Thistle + Lace Photography

07/23/2025

📚 ✨Back to School Mini Sessions ✨📚
Perfect for traditional AND homeschool families!
Let’s celebrate a fresh school year with beautiful portraits that capture your child’s unique personality and this exciting milestone.
🎒 $150 | 15 Minutes | 5 Edited Images
🗓️ August 30th & 31st
📍 [Location Elkhart, IN”]
These sessions are ideal for: ✏️ School-aged kids (Pre-K through High School)
🏡 Parents who want timeless “school” portraits
🎓 First days, milestones, or just because!
🎁 You’ll get: ✔️ A fun, styled setup with school-themed props
✔️ Online gallery to choose your favorite 5 images
✔️ Full print release
🖼️ Whether you're documenting your homeschool journey or the start of a new grade, these quick sessions are perfect for creating lasting memories.
I plan on bringing a few props (Vintage books, chair, apples)
ONLY A FEW SPOTS AVAILABLE!
Balance MUST be paid at booking
IF weather does not cooperate we will move the date to september!
BOOKING LINK IN THE COMMENTS!
( Photos below to show more traditional vs more moody/artsy..upon booking lets chat about which you prefer!)

02/28/2025

Naomi and Clancy's intimate Florida ceremony this month was nothing short of breathtaking. I felt so grateful to have been a part of their special day and to have witnessed the authentic love they share.









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Music and post curated by my lovely daughter

02/27/2025

01/22/2025

It's been quite some time since I've captured a baby entering this world and I'm so glad that I was able to make it to my friend julies homebirth of her sweet baby girl.. the precious miracle children are and pregnancy and birth is never something I get used to or tire of... God is so evident in all of it. What a day to be born on. Martin Luther King Jr day, inauguration day, and Notre Dame championship.!
It was so beautiful to see big sister Joey watch her little sister be born and I'm so glad I was there to capture it. Congratulations Evan and Julie and family. May God bless you abundantly.

01/11/2025

Darlin' won't you take me home?

Being welcomed into someone's home is always such a beautiful thing. But to be able to photograph it is an absolute honor . I'm not really creating art. You are the art. I simply am painting it as it see it .

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas folks

Here's a little December recap

Our life is messy, full, and extremely blessed. Above all we're just so thankful for God sending His son to die for our sins .

12/10/2024

*Timeless*
Heirloom memories to hang on to forever

#ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ

11/23/2024

Their love is *chefs kiss*

The best compliment I've ever gotten is saying that they cried when they got these photos.

I'll cherish this session and these people forever 🖤

11/20/2024

If I were to host a retreat to Scotland who's going to meet me there??

I'm thinking content creators and artists or maybe just someone who wants to revel in the beauty of what Scotland has to offer

This would most likely be an October or November of next year!

Please let me know if you're interested. This would be an absolute dream of mine!

11/06/2024

So blessed where this work has taken me
The people I've met
The places I've seen
God gets the glory. If it wasn't for Him giving me a desire for finding beauty and gifting me any sort of vision for photography.. None of this would be possible.

So thankful I get to meet people like you two love your love and your family.

11/04/2024

soaking in that autumn light

it felt like we've known each other forever

easy conversation and quite simply just a delight

Traveling 3 hours to meet people for the very first time is always an adventure and you never know quite what to expect, but when it turns into an absolutely magic afternoon.. you Noah was exactly where you were supposed to be.

All right, here we go

11/03/2024

Happy Sunday everybody! After an extremely long night with a baby and me barely getting maybe 3 hours of sleep last night. I'm guessing I need to address my post yesterday because since I'm getting tons of hate messages in my inbox along with I will say a bunch of people telling me that they admire my bravery because they aren't willing to post things like that on their social media for fear of losing clients...

I will say this

A. I have friends who have had abortions. I know women who have had abortions and I love them deeply and care for them deeply. The whole idea of the pro-life movement not giving a crap about the mother is just trash.. most of the women that I know who are pro-life care about the whole family, every human, every person, including the ones inside the womb... They aren't choosing one over the other

Also arguing with me on the internet about me being pro-life or absolutely telling me that I don't care about women etc is just wild to me.. I have tons of friends that are pro-choice and honestly i love them anyway

This is all the way it goes with so many things. So many divisive things so much hypocrisy

If my post would have been about Kamala and about being pro-choice and who cares if you kill babies all the way up to 40 weeks.. I would have gotten so many likes and so many hearts and so many messages like go you..

So for my clients who are pro-choice...I love you!

We may not agree but I love you.

But if that's something that you're willing to unfriend me unfollow think poorly of me about then I guess that's on you. Not on me.

Photo of my kids because they're hilarious 🖤