When I was a toddler, my mom (a hard working single parent) and I had our lives forever changed when a vindictive ex-boyfriend burned our home to the ground. Luckily, we weren’t home at the time, but everything we owned, minus a few precious items, were destroyed in a matter of minutes. And I believe…
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This might come as a shock to some of you, but I’ve had the same purse for.. oh, close to 5 years now. Its ok.. take a moment and digest that. Its true! Some time ago, I was in Payless and I found two identical purses (one black and the other brown) on clearance and…
I’m ashamed to admit it. The very thing I preach to my clients.. the core of what I do for others, providing family art portraiture, is sorely lacking in my own home. For the last 3 years, our family room didn’t have a single family photo. And its not for lack of photographs. Simply, it…
Earlier this week, I was forced to unplug for a while. No cell phone, no internet, no tv, no lights for almost 24 hours thanks to a ferocious Santa Ana wind storm. And while I was in the dark, quite literally for many of those hours, I was enlightened by the act of unplugging. After…
Today, as I try not stuff myself too much with turkey and pumpkin pie, I will be thinking of you, dear friends and clients. This has been a tremendous year for Carrie Vines Photography; a year full of growth, change, successes and even some failures, and through it all, you have been my inspiration, my…
