing decisions this week....much like the past year of passing weeks. We've been in a bit of a limbo here....wanting really badly to move (ok, I WANT to move really badly....I think the husband and children are not quite as gung-ho as I am, but they're supportive!). We've been all over the Wisconsin map in terms of where....and why....and what. I have a picture in my head....my husband does too....seldom do those pictures coexist peacefully. I want the Laura Ingalls Wilder country dream. He wants....well, the polar opposite :) 

I also fear making a mistake. 

I've made PLENTY of mistakes, believe you me. A "starter" marriage at 21 that was a GIGANTIC mistake, evident from the moment the priest said "I now pronounce you husband and wife".....a move to California...yeah, chalk that up as another HUGE misstep. 10 years in an expensive college with a degree I'll likely never use and that I'm still paying for (I'm a slow learner, apparently). Throwing buckets of effort at a record store that we didn't really have the time to run.  Deciding "Hey, I'm gonna direct an assisted living start-up" and having that completely decimate my income and almost shutter the business I spent 8 years pouring my life into. 

We make mistakes. 

Since re-committing myself to Type A full time last winter, I've realized that it works because it's probably what I'm supposed to be doing. 2016 has been one of my best business years and there's no mistake in that....it's the universe guiding me and telling me to shut the heck up and start listening.

I feared the over-saturation of the market. I feared that I wasn't nearly "cool" or "hipster" enough to make a dent in the current photography climate. Needless to say, there were a lot of fears. 

2015 was our lost year.

2016 was rebuilding.

2017 is going to be epic. I feel it in my bones. We just need to tread lightly and make sound decisions. 

I'm hoping the right house comes along. I'm hoping everything falls into place and Casa Reseburg sells quickly. I'm hoping I can continue to breathe life into Type A. I'm hoping that as I age, the mistakes become fewer. That experience breeds contentment. 

Bad decisions are part of EVERY story. The scars are what color our path. Don't regret them as much as you should honor the time spent on them and LEARN from them. 

Look back, shoot those mistakes a nice middle finger, and saunter on.