The final countdown of the year is here.  Over the years, I’ve collected 10 Creative New Year’s exercises for the artist within.  If you’re like me, your creative spirit needs some replenishing. Queenstown, New Zealand What an intense year it’s been–full of high-highs and low-lows.  And yet somehow, we have not only endured but found […]

While we keep working on the SOAR! entries, I thought I’d pull a fun post from our blog archives.  It’s all about photo tips for shooting in the snow!    Remember this one?  It’s from January 08!      If you are snowed in (and I’m so jealous that you are!), click the link below […]

Can you believe Christmas is over?  I’m still in shock!  We had a wonderful, cozy Christmas with family—big Christmas Eve dinner at our house, singing carols around the tree, funny white elephant gift exchanges, the magic in Blaze’s eyes when he woke up with a red kiss on his cheek from Santa, Pascaline crossing the […]

Dear SOAR! Applicants and all the rest of the world that supports SOAR!,   We’ve got a handful of things to share!   First,  Brian and I are blown away.  We have a total of 247 SOAR! Video Entries/Applications to review—and possibly a couple more that we are having trouble uploading.  It is AMAZING!    […]

Dear Santa, Will you please give me the CONFIDENCE Workshop this year for Christmas?!  I’ve been wanting to go for three years!  I have wiped a thousand runny noses, made a trillion meals, cleaned the house (more than my mom ever did!), helped out in the classroom, been a GOOD listener to my husband’s woes […]

Before the weekend, we had over fifty video entries for the SOAR! Application!   As of Sunday, late afternoon, we had another fifty submitted!  We are up to our eyeballs in your amazing SOAR! Video Entries.  If you haven’t found your video on the website yet, it’s because we are BURIED with reviewing and uploading the […]