a giveaway hosted by yourwishcake.

I'm a little excited this weekend.   My adorable friend Kerri is kindly doing a giveaway on her lovely blog yourwishcake and you can win this flower bib necklace I created:

Kerri's blog is always an inspiration and quite frankly I feel all kinds of special to be featured on there for a giveaway... She kindly photographed herself wearing one of my bib necklaces and lets just say she is obviously better at self portraits than I am. If you take a peek at the giveaway post you can see hers.

So hop on over to yourwishcake to enter the giveaway and to get to know Kerri. Have a great weekend!

Professional Photography

Artful Anthology Photography.

Because a picture should be worth a thousand words.

 

Elizabeth and Pedro.

Costa Mesa, California Wedding. August 2011.

 

Jen and Neal.

Montage Resort.

Laguna Beach,California Wedding. March 2011.

Lambie Family Portraits.

Rancho Santa Margarita, California. August 2011.

Day 16: Fresh Flowers.

Today I will aim to try and post a picture for the August Break twice (because I didn't post yesterday)...

There is nothing quite as cheerful as a bunch of fresh flowers. My good friend Johanna gave my little one these flowers on her 5th birthday. Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Day 15: Another self portrait....

For Day 15 I decided to use a self portrait picture I did a few months ago. I was basically trying to take some pictures of my bib necklaces and didn't have a model so I thought I would give it a whirl.... Self portrait pictures are just plain odd and frustrating for me. This was the best one of the batch, but I still had to crop and edit the heck out of it. I edited the picture in picnik with the orton-ish effect and then desaturated it a bit. 

So that's Day 15. Halfway through August Break already! Time sure does fly.

Day 14: Inspiration from other bloggers.

I have been watching my friend Dianne's daily posts for The August Break and was inspired by her personal style and the pictures she has been posting. I'm pretty sure we have the same cactus, although mine is new and I have not seen it flower, but after seeing how pretty hers is, I hope that it does! I don't have a good track record when it comes to taking care of plants so I am hoping that I cant go wrong with a cactus... After I photographed the cactus I decided to edit the picture in picnik using the boost and soften effects:

So today's picture is dedicated to Diane - thanks for the inspiration!

Etsy Treasury - New Addiction

I'm seriously in love with the Etsy Treasury and creating my own treasuries just for the fun of it. I recently signed up for pinterest but haven't sat down to start my first board, I'm kind of worried that pinterest could be even more addicting! With Etsy treasury lists you don't have to necessarily do a certain color scheme but from the first three I created its obvious that a treasury with beautiful colors all blended creatively is what tickles my fancy! Here are the first three I have created, and if you haven't already started your own treasury lists then give it a try!

Must Have Mustard

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Color My World

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My Ideal Picnic

Artful Anthology Etsy Shop

A few years back I opened an Etsy shop but never really got into selling seriously. I decided that with the New Year i would make it a resolution to start selling in my shop and add some fun handcrafted projects (primarily accessories). I'm just going to dabble in it and the goal is more or less to have some fun and create projects that inspire me. I've been making a habit or giving handmade gifts recently and have had a number of people to me that I really need to open an Etsy shop so I decided to just go with it. To start out I have added a few different items including rosette brooches, hair clips and some ephemera packs. Stop by my Etsy shop and take a look (shop if you like) and enjoy!

One of my favorite items (lots of additional designs coming soon) are my yoyo hair accessories:

And my other favorite thing to create these days is fabric rosettes!