Holiday Gift Idea #1

Custom photo jewelry, ornaments and more are a great gift idea for the Holidays! Contact me for more information.

Homepage Feature on Redbubble

I am very excited that redbubble chose one of my images, "Odense Houses", as a feature on their homepage. It's a great honor to be selected among so many talented artists. Thanks to Redbubble my artwork is being recognized by people all over the world! My work can be seen here: Colleen Drew

Holiday Specials

From now until December 15th, the session fee for a single session will be only $50. For studio or location sessions. In addition, if you order a print package you will receive an extra set of 8-wallets. Also, if you become a Facebook fan (or you are one already) you will receive an additional set of 8-wallets. Make your appointment soon so that you have the time to order beautiful Holiday cards to send out to your family and friends! Check out the beautiful designs available Holiday Designs I and Holiday Designs II.

Painted Lady

Last month I attended the Kiwanis Butterfly Festival in Southlake, TX. While I was there they were selling Painted Lady caterpillars to benefit their charity so I purchased 2 to raise. Yesterday one of the butterflies emerged from his chrysalis, I'm still waiting on the second one but it should be later today or tomorrow. This morning I released the one that was ready to go. Once I walked outside he really started fluttering, he was ready to go. I opened the lid and at first he timidly started to emerge. Then he flew straight up to the bush that was there, I tried to get him to go onto my Texas Lilac but I wasn't successful. I was able to get 2 quick shots of him before he flew away. According to the butterfly farm that the caterpillars came from 98 out of 100 caterpillars in nature never reach the butterfly stage, so hopefully it was helpful to raise these two. I'm hoping that I can get better shots of the next one. They are just too eager to fly and don't want to hang around to be photographed.

Holiday Cards

As the holidays are approaching I decided to partner with minted.com to offer a beautiful line of Holiday Cards. They also offer gorgeous designs for Baby Announcements and Save the Date cards. Please click to visit my storefront to see the designs that they have to offer and to learn more about their company. I am looking forward to working with them for all of my clients stationery needs.

Plano Balloon Festival

This year I have been attending quite a few of the local festivals. This weekend was the Plano Balloon Festival. They were celebrating their 30th year and it's become a magnificent event. Of course the balloons are the main attraction but they also have good local music and vendors of all kinds. We decided to give Outback Jack's peppersteak sandwich a try and it was awesome! I was very impressed by the attendance, it seemed like every inch of space was taken up by people. The balloons are quite a sight and it's exciting to see them take off into the sky. The day is capped off by a balloon glow which is definitely something to be seen. They also had a fireworks display last night, but we opted to leave early to beat the traffic. The festivities continue today so there is still a chance to attend. Here are a few shots and more can be seen here, with more to come soon: Colleen G. Drew

Southlake Kiwanis Butterfly Festival

Today I went down to Southlake to check out the Kiwanis Club's Annual Butterfly Festival. It was a rainy day and inside the tent it was a bit dark, but I managed to get a few shots. Their festival is going until tomorrow evening when they will release the butterflies. It was interesting, there were some flowering plants and to lure the butterflies they had pieces of watermelon that you could attach to a stick. When we were leaving we noticed a lady selling butterfly specimens and you could purchase Painted Lady caterpillars that you raise to butterflies. So, we decided to give it a try. I will keep you posted on their progress. Hopefully it works out alright. Here are a couple of shots, more can be seen here: http://colgdrew.redbubble.com