Sunday, November 04, 2007

Spencer Photos Categories

1. Photographic Prints and Gifts
With 15 different categories to choose from you are sure to find a photographic print that will add beauty to your life. New photographs are being added on a daily basis. Ever expanding is our floral prints as we continue our journeys through the botanical gardens in Norfolk.
Link: http://www.cafepress.com/spencerphotos/3830955

2. Artistically Altered
Come see the fun designs we now offer! Currently there are 11 categories full of designs made from our original photographs. Flowers take on an interesting green glow when converted to a negative image in our Alien blooms section. Borders and masks add charm to several of my favorite images. All of our photographic cut outs can be customized! If you find a design that you like and would like it customized with a name, saying or other text, let us know and we will create a custom gift for you!
Link: http://www.cafepress.com/spencerphotos/3833144

3. People Matter!
As a case manager at a homeless shelter I know that one person can make a difference in the lives of others. Every year 600,000 families with 1.35 million children experience homelessness in the United States. What are you doing to make a difference? When you purchase any item from People Matter!, money will be donated to an emergency fund to help families out of homelessness and into housing. Our breast cancer designs will also make a difference in the lives of women everywhere. With the purchase of our breast cancer designs, money will be given to charity with a specific focus on Breast Cancer health, education, and awareness.
Link: http://www.cafepress.com/spencerphotos/3831383

4. This Nerdy Girl
We’ve had fun adding designs to this section. Come browse through our fun text based designs for mom to be, gamers, bitter wives, and more!
Link: http://www.cafepress.com/spencerphotos/3831533

5. 12 Months
We are busy adding designs for the upcoming holidays! In our Christmas section you’ll find a cute snowman with some fun sayings, a lovely green Christmas tree decorated in yellow and red and some trees at night. Our tree lovely frogs are also dolled up for Christmas with Santa’s hat. We have a section with gifts for her. Some of our beautiful floral images have had wonderful sayings about motherhood added to them to create a gift that mom is sure to love!
Link: http://www.cafepress.com/spencerphotos/3831455

Thank you for your interest in Spencer Photos! We hope you enjoy the changes to our store and we look forward to sharing our newest additions with you again soon!

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Izzy's Turtle Shirts


I was really busy designing shirts the other day. Izzy came up to me and asked for a shirt. I thought it couldn't hurt because it would give me a chance to see a new design so I showed her all the different infant shirts that we carry at Spencer Photos. Out of all the possible choices she chose this turtle shirt. I took the turtle image, added "Izzy's Turtle Shirt" and then a plug for the store (might as well make the baby a walking advertisement) and ordered it.
We received it in the mail the other day and I have to say it is so cute. She wore it to daycare on Thursday.
Doing this customization for her also gave me a great idea. I'll be able to offer customization on any of these shirts and allow parents to add their child's name or a message to their child on their shirts. I'll have to add a section to the store for this.

Lots of New Arrivals!



I've been very busy lately working on Spencer Photos. I can't believe how many photographs I've left just sit on our computers. I'm going through all the prints to add that are on Steven's computer. I've just added 130 images to our cafepress store and still have many more to go. I've added some lovely black and whites, fall pictures, tons of pink roses.

I've gone and changed the store quite a bit. The old home page can now be found at: Photographic Gifts and Prints

This morning I decided to add: My Creative Kid. It's a shop I have been thinking about for quite some time. I have a whole bunch of kid friendly designs in my head that I need to get onto the computer. Luckily Steven's been learning how to use a whole bunch of great programs on the computer so he'll be able to take my ideas and make them real designs.

I've added a few designs to: 12 Months but that store is so totally not where it is supposed to be. Eventually I'll have time to get it there but until then, this section will be sparce.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

No tricks, just treats. Our awesome gifts can't be beat!

Stop by Spencer Photos to see our new arrivals! There is a beautiful basket of apples, a pirate pumpkin, black and white daffodils and more!

