It’s Christmas time, y’all! December has officially arrived, our house is decorated and my holiday baking is under way! A good Thanksgiving holiday and a successful weekend prepping for the Christmas season with my family put me in a holly jolly mood! The Black Friday shopping and mounds and mounds of sales may have helped, too. 🙂 So I’ve put together a “Christmas At JFP” sale for all my clients and followers!

Snowy Portrait Sessions

We live in Garrett County, MD and we get lots of snow (I think I heard a total of 200 inches last season!?!). We woke up to the most beautiful “winter wonderland” on Thanksgiving morning and I was immediately reminded that I LOVE SNOWY PORTRAIT SESSIONS! Pictures in the snow are so lighthearted, fun and different, so I want to do more this winter! Here are the details:

-Four snowy portrait session reservations available
-At least 30 minutes of session time (we’ll shoot as long as we’re not freezing our fingers and toes off! 😉 )
-Approximately 50 downloadable high-res, print-ready images in an online gallery
-And because Garrett County is beautiful covered in snow, the sessions must take place here…either in my backyard (I have six acres of open grass and friendly woods) or at a nearby outdoor location (Swallow Falls State Park is a fave!). AND there must be snow present!
-$150 plus sales tax, $50 deposit required to reserve (mini and regular sessions normally cost $200+ so this is a discount!)

Here’s how beautiful snowy portraits can be…

Casey and Chad had a snowy engagement session last year at Swallow Falls State Park…

It was cold, but so worth it!!

And Tessa had a snowy maternity session last month at Swallow Falls!

Another cold one, but again, so worth it! I love the mix of snow flurries and sunshine in this one…

Here’s what our backyard looked like on Thanksgiving morning…

How awesome would you and your little ones, or you and your love, look underneath that canopy of snow!?! I was a little upset I didn’t have some official subjects that morning, ha!

FREE Photo Phone Cases

I’m on my second photo phone case and I love it! Not only is it durable (I tend to drop my phone quite often), but it’s also an eye-catcher. The pink case color and cute photo of my kids makes all kinds of people smile. 🙂 I’d love to see more people with JFP pictures on their phones! Here are the details:

-Available to all clients who book a portrait session before January 15th (snowy portrait sessions excluded; session does not need to take place before 1/15)
-One free photo phone case allowed per booking
-Clients choose case cover material, color and photo to be used (must be a photo from a JFP session)
-Available for iPhone 4, 4s, 5 and 5s, and Samsung Galaxy SIII and S4

And here’s a few pictures of some phone cases I ordered last year. The pink one was my first. 🙂

This picture of Ally makes me smile. I think she was barely 2.5 here. We’ll be celebrating her FOURTH BIRTHDAY next week!

Discounted Prints

Over a year ago, I decided to reduce my print prices to encourage more clients to print with me for high-quality, professional prints of their pictures. I also just wanted my prints to be very affordable for everyone ($50 for an 8×10!?!). To encourage my clients even more, starting January 1st, I’ll be offering all clients 30% off their first print order! Every final collection of images finished after 1/1/15 will accompany a special discount code to be used during checkout in client online galleries. Maybe if your first print orders are beautiful, high-quality, professional, and affordable, you’ll continue to print good prints!?

And as a BONUS, I’ll share the discount code with any past clients that email me before midnight on Friday, December 12th! The code will also be good until midnight on December 12th in hopes that you’ll use some prints for Christmas gifts. 🙂

I hope you all are feeling as holly jolly as I am about this Christmas season! Get out there and celebrate it…and maybe buy a JFP gift or two. 😉