Ugly Wall Syndrome? Cure It with a Custom Portrait from Your Photo

Are you struggling with Ugly Wall Syndrome? Don't worry, you can cure it with a custom portrait from your photo! In this blog post, we'll discuss how to create a unique and beautiful portrait from your own photo and how it can help you to get rid of Ugly Wall Syndrome. We'll also provide tips and tricks to make sure your portrait looks amazing. So, if you're looking for a way to spruce up your walls, this blog post is for you!


Ugly Wall Syndrome? Cure It with a Custom Portrait from Your Photo

Underwater Photography: How To Capture The Beauty Of The Ocean On Camera

Do you want to capture the beauty and mystery of the ocean on camera? Underwater photography is a great way to explore new depths, capture amazing creatures and landscapes, and take stunning photos. Whether you’re an experienced photographer or just starting out, it can be tricky to get your shots right in an underwater environment. We'll provide tips on how to make sure your underwater photos are professional-looking and beautiful - from equipment selection, composition basics, lighting techniques, editing tricks, and more. So if you’re ready to dive into the world of underwater photography – let’s get started!

Underwater Photography: How To Capture The Beauty Of The Ocean On Camera

Making a Family Tree: A Great Way to Learn Your Family History

Would you like your kids to know more about their family and the ones who came before? Or, perhaps, you want to find an activity that can be encouraging for both you and your child? Learning about your family history is a great way to find out more about your roots and spend time together. But how to organize it? Building a family tree is a perfect option if you want to tell your family story in an unusual way and get children to know about their heritage.




Today, we’re going to tell you more about the idea of making a family tree and share some tips with you!

Photography: Your Perfect Travel Buddy

Photography: Your Perfect Travel Buddy


In today's tech-obsessed society, social media platforms may be the ideal venue for virtual travelers around the world to see the world's beauty, but to travel is about so much more than grabbing that perfectly balanced Instagram photo. Traveling should be interesting and worthwhile. It should enthrall and continue to inspire you, refresh the pages of your life for rejuvenation and high ground you, also continue to educate and challenge you, and most importantly, humble you. Travel provides us with our most memorable, fascinating, remarkable, unique stories, most treasured memories, and innumerable irreplaceable lessons that we might choose to pass on to someone else. It teaches people like us about ourselves and each other; it broadens our perspectives and forces us to refocus on what is important, much like a reset button. Traveling is an experience in life that you will never be able to duplicate in your tiny hometown. It gives us a different, wider perspective on how others live, greet each other, eat, converse, and quarrel, whether joyful or sad. We often form opinions based on things we've never personally experienced. We open the door to these kinds of experiences by traveling long distances; some are perilous, such as white-water rafting or trekking Everest, but for others, one thing is important: you experience something new.

Creating Lasting Memories with Shutterfly

Although I am an affiliate for Shutterfly, I have been using them to make beautiful creations for years. I have been using Shutterfly to create lasting memories that I absolutely love. I love that you can stack coupons and they always offer great freebies. Like, ew customers can get a Free 8x8 Photo Book just for signing up and right now you can get free prints if you order through their app. How amazing is that?

I used Shutterfly to send out Christmas Cards/Pregnancy Announcement

I get all my prints from them. And I make a wall calendar for my father-in-law almost every year so he can have beautiful, quality pictures of his grandkids in his office as well as a very useful item that even has everyone's birthday already on it. I have created so many other beautiful photo gifts as well.

How To Take Better Pictures of Your Kids

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If you’re of a certain age, you’ll probably remember that disposable cameras provided the majority of family photos. You’ll have noticed now, though, that times have changed, and gone are the hand labelled folders of fingerprint-smudged, developer-printed pictures. The dawn of the camera phone, with the decent quality photos you can take on them, combined with new found opportunities for storing and sharing our photos on social media, has entirely reworked our attitude toward taking pictures. Interestingly, Infotrends calculated that in 2016 we took 1.1 trillion photos, predicted to grow to 1.4 trillion by 2020 - almost exclusively on smartphones!



Naturally the ability to capture and share more of our experiences is affords us amazing opportunities, but there is a danger to forego quality photos for overstuffed Facebook folders that people may only flick through once. To get people to really engage with your photos in this new age of Facebook albums and Instagram likes, we have created a guide to list of easy to follow tips for taking great family photos in 2018.

Capturing the Holiday Season Thanks to Portrait Innovations

So I decided to get holiday pictures taken this year. I have been wanting to get family pictures taken for a while, but trying to work it around my husband's schedule has been almost impossible, but I wanted at least some pictures of just the kids. And I am so glad I decided to do this.


