A Happy Accident

So a few days ago I was going to post some pictures I took of my son, Ben, on the blog I have for all of my family stuff. I also wanted to update the look of it since I wasn't thrilled with the layout I had. Unfortunately for my 6-months-pregnant-brain I changed the template on this photo blog instead! So I bowed my head in disgrace and stepped away for a few days.

I decided to hit it running today and get it back to a state of normalcy! And fortunately I was also able to do a tutorial that helped me create my very own Flash animated header (I have previously been using animated gif files which aren't as crisp). You can find the tutorial here. I'm excited because I love the look, and even better, I can offer custom Flash headers to blog design clients!

I'm hoping to add design clients this spring as we transition from a one-kid to a two-kid family!

In the meantime, enjoy some highlights from recent shoots in some upcoming posts. It's been a busy season! We love our clients! And here's some of Ben in the snow, which pretty much prompted this whole blog redesign!

New Look!

This has been a really long time in coming, but I knew it was time to give a fresh face to Missy Saunders Photography & Design! It's fun, it's colorful and I love it!

I also named my blog Freshly Pic'd. I've been behind on blogging all of our recent sessions and needed a kick start to keep it up and running. I'm going to do my best to post all of our latest work here as often as I can! Please check back and subscribe to our blog updates.

Coming tomorrow will be information on our Merry Minis. I'm excited that we'll be doing two Saturdays and two locations, with the possibility of a 3rd. And each Mini Session family will get 25 custom designed Christmas cards from a company I know and love (details to come tomorrow!) So check back soon and email me to book!

Let me know what you think of the new look of Missy Saunders Photography & Design. We love all of our clients and can't wait to get the Fall season going!

And last but not least, here's a preview of two month old Baby L. Doesn't he have the most gorgeous eyes?

Design Client Information

I have had many requests in the past couple of weeks for blog redesigns and unfortunately my schedule is such that I cannot take on any new clients at this time. I will be opening up my schedule later in the spring and will be adding a few blog designs then! If you are interested in being put on that list please send me an email!

My Favorite Things

I'm so excited to let you know that I have worked this past week with Molly, of My Favorite Things on her re-design! I was honored to be chosen as her designer and we worked fast and quick this week to get the re-design up and running!

Molly and Danyelle had envisioned a clean, classic, simple design with colors that are timeless yet modern. Concentrating on the theme of Favorite Things the header portrays a smartly adorable girl in a classic white dress and blue sash, which is so appropriate and entirely cute! I learned a lot more about blog customizations while working on this project and am happy to offer these additional options to anyone out there needing a good blog makeover!

Please take a look at the new design and leave them a comment. Because if you do, you could be the winner of your OWN custom blog design, The Whole Shebang, a $75 value!

Thanks again, to My Favorite Things for letting me be a part of this amazing project!

Skillwidden Re-designed

Skillywidden has once again become public and that meant a new, fresh design! Kelli has great style and a really eclectic taste so we went with this really cool blog layout and a really fun header. I think it turned out perfect! Check back at her blog in the next few days for the most final layout!

McScary Family

My sister Mandie has "commissioned" me to do a series of blog designs for her. We've gone back and forth about how to best present her blog. She hasn't been happy with it and after a few tries she had a great idea — do 6 different headers that will change seasonally! It's going to be so fun. We finished up the first of the six and I think it turned out so cute and spooky! Click on the header to see the full blog. My sister is great at always challenging me to do new and better things so I'm excited to get started on the rest of them!

Another Day, Another Blog Design!

For some reason I've had a lot of blogs to work on lately and it's been fun. I was excited to find out from Liz that she google'd blog header design and found my blog! For all you LDS gals out there this is also a great resource for FHE ideas! We kept it simple (shocking, right??) but it turned out so cute and clean! Thanks, Liz!

Preggy Weggy

I've been focusing a lot of my time lately on the photography side of my business which has been a lot of fun. But I'd be remiss if I didn't mention this other blog I designed for Kristen (see her other blog below!) It took a long time for me to finally get the time to down to work on it and it's been up for a few weeks now, just in time for her baby to come in September! We're throwing around the idea of updating it to a baby blog as soon as her little boy is born! I think it turned out really simply cute!

Kristen & Rob

My very first Etsy shop sell was from a cool girl named Kristen from Utah. Unfortunately, Etsy is pretty strict about "graphic design" listings and notified me that I needed to modify my post or take it down. I'm really happy that Kristen got her purchase in before I even had to modify it! Anyway. Kristen and her hubby Rob are a fun, adventurous couple who love Hawaii and the outdoors. So I went with a pretty funky look to their header and their pics and everything came out so great! I especially loved their tag line "We may not have it all together, but together we have it all!" Sounds like a line right out of my own life! I also modified the look of the rest of their blog to match since that's the easy part. Check out her header below and the complete look of her blog as well! Thanks, Kristen! You'll always have a special place in my designer heart. :)

Butler Family Photography

I had the pleasure of working with Marchet (pronounced Mar-Shay) over at Butler Family Photography who was my second contest winner! She was so great to work with and knew exactly what she wanted—which always makes things a little easier on me! Her blog is now updated and it looks wonderful! We went for simple, bold colors and slightly modern. I love how the header and the rest of the blog are streamlined together. Take a minute and stop by her blog and look at her great photos as well!

Keeping Up With the Heatons

I recently did this header and blog theme for a good friend of mine. (Be sure to check out her two adorable kiddos!) She's totally fun and now the colors and look of blog definitely reflect that!

The second blog header...

The second one I officially did (and I say "officially" because I refuse to talk about the pickiness of a sister of mine who could not make up her mind on her blog header) was for Skillywidden. I had so much fun with this header because I know the blog author well and had exactly in my mind what I wanted to do. The result was perfect (if I do say so myself!) From the owl to the silhouettes of her beautiful boys to the homage to Coke, it's great. I am glad she loves it! Click image for the full view.