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Our Halloween Decor! (Indoor-Outdoor-Photos Galore!)

October 9, 2011 By Laura 22 Comments

BOO, People!! So excited here, to show you all around! I had a goal this year (2011), to have our whole homestead Halloween decor done (known as the 3-day Hallowtide, to us) by October 1st! That way, we could enjoy it all the whole month of October.  I also wanted it all blogged no more than a few days later. How long can it really take, to photograph, edit, and blog it? Apparently….9+ days.  With my kids busy schedules, I’m in the driver’s seat, in gyms and on fields, more than in my computer chair these days. (Enjoying it, although behind in work to say the least. But my kiddos come first!)

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Now, I have to explain real quick, that I have been trying to ‘find my place’, with Halloween decor, for years.  From a spiritual/Catholic point of view (always where I am at), I don’t like to stray too far from the true meaning or Christian roots of any holiday, including Halloween. This is why we have always extended our focus to Hallowtide = All Hallows Eve, All Souls’ Day, and All Saints’ Day.  (You can see more about that, and how we roll, HERE.)

On a completely unrelated note, but tying in with the theme, I personally am a big baby, some may say. I do not like scary/gory/terror/evil anything.  My kids laugh at everything they see, and I look away. I freak out inside a little bit, myself. Not to mention (ok, I will….), that I see zero value in all of it. So…. decorating has always been a bit of a reluctance / confusion for me, about what I wanted to do.  But I can say this year, I found my groove, and the game was on!
In that light, I hope you enjoy seeing our homestead, outdoors and indoors, that I have photographed for you all.
LET’S GO!

best Halloweeen decor Off the bat ( <—- <giggle!), I’d like to give huge props and thanks to Emily from Frosting & Ink Social Designery! <—- Click on the link to see her Etsy shop!  I purchased this Halloween Party Collection from Frosting & Ink, and used it for my home decor!  While I can design much of anything myself, I hardly have time these days. And besides, when I saw what Emily created, I was all over it!  So she deserves lots of credit here! I’ll be posting some her beautiful designs, and showing you how I used them throughout these photos. I actually have not used them all yet, but there is always next year!

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Got to warn you:  I handed the Hubs the cobweb stuff, to be in charge of getting that done, and he went crazy with it!  Even {O} giggled watching him and said, “I can tell you’re having fun with that stuff Daddy! You don’t want to stop!”

One more note:  I had fun editing these photos, with some little grunge effects, etc.  My house is not actually this grimy looking, inside or out!  Not that’s it’s perfectly clean either.  If anything, it gets more of the messy & dust-bunny kind of dirty. LOL  ; )

So here is my very favorite Halloween creation, I made with a design from Frosting & Ink….

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My Halloween Parking Sign! That’s right, I’m the witch around here! Heee hee heeee! Some will agree with that, in a heart beat. ; )  Others will argue, “No000 sir.  She is kidding you.  She is the sweetest thing ever!”  Depends who you talk to. LOL. (Or the day? lol).  Just kidding.

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Anyway….I smile every time I pull the car into our driveway, about 20 times a day, and see my sign.  It’s something I made to be able to use every year, for years to come. I saw the whole thing in my head, the second I saw the design.  Michael made the jagged wood board for me, and we painted/distressed it, etc. It is weatherproof.

If you are wondering how, I do plan to do a quick post in the Crafts section, about how I made some of these Halloween decor things, sometime this week.  But this post is just about showing our decorations for now.

best Halloweeen decor I just have to show you the amazing and beautiful detail in Emily’s work!  I always loved that font used for ‘Parking’.  A band I love, Daughtry, uses that letter-style for their logo. It’s called Bleeding Cowboys, I think. It’s a perfect choice for Halloween designing.  Good call, Emily!

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I was soooo on the fence (<—-another pun…giggle!) about getting this skeleton at Michael’s Arts & Crafts!!  I definitely am drawn to skulls and cross-bones and stuff, you know?  I have no idea why. They just ‘look’ cool to me. Yet I don’t really want to like them so much. LOL.  So….this is about my line, as far as decor goes.  See? Call me a wimp.  As long as we placed him humorously, was our/my decision.  I do like seeing him, hanging out there! (As long as it’s not dark out! lol)
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007_halloween-garden-home-decor Here is a wider view of our front-yard-gardens.
The flowers are pretty deadish now, which really kind of makes it all work!  Don’tcha think?
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Another perspective of our friend.  From Snap Peas to Skeletons!
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best Halloweeen decor I love my newly painted buttoned bottle.

best Halloweeen decor The potting bench.


