New Year... New Blogs... Hopefully

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Well... It is a New Year! New things are a happening. First off this darn blog I said I was going to do once a month... that just never happened. So perhaps I can get that going more in the new year. Second, Last night I was to a TCPPA (Twin Cities Professional Photographers Association) Meeting last night & the speakers there were AMAZING... helped they were WEDDING photographers who were fellow NIKON users as well, so I had immediate respect for them. Was so sick of all the canon speakers last year at the meetings. But where I really did not learn anything really "new" from them as far as wedding things go, I have been in business much longer than they were... I did learn that they earned a whole different relationship with their clients because of their BLOG. So I decided I had best get er going & get a crack'in at this. They also say to talk more open & get more PERSONAL in it so people can relate. SO here goes! Where I was actually doing totally opposite. I have my "personal" facebook page, and a "business" page... well WHY NOT let my customers see me for who I really am?  I am a lady with way to many "irons in the fire" I was once told by a fellow photographer. I am a hockey mom, I work a full-time job at a rental store where I am a certified Wedding & Event Coordinator... not that that title does me much good in this neck of the woods, but I like to help brides all I can in their wedding planning.
Me personally... I am a Scorpio.. I am super superstitious. I believe in all the 'hocus-pocus' non-sense- to a point.... more for the fun of it. I have a Grandmother who consults a psychic & reads taro cards regularly so I guess a bit of that rubbed off LOL yet I was raised Catholic & now go to a Lutheran Church... ha! AMEN. I have a 7 year old son, Zander, who plays hockey and his teacher is a former fellow classmate of mine, and we have identical twin daughters, Julia & Laura, who turned 3 in November... (also Scorpios... their bday is the day after mine). I Met my husband, Spencer, when I was 19, and we got married when I was 24... I had to propose to HIM! Ask me & I will tell you "our story". My hubby &I went to the same high school in Rockford, MN, but were NOT high school sweethearts lol!! We met when I was bar tending in Loretto while still in college. We have a puppy that is a mix between a Rat terrier & a Beagle we named Mayzie... and let me tell you she is a HUGE pain in the butt! Potty training (at the time) 2- 2-year-olds AND a new puppy... WHAT was I thinking? CRA-ZY! YEP!
 I went to college in Eden Prairie at Hennepin Tech for Professional Photography. Then went back to HTC for a nursing certificate as I worked as a CNA trying to open my own studio. I worked privately for a person for nearly 9-10 years in her home before she passed away. When she did pass, her family gave me the courage & incentive to finally open my own store-front studio in 2006 (I had been running my own photo biz since 2000). In 2007 I was on bed-rest with my twins and then this economy hit, so I had to take on a full-time job again, and make photography a part-time thing... but it still works. I mainly do Weddings & Seniors, and recently in the spring of 2010 hired on Jill, and will now be having her working on many more new projects we have up our sleeves. We were VERY busy with High School seniors this past year, so we hope that 2011 can only be better! We are involved in TCPPA, WPPI, CMWA, Which in lamens terms are just abbreviations to professional organizations we have become affiliated with.
Kellie Allyn's Photography along with Flamingo DJ, & Klatt Just Ask Rental are also all proud sponsors of the 5th Annual Buffalo Area Wedding Showcase. I have been running this show since day 1. I have had help along the way from many & with out them we would not be where we are today! This year looks to be the best year yet!... I know, I know I say that every year. But I fell that way before each show, because I feel we out-do ourselves each year.. OK. I am done yapping for one evening. Perhaps if I post this now to FACEBOOK we will get more followers! I will get some input from Jill to so u all can get to know us BOTH! Please let us know if  you need any photo services... a business head shot, a wedding, pregnancy, family... whatever it may be!