We got to meet three of the city’s most adorable kids – mom and dad were a bit camera shy but these kids were amazing! It’s sad to see summer leaving, but we love the amazing light that comes on a fall evening. Perfect for family photos. We met the Young family near to their house. This natural area is turning into a new neighbourhood, and it will be cool for them to watch it develop and remember that once, when they were kids, they got their photos taken there.
A few years ago we donated a gift certificate to a silent auction at L. Y. Cairns school where Michael’s sister Krista was working. Vanesa, Krista’s colleague, was the lucky winner. It took us a little while to connect, and in between Vanesa added another little one to her family! Once our studio opened we were happy to welcome them for family portraits.
This are two very busy parents! We have enough on our hands with one child, I can’t imagine five!
We got pictures of each child alone, and I have to share this little one – SO adorable.
We have been residents of Terwillegar Gardens for a year and a half now, and we absolutely love the neighbourhood. There are two new schools opening in Terwillegar Towne (one of which will be Andrew’s elementary school!) These days, the new schools are developed without playgrounds, and the community needs to come together to fund-raise and develop their own playground. An amazing group of parents in Terwillegar is doing just that, and you can find more about the initiative here.
We want Andrew and all of the other kids in the Terwillegar to have a great playground, and we want to help make it possible. We were going to simply make a donation, but we thought we could do better than that.
What we decided is that we are going to donate 25% of every photography session that we do with Terwillegar Residents to the development of the playground. We hope this will encourage our neighbours who may have been thinking of having family photos done to visit our studio and help build an awesome playground in the process.
If you are a Terwillegar resident, please contact us before the end of August to arrange your session – all of the details are below. We look forward to working (and playing) with you!
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I love contests. (I never win, but I love them.) So we’re going to have a big one!
Here are the details:
The prize: A complimentary family photography session with us, a 24×36 canvas, and 2 11×14 prints (over $1100 value – that’s huge!)
How to enter: Email info@shandrokids.com. To enter, simply tell us why you need family photos, why you should win the prize, and include a picture of your family.
The contest: We will pick the top three entries, our blog readers, will vote for the winner!
The deadlines: Entries will be accepted until 11:59 pm on June 15th, and the winners will be announced on June 23rd (my birthday!)
Who knows, maybe you too will end up on our studio wall someday!
And finally, a couple of announcements:
As most of you have gathered, we are celebrating the grand opening of our studio this month! It’s pretty perfect timing – we started Shandro Kids one year ago. At that time we pledged to donate a percentage of our profits from Shandro Kids to the Stollery Children’s Hospital. Thanks to the wonderful babies, kids, and families that we worked with over the past year, we donated $250 to the Stollery.
We’d like to thank the following sponsors for donating fantastic prizes for our Grand Opening:
Zaika Bistro, Stella & Dot Jewellery (Stylist Lesley Johnston-Woo), J’Adore Dance, Studio Bloom, Mommy Connections, Jacqueline Laine Makeup (jax_laine@hotmail.com), Photography Concentrate
Little Aadi was such a great subject to work with! This cute little guy has the best playroom ever, and loves reading books with his parents, What a fun family! Thank you for welcoming me into your home.
Just after Christmas we spent a very energetic hour with the Watt Family. All of these boys are cousins! It was great to see them all playing together.
We spent a fun morning with the participants in the first session of Mommy Connections this past week! We are one of the sponsors of the program, and took ‘Mommy and Me’ photos for all of the participants. They’ll each receive a free 5×7 at the next session.
We’d like to thank Carol, the founder of Mommy Connections, for giving us the great opportunity to meet these amazing moms!
Mommy Connections is a great way for new moms to meet each other, educate themselves about motherhood, and learn about great opportunities available to moms. Registration for the March session is open now!
Here is a sneak peek at some of the moms.
It’s a small world: we met Brittany when we presented to the October Wedding Planners Institute of Canada class…
…and we are a HUGE fan of Ailynn and her husband Ken, who operate Whimsical Cakes!
2010 will bring big changes to Shandro Photo, one of which is a brand new studio space! You’ll hear more about that soon. In the meantime, we used our living room as a brief studio for photos of the Washuta Family before Christmas. Remember this maternity session? Meet their beautiful daughter.
We first met Ines and her husband at Carrie & Nick’s wedding - we were seated at the same table and hit it off, chatting about our children (our little Andrew, and her daughter Naia). I remarked at what an amazingly beautiful pregnant woman she was, and passed her a card for Shandro Kids. We hand out a lot of business cards, and I’m excited to see the ones that come back to us. We were delighted when Ines booked our Mini Steps program and can’t wait to introduce you to her little one in 2010!
Ritu & Amit are friends of Renu & Garry’s (awesome clients from earlier this year) and we were delighted when they contacted us about maternity photos! Really soon they are going to find out if they are welcoming a little boy or a little girl. These pictures are in the nursery for when he or she arrives.
Congratulations! We can’t wait to meet your little one. It’s going to be one good looking baby!
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