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Bats swarming our front door.   It was a popular idea last year, that I loved.  But I’m slow. : )
Details of how I did this will be in the Crafts post too.

best Halloweeen decor This chest Michael picked up free somewhere in front of someone’s house.  It’s super interesting inside!  Really old…meant for shipping clothing and goods, etc., I think.  There are all of these compartments inside.  BUT, when opened, there is a heavy mold/mildew odor (which I am immediately allergic to), that we can’t get rid of.  So, we’ll be tossing it, instead of doing anything more with it.  But I thought it would be cool to keep through Halloween out on the front deck, anyway.
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Through the glass of our front door here, you can see our Halloween wreath I made, with another design from my party pack from Frosting & Ink!

SO……that’s about it for our outdoor Halloween decor.

Would you like to come in??…

best Halloweeen decor When you order for this particular pack from Frosting & Ink, you are supposed to give her your last name, so she can customize this design.  I incorporated it into a wreath.  I’ll share more about how I made this later, in the craft post, too.

best Halloweeen decor The wreath is technically on the inside, because it is not weatherproof, in any way! Just turning it over here, so you can get a better look of it as a whole.  But faces outdoors.

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Our Halloween Tree.  Yep….still have that stick tree there! LOL.

The Halloween lights and black crow were bought at Michael’s Arts and Crafts.

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Some of you may know, I love making inter-changable fan pulls, for our all-season room.  (Anyone?)  I haven’t made one in a long time.  BUT, I did make one for Halloween this year!….

best Halloweeen decor Beads and this spider, from Michael’s Arts and Crafts.

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How cute are the little ghosts??

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I did this kind of thing on our French doors, for Christmas and spring too.  I used the the little Cupcake Toppers and Party Signs, from the same Frosting & Ink Party Collection,  for what I call ‘Fancy Strands’, down my doors.

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025_ A little over the top with the cobwebs, much?  It is a bit of an old family portrait now. Well, only 2-3 years. Time for a new one, although we’ll keep this one up somewhere in the house, too, anyway. But that’s the fam.

Well would you look at the time!….

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It’s late, and I must get to bed.  I am sure we’ll have something more Halloween-ish to share, in the coming weeks.  We do plan to do something with pumpkins!  And as I said, I’ll be showing how I made everything crafty in this post, in a coming post in the Crafts section. So….we do hope you come again. (If you DARE!!  Because we’re wicked scary….right? ; )

ETA:  Here is the link for:  Tips, Tricks and How-To’s to our Halloween Decor  in this post

Please say  “BOO!”….if you enjoyed this peak of our Halloween Homestead!!?

Feel free to share the post, or PIN any photos you’d like, as well!

Isn’t the Halloween season fun??

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An Autumn Love Story, for a Lifetime! / Engagement Photo Shoot

October 2, 2011 By Laura 2 Comments

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Honestly, this engagement photo shoot is a way-overdue share.  It was actually shot last Autumn, 2010. But with the peak of Autumn just ahead of us, I think it’ll be all the more appreciated now. The celebration to be had is less than a month away now as well. So in that light, the timing couldn’t be more perfect.

I haven’t photographed many engagement sessions, really, but I’d love to because I do enjoy them.  But since I don’t photograph weddings, and most couples use the same photographer, I don’t get the opportunity often.  This couple however, aware I don’t do weddings, booked with me anyway, and I was honored they did!

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I have known the bride-to-be, “M”, all of my life.  Her family, as far back as 2 generations before her, have real history, with my own family.  They’ve been friends that have always felt more like family.  The history, the connections, and the stories, are more than I could ever begin to tell.  Her father has been a big and special part of my life, especially. So to be asked to do this engagement session for his daughter, and her handsome groom-to-be, “J”, was an honor.  It was important to me to find the most beautiful location between us that I could, and I think I did alright.

 

engagement-photos-laura-lee-richard-photography-plymouth-ma-1 How is this for a clever proposal?  “J” gave “M this pumpkin as a little gift, (got himself one as well), and this is the message she found on the bottom of hers.  She was puzzled at first by what it said, with his clever texting-style coding, but I believe she lit right up, when the light bulb went off.  As you can imagine, she said “Yes!”.

What a beautiful ring, huh? He did really good!  ; )

 

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The foliage was not only still holding on in this area, but there was this cool old structure (behind them) that I loved too.

