blue skies and daisies around the world

Somewhat hidden on our website is a page where we post fun comments from our couples (we tend to leave the pretty rare not so nice comments extremely hidden) and a little map about where those couples are from. Most people assume we work only with couples in Vancouver but the truth is most of our couples are from all over North America and a smaller percent are international. It's pretty cool working with people living on different continents. We've even been invited to a few weddings outside of Canada. How cool would that be!? OHH to be an international wedding photographer! Now THAT would be fun.

Dwight "Slippers" Schenk

My big brother recently recorded a solo album and I can't tell you how proud I am of him. His music is so inspiring to me, not just because he's my brother, but because he writes songs that are 100% Dwight. He didn't hold back or wimp out on any of the songs on this album. I know it took him a long long time to finish this, maybe close to 2 years, and you can tell that he put a lot of care into it.

Myspace - Dwight Schenk, Natural Disasters

This is a solo album but he didn't shy away from working with others. There are a lot of contributing musicians and singers on the album. Have a listen.

featured bsd wedding : february : carrie and bradley

The Details
Location: The Woodlands, Texas, USA
Venue: The Woodlands Waterway Marriot Hotel
Photographer: K&C Photography
Our involvement: Custom invitations, wedding website, place card stickers, menu cards, program cards, guestbook cards, decorative craft paper.

Carrie and Bradley worked with us exclusively via email back in 2005 (wow that seemed like yesterday) and the world wide web. It worked perfectly and we wish we could have had the opportunity to meet them as they were a hoot (as my dad would say.)

The stationery order just got bigger and bigger over time, which happens often when couples get a better grasp of what we are capable of doing. What I appreciate most is working with people who believe in our work and trust us enough to know and believe in their heart that they WILL receive their order when we're done and it will look beautiful. Carrie and Bradley believe in us.

... read more here

Snowshoe Adventure to Island Lake Lodge

On Friday afternoon Marie invited me on her planned snowshoe excursion with her friends. For them it's just another day, going to work at Island Lake Lodge, but for me it was an ADVENTURE.

The 2 hour trip from the Mt Fernie Provincial Park parking lot to Island Lake Lodge, approximately 9 km, was fairly easy going for the first kilometer but the 2nd half was straight uphill. I haven't keeled over in pain like that since they forced us to do long distance running in high school. The pain didn't stop me though. It was like a personal goal to be able to make it to the top...and I did. Thank you. Thank you!

The group I went with were all fun and easy going, which made showing up in jeans and no mittens or poles or snow gear a non issue (i'm pretty sure)...as I am not an experienced backcountry girl...or even a winter girl, mind you. Once we got to the lodge we enjoyed a few sips of tea, slice of watermelon and raisin bread and I was soon whisked away in a huge red snowcat back to the parking lot. I left all the girls behind to start their shift, including Chinook, and got a ride home where I went back to work. Like it never happened! But it did and it was fun. Thanks, Marie!

Putting it out there: Prestige Tours

Moving to Fernie has opened a few doors for me, including a few new clients, and one of them is a snowmobile tours company. They promised me a free tour in the spring...so I'll keep you posted on how that goes.

This isn't a typical Brina design but sometimes you gotta do what the client wants...and the client wanted excitement for snowmobiling..so I tried!



If you're in the Fernie area and you're looking for a new adventure on a powerful machine that rips through the rocky mountain backcountry...Prestige Tours can show you a good time.

Picture of the day!

It was a raging success!

My tooth is out, the proof is in the photo, and my recovery is speedy. To tell you the truth, I didn't even know they had taken out the tooth and it seemed within minutes I heard "ok you're done!"

20 minutes! In and out. Thanks, Dr. Amos Kahane!

Sorry if you find this gross...but at the same time it's very beautiful.

A little less wisdom...

But a lot less pain!

Today, in about 35 minutes, I'll demand my dentist to remove one of my wisdom teeth. It has served me well over the past 31 years, sometimes not so well, but it's time to move on.

If you would like to send over any presents and/or get well cards, that would most certainly lift my spirits.

Thanks!

If we don't speak again. It's been fun!

We are in the future!

And the future is all about video conferences!

This past Friday Albertine and I had our first experience of video conferencing (via Skype) for two meetings. I can't tell you how great it was to be able to sit in on meetings again...from Fernie! I felt a little bit like I was a fly on the wall, but at the same time, I was useful fly who could answer questions.

This was my view of our meeting with Lindsay and Harry. What a success!

best photo of the week

Teenie here again! I know, 3 for 3 this week...I think I'm breaking records!

If you don't already know, I moonlight at the Justice Institute of BC (these days more than I am at home) and this week, my director sent us the coolest picture ever.

For those (MY BEANS!) that don't live in metro Vancouver, the past couple of weeks we've been promised sun but everyday see a whole lotta fog instead.

Anyway, the meterologists weren't lying...there is sun above us, you just need to know where to be to see it.

The view of the city, atop Cypress Mountain at 6am.

a little high-flying act to round out the weekend...

Because it wasn't an exciting weekend enough, today, (after I blogged about the show yesterday) I met up with my girlfriend, Nancy, for an afternoon of something different, fun and totally entertaining (for everyone around me).

Ha!

Long story short, Nancy double booked herself today for two separate and totally different events, and since she couldn't cancel out of both, she asked me to sub in on one of the activities today. Her and Laurie, her girlfriend, signed themselves up for an afternoon of CIRCUS! I don't know how to explain it more than that.

on your right: circus professionals, on your left: newbies

Laurie posing for pictures instead of listening to the circus team.

I basically got to go out to this circus gym in North Vancouver and, for two hours, do some really (un)graceful circus activity with a bunch of strangers.

Suffice to say, it was a rip-roaring (more like rip-snorting) good time! Even though Laurie and I didn't even end up being in the same group (they split us up), we still equally had very much lots of fun this afternoon.

streeeetches!

activity #1: hanging on the silk ribbons. check!

activity #2: learn how to juggle.

activity #3: harness yourself in and swing from a really high swing...oh! and do flips :|


activity #4: lay around and chat with your new friends..errr, I mean, trampoline!

Thanks to Nancy for thinking of me and letting me sub in for you!! I did good, right?!