It’s 4am on Tuesday morning. This is the third morning in a row that I’ve been up at 4am. Uff. Can you guess what I’m doing and where I am. In fact, guess what my whole day entails and what follows tomorrow. Yep, my next 48 hours are interesting, challenging and exciting. If you guess [...]
Let’s Play! If You Can Guess, You Will Win!
Celebrating Our First Full Year and the Story Behind Our Last 7 Days!
First things first, today is our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of having our www.refusetosaycheese.com website! To celebrate, we are offering these CRAZY!! We’ll run these discounts until this Wed., December 3rd, midnight PST. If you’re planning on getting any of our products as gifts for Christmas, the next three days are the days to do it! [...]
Notice Anything Different About the Blog?
Notice anything different about the blog? Give you a hint… There are three things total! And if you hit refresh, you can see each one! It’s been a work in progress for a couple months. We’re so excited to have them live! What do you think!!
Forum Beta Testers Wanted!!!!
We are close to the Refuse to Say Cheese Forum going LIVE!!!! YEAH!!!! But before we go live, I was wondering if a few of you would be our Beta Testers. You know, do the whole “sign up, browse around, try posting something, try posting a picture, etc.”? Before we release this to the masses, [...]
Meet My Business Coach–literally!
Meet my wonderful and amazing business coach, Karen Buckley! Karen has been working with me for just over a year. She is based in San Francisco, and I am based in Seattle. Our sessions are all via phone and email. When we did our Sonoma workshop, Brian and I made sure to schedule a late [...]
Looking for a Community of Photographers?
Every month we have a special meeting for photographers. If you’re in the neighborhood, join us! People have come from Idaho, Oregon and of course, Washington. But if your visiting from out of town and want to jump in on the fun, we’d love to have you! What do we do? We start with wine [...]
To Twitter or Not to Twitter?
Just curious to know your thoughts on this one. Have any of you heard of Twitter? And if so, what do you think of it? For those of you who don’t know what Twitter is my best explanation of it is a way to update what you’re doing at any given time from any given [...]
When I Started to Pay Close Attention…
(excerpt from Mom’s Survival 101 Kit) “When I started to pay close attention to how I felt throughout the day, I realized I felt one emotion more than any other–guilt. The better I did at our business the worse I felt as a mom. The better I felt as a mom, the more behind I [...]
Give Me Any and All Requests!
I’m putting the final touches on the Survival 101 Kit for Moms! I’m so excited to release this long awaited kit! Brian and I are hoping to have it go live on our product site when we do our big platform session at WPPI in Vegas (which is less than two weeks away!). But before [...]
Wide Angle Magic!
Somehow I convinced my buddy, Carey of Barefoot Memories in San Diego, to sell me her wide angle lens before she even took it out of the box! She’s the BEST!!! But it was on one stipulation. I promised to show her on the blog how I used it at the next wedding. Let me [...]







