 Hey y'all, what's up? Happy Sunday! If you guys are new to my channel, my name is Sonali and today is just a regular Sunday. I have a meeting at 10 a.m. it is currently 10 a.m. but I think the girl's running 15 minutes late. We are meeting at Hanks and I've been wanting to come here for so long. It's like a super cute trendy restaurant slash coffee shop so I think we're just gonna do the coffee shop for now and then I'm probably just gonna eat something with Ryan later. At 5 o'clock today I have my first holiday mini session so if you guys don't know what that is basically like photographers put on these like themed little mini 15 minute sessions or 30 minute sessions for people to get a little bit of a discounted price for like holiday photos and stuff. Usually photographers have it so that it's like back to back to back so obviously you only have to set up everything once but unfortunately by the time I thought of doing it there was not time for people to like find out about it but good news I'm sorry if the lighting is like super off I'm in my car obviously you can tell and the morning light's kind of crazy um but anyways so I decided that I should do holiday minis another day and kind of just make it a thing and put myself out there. I honestly didn't think that people would be interested just because I don't have a clientele here in Austin. If you guys haven't watched my vlogs I just moved here like four months ago um I graduated from UCF in Orlando and so I just graduated. I had all my clients back in my college town graduation portraits like bars all that kind of thing so it's kind of hard to get your name out here in Austin but I'm a part of like a few like Facebook groups like from podcasts and stuff that are like subgroups like Austin subgroups so I posted there and I actually got like a lot of people interested in them and I'm so freaking excited I like didn't think that it would happen so I'm going to do it all on another day but today's kind of like a test run so I'm hoping that it goes well. I'm probably just going to hang out with Ryan the rest of the day hopefully we can do something outside just because like the weather's finally bearable. Also today's the worst day of the year the clocks fell back and a lot of people love when the clocks like go back but I hate it. I hate when the sun sets earlier because you just like don't have that much time to like work with like you have to like wake up earlier if you want a full day of like content if that makes sense and I hate that like it's going to be dark when like Ryan gets off of work and then we can't like explore and do fun things in the daylight. Comment down below if you guys like the falling back of clocks or you hate it and give me a reason why because I would just love to have a discussion in comments because I'm very passionate about this topic. So this meeting is actually with a blogger and basically I think she's trying to find a photographer to take her blogger pics um so we are meeting up and just kind of like going over that. So I'm with Ryan now um the meeting went pretty well I didn't really get anything because they ran out of like chai and that was pretty much the only thing that they didn't have that wasn't coffee and I don't really love like coffee from coffee shops because it's like way too strong for me. The only coffee I'm like comfortable drinking is like Starbucks coffee that I know is like sweet or there's a summer moon coffee that is so good because you can put like a lot of cream in um but anyways we are actually going to go get brunch lunch at Lin Asian Dim Sum and I've been wanting to try this for so long so let's go. Meet that I've seen on Instagram a lot it's called Swedish Hell Bakery so we're just going to check it out walk in we probably won't get anything because we just ate so we're not super hungry but we're gonna check it out. I was just talking about this and they have just like really really sweet coffee so when I get it to play I'll be more energized because I still have to prepare more of my mini. Summer moon juice in mine it's very interesting and I kind of like it it's just like very like different so it is currently for almost 4 30 and I got last minute stuff together so I packaged this box over here. I did some cute ribbon with this shimmery glitter ribbon over here this what it looks like it's so janky on the sides but it's okay because I'm going to be shooting it from like this angle you won't be able to tell so Ryan tied this bow and it looks really good so shout out to Ryan for that. I have a really exciting piece back there it's in peak but I want to show you guys um when it's all like set up and done I pretty much bought everything from TJ Maxx was it no at home goods oh so many things oh my god we bought this candle where did we get this one at home goods yeah it was nine dollars ten dollars and it's like the crackly candles you hear it it's called wood wick it's so cool like crackles I love it last night our clocks rolled back and we haven't changed any of them yet oh I didn't even think about that but it's like dark outside and I'm thinking about how my home from work it's going to be like pitch black it's already sunset in so we made it to the location and we're going to do it right over here in front of Matty's which is a restaurant and there's all these peacocks around it's really cool um but I'm like scared because I just don't know if it's going to work for like all of my mini sessions since they're going to be like from like let's say 2 p.m to 5 30 p.m I wonder if they're going to like come out here and say anything so I should probably get permission for that the last engagement shoot I did here the girl got permission so like I should be fine but I tried calling this uh this week and they left a voice message and they did not respond so I just came because it's just going to be like a 15 minute session and it really shouldn't be a problem but I feel like there's people in there so I don't know but it's closed right now it closes at 2 p.m on Sundays so like that's why they said it doesn't really matter if we come here and shoot pictures like oh yay swing I'm like maybe even put them on top of them now both of you laugh at each other we have about three more minutes so I just I just got done with my mini shoot it was just 15 minutes so I set a timer I didn't know how to end it just saying like okay now we're done so like I guess it was helpful to have the timer for them to hear too right now I'm just kind of taking some promo pictures I'm not sure if I'm going to use this venue so I'm like hesitant to like take like the background of the picture just because I don't want people to get their hopes up because this is a beautiful venue but I might find out hopefully this week like I said I left them a message and they didn't get back to me but as you can see like no one's really here that people are like just taking walks here like and I don't really mind them in the back because I can like walk them with the clients that I have in front of me if you guys aren't following me make sure to follow my productions account you can see all my photos there um and I would love it if you guys give it a follow like some of my pictures send me some love you know I'm working hard out here hustling and grinding this piece I got from home goods these pillows I got from Target like two years ago I think from my dorm room this is actually a black like sit-up pillow but I just threw this blanket over it just to make it more you know themed and stuff neutral so this pompous is actually by our house um we just took a few stems and then this face is from at home and I think it looks so beautiful and then these are actually from at home too they're like little stems of balls I guess and then the blanket the little cute old tassel leaf blanket is from home goods and that's it