Portraits by Angie Lane Celebrate Life Blog

We are entering the last week of voting for Little Angels! To vote on your favorite angel go to www.angielane.com/littleangels. Each vote is $1 and all of the proceeds go to the NICU at St. Joseph’s Medical Center! Here are the top 13 as of Monday:

I will be out of town from Monday, June 29 through Friday, July 2 and again from Monday, July 5 through Friday July 28. I will return emails and phone calls when I return. If I have contacted you to let you know your order is ready for pickup and you would like to get it next weekend before I leave again, please let me know!

Hope everyone’s having a great summer!

It’s time to vote for your favorite Little Angels! To vote go to www.angielane.com/littleangels and click on the “cast your vote” button. Enter the number of votes you want to cast (each vote is $1) The top 13 angels will be featured in our 2011 Little Angels calendar. All proceeds go to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Joseph’s Medical Center.

While you’re there you can also pre-order a 2011 Little Angels Calendar. Calendars ordered by August 15 are $10 and after August 15, they are $15.

I’m having so much fun with these newborns and I still have more ideas I want to try, so I am extending the Newborn Casting Call through June (May is booked up). If you have friends or family that are expecting in June, please forward this link to them. Here’s the 411:

* Babies born between now and June 30 are eligible (Spots may fill up before June 30).

* Babies must be under two weeks old at the time of the session

* Must be able to come to my home-studio on a Tuesday or Thursday between 9:30 and 1:00

* All participants must sign a model release so the pictures can be used in marketing and on my website

Spots for Casting Call sessions are limited so call today so we can get you on the calendar. (I ALWAYS suggest scheduling a newborn session before the baby is born to ensure that we can get portraits taken before they’re two weeks old. And of course, we can reschedule if the baby comes early or late).

UPDATE: I know some people were a little confused about when you could use Angel Bucks. They can be used for ANY session taken in 2010, not just a Little Angels session. So even if you’re not planning on participating in Little Angels this year, you can still earn Angel Bucks by referring your friends!

I’ve always said my best advertising is through you — my awesome clients! So I’m enlisting you to help spread the word about Little Angels! For each friend you refer for our Little Angels sessions, you will receive $50 Angel Bucks that you can spend on a photoshoot or portraits! And as an added bonus, the person who refers the most people to our Little Angels sessions will not only earn tons of Angel Bucks, but they’ll also win a free portrait session! And you can know that for each friend you refer, you’ll be helping to raise money for a great cause — the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Joseph’s Hospital!

To make it even easier to refer your friends, I have some special Little Angel promo cards that you can pass out to your friends, family, kids at school, church, gymnastics etc. Just give me a call at (209) 607-2768 and I’ll get the cards out to you!

I will be out of town from Tuesday, December 1 through Monday, December 7. I will return all calls on December 8 after I return. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!! Just a reminder, all orders must be placed by December 8 in order to be back before Christmas. Frame orders will have a rush fee applied to the order if they are needed by Christmas.

This session was so fun! Dad was so cute with the baby (even though she had a bit of an accident on him!) These pictures were done for the Skin to Skin campaign for St. Joseph’s.

I’ve been working with St. Joseph’s hospital over the last several months on a project promoting skin to skin interaction with newborn babies. If you’ve had a baby recently at St. Joseph’s, you may have seen the finished product hanging in the labor and delivery area. Next time you’re there, check it out!

OK, I finally jumped on the bandwagon (after several months of gentle ridicule from friends!) and am on Facebook! Now that I’ve finally set it up, it looks like lots of fun. I don’t know what took me so long! It’s easy to find me — just click on the link in my menu and it will take you strait to my page (if it doesn’t work, please let me know!) See you there!

I will be on vacation from Wednesday, July 1 through Wednesday, July 8. I’m not sure how the cell coverage will be, so leave me a message and I’ll try to get back to you if I can. I won’t have access to email, so I will return emails when I get back.