Source: trendenser.se via Jennifer on Pinterest

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Source: trendenser.se via Jennifer on Pinterest

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May 28, 2012

I love, love, love retro blue and red. When I have the opportunity to create a photo shoot using these colors I jump to it. This was a fun shoot!

A client of mine asked me to do a fun little shoot with his daughter and a few of her friend. I asked him if he would mind if I had some creative fun with it...he and his daughter said go for it and fun we had!!!!

~retro angel~

I love, love, love retro blue and red. When I have the opportunity to create a photo shoot using these colors I jump to it. This was a fun shoot!

A client of mine asked me to do a fun little shoot with his daughter and a few of her friend. I asked him if he would mind if I had some creative fun with it...he and his daughter said go for it and fun we had!!!!

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May 22, 2012

Super simple! Purchase large corks at your local hardware store. Stamp them, paint theme. Take a knife and slice down the center of the top portion of the cork.Slid your little photo in and "voila!" neat photo holder! Make 10 our 12 and place them on your table as place setting  the next get together you have:)

If you like any of my diy please leave a comment~I'd love to hear form you :)

diy~large cork photo holder

Super simple! Purchase large corks at your local hardware store. Stamp them, paint theme. Take a knife and slice down the center of the top portion of the cork.Slid your little photo in and "voila!" neat photo holder! Make 10 our 12 and place them on your table as place setting  the next get together you have:)

If you like any of my diy please leave a comment~I'd love to hear form you :)

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May 19, 2012

Every little girl is someone's little princess!

pretty~pretty~ princess

Every little girl is someone's little princess!

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May 19, 2012

       This little DIY is easy and fun. You can be creative and place other items in the glass bottles, has to
be waterproof or plastic I love the confetti stars because they remind me of wishes. I also love, bottles and had a lot of them sitting around, the older bottles are the best, so if you have a special vintage bottle waiting for some tlc this might be the idea for you.

 First you need coffee ( kidding I need coffee!!) Bottles, Corn Syrup, Confetti {I have stars} Cork toppers...should fit your bottles and tchotchkes....if you would like a little extra bling!

 Poor as many stars or confetti as you like, you want to at least fill your glass half full ( not half empty) Put about 20% water in the jar after the confetti. 

 Add corn syrup...A lot of corn syrup.  You want the solution to be thick, that holds the confetti in place longer and makes it look  not so watery.You want to do this over the sink in your kitchen, corn syrup is super sticky!!!

 When you think you like the amount ( you may have to play with how full you would like it, I suggest as full as you can make it) Cork it and seal it with Diamond glaze or Aleene's paper glaze. You want to seal it for a few reasons. 1 Corn Syrup expands in heat. So when the weather is warm the syrup will seep out of the top kind of like sap come out of trees. 2 you do not want a sticky mess in case someone decides to shake it to hard or force it open...if you have kids then you know exactly what I am talking about.

You can take a simple jar and really make it a sweet gift. This idea is neat for birthday, wedding or baby shower  table top gifts. you can also give the whole bottle a vintage feel. The bottle on the left has a piece of Crystal with metal in it. The metal turned the solution a dark vintage color. Every time I make these no one guesses what the solution is or where I purchased it (shhh!) Both bottles have the same feet on them, I painted one set blue to give it a whimsical feel.

 Another idea is to go to a scrapbook store to fine you goodies to place in your jar. I found these perfect plastic confetti flowers {BELOW} and made a handful for my friend daughters birthday.

The stars are my favorite because they just have a vintage nostalgic feel to them and I like to give a bottle of stars as a gift and tell people I hope a "thousand wishes" come true for them. I am looking to find mustache confetti  because that would be sweet!

One more thing...the more you shake the better!

diy~ thousand wishes~ gift bottles

       This little DIY is easy and fun. You can be creative and place other items in the glass bottles, has to
be waterproof or plastic I love the confetti stars because they remind me of wishes. I also love, bottles and had a lot of them sitting around, the older bottles are the best, so if you have a special vintage bottle waiting for some tlc this might be the idea for you.

 First you need coffee ( kidding I need coffee!!) Bottles, Corn Syrup, Confetti {I have stars} Cork toppers...should fit your bottles and tchotchkes....if you would like a little extra bling!

 Poor as many stars or confetti as you like, you want to at least fill your glass half full ( not half empty) Put about 20% water in the jar after the confetti. 

 Add corn syrup...A lot of corn syrup.  You want the solution to be thick, that holds the confetti in place longer and makes it look  not so watery.You want to do this over the sink in your kitchen, corn syrup is super sticky!!!

