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April 18th, 2012

Hi Friends.

I just wanted to pop in for a few important things.

First – I’m having a You Capture Workshop this weekend on Sunday, the 22nd. This workshop is geared towards Moms with Cameras. (okay, not just Moms, aunties, too.) (and grandmas and daddies and … well, you get the idea.)

Anyway, I have four slots open, the workshop goes from 9am-11:30 am and is held in Valparaiso, Indiana (northwest Indiana). The cost is $100 but if you’re reading this and would like to attend, just email me at bethfletcherphotography@gmail.com and I’ll give you a $15 discount, you just have to contact me by Thursday afternoon!) Click here for more information and for reviews on the workshop.

Secondly

I”m sure everyone knows my love for Clickin’ Moms. I have a discount code for anyone that is interested in checking it out. For anyone, anywhere, interested in photography, this is your one stop place. I am living proof that it can change the way you shoot. So, visit this link and use discount code: FRIEND. (it’s a referral link of mine, so be sure to use it!)

Thirdly, for you photography folk, I am looking to do a guest post on Clickin’ Moms pertaining to blogging, social media and photography, which is actually a pretty broad spectrum for me, so I’m hoping you guys can help me to narrow it down to a more specific topic. Do you have any questions you’d like to see answered? About anything? Anything at all? Feel free to share. I would really appreciate your feedback on this. (and feel free to email me if you’d like to keep your idea private.)

Okay, that’s it from me. I hope your day is beautiful.

Scenes from Valentine’s

February 14th, 2012

Today was a very low-key day. Brian worked and then had class so it was definitely lacking in the romance department but I had a good day with the kids.

I bought Anna flowers. Her reaction was so perfect – it made me so happy to see her so happy. She’s always wanted flowers, she declared me the best Mama in the whole entire world.

I made each of the kids small valentine’s on the computer. Noah was most impressed with the small amount of rhyming I did on each one. I bought Noah a little frog that lights up and changes colors. He and Anna spent time in the bathroom with the lights off playing “future teller.”

I love it when they get along.

For Eli, I bought him a pair of crocheted slippers from a store in the area that’s a bit like an Etsy shop. All homemade goods. He loves them.

And for Clara, a little tiny barrette. She looks mighty pretty in her little tiny barrette.

I bought Brian and I cupcakes, which is funny because we started Weight Watchers. Our first weigh-in is tomorrow morning. I’ll eat my cupcake directly after the weigh-in at 7:12 in the AM.

I hope you all had a great day.

It’s so good to be back.

A giveaway!

November 28th, 2011

(sorry! giveaway is closed. winner announced tomorrow.)

I love working with Stephanie from Geezee Custom Canvas, not just because she’s sweet and friendly but also because I absolutely LOVE her product. I love that she’s a small business and creates beautiful keepsakes for your home, keepsakes that are meaningful and super cool.

She is sending me a canvas, a photo of my FOUR babies with a quote that I love. I absolutely can’t wait to see it in person and you can bet that I’m going to share it with you guys.

Here’s a preview she sent, CAN YOU EVEN TAKE HOW AWESOME IT IS? And the quote from the Avett Brothers? I love them so much it hurts, so when I thought to add it to the canvas, I nearly died at the perfection of it all.

WIN IT! One lucky reader will win a $75.00 gift certificate to her shop! Each of you can have up to four chances to win:

1. leave a comment telling me what you think you would do with your $75.00 gift certificate.

2. “like” Geezees on Facebook

3. share this giveaway on Facebook

4. tweet about @geezees and this giveaway

You must leave four separate comments in order for each of them to count!

But wait, it’s Cyber Monday and Stephanie is offering a special today. Purchase two custom canvases and receive free shipping (a $30 value) enter EGGNOG at checkout. Hurry, this special ends today, November 28th! (if you take advantage of this deal AND you win the giveaway, first, you are a lucky dog, second, Stephanie will refund the giveaway amount back to you. I told you she was wonderful.)

Giveaway ends Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 9:00 PM CST. Winner is picked randomly so please do not say ‘PICK ME.’

Like a dream

October 10th, 2011

My friend, Keli, is in town, she’s an awesome photographer. She came over and I handed my Nikon into her Canon-loving hands and asked her to take a few photos of my family and I. She’s a quick study and rocked my Nikon. She took the first three photos here:

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Mama with Clara

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I’ll be back with, like, words and stuff soon. I have so much to tell you, like, how I’m sleeping better than I have in months. or how Eli grew 12 inches in the past two weeks. or how much Anna loves being a big sister to a little sister. or how Noah acts like Clara has been in our family for years.

