Creative children photos

If your like me and love taking pictures of your monkeys then here is a twist to the traditional standard poses. In my line of work, I offer see professional photos of many photographers. The ones that I've been draw to lately have been the creative one I see with fun props, and beautiful backgrounds, and of course happy children. All these beautiful, imaginative images inspired me to combine my love of crafting with photography.
I decided to play amateur photographer with my monkeys. First creating props like the Legos camera that my son made, and I hot glued together. A plain frame I picked up at Michaels and painted with acrylic paint. I picked up a few lollipops, and silly string which I purchased at the local dollar store. Our family pet Bloom was a must in these pictures.
Once all the props were made, and all the outfits were picked out. I set up theme sessions with my kids, and scouted for a location. Thankfully the wildflowers in my area are in bloom, so that made for a terrrific background for my photos. I also saved a few inspirations photos of professional work, on my phone, to help with creating a nice pose.
The preparation time is the consuming part. The photo session were very short, and the kids had a blast seeing the results. I hope you pick up a camera and think of imaginative way to photograph your little monkeys.

PanDigital Scanner

I purchased this scanner about 2 years ago, and I totally forgot about it. As I was cleaning the craft room I ran across it again. I decided to scan all my old childhood pictures. I love that it was easy to use. I still need to edit my photos, but I love that it was a quick way to store old photos, and use right away. This scanner comes with a USB cable to download directly to your PC, or you can also download directly to a memory card for storage as well. I think this would be a great Christmas gift for those with tons of printed photographs. I know I have a few shoeboxes of these. Merry Christmas...

Scrapbook paper and pictures

This frame has been a big joke in our house for some time now. I bought it the 1st week we moved into our house, and it's been hanging on our wall empty for at least a year, and a half now. I finally ordered some pictures I love of my monkeys. I decide to fill some of the frames with scrapbook paper because some paper is just to pretty not to be displayed. I love being surrounded by pretty things. Now I need to fill the upstair frames. Oh well, maybe next year!

I miss Scrapbooking

It's been almost two years since I really sat down, and did some scrapping. I really miss it. I was looking through some scrapbook albums, and was happy to see such happy, little monkeys looking back at me. Oh I wish, their could be small again! I don't care if the craft room isn't completed yet. I really need to get back to scrapbooking before my memory fades anymore(Bad Mommy). Here are some scrapbook pages I would like to share.