Get Ready for Valentine’s Day Event!

January 28th, 2012

I’m very excited to announce that Rain Avenue Photography has teamed up with a wholelotta (yes, wholelotta) unique businesses for a day of fun, food, and shopping.

Get Ready for Valentine’s Day Event! will be at Rain Avenue Photography on Saturday, February 4th from 1:00p.m. – 4:00p.m.

 

The following is a list of businesses that will be there:

 

Heirlooms Tea Room and Special Occassions

This local gem is offering a Sweetheart Valentine Dinner on Valentine’s Day. Try out their their teas and scones at the event on February 4th, peek at their their menu and then book your Valentine’s Day dinner reservation!

 

Crow River Wellness Center – Massage Therapy

If you’ve never had a massage, then you don’t know what you’re missing. It is absolutely amazing and we are very lucky to have Catherine and Gabrielle coming to the event. This is your opportunity to find out how wonderful a massage is because these gals are providing complimentary mini chair massages at the event! They will have gift certificates available for purchase for couples massages!

 

Wings of Flutter

If you’re looking for accessory pieces that no one else will have, you must check out these jewelry treasures that have been upcycled from vintage pieces by a local Hutchinson artist!

 

Bella Fashionista.com

You won’t want to miss out on the goodies that’ll be here. Designer jeans for women (including little girls and mens for online ordering), headbands, jewelry, and Jamberry Nails.

 

Makeup and Hair by Jenny

Many women have trusted Jenny’s talent to enhance their beauty with amazing hair and makeup. Jenny can travel to you and provide either traditionally applied makeup or airbrushed!

 

Luxe Personalized Jewelry

Treat yourself or someone you love to beautiful hand-stamped personalized sterling silver jewelry that can be accented with Swarovski crystals and pearls.

 

Rain Avenue Photography

Curious what a boudoir photo shoot is all about? Here’s the perfect chance to meet the photographer and check out the studio. Gift certificates will be available for purchase (great V-day gift for your special lady!)

**We’ll be photographing any guest who would like a FREE FACEBOOK PHOTO!**

And no, the photo will not be boudoir :)

As a special offer, we are offering FREE hair and makeup with all of our boudoir photography packages. But you must place your deposit by Saturday February 4th to get the current pricing and free hair/makeup. Pricing is increasing the following day!

 

Rain Avenue Photography is located at 126 Oakland Avenue S.E., Hutchinson. We’re at the corner of Oakland Avenue S.E. and Hassan St. which is basically inbetween The Coffee Company and 3M plant. Parking is available (space permitted of course) in the dual driveways (Oakland and Hassan streets) and also parking on Hassan Street.

 

I know I can speak for all of the businesses that we hope to see you on Saturday!


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Small Business Saturday Special 11/26 only! | Hutchinson, MN photographer

November 26th, 2011

Here’s your one day chance to purchase Rain Avenue Photography gift certificates at a special price, only offered one time a year!

 

These gift certificates are valid for NEW sessions only (cannot be used on previous sessions). These make great gifts for those hard to shop for people who seem to have everything.

 

Happy gift giving!

The Small Business Saturday Special has ended.


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Holiday Open House | Waconia, MN photographer

November 25th, 2011

If you’ve survived Black Friday (and from what I’ve heard, it was pretty brutal this year), I’d love to see you this Saturday for a Holiday Open House where you are sure to find unique gifts to give this year.  AND – who says you can’t give gifts to yourself?  :)

Here’s the address:

1161 Sparrow Road
Waconia, MN  55388

 

Join me and many other wonderful businesses for RELAXING shopping, snacks and refreshments.

(see those lovely bottles there…..they’ll be there, but certainly not for long!)

 


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2011 Holiday Pet Portraits fundraiser | Hutchinson MN photographer

October 20th, 2011

Please join us for our annual fundraiser for the Heart of Minnesota Animal Shelter!

This year’s set is perfect for a classic Holiday portrait of your pet with a rich green backdrop, comfy chair to curl up in (we have something else for those pets too big for the chair) surrounded by beautiful Holiday plants.

Session dates are:
Friday November 11th
Saturday November 12th
Monday November 14th

The session fee is $36.00 for the first subject with $10.00 for each additional subject(s). All session fees are 100% donated to the Shelter.

Sessions are held here at Rain Avenue Photography in Hutchinson. To reserve your session, call 952-913-7677
or email: info@rainavenuephotography.com

Bring an item from the Shelter’s wish-list and get a 4×6 print as thank you for your generosity!

WISH LIST
Lysol Liquid Disinfectant (Lemon Breeze Scent)
Fabric Softener Dryer Sheets
Liquid Laundry Soap
Comet Cleanser
Dish Soap
Bleach
Durable Pet Toys (such as the Cat Dancer wand toy)
Ceramic Cat Dishes
Lysol Spray
Liquid Hand Sanitizer
Paper Towels
Gallon Size Ziploc Bags
Stamps
Cash

 


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Pin It! | Hutchinson MN photographer

October 18th, 2011

Oh Pinterest, I’m quite fond of you. You’ve allowed me to be a *teensy* bit more organised. You hold all my ideas in one spot, rather than hundreds (no, I’m not kidding) of torn out pages of magazines. You keep track of the picture’s source so when I want to find out where to purchase it, make it or whatever – you show me.

