Go find a giveaway!

Do you take zillion photos? Yeah, me too. If you want to occasionally do something amazing with them, then you should enter to win a digital scrapbooking program from MyMemories. It's amazingly easy to pimp out your photos and organize the heck out of them. Head over to Liv(e) and enter to win!

Yoga art

These photos are in a series by D'ana Baptiste and I saw them at two different Yoga studios last week.

I couldn't resist sharing, especially with such clever names as "Solar Power" (referring to the Sun Salutation vinyasa) and "Tragically Hip."




If I ever have my own studio space, this 4-part series is definitely going to be amongst the simple decor.

Who cares if my house is messy?

For Christmas I purchased 3 canvas prints for Kev, each measuring 8x10. Actually, I only paid shipping for them because Canvas People was doing a promotion for free 8x10s. Yea! I love these prints and I'm so glad I found this deal so I could afford to add them to the unhealthy amount of Aspen photos popping up in the Pink House.

On one of Kev's vacation days for the new year, he helped me hang the canvases over his dresser. He picked that spot so he could look at Aspen's cute face whenever he wants.


And because I'm so not into making my life look perfect, I didn't even attempt to clean up the top of Kev's dresser for photos.

Just keepin' it real, yo.

Great for a Christmas gift...

Use this link to get a free, 8X10 canvas print of one of your favorite photos!! I'm not kidding. No strings attached. All you pay is the $14.95 shipping costs to Canvas People and the canvas is otherwise free. You can also upgrade at discounted rates to bigger sizes, but please note the shipping costs increase. I think it's $24.95 to ship 11X16 sized prints.

Regardless, it's a screamin' deal and it'll make a fantastic gift. I may have taken advantage of this but I'm not at liberty to discuss... Santa's elves must adhere to codes of secrecy this time of year!

Happy shopping!

Go find a giveaway!

Mary is kicking off the grand-opening of her Etsy shop with a giveaway for readers!

You can enter to win a print from her shop just by spreading the word about the giveaway. I'm having a hard time choosing my favorite, but the image above is definitely one of them.

Visit Mary's blog for giveaway details; good luck!

Image copyright Mary Oveson

Ellie Bean Photography

This week I had the opportunity to have photos taken by Linsey of Ellie Bean Photography. I look forward to sharing the pictures once they're edited and sent over by Lins. In the meantime, check out her site for a sneak preview and a sampling of her other work:


She's in Northern Utah, so if that's your neck of the woods, definitely contact Linsey and get hooked up with some awesome photos!

All images are copyright Ellie Bean Photography.

Creative ways to display photos of your sleeping babe.

Let's face it- newborns sleep a LOT. And new parents photograph them a LOT.

It can get boring for everyone who's subjected to those photographs.

Mary shared this awesome idea from Mila's Daydreams on her blog this week and I think it's so clever!

It's such a great way to keep the photographs interesting and fun even if the babe is always snoozing.

What other ideas do you have for keeping photos fresh and exciting?

Amore

Really, what is it about birds that is so sweet? Why am I willing to pay $25 for this photograph when it's only 8X8?

Because it has two fat-bellied birds on a wire. A sight I can often see from my desk at work. I love it when moments like this are preserved.

Find this print and many others at Alicia Bock's Etsy store.

How to keep all those prints organized.

B&H photography has photo albums for Holga prints (5X5) that I have my eye on. Kev would prefer having the photos stored in albums instead of strung up all over the house. I guess he's not a fan of pin holes in the walls he painstakingly painted.

I can't decide if I should get the album that holds 1 photo per page or the album that holds 4 per page. Either way, I'm just glad a fairly inexpensive album exists to display my Holga prints.

Once I get film for Kev's old Polaroid camera, I'll need to get an album like this one from Urban Outfitters for all my instant prints!