Category Archives: My life

Milwaukee family photographer. Awesome new session design service.

Love this song? Oh, I know! So adorable. If you want your own copy visit songwriter and parenting coach Denise Carlin’s website to read her story and then head over to CD baby to get it! ******** I love being a photographer. I love capturing families near my new home in Milwaukee and I love traveling to…

Milwaukee Children’s Photographer l Monochrome l Blog Carousel

Hello again! Welcome to our second edition of a blog carousel, this fun round of photography blogs all posting on a theme. This month’s theme is Monochrome. Click over to see what the wonderful Je Neuhaus, Los Angeles children’s photographer, came up with for this one. ******** What a beautiful day it was today in…

Milwaukee family photographer. Adventures at Cascade “Mountain”. :)

If you love the idea of taking your little people skiing, do it! It’s too late, this year, but it’s never too early to start thinking about next year.  Here are three of MY favorite kid-friendly ski resorts: In Wisconsin, Cascade Mountain (Kids Ski FREE!), near the Dells, In California, Donner Ski Ranch (Much more affordable than…

Our crazy crazy summer plans. Wisconsin family photographer.

You have to check out these awesome places I mentioned in my post below: The beautiful Bayfield, WI 6 hours north of Milwaukee, the houseboat in Kentucky,  and Rutgers in Minnesota. ****** I think I should create a poster of some kind to illustrate our convoluted summer schedule. I would have to design a little…

Happy Stitches. Milwaukee family photography.

** if you are looking for great fabrics in the Milwaukee area (or online, from anywhere), check out Drawstring Studio, in Bay View. So cute.  In the Bay Area, my go to shop is Natural Expressions. They have all the most modern fabric lines and so much of it! Love that store. ____ ___ Got me a…

Who said you could do that? l Milwaukee babyhood photographer.

I don’t know when it happened. When you lost your baby cheeks. When you stopped reaching for my hand.  Stopped needing a tuck-in. A snuggle Maybe I wasn’t looking. I was cleaning or working or laughing at your sweet-silliness. Maybe. I didn’t want you to change, to grow up, to leave your babyhood behind. Because…

Look . . . Mom, I didn’t procrastinate! -Milwaukee family photography (& procrastinator)

Someone take a photo! Well, I did, I suppose. I, Anna Mayer, business owner, photographer, wife, mommy & most notably, the world’s most accomplished procrastinator, actually started helping my kids do their school Valentine’s Day cards TEN DAYS in advance! Ten days, people, this is some kind of record. Now, my next post might be…

Living the good life in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

I love snow. I love to see it, blanketing the dark, dirty world with its cleansing purity. I love to build it into a happy snowman, to greet our guests as they pull up to our kid-filled home. I love to barrel down the slopes on it, with the wind reminding me I am alive….

Happy thoughts. How cute is this? Funky stitches in Milwaukee.

How adorable is this little elephant? LOVE these fabrics. My sister-in-law did some kind of awesome Google search and found for me this adorable little shop, The Drawstring Studio, in Bay View; check it out. If you live in the area, you have to go visit. It’s tiny, but adorable and Danielle is lovely and…

Put on shoes, step on porch. Repeat after me.

Um, I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. I think they are a nice idea, but since something like 90% of them end in failure, I guess I don’t have much faith in them (or more specifically, in myself to keep them). So . . . this isn’t one of those. HA! But it is a…