Working in the photography industry over the years has produced many friends in the industry. These are friends I hold very dear to my heart. We build each other up, bounce business ideas off each other, strengthen each other and photograph each others’ families. We share an art form and I think in some ways…

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So I wrapped a few of the gifts I have finished and realized, I don’t have any gift tags. SO I whipped up some very simple Christmas gift tags, printed them off, punched them with my fancy dancy 2″ Fiskars circle punch, punched a little hole in the top to run ribbon through and TA-DAH…

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A while back Bill built me some hanging ledges for the giant wall above our couch. I haven’t posted about them yet because I was waiting until I filled them with fun things like photos, art and meaningful chachkies. They’re still not full but I’ve been pinning ideas and creating things to print and frame…

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Really, who doesn’t love Pinterest? It’s unlimited inspiration for the do-it-yourselfer. You see something you love, a tutorial, a design idea, a recipe and with the click of a button it’s pinned in your digital inspiration board. But I’m curious how often people actually take advantage of that easily accessed idea and follow through and…

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I mentioned a while back that I’ve started my first quilt. In my head squares seemed difficult so I decided to do a simple stripe quilt, which I guess is a thing because after I worked it out in my head I started to see them everywhere. And with the help of the lovely Holly…

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I kept seeing these really great fabric rosette pieces on Pinterest, adorable necklaces, shirts, and even a fab tree skirt. I decided to go ahead and try to make said tree skirt (without a tutorial). I could figure out most of it but the fabric roses (or rosettes) stumped me a bit. I searched for…

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It’s a fact. I love it. There was a section of my life where I wasn’t recording the day to day in photographs because I didn’t want to lug around my giant DSLR. I have a small point and shoot but I just didn’t want to bring that along either. But with the iPhone 4s…

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This post is the completes Pantry Organization Part 1. Other than making the door magnetic and adding a fabric covered cork board there were several elements I wanted to add to make the command center functional for our family. I did a lot of research to find exactly what I was looking for and thought…

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The one thing I knew I wanted was for the inside of our pantry door to be magnetic. I went through countless options to make this happen and finally settled on Rust-oleum’s Magnetic Primer. Don’t let the tiny box fool you, it’s freaking heavy. I was very very skeptical about the paint but I thought…

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