 

engagement-photos-laura-lee-richard-photography-plymouth-ma-3 This might be their first formal family portrait. Their dog “A” is there first baby, of sorts, I believe.  She has a full name, and all.   She was given a pumpkin too.  But as I recall,  she destroyed it, like nobody’s business. LOL!

Here’s more of my favorite shots, of this couple in love, at this magical little Autumn spot I scouted….

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I loved so many photos I got of them together, with their love shining as warm as the Autumn sun on us that day.  But I do believe this was my very favorite shot of the two of them.  She’s so beautiful, and you can see he clearly loves her.

 

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engagement-photos-laura-lee-richard-photography-plymouth-ma-9 This is simply, a cool shot I set up, if I do say so myself. And I am. No one can tell me any different. LOL

 

engagement-photos-laura-lee-richard-photography-plymouth-ma-10 So here we have, a beautiful collection of the couple as fiance’s to each other.   After a long courtship, a year+ engagement and wedding planning!  All leading to the day….

 

engagement-photos-laura-lee-richard-photography-plymouth-ma-11 At the end of this month, they will celebrate their wedding day, and the first day of the rest of their lives, as husband and wife.  I wish them the wedding day of their dreams, on a perfect Autumn day, and all of the happiness two people can have, forever.

I hope you all enjoyed seeing the photos from this special session, as much as I enjoyed shooting them.  Thanks for letting me share some of my work with you!

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Early August Gardens, at Our House.

August 11, 2011 By Laura 6 Comments

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Just a quick update on how our gardens have grown. It’s August now.

The most exciting recent development, is we finally have some watermelons growing!

001_watermelon-patch They are still fairly small. I forget what variety we planted, so maybe they won’t get much bigger.

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I need to find the seed packet, and find out, because we’ve got a (passed due) deadline here!

 

003_watermelon-patch We need to use the ‘Watermelon Patch’ as our ‘Pumpkin Patch’ soon!  If not yesterday.  If you were with us last year, you may recall we planted our pumpkins way too soon.  We had to harvest them by early October, and so we didn’t have any WE grew, by Halloween.  : ( But apparently, it takes 120 days to grow pumpkins!

That leaves us with…..83 days. Oh dear. This year we’re late!

004 I think we’ll just plant pumpkin seeds tomorrow, right in there with the watermelon vines. There’s room!

005 Are we blessed, with kids who LOVE to weed, or what?

I can answer that.

“Yes we are!”

006_cherry-tomatoes-on-vine Cherry Tomatoes, on the vine.

(The bigger kind.)

007_cherry-tomatoes-on-vine More Cherry Tomatoes.

And some other varieties too….

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Soon, we’ll have Tomatoes to eat every day.  (LOVE tomato sandwiches.)  Right now, we are eating Cucumber spears every day, and we love it!! The kids eat tons.   The kids dip in Ranch Dressing. I like just Salt & Pepper.

 

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We’ve got just a few Green Bell Peppers growing.  My mother-in-law was right. We should had started earlier, when we started with seed in the house.

Always learning as we grow.

Oh my favorite this year….

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Our Sugar Snap Peas.

I just love even the SIGHT of them, growing up our trellis and twine.

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015_fresh-sugar-snap-pea It doesn’t seem we got as many as we should have?

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But maybe that is because we can’t stop eating them!  Never enough.

Can you believe we have not gotten as far as to even COOK some yet? They are simply sweet, crunchy, divine, and addicting, raw and right off the vines.

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I love the sweet little flowers they put off, too.

 

018_hornet-on-wood1 There are constantly wasps collecting wood grain, to make nests somewhere.  I’ve come not mind them around.  It’s actually interesting to watch them work.  So far, I still have a trellis so, it’s fine.

 

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Lastly, we have some sunflowers, that the kids began to grow inside, and replanted in the gardens.  They make me smile.

And so do your visits here to our blog.  Thank you coming by. How are your gardens/flowers fairing?  Please take a moment to say hi, and invite us over to your place, if you’d like.  Most think we’re pleasant enough folks. : )




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Garden Peek!> Early Summer 2011

July 20, 2011 By Laura 1 Comment

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I believe we’ve been both gardening and blogging, for about 3 years.  Our life is filled with so many various passions, there is more than we are actually able to get to blogging.  I sure try to get it all in though!  But one area that is especially hard to keep you all updated with, is the gardening!  Good gosh. Things grow and change SO fast, by the time I photograph what I want, edit the photos, and start putting a post together (while you know, living my life and doing 1,000 other things in the midst of it all), the post report, explaining the photos I took, don’t seem very current by the time I get to typing it out! But my intent today, is really just to share with you all what we’ve got growing this year.

