Pennants...who knew?

I tried my hand at making one of these cute photo prop/decorations (actually I made two) this week and it was soooo easy! I cut the triangles out of felt, pinned them to a piece of ribbon and sewed them on. That's it. Really! I need to make a lot more of these. I think they look so cute in pictures. (Even though I made these for my friends baby shower, they will work double duty for me ;)

I WILL win an Epiphanie bag if I try hard enough!

I entered the Epiphanie Camera Bags + Zenfolio Picture It photo contest! http://bit.ly/Ix1mXq

I have entered 3 or 4 contests so far trying to win one of these Epiphanie camera bags. I will not give up until I finally have one. I think it's become an obsession. My current camera bag is very sad. It's a purse I picked up in Trier, Germany at the Christmas market (where the above photo was taken!) with a blanket stuffed in the bottom for padding. I REALLY need to win this bag :)

Where in the world?

It's time to play again!  Reservations have been made. (Hopefully this trip is more successful than it was exactly a year ago when we attempted it the first time *hint hint.) 

Where are we going on vacation next weekend?

We'll be seeing a lot of this next weekend

I'll even give you one extra hint...

( clog photo courtesy of © Pierdelune | Dreamstime.com)

The Easter Bunny

I had the opportunity last week to take pictures of the Easter Bunny (wink, wink)...

What does the Easter Bunny bring to your home?

Frank Gemeinhardt

After I posted my photos of Franz Jansen's home, I was searching for more information online and I stumbled across a website with the most wonderful photos! They are gorgeous. I love the website design, I love the pictures and turns out the photographer is a nice guy as well. I left a comment to let him know I liked his work and to get permission to write about him. In his reply he told me about an app called instagram. I loaded the app on my iPhone and started following him (like twitter, not in the scary stalker like way.) I started uploading some of my own photos and now I am totally addicted!  If you'd like to follow me on instagram search for hborstad (http://instagr.am/p/kkZia/). But we'll come back to that another time. 

Here is the website I was telling you about. http://www.gemeiny.de/cms/

Find him on Flicker: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gemeiny/

Find him on instagram: search for "gemeiny"

Below are a few examples of his beautiful photography. They truly make me want to work harder and keep practicing. He has photos from all over Europe with a great eye for beauty in the abandoned and dilapidated. 

Photo license: © All Rights Reserved Frank Gemeinhardt

Photo license: © All Rights Reserved Frank Gemeinhardt

Photo license: © All Rights Reserved Frank Gemeinhardt

Photo license: © All Rights Reserved Frank Gemeinhardt


Please check out his work and if you like it sign the guestbook and let him know. 

Stuck inside a snow globe

About three years ago my grandmother got a snow globe of my cousin as a gift. He had taken a photo of himself arms outstretched, face to the sky trying to catch snowflakes on his tongue, cut it out and put it in one of those "add your own picture" snow globes. My grandma wanted me to get Hailey to do that so she could have one of her too. Well, at that time we were living in Texas and there was NO snow. Last year I got the picture of her doing that, but I couldn't find the snow globes anywhere!  This year I found the snow globes and decided to finally do it. I'm hoping that since MY memory isn't so great that my grandmothers might be even worse? Or maybe since time seems to go faster the older you get, maybe at her age it'll seem like she just asked me a couple of months ago? I can hope right? 

I had planned to use this photo I took last year with her arms out...

But it's from last year and I wanted something more current. So I *borrowed* this picture of my daughter from a friend. (See the previous blog on how to edit out things in the background.)

 I wanted to it to show on both sides of the snow globe. I hadn't decided if I was going to cut it to fit the globe yet, or cut around the photo so I had to make a mirror copy so they would line up when they were back to back. To do this I opened the photo in Photoshop, made a copy and then went to the "Image" menu at the top. I clicked on "image rotation" and then "flip canvas horizontal." Then I printed out both pictures, put then back to back and cut around the template that came with the snow globe. 

It's still not quite right because there is quite a bit of space where you insert the picture and you can see into it. I tried cutting a strip of paper, stuffing it with tissue paper but I think what I'm going to do is paint it from the inside. (see what I mean) 

 

That'll have to be a different day. I think since I found the snow globes pretty cheap I'm going to purchase some more and try the photo from last year, and try cutting around her so none of the background shows and see how they look. (I guess I didn't need to edit my husband out of the photo if I'm just going to cut around it anyway!) Oh well :) At least I learned how to do it!

If I get around to it I'll post an update with pictures...

They grow so fast you don't even notice it...

I have to confess that I did not take this one ^ but I did buy the disk!

To be continued....

"My entry to win a free Canon 5D Mk III via @CameraBag 2 (http://bit.ly/cb2-5d) #cb2giveaway"