The Latest Photo Collages And More News

August 25th: We picked up marketing partners when 12 Raleigh, NC area Great Clips locations agreed to display our brochures. A lot of families get their hair cuts at Great Clips so we are very pleased to have Great Clips partnering with us. At least 25% of the Raleigh area locations. And we hope with more to come in the near future.

May 1st: We hope to add the ability to reproduce all collages and montages on real Artist Canvas. This feature would be a new option on our order page. Each collage and/or montage printed on canvas would have a light brushed effect. There would be a black 1.25 inch border. This border would be wraped around a wooden frame. In most cases the "wrapped canvas" could then be hung without any wires. Customers will need to allow an additional 3 to 5 days if this option is selected. An additional $10 shipping and handling cost will be included in the cost because the prints will have to be boxed rather than shipped in tubes. We hope to have this new option available within the next two weeks.

April 27-29h: The Southern Women's Show was a great success. Many thousands of ladies young and old went through the Jim Graham Building and the Exhibition Center to look at hundreds of booths, including ours. It was our first opportunity to display our new Photo Bedding and Crystal Keepsakes and they were both received very well. We expect a lot of orders as a result of this show. The Kids Expo is coming up on May 12th and 13th so we'll hardly have time to unpack before heading back to the NC State Fair Grounds. Then in June we may be participating in a baby show.

April 25th: Lots of activity getting ready for the Southern Women's Show that comes up this weekend. We are expecting a shipment of Photo Crystal Keepsakes and Photo Bedding to showcase at the event that runs April 27th through April 29th. Thousands will come to the event and we have a corner booth. It should be lots of fun. We also hope to finally have a sample of the Pandigital Digital Photo Frames. We will be carrying both the 10.4 and 15 inch models but they have not yet arrived from Asia where they are manufactured. So Pandigital is sending me a smaller model to showcase at the event. We also started using some very new and powerful PhotoShop plug-ins that will help us produce even more beautiful and unique digital photo collages, montages and slide shows.

April 1st: Lots of activity in the last month or so. We're up to 100 distribution locations now partnering with us to tell consumers about Photo Collages And More. This means we met our targe. And we've completely redesigned our website. It's easier to navigate, has more content, and most importantly, we've added two new product lines: Photo Crystal Keepsakes and Photo Bedding. And we have a brand new, easier to use, order page. We call it our Cost Estimator page because you can figure out what any project, product or combination of projects and products will cost before you order. To order all you do is hit the Request Work button. Last but not least we've been notified that the new Digital Photo Frames will be making their way into the US market some time in May. We hope to have one of the first 10.4 inch models ourselves by that time. You can preorder the frames now to get to the head of the list.

March 26th: We've signed up to be a part of the April 27-29th Southern Women's Show as well as the May 12-13th Kids Expo. Both will be held at the NC State Fair Grounds. We're doing the Women's show in conjunction with Jim Shaw Photography. And we're considering the Baby Show that will held in early June, also at the State Fair Grounds.

March 9th: We quickly approaching our goal of 100 marketing partner locations by the end of March with 92 locations now partnering with us. We picked up our second and third event planners, Adams & Events and Cherished Moments in Durham, NC as well as another upscale gift, accessory and florial design firm at The Lassiter At North Hills in Raleigh, Floral Accents & Interiors. By the end of next week we hope to be partnering with several more animal hospitals as well as some baby/children retailers. Stay tuned.

March 7th: We are now in 95 locations. This week we added our first caterer, Sisters Catering, and our first Animal Hospital, VCA Animal Hospital. And we went into two more Wolf Camera stores. We're now also targeting gymnastic, dance and karate schools as well as day care centers. Our goal is to also get into baby stores. Last but not least we're on the verge of signing to be in the April Southern Women's Show.

March 2nd: We are now in 90 locations with another 5-10 expected to be coming on line by next week. We added another Pets Supermarket, more independent florists in Knightdale and Garner and hope to add several vets by the end of next week. In the last three weeks we've sent over over 3,000 opt-in emails to brides-to-be in Southern California with great response so far. And we're hopefully going to be partnering with a second top wedding planner in the Triangle, NC market by the first of April, if not sooner. Last but not least we have finished the Riggin's DVD Slide Show but have to wait for one more element thats being shipped from Japan before presenting it to Mr. and Mrs. Riggins.

February 22nd: We've now made contact with every public and private school in the largest ten counties in NC with student populations of 600 or more. We've already received positive replies from several of them. We have also become marketing partners with BridesClub.com as well as Inside9919.com and we are associated with 85 marketing partner locations with our goal still being 100 by the end of March. Because we are based on Raleigh, NC it makes sense to try to keep the brochures in locations close enough for us to personally replenish or to partner with companies such as Frame Warehouse, Wolf Camera, etc who could help us replenish locations outside the Triangle area.

February 20th: More than a dozen Cary, NC businesses agreed to become marketing partners with us inn the last three days, including six Wolf Camera locations and additional Fast Frame and Cartridge World locations. We're now associated with 75 marketing partner locations in the Triangle market and beyond. We plan to add more locations almost every day until we reach of goal of 100 locations by the end of March.

February 8th: Website is redone with easier navigation, more samples and a whole new look.

February3rd: We're now up to 50 locations where there are or shortly will be copies of our brochures and in some cases sample collages. And other companies are placing links on their websites to ours. We appreciate all of their support.

Our computer system has been inoperable for the past ten days. We could not update this website or repond to customers who had inquired or wanted to place an order. We apologize for this interruption. To make up for any inconveience we are extending our 25% discount offer until the end of February. And you only need to place a 25% deposit at the time you reserve your project at the discount price. Click here to see our latest price list and then place your advance order.

January 22nd: Besides it being my 54th birthday the big news this day is that we are now able to show the collage we did for the Riggins family in cooperation with the fine folks at HomeLife Communities and ABC TV's Extreme Makeover Home Edition program. Click here to view their collage. We presented the collage to Linda and William Riggins on Friday, January 19th and then a copy to the folks at HomeLife Communities at the viewing party they had for the Riggins Sunday night at the North Raleigh Hilton. Below is a photo showing the presentation to the Riggins. The gentleman from HomeLife Communities is Don Mead, their regional president and the person who spearheaded the entire project. A great guy if there ever was one.

January 19th: With the additionn of a couple of new marketing partners we are now in 45 locations in NC and Virginia.

December 6th: After working four days as a volunteer at the ABC TV Extreme Makeover Home Edition project that was taking place in downtown Raleigh we received permisson from the President of the home construction company spearheading the project, Don Mead of Homelife Communities to go forward with doing a digital photo collage for the Riggins family. We're justs awaiting the photos they will be providing. We also talked with some of the production people at ABC about doing collages for future EM Home Edition projects and they have asked for a copy of the collage and anything else we do to pass along to the designers for their consideration.

December 1st: We opened for business full time with a agreement with the owner of Frame Warehouse to market our services through his Raleigh, NC stores at first and then expandingn into the other 20 stores he has in NC and Virginia.