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

New Arrivals


Brand New Photography Gifts

Everyday beauty in a whole new way!


Browse this section to see a sample of some of our new photographic images that are now for sale. New items were also added in our Animals of the Air, Animals of the Sea , Orange Flowers, Botanical Prints.

I've also added entire new categories to our shop! Check out the fun items offered in Artistically Altered. There are black and white images, photographic cutouts, floral designs, fun borders, alien blooms and dark scenes, and more!

New section to raise awareness and funds at People Matter! Profits from these sections will go towards creating emergency funds to prevent or minimize homelessness one family at a time. Profits from our breast cancer shirts will be donated to a charity with a specific focus on Breast Cancer health, education, and awareness.

This Nerdy Girl has great sections such as Bitter Wife, Odd Sayings, Gamer Gear, Music and more!

Sunday, October 14, 2007

New Additions!


Spencer Photos invites you to check out our new designs! Cutout photography designs are now available on our clothing selections as well as tile coasters, prints, mugs and more!

Friday, October 12, 2007

Artistically Altered


Several great designs are waiting here for you! Browse our alien blooms made with negative imaging, sketch prints, metallic blooms, stamped designs, beautiful watercolors and more!
These vivid, unique images will add beauty and character to your home or office and they also make great gifts! Show your love for animals or nature! Decorate your home with our framed prints, posters and framed tiles or welcome your guests with our beautiful coasters. Our lovely tote bags are so versatile the possibilities are endless: grocery shopping, library tote, crafts and more!

Have some fun! You know you want to.
This nerdy girl is all about having fun and freedom of expression. There are fun and frisky designs here that you are sure to enjoy. There is an incredible set of glowing hands for all the music lovers out there and the Daddy is a DJ shirt perfect for children who, well, who's daddy is a DJ. Wanna be DJs are okay too.
Sometimes I get mad and want people to know this and there's a shirt for that. My daughter is spoiled (or so I've been told) and there is a shirt for that too.
Enjoy!


Celebrate your life!
There are 12 months full of reasons! Get the perfect gift for every member of your family with shirts in all styles and colors, buttons, magnets, cards and more! There are many things that we can celebrate each day. Whether it’s a holiday, birthday or a just because day there is a reason to be happy.

Are you ready for the holidays? We have some Christmas designs that will make great gifts. We also have some beautiful heartfelt designs for mothers and a fun heart for the one(s) you love.

People Matter!


Help make life better one step at a time!
Raising money to help fight breast cancer and homelessness!
Coming soon! The 9th annual costume walkathon. Come out to Old Dominion University on October 21, 2007 to support The Dwelling Place, an ecumenical family shelter in Norfolk, VA. Learn about homelessness and how to contribute to the shelter.
Designs will be added soon that you can proudly wear letting the world know that it's not okay that families are homeless. Profits from these sections will go towards creating emergency funds to prevent or minimize homelessness one family at a time.
Profits from our breast cancer shirts will be donated to a charity with a specific focus on Breast Cancer health, education, and awareness.

New Arrivals


Brand New Photography Gifts
Everyday beauty in a whole new way!


Browse this section to see a sample of some of our new photographic images that are now for sale. New items were also added in our Animals of the Air section, our Butterflies section, Pink Flowers, Red Flowers, and my favorite new addition at Cloud Prints.

About Us!


On Location Photography
Hampton Roads, Virginia

Steven and Heather are the photographers of Spencer Photography. We offer on location photo sessions and are excited to offer a new option, "Storybook Creations." Each storybook session includes an 8x8 21-page hardbook that blends storytelling and photography as your photo session becomes part of the book.

You choose what type of story you or your loved ones will have. "The Belly Book" is a good way to write that welcome letter to your unborn child and the "While You've Been Gone" is the perfect book to send to your long distanced loved ones. It's a great gift for distant relatives and deployed family and friends. Record holiday traditions or other meaningful events in one of our family books. We will come to you, interview you and then take the photographs to accompany your story. Your loved ones will treasure this gift always.

