the new logo -- it's official!

it's official and here's the new logo! we've been talking over the last year of setting up a business to do picture restorations and more. on the back of the card, i've listed the services available and can easily discuss with people what options and price ranges are most beneficial for their individual situations.

on the back of the business card --
Services offered include –
· Scan pictures, slides, journals, or documents to digital files
· Store file back up for emergencies
· Restore damaged or aged photos
· Provide photo cleanup on current photos
· Create slideshow presentations on CD or DVD
· Original farm photography
· Silhouette photography, painting, or drawing

Prices vary depending upon assignment. Contact me for an estimate on your job!

this all started since our experience w/ jerry's mother's 80th birthday party last year. at that time, what we found was a huge box of photos that she had taken (torn) out of her photo albums and was dropping into brown paper baggies that were labeled w/ her kids' names. this was over a hundred years of family history!

once people started seeing the changes i could make in a picture, they started requesting that i fix a picture that was important in their collection. we knew that there had to be a market for this type of service, but so far we just hadn't had the time to take care of getting it off the ground.

well, it's off the ground now. the logo is designed and copyrighted, my business cards are printed and getting out, postcards are printed to mail out to special people, and i donated 3 certificates to the KKOW radio auction for promotional purposes and advertising is set up for the next 60 days.

more and more people are hearing about the business and what i can do for their picture collection -- which means that more and more people are checking into their personal collections to see what they need to have done. more questions/inquiries means more answers and more curiousity means more business. it's SO exciting!!!

i'll be doing some major networking in the near future and attending a couple/few very large trade shows and business expos -- so that should also help the business get started. now we'll see what works out!

we all had input on the logo and the business card, but lucas is the one who did the actual hands-on creation of the logo and card. looks great, lucas!

colored pencils -- "fat" prangs & prismacolors

here is a comparison of the pencils laying on the scanner. the prang "fat" pencils are at the top and the regular prismacolor colored pencils at the bottom. it may not look like much difference in circumference at this angle, but the feel in the hand is very much different.


to show the true difference between the pencils, i took the handful of each kind and put them on the scanner bed where the viewer can see the end of the pencil. the lead is obviously much larger in the prang pencils compared to the prismacolor colored pencils.


now, there are prang pencils that come in a smaller size (the same size as the prismacolors regular size) and i have a set of those as well, but i don't use them or care for them as much as the "fat" prang pencils. the "fat" prang pencils seem very much more durable than other pencils i've used -- and probably because of their size!