Red Top Mountain Special

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face

~John Donne

This past weekend we made our yearly trip up to Red Top Mountain for our special family portrait sessions against the beautiful backdrop of autumn leaves. It was chilly in the morning so we loaded up our big, fluffy blankets and some pumpkin-chocolate chip cookies (to fight off the cold one should always have pumpkin-chocolate chip cookies on hand) and set out to find the best spot on the mountain. Our first family, The Penters arrived at 9:30 in the morning. What troopers! The lighting was beautiful and we even managed to squeeze in a few portraits of the oldest son in his high school letter jacket! A few families brought along their four legged family members. Annie and Barney were more interested in finding the squirrels but managed to sit still for a few family portraits. Good dogs! Best of all was the time we were able to spend with each family. The Meredith boys showed us how fast they can run (very, very fast!) and the McLerran girls showed off their dance moves (they can twirl on one foot!) We also had the privilege of taking the first family portrait for a family who had just completed their adoption process. Congratulations to The Paynes!

We had been a bit worried that the Georgia draught might mean there would be no spectacular changing of the leaves this year, as there are already a lot of leaves on the ground! But as you can see, these portraits turned out beautifully!

Trick or Treat!

We are big fans of the TREAT part!

So starting on Halloween (October 31) we will be having our own special treats for our Sherri's Portraits families!


Stop by the studio between 9am and 3pm on Halloween and we will have special Halloween treats for the children! We just love seeing the little ones in their costumes, but even if you just come as yourself there will be a special treat awaiting you! The first family of the day will also get a free 5x5 print from any session of their choice!

As for the parents, well you guys deserve a treat too! So from Halloween until Saturday, November 3rd, all in stock 5x5 frames are 40% off. Make sure to take advantage of this great sale to finish out your frame collection or stock up on Christmas gifts!

Christmas Sneak Peeks

Remember how I told you we get ready for Christmas early around here? Here are a few sneak peeks from our Traditional Christmas set. When we decided to do a gold and white set this year, I brought over my vintage gold chairs that used to belong to my grandmother to use as props. When I was growing up, those chairs sat in the fancy parlor that was deemed "adults only." As children my cousins and I would sneak into the parlor and hold pretend tea parties until we were shooed out by our parents, who insisted we must never play on Gran's parlor furniture. My grandmother would probably be horrified to know that I let children climb all over them now!

Don't forget that Santa is coming to the studio NEXT WEEKEND! Yes, next weekend is the first weekend in November. We will have Santa here all day on the 2ND and 3rd in full Father Christmas attire. We only have a few spots left (seriously, maybe 3 spots left for both days) so if you were waiting until the last minute to book, call us today! You can see examples of our Father Christmas setup by going to our website http://sherrisportraits.com and clicking the "Quarterly Newsletter: Studio View: link.

Thank you to The Chungs and The Reams!

A pick me up

I know that I've already posted this week. Recently, in fact. But as I was going through some recent sessions, I just couldn't wait to share these two. I just adore babies in bonnets and so I had to show you the Carswell baby. And can you pick out my favorite portrait from this session with the Jiles family? If not, I'll give you a hint. It's one where we didn't notice something until we were looking at the proofs on the computer, and it cracked us up!



Did you see the little girl flashing the peace sign in the family portrait? If not look again! I think it is so cute, how years from now they will look back and laugh at this. It's one of those things that becomes the family joke, "Did you flash the peace sign in any of THESE portraits?" I love simple, little, funny things like this.

Wonder

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the
christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the
world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout
life.

Rachel Carson

Thank you to the following families for allowing us to capture beautiful portraits of your beautiful children: The Hulseys, The Mennas, The McGruders, The Spencers, and The Reznikovs

It's Official

I told you October would sneak up on us! I just realized that I hadn't updated the blog in September, mostly because I went out of town and then I was waiting for the newsletter to go out and make the blog "official." There are a lot of things going on around here that are "official" lately. I just officially became an aunt. My best friend's children call my husband and I "Aunt Kayla and Uncle Jeff" but the new baby, Hayley Kaitlyn, is actually related to us. This morning I stopped for my first hot chocolate at Dunkin Donuts and that is what makes fall official for me, even if they did forget my whipped cream. And this week is our first official "blog special" for our fabulous Sherri's Portraits families.

From now until next Thursday (October 25) all of our 5x5 frames are buy 3 get 1 free. People are always calling me at the studio asking when we're going to do another frame sale. Because those 5x5 frames are hard to come by, and y'all order a lot of 5x5 prints! Also, I'm allowed to say y'all because I am southern. The truth is, we hardly ever have frame sales because our frames are priced so competitively already.

So give us a call at the studio (770-529-1410) and let me know which frames you want, or if you want to come in and pick them out. We just returned from the GPPA show and we have some beautiful, never-before-seen frames to choose from. I already bought some for my Christmas gifts (Gramma,pretend you didn't see that) this year.

So here are some wonderful sessions from the past couple of weeks - and that is only half of them! I have a lot more to come soon. Thanks to the Hughes, Bodekers, Clines, Dunlaps, Hatfields, and Yarboroughs for making such special memories at Sherris Portraits.