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Inventive ideas for putting your baby in front of the camera and enjoying the resulting pictures

Shimmery new way to display photos (giveaway)

March 14, 2012

I have given many a photo of my adorable family as a gift to my parents and in-laws, so I get super excited when I discover a new twist on presenting an image. When Meghan from Aluminyze emailed me about sponsoring a giveaway here, I was like, “Totally!” What mom doesn’t want to win a [...]

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Makin’ it: Newborn photo opp

March 12, 2012

I saw this picture on Pinterest and wished I thought of it myself when Julian was an infant. I also wanted to Photoshop the words “Takin’ care of business” across the top of the photo, but it’s not my photo, so you’ll just have to imagine the cleverness. Have you done any funny photo shoots [...]

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Inventive ideas for putting your baby in front of the camera and enjoying the resulting pictures

Pregnancy time-lapse video

March 11, 2012

Not surprisingly, found on YouTube via a facebook friend.

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Makin’ it: Custom letter art

February 6, 2012

In a college photography class, Sue Tenerowicz was introduced to letter art. Her assignment that was to go out in the world and find letters that the world created.  Then spell something. She says, “A simple idea, but the concept stuck with me.” “I’ve always used words in pictures to send a special message. Sometimes, [...]

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Inventive ideas for putting your baby in front of the camera and enjoying the resulting pictures

Publish your own I Spy book

January 16, 2012

We are big fans of the I Spy books, starting with the board book versions I bought when Julian was a baby. We play “I Spy” with regular books, too, and now we’ve graduated into Where’s Waldo? territory. When Julian was four, he and I did a little photo shoot with big plans — still [...]

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My snapfish photo book (sponsored)

December 20, 2011

Snapfish recently challenged me to to solicit reader suggestions and make a cool photo book. So, not only did the ideas have to be interesting, but they had to also be easy enough for me to execute. Based on your great ideas, I picked the easiest one: One Fun Day. Alissa commented: Did you do [...]

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Inventive ideas for putting your baby in front of the camera and enjoying the resulting pictures

Activity #556: Chill out in the snow

December 20, 2011

After returning from a jaunt to Tahoe with his toddler, Ainslie, our friend Doug gave me tips on fun stuff to do in the snow. (That’s right old friends, I’m embarrassed to admit it but snow is something we visit out here — not endure. And we “jaunt”). For the baby set: Walk around with [...]

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Shutterfly photo books: story ideas (and giveaway!)

December 16, 2011

My mom makes mini photo books with Shutterfly for my kids every time we spend a weekend together, so we have a whole bunch of them. She is/was a creative director at her own ad agency, so she’s pretty darn good at it. But the hardbound books that Shutterfly is promoting now are in another [...]

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Inventive ideas for putting your baby in front of the camera and enjoying the resulting pictures

Clever idea: Use Santa diapers for holiday card

December 9, 2011

I was at a board meeting for Help A Mother Out when I met a lovely rookie mom named Catherine. The topic of Huggies’ holiday Santa diapers came up as we sat around the conference table (HAMO is a diaper donation advocacy organization, after all) and Catherine excitedly reached for her purse to reveal her [...]

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Help me design the ultimate photo book (and win!)

December 5, 2011

Have you ever made someone a beautiful personalized photo book and seen their face light up? It’s a good feeling. After my mom took me to Italy to celebrate my 30th birthday, I totally “won Christmas” (my new invented expression for the best gift of the year — let’s all make it a thing, ok?) [...]

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Inventive ideas for putting your baby in front of the camera and enjoying the resulting pictures

Activity #381: Find some excellent graffiti

November 28, 2011

This challenge, your 48th, goes out to all the urban mamas who need a scavenger hunt for the day. Take a picture of your baby in front of graffiti – as explained by Dutch, the dad who writes on Sweet Juniper. He has an awesome set of Flickr photos that inspired us to do this. [...]

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Do what YOU want to do

November 7, 2011

When my husband had to be gone for six whole nights on business leaving me alone with baby Holden, I panicked and called in my smartest mom friends for advice. They had perfectly reasonable suggestions about lowering my expectations, keeping it simple, and making plans to keep from going stir crazy. This tip came from [...]

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