You're child can also be the star of their own fairytale such as a young child on a quest to find their happily ever after.

If you are interested in hiring a photographer to record a moment in your life contact us at lippyehat@hotmail.com with your name, phone number and the best time to contact you. Book us now for your very own “Storybook Creation”.

We offer private stores through Café Press from your photo session to create a unique shopping experience. We can also customize your order for a wonderful, personalized gift. We can add text, and make changes (color to black and white, cropping, special effects). We also offer on location photo sessions for engagements, weddings, family portraits, maternity sessions and more.

For scheduling a photo session, to customize one of our current images or for additional questions please contact us at lippyehat@hotmail.com


"Everyday beauty in a whole new way!"
We see life differently now that we are the parents of a very curious 3-year-old or maybe we are just seeing things as we did when we were children. We stop and enjoy the flowers and bugs. Even the sunlight coming through the trees is enough to stop us for awhile.
My husband and I love photography. Nature photography gives the three of us time together doing what we love. For those of you in the Hampton Roads area, we are also on-location photographers. Please take the time to browse our portfolio and contact us if you are interested.
Browse our store as we have many of our photographic prints for sale as prints and on t-shirts, mugs, coasters, and more!

Sunday, October 07, 2007

New Design!


I just added this design to my store!
Come check it out at Dynamic Clouds!
I've been adding new designs and I have many more to add.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Breast Cancer Awareness

Hair Kingdom 344 Battlefield Blvd. Chesapeake, VA 23322 (757)482-1900 is known for their spirit of giving. The wonderful girls from the shop actively raise money to help make the world better one cause at a time.

When Katrina hit leaving countless people devastated, Hair Kingdom was there raising funds and offering support. Recently they've put together baskets and have raised funds to help a local women's shelter for domestic violence. They've also helped raise money for CHIP, Saint Jude's, and for children needing life saving medical care. The Foundation of Faith offers scholarships to students in the name of fallen soldiers and Hair Kingdom helped raised funds for their worthy cause.

As October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month they have started a new fundraising goal. They are selling shirts and donating the proceeds to help with the fight against breast cancer. Can you help these girls with their goals?

If you are in the Hampton Roads area, stop by their shop and ask how you can help, schedule an appointment to have your hair done and purchase one of their breast cancer awareness shirts. If you are outside of the Hampton Roads area shirts may be purchased through Spencer Photos and the proceeds will be given to charity with a specific focus on Breast Cancer health, education, and awareness.

Spencer Photos Online Store!

New things are happening at Spencer Photos! Come see our lovely pink flowers. There are zinnias, roses, lotus blossoms, echinacea and more!

I am currently working on this section adding more designs and more items. We know carry maternity shirts and plus sized shirts.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Been Awhile



It's been awhile since my last post. Quite a bit has been going on both in my personal life and in my professional life.

I've just started working on Spencer Photos again after a brief break. Steven, Izzy and I continue to go out and take more photographs. We've got some amazing animal and flower prints to add and I will be updating the portfolio section again.

I'm really excited about some of the changes that are taking place at Spencer Photos. I'm redoing all the sections and this will offer more options to our customers. Some of the changes that are taking place can be seen at Animals of the Land. I've been fixing product and section descriptions and I'm now offering our prints with borders.

Since this is a time consuming task it will take some time. I'm almost finished with Animals of the Land and that is a very small section of the store but eventually it will be finished and the store will be better for it.

I've also recently had our business cards and promotional handouts professionally printed. This is very excited as it means we are taking Spencer Photos to the next level. Soon we plan on branching out into art shows to gain more exposure.

We will be starting soon on a photographic book that should be very interesting. I am planning my outline for "The Scenic History of Hampton Roads". I plan on including as much as I can about this wonderful area.

Please take some time and browse through my store and come back in a few weeks to see the progress. There is also a newsletter sign up box at the store where you can keep up to date with our additions starting in August.