In that light, after the first photo, the photos in this post were taken in early July. As I type, it is the 20th of July. Still, while reporting with photos is unavoidably a little delayed, we like to try and give you the picture of the process as a whole, even if the photos are a little behind the 8-ball of the gardens in the moment.  I imagine it is all still relate-able for the interested gardeners (or wannabes) reading, and perhaps it opens a door for conversation, as you reflect back on the few weeks prior to your own gardening-status, and the subsequent changes.  So we’re going to roll with this delay-thing we have going on in the gardening blog-shares, and hope you all can too.

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One thing we did differently this year, that we have not done in the past 2 years, is start our vegetable plants from seed!  Our experience with gardening has been that we learn a little more every year.  While we were somewhat successful in growing the plants from seed indoors, to transplant to the garden beds come Memorial Day weekend, I’m not sure our timing was right with everything. (?) For example, our pepper plants started out so tiny in the beds, that I couldn’t imagine them ever producing fruit this season!  But in sharing this with my Mother-in-law when she visited in early June, she mentioned those seeds probably should be planted in February or so.  She and my Father-in-law kept a beautiful yard full of gardens when they lived in this area. In the course of our conversation, I could not even remember the month we actually did start the seeds. But I was sure it was not that early!  The packaging of the seeds did not say, that I could tell, how long prior to replanting, that the seeds should be started. It only seemed to say how many weeks before they should bare their first fruits. So….I was winging it all. All of the seeds did sprout, grow plants, and were transplantable. In fact,  some grew too tall to keep the clear cover on, for the greenhouse effect.  What to do about that? And as I said, maybe different seeds should have started at different times. But when, for each variety, is my question. So, more researching to be done, and more lessons to be learned.  But as I have said all along, the learning as we go is half the fun!  Next year , also, I’ll keep a record of when the seeds were put in the soil. At least write the date on the containers!

Here is just a couple of other small points to note:  1)  As a reference, these photos were taken in early July. Things have grown and changed a lot since then.  So we plan to update you soon, but a little after the facts of course. : )  2) Please pay no mind to the very patchy crabgrass, in our sand-dirt, that needed mowing badly. It was done that evening.  But I am working on not procrastinating photos or a post, due to a likely irrelevant detail, so don’t call me out on that, or I may have a relapse with my self-therapy. ; )  Alrighty?

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Here in Bed #1 we have little pepper plants on the far right, behind the Marigolds.There is Green Peppers, and Jalapenos.  Aside from the Marigolds, we also have Cosmos, and a sweet single Sunflower that {O} grew.  I plant the Marigolds and Cosmos in ever bed, to attract bees and butterflies, for assistance in pollination. But also, because I love bees and butterflies.  : )   On the far left, we have Cucumbers growing.


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In Bed #2, we are growing Yellow Summer Squash and Zucchini.  We were adamant about the squash varieties growing in another bed this summer, after last year’s devastation!  Some of you may recall the sudden and devastating death of our squash bed last year, and eventual discovery of the culprit!  More on our remedy for this in just a bit.  But also in this garden bed is something new we are trying to grow Sugar Snap Peas! We had no idea what we were doing there at first, but I researched it and learned quickly. They started out ‘thin’, in my Mother-in-law’s word. That was her nice way of saying ‘puny’ I think. Made me giggle. But they are looking GOOD now. A closer look on that in just a minute as well. All else we have here, is the Marigolds, Cosmos, and still sitting there is our now-virtually-famous Coke Bottle Box and Candy-Cane Striped Petunias. There’s also a few Snap Dragon in that box.

early-flower-vegetable-garden-photos-3 Promising buds of  squash.

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early-flower-vegetable-garden-photos-5 Squash Flowers.  No, we have not prepared them as a recipe in any way yet. Fried? Stuffed? It just sounds strange to me.  We’ll see who can convince me.

early-flower-vegetable-garden-photos-6 We were pretty excited to see these 2 pods!  I have fond memories of picking & gobbling peas in my aunt’s garden, when I was little.  I want our kids to be able to do the same.

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So as I implied earlier, I wasn’t sure starting out, how we would do producing Sugar Snap Peas this first year. But regardless, I have loved watching them climb our wooden frame, and zig-zagging twine.  The hornets are ‘having at’ that wood frame, by the way.  I’ve found myself watching & studying their activity intently, both fascinated & irked at the same time.  I hope the frame holds up through the season anyway. It’s easy enough for Michael to whip another one up next year.  As an update, the peas are doing wonderfully, and I’ll show you more on that next garden post.

early-flower-vegetable-garden-photos-8 Garden #3 is the Strawberry Bed.

