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eco-chic wrap

laura bruen — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:30:16 +0000

The wrapping idea from My 2008 Holiday Farm House Tour is featured on Coveiter’s Blog! How exciting! Many thanks to Julie and Lindsey, who run a fabulously sophisticated design blog, for featuring this. Please go check out Coveiter for some inspiration.

For those that may have missed it. Behold my gifts (to date, the only ones purchased, ack!) wrapped in Recycled W Magazine. Recycling it in this way made it easier to part with. I have a magazine addiction and a tremendously hard time parting with them. To read more about this idea and where it originated, check out my 2008 Holiday Farm House Tour.

“Holiday” (or any day, for that matter) Eco-Chic Wrap!!!

two inspirational wedding blogs – my work featured!

laura bruen — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:14:31 +0000

I’m thrilled to have my work shown on two very popular inspirational wedding blogs.

A full feature of Kelle & Nick’s fabulous wedding on The Wedding Chicks!!! Kelle did an amazing job designing and planning her wedding, big KUDOS to Kelle for inspiring many brides to be with her ideas. The Wedding Chicks is truly a feast for the eyes of any bride planning their own wedding! Be sure to check it out, daily.

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Head on over to Snippet & Ink for some Daily Wedding Inspiration! Kelle’s cupcakes were featured in a inspiration board. Another HOT blog to check out. Worth a visit (or 10,000).

WARNING: These two blogs are addictive.

*adding both to my esteemed list o’links. Many thanks to The Wedding Chicks, Jocey & Amy, and Kathryn at Snippet & Ink.

mia. piggy.

laura bruen — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:13:02 +0000

I will catch up soon on my blogging, I promise. September sorta knocked me for a loop with Emma in school, work, house progress…

In the meantime, can you name this famous pig?

my myspace page blew up.

laura bruen — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:15:35 +0000

About a month or so ago, the page blew up and I lost about 200 friends which included friends, family and networks!

It happened about a month or so ago. Now, I am needing to build it back up!

Ugh!!! Can’t believe it. Anyway – please add me! http://www.myspace.com/laurabruenphoto/

tagged again ;-)

laura bruen — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:53:09 +0000

My good old friend Mrs. Limestone has tagged me. For those that haven’t checked out her blog, Renovating A Brooklyn Limestone, it is a must-read. I’ve been addicted to her blog since the very beginning.

This is not the first time I have been tagged, but thankfully the list isn’t as long, I think I can handle it

For those new to “Tagging” – it’s a form of blog networking, which you answer 5 questions and pass the questions along to 6 (I broke the rule) other bloggers. I can’t say all of my answers are interesting but I’ll try my best.

1.) Where were you 10 years ago? Creative Direction, Branding & Web Development. I’m pretty sure I was working on a Pfizer co-branding project in 1998. I was living in my apartment with my husband (who was my boyfriend at the time).

2.) Five items on your to-do list today – Had a very busy administrative day today – hard to narrow it down, but here goes:

~~Blogging some portrait sessions~~
~~Finish DVD for Client 1~~
~~Finish DVD for Client 2~~
~~Start to rebuild my MySpace Page, which went belly up for some reason 2 weeks ago.~~
~~Start DVD for Client 3~~
Take photos of my husband’s discovery in the downstairs bathroom for the next home renovation post. This will presumably be pushed for tomorrow’s list, which will include a similar list as today’s yet will be delayed as Emma is “Moving Up” from Pre-K to kindergarten tomorrow (GASP – how did that happen? ). The work list will be much shorter tomorrow.

Regarding said discovery – sorry I can’t be more specific than that right now, but I think we have a real find! You’ll just have to wait for it.

3.) Snacks I enjoy – Granola & trail mix are my recent obsessions. Gouda cheese with red seedless grapes (addiction). Flavor BLASTED goldfish (can any parent resist these or anything that states it’s flavor blasted to begin with?) Lastly, those pretzel chips with port wine cheese. Oh – and – jelly rings. It is for this reason that you will very rarely see these items in my home – especially the jelly rings. Those things go down quick.

4.) What would you do if you were a billionaire? I would not stop working (really!). I would take a (some) nice vacation(s), pay someone ELSE to do the renovations on my house. Chill with the kids. Try to help out the TS Alliance – give them a big chunk of change because they really need it. Buy houses in multiple locations a la Jolie-Pitt. Hey, listen – I’m still young, there’s still time for this!

5.) Places I would live: Easy. A few places here in NJ, The Hamptons, SOHO or the West Village, Philly, Maui or Kauai. The final two because my husband and I almost cried when we were leaving we loved it so much. 50 year olds look 30. Unbelievable. Other than that – I would stay East Coast all the way.

6.) 5 Bloggers I’m passing the challenge onto: Dawn, Scott, Shorehouse Chic, Kathleen, Becky

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For those that wonder why my Cell Phone Shot of the Day appears to have vanished completely and was not on my list in number 5 above…it hasn’t, it’s going to be taken over by a new device. I’m no longer using the LG. Stay tuned!

Laura Bruen Photography Version 2.0!

laura bruen — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:45:31 +0000

The website is launched, finally! If you haven’t yet seen it GO CHECK IT OUT!

This website has been an extreme labor of love for me these past few months. In addition to my normal workload now – which has been crazy busy, putting together my recent work and organizing it has been a trip! Lots of work!

Rebranding the company took a LOT out of me but I am elated at the result. I find it impossible to hire out when I have been in the creative business of branding for so many years – but doing it yourself does have it’s drawbacks (such as many sleepless nights – designers will agree, sometimes they’re up at night thinking about client branding issues, turn that towards oneself and that is escalated times 1000). I feel this design is representational of my work as it currently exists and my personality as well.

I hope you have a wonderful experience visiting the site – so much so that you come back and visit as I’ll be adding quite a bit to it in the immediate future. Be sure to sign up for the mailing list to be notified of updates while you’re there.

Upbeat, Excited, Creative. That’s Laura Bruen Photography Version 2.0 Lime Espresso!

My husband and I mixed some tracks for the Flash Version that I think are SUPER GROOVY Hope they make you dance in your seats a bit. We worked really hard on those and had a lot of fun doing it ! Only 2 songs for now but we’ll be adding to the soundtrack soon enough.

TECH SPEAK: The flash site is a collabration of custom code and customized components – the design is not a template. Using components made the development much easier for me. I did 95% of the work myself coding and customizing the site from a design and functional standpoint.

I have a slew of blog posts that I’m working on now to complete my round of updates so I can get back on track here.

Comments appreciated! Bugs? Please email me.