 When you think you like the amount ( you may have to play with how full you would like it, I suggest as full as you can make it) Cork it and seal it with Diamond glaze or Aleene's paper glaze. You want to seal it for a few reasons. 1 Corn Syrup expands in heat. So when the weather is warm the syrup will seep out of the top kind of like sap come out of trees. 2 you do not want a sticky mess in case someone decides to shake it to hard or force it open...if you have kids then you know exactly what I am talking about.

You can take a simple jar and really make it a sweet gift. This idea is neat for birthday, wedding or baby shower  table top gifts. you can also give the whole bottle a vintage feel. The bottle on the left has a piece of Crystal with metal in it. The metal turned the solution a dark vintage color. Every time I make these no one guesses what the solution is or where I purchased it (shhh!) Both bottles have the same feet on them, I painted one set blue to give it a whimsical feel.

 Another idea is to go to a scrapbook store to fine you goodies to place in your jar. I found these perfect plastic confetti flowers {BELOW} and made a handful for my friend daughters birthday.

The stars are my favorite because they just have a vintage nostalgic feel to them and I like to give a bottle of stars as a gift and tell people I hope a "thousand wishes" come true for them. I am looking to find mustache confetti  because that would be sweet!

One more thing...the more you shake the better!

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May 19, 2012

I love taking photos of families and then seeing them a few month later.  The kids grow and change so fast! It almost makes me cry lol! I adore watching a family who you can obviously see how their child is their whole world...this is one of my favorite recent shoots...can you feel the love :)

Happy Family ~ 2012

I love taking photos of families and then seeing them a few month later.  The kids grow and change so fast! It almost makes me cry lol! I adore watching a family who you can obviously see how their child is their whole world...this is one of my favorite recent shoots...can you feel the love :)

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May 18, 2012

This is not a difficult DIY at all. It was a tad time consuming but fun. I just started to teach myself to sew. Sewing a straight line is a great accomplishment for me lol! A while ago I purchased for pennies a large fabric sample book. The beautiful samples all had one thing in common, the color pink. Each piece was stapled in the book. Carefully I had to pull the book apart and remove all the staples. Each piece also had   cardboard attached to the back that I could not remove with out damaging the fabric...thus my dilemma what to do with these? I held on to them for a while and finally decided to see if I could create a girly back drop for a photo shoot. I have a beautiful crushed velvet red chair I am dying to try out now with this now that I sewed these pieces together..All I need is a live person lol!.  { Mr Bear will have to do for the moment} Even thought I did have to sew through fabric and cardboard it ended up not as thick as I thought, it was a slight challenge but I do love the results.

If you like to try something similar go to a fabric store and see if you can purchase discounted fabric books. I do know that this fabric was high end so I defiantly wanted to create something neat with it...happy with the results & excited for my next "girly shoot"

DIY~ Girly fabric photo back drop

This is not a difficult DIY at all. It was a tad time consuming but fun. I just started to teach myself to sew. Sewing a straight line is a great accomplishment for me lol! A while ago I purchased for pennies a large fabric sample book. The beautiful samples all had one thing in common, the color pink. Each piece was stapled in the book. Carefully I had to pull the book apart and remove all the staples. Each piece also had   cardboard attached to the back that I could not remove with out damaging the fabric...thus my dilemma what to do with these? I held on to them for a while and finally decided to see if I could create a girly back drop for a photo shoot. I have a beautiful crushed velvet red chair I am dying to try out now with this now that I sewed these pieces together..All I need is a live person lol!.  { Mr Bear will have to do for the moment} Even thought I did have to sew through fabric and cardboard it ended up not as thick as I thought, it was a slight challenge but I do love the results.

If you like to try something similar go to a fabric store and see if you can purchase discounted fabric books. I do know that this fabric was high end so I defiantly wanted to create something neat with it...happy with the results & excited for my next "girly shoot"

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May 18, 2012

I love this set. The dress was perfect and looked like something my sisters owned when they were young growing up in the 70's. I wanted the feel and look like these were taken in 1972. The Model....she looked like a baby doll. This was so fun to shoot, defiantly one of my favorite of this year so far.

baby doll blue~1972 ~by seeds studio

I love this set. The dress was perfect and looked like something my sisters owned when they were young growing up in the 70's. I wanted the feel and look like these were taken in 1972. The Model....she looked like a baby doll. This was so fun to shoot, defiantly one of my favorite of this year so far.

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May 16, 2012

Took some sweet pics down town Detroit on Mother's day......Fun urban photos I am eager to blow up and place in my house...I maybe pop a few up on my etsy as well :)

Spending a day in the "D"

Took some sweet pics down town Detroit on Mother's day......Fun urban photos I am eager to blow up and place in my house...I maybe pop a few up on my etsy as well :)

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May 14, 2012