Since I’m such a visual person, this land of never ending pictures and ideas is pretty cool. And since I like to incorporate a little bit of my style & personality in my business, I wanted to use Pinterest. I’ve created various Boards (think of a Board like a “lookbook” — a source of ideas) to give you some inspiration for wardrobe & makeup ideas.

You do need an invitation to create your own Boards and Pin items (Pinning is like tearing out that magazine page for later reference) but you don’t need to join if you just want to take a peek around. If you want an invitation, just ask me and I’ll send you one.

I hope you enjoy the ideas I add to my Pinterest boards!


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Protected: Ryan’s Senior session

October 14th, 2011

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Protected: Cate’s 6 month session

October 4th, 2011

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Rescues and Runways Fashion Show | Hutchinson Minnesota photographer

September 26th, 2011

Animals have always had a very special spot in my heart.  Being an only child and living in the country where there were no neighborhood kids to play with, many of my memories are playing with our numerous cats.  We lived on a farm and it was not uncommon to have 10-20 cats at a time which were all very well fed and along with the cats was my best pal, my dog Duke.  Fortunately for me (maybe not so much for the cats) there were always a couple of cats that didn’t care if I dressed them up, held them like babies or put them in my doll buggy.

So with my love for animals, I’ve found myself in the past year bringing 2 homeless cats to live with us (past story on one of those here).  I realize that this has to stop as I know unfortunately I just can’t save them all (not on my own anyway).  Well last week, there was a stray cat outside our window which was annoying one of our cats.  My husband went outside to pet it (which is bad news because that means this cat would have extremely good chances of making it inside the house, and if that happens, that means the cat won’t be making it back outside again and would live a cushy life as a housecat).  Well this cat wasn’t tame and immediately ran when it heard the house door open.  We didn’t see the cat again, until the next morning.  It was laying on the road infront of our house and was hit by a car.  You see, THAT is the exact reason that I will someday be the crazy cat lady.   I will have a house full of cats because I want to save each and every one of them from some awful ending.  Sigh…..

Sorry to leave you with that so let’s change this up and do something for the ones we can help!

I’m very excited to be getting set for year four of the annual Holiday Pet Portraits, a fundraiser I have been doing for the Heart of Minnesota Animal Shelter here in Hutchinson, MN.  Sessions will be 11/11/11, 11/12/11 and 11/14/11.  I’ll post more details later but I wanted to let you know that this year you are able to pre-register for the 2011 Holiday Pet Portraits at another fundraiser for the Shelter which will be happening this Saturday, October 1st at the Hutchinson Mall.

Maurices is holding a fashion show starting at 12pm, with a silent auction beginning at 11am and lasting until 2pm.  Rescues & Runways  is a great opportunity to see the latest in fashion while helping out animals that need our help.  I hope to see many of you there and to pre-register for your pet’s 2011 holiday portrait!


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Voted most photogenic – Hutchinson, Minnesota photographer

August 26th, 2011

Do high school seniors still vote on “most pretty/handsome”, “best storyteller”, etc.?  When I was a senior, we did.  And I got my name etched forever in our yearbook for……

BEST JUNKER.

Oh yes.  I was the proud (cough, cough) driver of a green Ford Granada.  4-doors.  AM radio.  Squeaked going over bumps.  The passenger side seat (bench seat mind you) wasn’t bolted down, so the front passenger was mostly a backseat passenger when taking off quickly.  Well, as quickly as this car would accelerate.  Which wasn’t fast.  At all.  It was, well, something.  :)    I tried finding a picture of it somewhere and came across this one — and since I’m kind of on an embarrassing streak I figured what the heck.  Yes, that’s me – and hey, kids play dress up!

So now that this is out in the open, back to being photogenic.  There was a recent voting of Hollywood’s most photogenic celebrities of all time.  Not too much of a surprise for number 1 was Elizabeth Taylor.  Here was the rundown:

1.) Elizabeth Taylor- 72%

2.) Jennifer Aniston – 69%

3.) David Beckham – 66%

4.) Megan Fox - 61%

5.) Audrey Hepburn – 58%

6.) Marlon Brando – 53%

7.) Angelina Jolie - 52%

8.) Marilyn Monroe - 49%

9.) Sophia Loren – 41%

10.) James Dean – 38%

Quite a few “old school” celebrities in there.  I love the style of old Hollywood glamour images – they are just so classic, beautiful, and timeless.  I find that a lot of my favorite images I shoot have similar lighting, lots of dramatic shadowing like the image of Marilyn Monroe.  Ahhh, so gorgeous!’

So — what did YOU get voted as in high school (perhaps it’s better not to be voted as anything!).


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Warm Fuzzies | Hutchinson, MN photographer

June 1st, 2011

Who can resist the cuteness? And really — even if you’re not a cat lover, how could you not say, “awww!” to this cuteness?

Happy Wednesday!


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