A few of my original Orchid Notecard designs.

Today's Joy: My First Custom Order.

Finished my first custom card order for a customer today, Reader. Thank you cards for her friend's wedding. I'm very pleased with the way they came out. I hope the bride likes them as much as I do. With other photo orders coming in this week, I feel great. What a joy to be able to share this gift I have and make other people's lives better! How humbling that in these days of a tight economy, people are choosing to spend some of their hard-earned money on my work.

Gotta give the glory to God, for providing the talent and resources that got me to where I am now. If you'd told me 10 years ago, or even 5 years ago, that I would be a photographer in my spare time, I wouldn't have believed it. You never know what comes next in this amazing plan of God's. I feel more fulfilled than at any other time in my life. That is an incredible gift in itself! I can't wait to see what He has planned next!

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell

Quote courtesy of The Quote Garden.

Today's Joy: Do-It-Yourself Websites.
I'm about to enter the Big Leagues, Reader.  Having decided to start my own photography business, I am suddenly in need of a website.  This raises two problems:  1) I have a very limited budget and 2) I don't know anything about building a website.  Enter: http://www.wix.com/.  They do all the basics of a webpage for you.  And it's free.  I like these people already.  So I perused their templates, found one I liked and set about clicking, dragging and dropping to my heart's content.  Now I have a respectable site almost ready to publish and I'm feeling like the Queen of HTML.  Who knew there would be a Website Fairy to swoop in and save the day?