So, basically, I’ll come back and tell you that my kids are awesome, THE END.

Unleash your happy

August 31st, 2011

My bright, intelligent and talented soul sister, Jennifer Helen came up with the concept of Triple W a few years ago. Triple W is a workshop for the working woman, a place to learn how to integrate work and life. She did what so many of only wish we could do. She built on that concept, her dream and now that dream is a reality. I attended last year’s workshop and within hour one, I sat in the chair, my body numb from what I was listening to, my life feeling changed for the better. As each hour passed, the feeling expanded, my head wanted to explode from what I was hearing. From the very basic ideas of what makes woman tick, how men and women are different, how to seek peace from the moment you wake in the morning until the moment you lay your head on your pillow at night, to listening to your creative side and how to transform your life into something less stressful, more beautiful, MORE YOU. (and once the workshop is over, it doesn’t leave you, you have take-aways and partners you work with once you’re back at home in the midst of appointments and diapers and getting ready for work.) The idea is brilliant. The workshop is absolutely life changing.

This year the workshop is taking place at Google in Chicago on September 16th and 17th. Right now, TWF is offering a discount of $100 that ends THIS FRIDAY, September 2nd. I promise you, you will only regret NOT attending. You (and your family, your spouse, your friends, your employers) will gain so much by attending this. I could not love this workshop more. You can find more information about the workshop here:

And if you’re going this year, tell me in the comments. I’d love to be one of your accountability partners for the following year. I will not be attending TWF this year because of my pregnancy status but I will be making my Life Transformation Plan, as I did last year. Last year at TWF, I announced to my accountability partner that “I am a photographer.” Which was a very difficult thing to say. I said these words and I followed them around and I felt them in my hands and I sat with them for hours and soon, I truly believed and now, one year later, I have a successful, money-making photography business. TWF taught me to REACH for the stars, gave me the courage to put myself out there and also taught me how to do just that.

If you have any questions, feel free to email me or I can put you in direct contact with Jennifer Helen. (and then you’ll meet her and probably die because she’s one of the most beautiful, genuine, soulful people YOU WILL EVER MEET. And this is truth and can be backed up by hundreds of people.)

Anyway. JUST GO.

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You can “like” Triple W on Facebook and find out a ton of information about it here. Also, check out the photos from last year’s event.

One more thing about Jennifer Helen. She and I have known each other for a very, very long time. Something like, seventeen years. She is married, has three bright and hilarious children, she’s a yoga instructor, she has her own business. She doesn’t just put these workshops together, she IS this workshop. She lives it and breathes it and is a true testimony that integration of work and life (and spirit and soul) is completely possible. (literally every.single. detail of this workshop is considered.)

She and I have spent countless, COUNTLESS hours sitting at restaurants, eating six different appetizers, drinking coffee or beer, and we talk. And talk. And talk. And every time I leave that table and hug her goodbye (her hugs are by far the greatest things in the universe), I leave feeling fulfilled and light. Like I just had the best and most effective and life changing therapy session. So, when she first told me about this “workshop” and this idea that she’s working on. All I could think was, “of course it will come together and be a success because if I can sit across from her a table in a diner for three hours and we are talking about work and family and life and I feel like I’m in the presence of pure greatness, then how would it feel to spend a WEEKEND listening to the very people who shape HER.” And? She speaks, too. And you fall in love with her and the butterflies and her soul and TWF. And everything comes together and for the first time in a long time you remember how beautiful life is SUPPOSED to be but you lost sight of that because life is chaotic and hard and demanding.

But she reminds you.

And then every time you’re driving and the sun filters through your windows, and you’re sitting at a stop light (which you won’t mind doing after TWF), you’ll see a beautiful and unique butterfly fluttering across your windshield, you’ll be reminded of the greatness of this life. YOUR LIFE.

And you’ll think of Jennifer Helen and you’ll close your eyes briefly and breathe a soft breath and you’ll remember that life is that moment. So, what will you make of it?

This post? Is NOT sponsored. It comes from MY heart, MY mind and MY soul. I’m sharing this with you because it’s beautiful and life changing and it’s something I love and want to share with all of you.