Thursday, December 8, 2011

Edmond Elf Posts Christmas Reminders {El Dorado County Portrait and Family Photographer}

Christmas Reminder Christmas Card

 

I stepped away from my desk yesterday as I was waiting for a short slideshow to load (Schmautzhaus Christmas: The Joy of the Tree).  While I was gone, Edmond apparently found some sticky notes and a red pen.  I guess he felt that I needed some Christmas reminders. I’m mostly okay with his mild pranks so far.  He is a merry little creature and helps to insert joy into my day.

However, I did see something that is a little concerning to me:

Green Screen Elves

 

He somehow encouraged some other elves (previously jolly and helpful fellows) to help him find a green screen and moved it into my living room.  I’m not sure what is going on, but he is rather jaunty about the whole thing.  We’ll see…

Meanwhile, I’ve finished editing a few more portraits that I really like and are reminiscent of the season.  I hope you enjoy them too.

 

Hollywood Glam

I’m anxious (and a little nervous) to see what Edmond will do next…

If you would like a portrait session, contact me at schmautzhaus@sbcglobal.net for details, or head on over to Sierra Springs Photography.

 

Posted in Adventures of Edmond Elf, Beautiful women, Christmas

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Edmond Calls Santa (El Dorado County Children and Family Photographer)

Edmond Uses a Rotary Dial Phone

When I was young, but old enough to babysit my younger brother, I used to try to get him to behave by pretending to call Santa Claus and report his bad behavior. This always worked. The odd thing was that I would call Santa on the “magic” telephone…the curtain pulls. Payback is a bad thing, they always say. I found Edmond using a phone I picked up at the Thrift Store last week. I got it because when the power goes out at my house (which it does frequently in the winter) we don’t have any way to communicate with the world. So, I got the old rotary dial, no electricity necessary telephone. There was Edmond chattering happily away with “a nice man in a red suit”, telling him about some of the things that he has observed around here. I’m not liking this at all…

Posted in Adventures of Edmond Elf, Christmas, My Life
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Edmond Elf is definitely trouble (El Dorado County Portrait Photographer)

Edmond Leaves a Christmas Present Hint

 

After finding this Christmas Card from Edmond yesterday (hinting that he wanted a flashy car that comes with a pretty girl for Christmas), I finally sat down to look at what was on the memory disk that he left me yesterday.

Edmond helpfully points out his best shots

 

He had been a very busy elf.  He started off by hiding my favorite Christmas CD’s (Frank  Sinatra, The Rat Pack, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Mannheim Steamroller etc.)

Edmond hides my favorite Christmas CD's

He then substituted his own collection of whacked out Christmas CD’s.

After that, he began to harass the other Christmas decorations and made fun of some of my Christmas purchases.

Covering Snowman's Eyes while one of his Homies Eggs him on

 

Edmond Makes Bunny Ears Behind an Unsuspecting Santa

 

My Paper Mache Angel...sigh

 

Edmond Makes fun of my Christmas Air Spray

He even taunts Obie T. Dogg.  Lucky for Edmond, Obie does not prefer to chew on stuffed toys.

Obie T. Dogg and Edmond

And finally he mocks the photographer…Me.

Posing Guide...another sigh

It’s tough to be mad at him, though.  Last night I sat him down in front of the TV to watch “A Charlie Brown Christmas”.  He discovered what the true meaning of Christmas is:  Christ was born on Christmas Day.

Edmond Learns the True Meaning of Christmas from Linus and Charlie Brown: God's Love for Us

I was glad to be reminded of the Joy of Christmas (Christ) and the joy of Christmas (merriment and fun).

A Portrait to remind me it's all in fun

 

 

Posted in Adventures of Edmond Elf, Christmas, My Life
Monday, December 5, 2011

Edmond Shelf Elf strikes when nobody is looking…

 

This morning when I went over to my computer to do some editing of a photo shoot I did on Saturday, I discovered an elf in my coffee cup with a memory card.

The back story about this elf is that about two months ago a friend took me to a “Seconds” store in Carson City Nevada to “look around”.  I discovered some darling elves made by “Annalee”.  I purchased six elves dressed in red and green to add to my collection of bendable elves.  Everything was fine until we brought down the Christmas decorations from the attic.  That’s when the mischief began.

I’ll take a look at the memory disc and see what he’s been up to, but I have a weird feeling about all this.  I don’t know too much about shelf elves, but I’m thinkin’ they are supposed to stay on the shelf.  At any rate, here’s a couple of my favorite photos from the photo shoot.

Red Dress and a Mink

 

Red and Green look good on her

 

Blue Truck Red Truck

I’m sensing a theme here…

Posted in Children, Christmas, Fashion, My Life, Photo Shoots, Retro Tags: , , , , , , ,
Monday, November 28, 2011

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Santa Obie T. Dogg

So…maybe you’ve noticed that I decorated my blog for Christmas.  I got up early this morning, lugged all the virtual boxes down from the attic, cranked up the Christmas music and decorated my heart out.  If you stop by, you are likely to catch the fever and end up with a Santa Hat on your Facebook profile, or some such nonsense.  (Obie T. really is happy about Christmas.)

I always like to take a peek at my pics from the previous Christmas at the Schmautzhaus just to be reminded of the decorations and the activities that we did.  I apparently took some photos of some of my decorations last year and now I can’t wait to bring them all down and decorate up the house.

A Few of My Favorite Things

Christmas makes me happy.

Posted in Christmas, family, My Life, Photo collages

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