AnnaAnisin’s Blog

I had to bring the BLOG back to WordPress for the moment, because we’re having some major technical difficulties @ the MLBlogs 😦

I am going to keep this BLOG going too & am working on improving the look & adding some links. This will be more behind the scenes and personal stuff in the future.

For the past month and a half I have been working with our developers to get an “Alpha” version of the site up. And I finally succeeded because it’s up!!! Yes, that’s right! If you got to www.baseballbeauties.com you will get the essence of what Baseball Beauties will be all about. No more nonsense & broken links. Don’t worry, you will be able to click around and “Join” once the site launches at the end of April, for now just check it out and let me know what you think? I want feedback, negative or positive all is welcome! We want to make the site the best it can be for you, the “User” so don’t hesitate to comment or write directly to:  baseballbeauties@gmail.com

Now that the site is looking much better, I planned and had a Photo shoot, which took place last Friday, March 27^th

Not to give too much away, our featured Baseball Beauties name is Sarah, and she loves baseball =) She personalizes her baseball gears when she goes to games! We welcome Sarah to our team and I’m looking forward to working with her.  For the shoot we did a “Spring Theme”, so we used lots of bright spring dresses!

I just love spring! Followers are blooming, birds are singing, days are longer and the Baseball Season is starting what can be better than that =)

I will post a separate BLOG with all the Photo Shoot Detail next week =) & a sneak peak into the finished pictures!

We are working with 2 wonderful Vintage stores in Berkley: Dolled Up Vintage & Twisters Vintage, they share a website: http://www.twistersvintage.com/ these stores have such a generous selection of Vintage clothes, it’s like a dream come true. They have a HUGE warehouse full of Vintage stuff ranging from the 1930 all the way up to the 80s! We are very lucky to have found them, and will be using their clothing for all of our shoots from now on. They are going to be at the Vintage Fashion Expo in San Francisco this weekend: http://www.vintageexpo.com/ anyone who has any fashion sense or interest should go and check out all the wonderful pieces, it’s like having history unfolded in front of you from the past 100 years!  Baseball Beauties will be there =)

Another cool thing that happened to me, I won tickets to: http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009 Web 2.0 Expo going on in San Francisco March 31^st –April 3^rd!

This was a HUGE surprise to me because I never win anything!  I get to go to all the 5 conferences and will guest star on the http://www.webgrrls.com/ BLOG and talk about my favorite one.  Thank you Webgrrls for giving me an opportunity to go! I will take great Video and Notes and promise to take as much out of this experience as I can =) I will be Blogging about this event on here too, so stay tuned!

I have been spending some time on Twitter and if you aren’t following me on there yet, you can find me http://twitter.com/annaanisin or @annaanisin I do Tweet updates on Baseball Beauties, so if you haven’t joined Twitter I suggest that you do, you can learn some great facts and meet some very knowledgeable individuals! And our Fan Page on Facebook has a new look: http://www.facebook.com/pages/wwwbaseballbeautiescom/123125730393?sid=ce7ae13037f2b1a7e753c4116fbf4a29&ref=s make sure to check it out and “Join” if you haven’t already!

On to some Baseball!

I was very lucky to go to Spring Training this year =) Baseball Beauties are based in California, so I went to AZ (Cactus League) Even though I was there for 1 full day, I had an awesome time and came to a realization that Baseball Season is just around the corner! That means that Baseball Beauties is going to launch in less than a month!

I went to the A’s vs. LA Dodgers game on Monday, March 16^th. We had great seats in the shade and I was enjoying a cold beer =) and eating a pretzel (my favorite ball park snack) At first the A’s were down and then by the 4^th inning they picked back up and won by 2 points ending the game with 12 to 10 As! At the 7^th inning stretch I went to the A’s store and bought a cool St Patrick’s A’s tank top. It’s really neat that the A’s colors go so well with that Holiday!

It was really nice to get away and enjoy the 85F AZ weather! Baseball was in the air, people were wearing all sorts of baseball gear, representing their teams =) I downloaded the MLB app to my I-Phone and have been following Spring Training on there. Almost forgot to say! We’re working on a Baseball Beauties I-Phone application, so look for that in the next few months.

Now that the season is just around the corner Blogging will be a lot easier =)

Here is a little bit from my partner in crime Amy!

I agree with Anna it has been way too long since we updated our blog, and there is so much to talk about.  Being Anna’s “partner in crime” I was very very jealous that she was able to attend spring training in AZ while I sat at home in California…. I can only hope that next year that baseball beauties will be there in force.. ( with me very much included :))

So on to baseball, I knew that there wouldn’t be not much shortage of stuff to write about with spring training beginning and before that the trades that had been taking place, most notably, and ending with Manny’s circus act with the Dodgers….

But I just didn’t and can’t believe that A-rod would still be grabbing headlines after the Madonna debacle earlier this year….You think that the guy may have decided to lay low and maybe actually just focus on baseball, and not put himself on the covers of magazines that have nothing to do with sports.

But, I guess that was too much to ask for as he graces the cover of Details Magazine for the month of April…. One photo in particular inside

has A-rod practically kissing himself in the mirror., though I have to admit as a girl never thought A-Rod was one of the elite baseball players in terms of hotness factor, but his arms do look very very good.  Anyways, I will let you judge for yourself on the pics.

Now we count down to the opening day!