Returning customers, please enjoy....

Returning customers is the greatest compliment I receive here at work.

It is my personal belief as a small business owner, that I need to recognize the importance of this as I smile knowing that someone has enjoyed our baby albums so much that they want to order another.

Enter, Etsy storefront coupon...RETURN2010.

If you would like to redeem this coupon for 15% off of your next order and enjoy the same low $7 shipping as is on our website, just go here http://www.etsy.com/shop/freshouttakes

Thank you again for coming back for more!

Offer expires December 31st, 2011.

Thank you to all who have supported our small business, Fresh Outtakes.

We have enjoyed a successful 2010 year with far reaching orders from Seattle to New York, California to Florida, almost every state in the middle and back up to Saskatchewan, Canada.

We sincerely hope you have enjoyed your albums and continue to celebrate the milestones of your loved ones. As a small gesture of our gratitude and hopes for 2011 we would like to extend this gift package to all of you who have purchased a baby album in 2010 and would love a few extra Fresh Outtakes keepsake envelopes!

To accept this gift, please send an email to orders@freshouttakes.com and leave your name and mailing address and note which album you purchased so that we can send you the appropriate gift set.

This offer expires on June 1st, 2011.

Best wishes for the New Year!

-Kim

Owner

custom albums!

a loyal (and fantastic!) customer called me the other day to ask if i have any albums for a same-sex couple who is expecting.

I DO.

and i am excited to print this custom album for these two moms-to-be!

if you would like to order an album, but you need it customized – just ask. anything is possible ;)

i l.o.v.e. paper!

i admit - i L.O.V.E. paper.

there is nothing better to me than dropping the kids off at school and discovering a fantastic stationery store.



i could spend the whole day visiting stationery stores. i had a great day discovering Paper Delights. they can be found here...www.paperdelights.com.



what could make a great discovery even greater? Fresh Outtakes baby albums can now be found at Paper Delights.



plus, my favorite company - le papier studio's new book!



take a look, and if you're local i promise that this fine stationery store will not disappoint!

pictures really are worth a thousand words

i love a great photo. i used to get so excited when i finally captured one of my kids looking well dressed and well mannered. however, what i've come to realize as i look back on my favorites - only one out of 10 photos is really a great photo if i'm looking at composition and lighting and all the things that i thought i should be concerned with.



my favorite photos as it turns out, are the ones that were taken while sneaking up on my kids or hastily chasing after them to capture the moment. sometimes they are the photos i take after tip-toe-ing into a dark room to document the "crash" i just heard from downstairs. these are definitely my FAVORITES. these are the ones that i have crammed into their baby albums and these are the ones that really tell the story of who they are.



i will share with you some of my favorites. our daughter has always been her own little person and has brought me from the brink of screaming to all out hysterical laughter with her antics. this is who she really IS and these are the photos i live for.

silhouettes and our logo

i love our logo - i just do. and i love the company/artist that created it! it makes me smile every time i see it. if you're wondering why - i'll let you in on the secret.

take a look at the le papier studio blog, the wonderful company responsible for my logo - they are featuring it on their site today! www.lepapierstudioblog.com

Birthday wisdom

There are many envelopes in my line of baby albums for various things – keepsakes, letters to your child, report cards, pictures and more.

On my daughter’s first birthday I wanted to write a letter to her, but I just couldn’t. She had been sick with acid reflux and a milk allergy for the first year and she was almost always uncomfortable. I felt like I didn’t yet know her true personality well enough to write that letter.

So rather than chronicle a less than peaceful year or try to fake it, I decided to do something different. At our daughter's birthday party I cut up pieces of paper and gave each of our family and friends a pen.





Our daughter was born just two months after my grandpa had passed away – a man who I loved so dearly and a man who I felt had so much wisdom from growing up in an era so different than my own. I decided that I wanted our child to have a little piece of wisdom from the friends and family who could offer that.



I loved reading through those pieces of paper at the end of the night. Each had a unique sentiment or a heartfelt piece of advice that was based on years of experience, love, heartache and well, wisdom. I remember smiling as I tucked those papers away carefully into the little envelope in her baby album.