4th Street Dreams, an event to honor the Children's Dream Fund. - St. Petersburg

4th Street Dreams is only five days away. We are having a celebration with our neighbor's Pinky's Painted Cottage and Northeast Pyramid Barber to benefit The Children's Dream Fund. We are so excited!! We have been putting the final touches on the studio and it'll be ready for viewing Wednesday night, the 29th.

There will be food, drinks, a wine tasting provided by Uncorked, and many raffles and silent auctions provided by other popular 4th street retailers. Marion's, One Lucky Dog, Red Mesa, J Con Salon Spa, The Nature of Art Gallery and Reno Beach Surf Shop to name a few!!

Raffle tickets will be sold for $5 each and you don't need to be present to win. Other promotions include:

Tanya Sharkey Photography - a FREE Image Collection, a $379 value, for every photo session reserved and completed by May 31st.

Pinky's Painted Cottage - photo frames painted the night of event receive FREE Studio time!

Licensed Massage Therapist Janet Forbing will be on hand for mini massages!

Get a haircut at Northeast Pyramid Barber!

* A PORTION OF THESE PROCEEDS GOES TOWARDS THE DREAM FUND *


Look for tents at 2720 4th St. North. Parking will be available behind Pinky's Painted Cottage or at Colonial Bank.

Hope to see you there!!

Here is Pinky, at Pinky's, in a hand-made frame from Wild Sorbet! These come in every color under the rainbow!

High School Senior Session - Ybor City

I so love to photograph High School Senior Sessions. They take direction, have attitude and are willing to do almost anything. Here are a couple of shots from a session I did on Sunday afternoon in Ybor - Tampa.

Happy Easter Eggs

I can smell the bacon cooking in the kitchen. Yes, my awesome breakfast chef of a husband is cooking up omelettes this morning, Easter Sunday! It's a family day, the kids have already ripped apart their baskets and hunted for the candy filled eggs, left by the Easter Bunny over night. Later we'll watch a movie, or the Master's, well daddy will watch the Masters. I personally can't wait to open the Sparkling Shiraz.

Happy Easter Everyone!! Hippity Hop!

Ahhhh, decompressing before the Opening of the new Studio and Gallery in St. Petersburg.

Yes, relaxation! Palm trees, cool breezes, mojitos, this is what was desperately needed a few weeks prior to our studio coming to fruition. So, we packed up and headed the family down to Key West for a week during Spring Break. We're always asked what we do there, having two kids that are 5 and 7.

Pool. Eat. Shop. Cat Man. That's it! Ahhhhhhh.
Well, we squeezed in a ghost tour and toured the Hemingway house this trip too.

Now we're back to focusing on our Grand Opening on the 29th of April. Things are coming along well, the excitement and anticipation iare rising, and the plans are almost complete for a great event to benefit the Children's Dream Fund. It's going to be a great evening and can't wait to see how it unfolds.

My daughter didn't humor me until the morning we were leaving. After breakfast at Pepe's, waiting for daddy to pay, she got all drama suddenly. Typical, lol!