by Teresa | Jan 24, 2020 | Advice, Featured, Personal, Studio Stories
When I briefly worked for a real estate agent, Jane, after college as her Client Care Manager I got my first taste of feeling like running a business was an achievable goal. She was a #girlboss before they ever put that on a coffee mug who was as sweet as honeysuckle...
by Teresa | Dec 19, 2019 | Featured, Personal
Prefer to listen? Click below to hear Teresa read it to you. We Only Get One Downtown Our town of Cary, NC has the same things every town has: shopping plazas, movie theaters, coffee shops, and restaurants. It has old people and young people, Pokemon players...
by Teresa | Jul 24, 2018 | Featured, Kids and Families, Personal, Seniors
Staring at the labor and delivery room ceiling, it felt like a tiny box of every emotion had been shoved in to my chest and was ticking away inside. I couldn’t see her but I knew the doctors had taken her off to the side and were doing something....
by Margaret Velto | Jul 16, 2018 | Featured, Personal
I have this purple handkerchief that I like to keep with me when things get rough. I sometimes keep it wrapped in the only photograph I ever took of my grandfather, the one who owned the handkerchief before me. Today is his seventy-seventh birthday, but I won’t...
by Margaret Velto | Jul 9, 2018 | Featured, Personal
1. Put Elmer’s glue on your hand and peel it off This one’s a classic kid thing. Sure, it’s a waste of glue, but it’s fun to freak people out when they think you’re pulling your skin off. Maybe this is where the current obsession with...
by Margaret Velto | Jun 25, 2018 | Featured, Personal
One of the most common misconceptions when it comes to any kind of portrait session is that you need to buy a brand new wardrobe. You don’t need to look like an Instagram model with a Pinterest-worthy wardrobe. Don’t go shopping for designer clothes in the...
by Margaret Velto | Jun 11, 2018 | Featured, Personal, Seniors
If you’ve never been behind the scenes with the My Friend Teresa team on a senior portrait session before, you may not know what all happens before the final results appear on your Facebook or Instagram feed. I’ve been fortunate enough to have multiple perspectives –...
by Teresa | Mar 19, 2018 | Featured, Headshots, Personal
My Friend Teresa Studios will be hosting a drop in headshot portrait session benefiting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The one day headshot event will be on Friday, March 30th from 12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Appointments are being accepted but walk-ins are...
by Teresa | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured, Personal
I helped CeCe pick out the loaner ballet shoes from the drawer and tuck her Paw Patrol underwear back in her cousin’s stretched, black leotard. With a guiding hand on her back I walked her to the edge of the dance floor. She looked up at me, and took a...
by Teresa | Jun 29, 2017 | Personal
I’m not always a great mom. Three and a half years in to this motherhood and I’m usually fighting off this low level anxiety and guilt that feels like an oncoming virus that you know is just one day away from breaking loose. This rumbling, tumbling,...
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