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"BLACK Weekend" Sale

With "BLACK Friday" happening, we decided to do our own version and call it "BLACK Weekend" from Friday the Nov. 27th to Sunday Nov. 29th at midnight, we having a 40% off sale on all our prints for Christmas. Click here to start shopping and use the

Discount code: "BLACK"
when checking out, for your 40% off.

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Featured Print
"BE YE NOT AFRAID"

When I created "Be Ye Not Afraid", I wanted to create something that any child could relate to. All of us can relate to this print, especially when we were a child scared in our bed at night. Scared of what exactly? That was different for each of us. For some it was as innocent as a bad dream or being afraid of the dark. For other children, it was laying in bed as they heard their parents fighting in the next room or even as horrible as fearing the abuse that they would received on a regular basis.

One thing is the same for all of these children. No matter what the fear was caused by, each of them can feel Christ's arms wrapped around them to help them have courage and to know they are not alone. I want children to see this print because I know it will help them see how real this protection and love is. That each child is so important in HIS eyes. That HE loves them and knows personally what they feel and are going through.

CM Trivia About "BE YE NOT AFRAID"

I had perfectly scheduled every shoot for the day so that I could catch the right lighting for each shot. I had a couple of indoor shots, this being one of them. I thought that we would be in and out quickly and ready to move on to the next location where I had 2 shoots of 15 kids waiting. That morning I had prayed that I had done all I could do to be prepared and asked that God would guide me so that everything would work out the way it should. That if things went wrong or got delayed I would not stress or get upset but have faith in knowing that it was God helping us to be in the right spots at the right time.

We started the indoor shoot and suddenly the lighting equipment was giving me problems and we had to mess with is for 30 mins, but I was not expecting what happened next. My sweet "little brother and sister" models would not even go close to Jason (model playing Christ) They thought that he really was Christ. Their mom and I tried everything, but they would not even look at him, let alone lean against him in the bed. Before coming to the shoot their mom, Agnes, was asked by neighbor last minute to watch her son. For 20 mins. this little boy had come along to the shoot and was watching while we were going through this dilemma. Suddenly this little boy, who was a couple of years older then the little children, started talking with the little ones and said that he would sit with Christ on the bed to show them that it was not scary. As the little children watched this, they got a little braver and the little boy got them to sit with him and Jason together. Within 5 mins. the little boy said to me. "I think they will be ok now. Im going to get out so you can take their picture." He was right, they were fine, still a little scared, but that was great cause that is what I wanted in the shot as their expression.

This delayed us by 1 hour in our shooting schedule, I was so worried because I had so many people waiting for us. But that all worked out too. Many had gotten lost finding the location and the spot that I was going to be shooting ended up having better lighting for the shoot then what I had originally planned. In fact, that delay pushed all our shoots that day back and hour and set ALL for the locations up with better lighting. God always does know better then we do what is best. This was a great example to me, even when things seem to be happening for the worse, really they are being set up for something better then we could ever imagine. I still need to make sure that I do the work and that I am prepared, but as long as I am prepared and listening and open to his guidance he will always have it turn out better then I could do it on my own.

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