A Very M4H Mini Mag coming soon and FREE!

Hi Friends!
So I have been working hard on something new and super exciting. With the influx of amazing magazines in this industry including the new CLICK from Clickinmoms there is no shortage at all of inspiration. I will be coming out with my own little free resource. This Mini Mag is perfect for those that are past, present or future customers of the Photoshop Actions, Adobe Lightroom Presets and Textures sold in the shop! There will be fantastic recipes to guide you on how to best use certain actions and new fun ways to combine them. There will also be some of our amazing fans and customers own recipes and means of using them, fun discounts, easy quick tutorials and more! For as long as I can remember I have really wanted to put out a guide of sorts with all the actions in the shop but with all the changes and new releases that are added I knew it would be quite a task to keep it up to date. So in lieu I figured this would be the best way to really give you a wonderful guide with some fun extras rather then overwhelm you with one huge catalog of sorts. I totally underestimated what a big job this would be however. Something of this nature takes time, patience and diligence. Many of you that follow me are probably aware we just moved and have been crazy busy so I pushed the date back slightly so nothing is rushed and everything is polished perfection!

Some fun insight on this Mini Mag:

-Yes it is FREE. It will be available via download on my Blog and announced when ready on my Facebook Fan Page and in a Newsletter so you won’t miss it.

-You will be able to print it yourself but it will not be available in print form. The PDF however will be full resolution so you will indeed be able to print at home.

-This Mini Mag will be Quarterly and Seasonal.

-Submissions are always welcome. If you would like to submit your own Photos using M4H Photoshop Actions, Lightroom Presets or Textures email me Full resolution before and after images with the exact recipe you used.

How this Mag is different then others:

-This Mini Mag is geared towards customers. It isn’t quite a catalog but the main intent is to give insight to photographers that would love to find resourceful ways of using their actions.

So I have been hoping to get everything ready to go by the end of fall. In the interest of the magazine not being rushed it will be available January 6th, 2013. The reason I am waiting until winter and the beginning of the year is so I have time to acquire all the materials needed and really get all the features ready. With the influx on the fan page I would also love to give more people time to submit. The size of the magazine depends on you!! I am also always open to things you would like to see. You are more then welcome to email me at Sarah @ Myfourhensphotography (dot) com with your ideas!! (remove spaces)

Thank you so much everyone. There are some exciting things on tap for 2013. We will be keeping the Project 52 and The Inspired Project (you can also email me with photographers you would like to submit for nomination for that. I do ask for non self nominations though.)

Have a Wonderful Weekend!!
Sarah Cornish

Letters To My Daughters | Dearest Lillian

We are in the new house and sadly everything has been slipping a little with the new move. We have been busy busy around here. The good thing is I have been really good about taking photos of my littles everyday. It is important to me to have images of my family. More so then anything else for what good is a gift or a talent of any kind if you can’t use it where it counts most. I usually get the kids all set up and take them out for these projects. But since I have so many beautiful images of my children just sitting around on my computer it would be a shame not to share those right?! I mean our REAL life is going to matter to Lillian more so then my little family sessions. She is going to love those sure. I love those for sure. But I want her to know what life was REALLY like around here. We live a charmed, imperfect and often times hilarious existance. I want to embrace that and more importantly I want my children to embrace it!

And Please follow the circle to Courtney Keim (and keep going through) to see all the gorgeous and amazing posts to the other talented mamas in our group! I am blessed to have made such WONDERFUL friends in these women and I just love going through their posts every month!

Dearest Lillian,

As of right now you are Ten Years, Four Months and Twenty Four Days old. I sat here tonight trying to grasp just how time has managed to really fly on by as it has. In fact some days I look at you like you are still that shy little four year old that held my hand wherever we went (even if it was just around the house) and snuck into bed with me when daddy went off to work early in the morning. Even crazier though I remember my very own tenth birthday. I remember the party at Nanny’s house and thinking I was such a big girl because double digits was a huge milestone. I wasn’t too old to not have a Barbie cake though. You know the kind. The cake where the Barbie pops out the top and the cake is a full skirt. Your Nunu actually makes the best, most creative cakes. She always goes out of her way for her babies and grandbabies. I am sad you are missing out on time with her. You have always been closest to my mom (being the very first grandchild does hold a special place after all) and I know she misses you dearly living in CT. She will be visiting us soon though. I can feel it in my bones. And you know on another related note I actually played with barbies until I was about fourteen years old. I wasn’t the least bit embarrassed about it either. I am sure at your age you are starting to succumb to pressure to conform and be just like all the kids in your class. I know it was especially hard on you staying back this year and repeating fourth grade while all the kids you have grown up with and just met were moving on up. I know you sometimes feel like you need to have the same likes and dislikes but you see my sweet girl I am writing this very letter to let you in on a little secret. I don’t know everything. I know us mom’s do try to pretend we do, we don’t. But I do know at least one thing. You were born YOU for a reason. You were born to have your very own passions and loves and hobbies. You don’t have to follow trends and do what everyone else is doing. There is only ONE of you for a reason. God has special plans for you dear that include you only. You are perfectly imperfect and gorgeous and sweet and I wouldn’t want any other child in your place. The other day I told you were beautiful. I love to do that often. Not just beautiful on the outside but beautiful on the inside. But when I told you that you were beautiful, this one time in the sea of a million other times you looked at me funny. You looked at me almost with sadness in your eyes and you said “Really? Are you just saying that?” And I think I felt a piece of my heart drop away into my feet. I sometimes wish I could follow you around school. I want to make sure no one is being mean to you, or ignoring you or putting you down. But I know that sometimes you protect your children in ways that you can’t imagine. I have to let you grow up and be you and learn some life lessons for yourself because the ones we learn on our own always come with the biggest rewards. I also have to give you more credit. You are no longer that shy four year old you are now a beautiful young lady and you have to find your voice and it has to be YOU who discovers just how strong and amazing you are. (With gentle nudging from me I can’t really not be there in some way.) I see pieces of me in you. I haven’t even necessarily done anything to ingrain them. I believe you were given these little gifts in the womb. Our body language, your smile, your eyes are all so much mine sometimes. So I know when I am no longer here you will carry me in your heart everywhere you go. Anyhow Lillian more changes are headed your way. We will discuss those when we reach that bridge. But I need to close this out with the same thing I tell you all the time. You. Are. Beautiful. And special and sweet. And you will always be my little girl! I love you Lilybug!
Love,

Mama

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