Elizabeth Kearney Photography

It's made. Still a work in progress, though. Let me know what you think and how it could be better before I let the whole facebook world know about it.

http://elizabethkphotography.blogspot.com/

yay!

Elizabeth K Photography

So a few days ago, I decided to look up what it takes to get a Nevada business license, and how much it would cost. While I was on the website, I decided to actually fill everything out and then wait to file until I could afford the $200. But as I was filling it out, it asked if any exemptions applied to my soon-to-be business. I read through the exemptions, and apparently, you are now exempt from having to file and pay for a license if you are a home-based business making less than 66 2/3% of the average annual wage, which, as of 2010 is less than $27,000 a year.

So I filed, without having to pay, and I have a business number, or something like that, and I can now legally take pictures, charge people, and not worry about someone finding out. :) Sometimes it pays to take the dive.

Anyway, I looked at tons of different combinations of my name, Bobby's name, our initials, etc., to try and find a good name for my photography business. I didn't want "Elizabeth Kearney Photography." It seemed long and boring. I finally just decided on "Elizabeth K Photography" hopefully with a really cool font.

Anyway, my whole reason for writing about this is because I'm going to start working on another blog just for that, and I think it will be something like elizabethkphotography.blogspot.com or something similar. I will also be setting up a facebook page that I would appreciate if you all wouldn't mind sharing with all your friends once it's up and running.

If you can't tell, I'm very, very excited, and I feel like this is a great thing for me and my family. I will need a little bit of help getting this off the ground, but I'm willing to pay back with free pictures anytime any family wants it.

Thank you! And look for the next few posts that give more details on the new photography blog!

A New Direction

Still excited about staying healthy and keeping the pregnancy weight gain to a minimum. But recently I've gotten very passionate about something new: photography. I started taking classes in high school and some in college. I worked at a school photography company for 2 years. I just never took the plunge and spent my money on a nice camera. I just put everything on hold when I got married.

When I worked at the credit union, there was a girl that I worked with. She was barely graduated, and barely married. 18 years old, trying to have a baby, ended up with twin boys. Right after I had Andrew, I decided to stay at home, and hadn't heard from my coworker in over 3 years.

We met up again on Facebook, and I found out that she had started doing some photography and even had her own business going. I was a tiny bit jealous, but mostly I thought, "Good for her! That's awesome! I wonder how she got that started with 2 little toddlers? And I haven't done anything in the same amount of time." I kind of filed that away for a while, made some goals to get the camera I wanted and started planning out the business I wanted to start. Almost 2 years later I finally have a nice enough camera to get things started. Bobby even bought me Lightroom for our anniversary (it's a smaller version of Photoshop) and he got me another lens for Mother's day. I'm finally taking the steps I need in order to make this dream a reality and I'm still working off of this excitement high. I'm hoping that by September, this business will be up and running and hopefully off to a great start!