You are welcome to check out the post prior to this one, for lots of photos and chat on our Strawberries this year.

early-flower-vegetable-garden-photos-9 Another new learning experiment this year.  Since last year we learned that we planted our Pumpkin Patch too soon, this year we thought we’d try using the bed as a Watermelon Patch first!  The kids planted the seeds into this bed themselves. You can hardly see them well in this early photo, but let me point them out among the Marigold plants.  The Watermelon plants are in the upper far left, the one in the middle-ish, and far center-right.  There were just a couple others that the squirrels pulled out, before we got to spraying a Deer-Off border.  So I planted a row of 6 new Watermelon seeds in the soil vertically on the far right side. Updated photos of the plants will be coming up too.  We’re not sure if we’ll actually get Watermelons this year either, as my Mother-In-Law said those should have been planted earlier too.  But the plants are spreading like mad now, and I did catch a glimpse of a flower. So there’s a small chance we’ll get at least 1 melon. Heyyyy, we can split it!

early-flower-vegetable-garden-photos-10 Lastly, in Bed #4 we have 4 Varieties of Tomatoes:  Cherry, Early Girl, Big Boy & Beefsteak.

This is the bed that was our Squash Bed last year! First, we screened all of the soil, looking for any Vine Borers that were hibernated down into the soil, pupating, after the devastation they do in the year prior, waiting to reak new havoc again this year!  We learned that’s what they tend to do!  We didn’t really seem to find any, but we used a new bed for the squash this year just in case.  Besides, we try to rotate the beds every year or 2, so the soil is not depleted of any nutrients from one particular plant variety.

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And lastly, a quick look at how our Mailbox Garden Tub has filled in….

early-flower-vegetable-garden-photos-15 I love how the Calibrachoa spill over.

early-flower-vegetable-garden-photos-16 And I have always loved Snap Dragons.

early-flower-vegetable-garden-photos-17 THIS, is not a photo from early July, but a more recent photo after some picking, last weekend. We have been enjoying Yellow Summer Squash, Zucchini, and Cucumbers, so far.

And that my friends, is your Late Garden Report!  Stay tuned for more Late Reporting, right here in the The Homestead ~Home & Gardens section, of Our House Of Joyful Noise.  Meanwhile, I’m open to some sharing and garden chat in the comments!

 


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HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR SENIOR PHOTOS MIX

July 12, 2011 By Laura 1 Comment

Shooting high school senior photos, is one of my very favorite parts of being a professional photographer.

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I’ve been shooting high school seniors for about 13 years now.  Naturally, my work has really evolved since my early years. (Thank goodness.)  I’ve always taken a limited number seniors each season, to be able to give each individual my creative best, because it’s the creative process I love, and those customized portraits that reflect my seniors true personality, that they deserve.  Shooting every senior in the same spot, in the same style, and positioned the same way, is far from my style!  I’m not a volume photographer, and I won’t ever care to be.  I want to get a good feeling for who they are on the inside, so it shines on the outside. They have dreams, and passions, and souls.  Their portraits should reflect who they are as a person. Not look like a replica of every other senior’s photos. It’s my own individual style of working with my seniors, and creating portraits that stand out and highlight their uniqueness, and what is important to them, that has helped me succeed as a photographer, and given my business a name in this field, in my area.  I’m blessed that there have been so many clients over the years who have wanted to work with me, because they could see, and truly understand, my mission, beyond the yearbook photo.

Because I invest so much creative thought process into my seniors, I needed to take a season hiatus last year.  It was the first senior season I took off, but it was necessary for me to focus on important things in my life. This year, I am lining a few seniors up again for this summer, and there is some unique & exciting stuff involved!  Although some of these seniors have posts in this blog that are a partial collection of their photos only, I wanted to share with you a mix from the past few years.  In viewing them remember….they are not not lumped together as youth at this age.  While they all (except 1, was a year later or so) have the common thread of it being their high school graduation year, they are as unique as their photos, with their own personal dreams and gifts.  It’s my belief that God has a life plan for each one of them, individually, and it’s up to each of them to find it.  Led by their passions, using their gifts, as the powerful tools they were designed and born with, to do so.  It’s my hope that I am some part of sending them off on their way, into the world to find their way, believing in gift of who they are, like no other, and believing that their life has a divine purpose, meant for only them to live .

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

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Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

Laura Lee Richard Photography Plymouth MA

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