When I received the opportunity to experience Portrait Innovations first hand, I jumped at the chance. I made our appointment for 9:40 am because I knew that I needed to get my kids in there early in the morning. They both woke up on their own in great moods and I think that helped a lot. The closest Portrait Innovations is about an hour away from us which really isn't unreasonable for a quality studio.

How to Display Family Pictures with FoamCorePrint

We bought our house a year ago this month. I still can't believe we have been living here that long. All the boxes have officially been unpacked, which is a HUGE accomplishment for us considering we never completely unpacked at our old house and we were there for almost nine years. But the main thing I have been focusing on now is decorating. I will eventually want to paint everything since there is just builder's grade paint on our walls now, but that will have to wait.


I love display my family as décor. Like for real, y'all. I love my family and I think they are gorgeous. I love canvas prints, metal prints, and I recently discovered FoamCorePrints.

Beautiful, Memorable Home Decor with Canvas Factory

I received complimentary products to provide this post. All opinions are my own.
 
I have been on a roll this year with printing pictures. I want something to look at when I'm older and what if I forget how to work an iPad or the sites I use to back up my pictures aren't always there? I always felt like printing pictures was just something that I had to do even though I was terrible about getting around to it, but there are so many affordable options out there now. It's so easy and I can have my pictures created into beautiful art. With dance season at an end, I decided to get a beautiful canvas print of my daughter's ballet shot from Canvas Factory.

 

 
Canvas Factory has so many different options to choose from so you can cherish your memories. From Split Canvas Print, Canvas Collage, Acrylic Glass, or even Metal Prints, Canvas Factory has something for everyone. You can create memories for your to display or someone you love, you can even create beautiful art for each and every room of your house! Canvas Factory has some GREAT deals on canvases at unbeatable prices. 

Enter to #WIN from Canvas Factory! Ends 2/29

I received complimentary products to provide his post. All opinions are my own.
 
I have been on a roll this year with printing pictures. I always felt like it was something that I had to do even though I was terrible about getting around to it, but there are so many options out there now. It's so easy and I can have my pictures created into beautiful art. With Valentine's Day coming up and my husband needing new pictures for his office, I decided to finally getting a canvas from Canvas Factory with a picture from their Daddy/Daughter photo shoot.
 
 
 
Canvas Factory has so many different options to choose cherish your memories. From Split Canvas Print, Canvas Collage, Acrylic Glass, or even Metal Prints, Canvas Factory has something for everyone. You can create memories for your to display or someone you love, you can even create beautiful art for each and every room of your house! Canvas Factory has some GREAT deals on canvases at unbeatable prices.

Introducing AdoramaPix Metal Prints #HGG2015

I received complimentary products to provide this post. All opinions are my own.
 
"AdoramaPix helps people turn their digital photographs from abstract computer files into beautiful keepsakes designed to last a lifetime. Their contemporary metal prints capture memories in rich color and vibrant detail. Because your images are infused right into the metal, and not painted on the surface, their metal prints are extremely durable. Not only will your metal image be water and weather proof, but scratch resistant as well. You can even clean it with glass cleaner. Your memories deserve to live in true, archival luxury with AdoramaPix metal prints."
 

Easy Holiday Gifts with PicCollage & HP

This post was written as a promotional program with HP, PicCollage, and MomSelect. All opinions are my own.
 
I love giving personalized gifts for the Holidays. I upload pictures and share them with friends and family online all the time, but there is something extra special about personalized picture gifts. Especially for the people in your life who aren't on social media.


I don't know about you, but I LOVE making picture collages. It's not always enough to post just one photo to showcase life's most precious moments. With the help of PicCollage, now it's easy to create customized, digital collages that truly capture the memories from those perfect days and share them with your friends and family!

Playing with Babies #TBT

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Although I loved playing with baby dolls as a child, there aren't many pictures of me playing with you. Being baby number three, not many pictures exist at all of me in fact. My parents divorced when I was young. My dad said they must have been misplaced when I noticed the lack of pictures. But he tried to make up for it as I go older.

 
Anyways, this post is about a Throwback to the "babies" I use to play with. My Barbies and my Carebears. I had a ton of both and loved on them unconditionally. I treated them just like my babies though.

Zoo Atlanta with The Cousins {Wordless Wednesday LINKY}

This past week was my daughter's last week of summer break. We took advantage of it by spending every day outside doing something. My sister-in-law and I took all the kiddos to Zoo Atlanta on Thursday. A great time was had by all!

Mother & Son {Wordless Wednesday LINKY}

There isn't a way to describe the bond between a mother and her son.
 

How We Celebrated Independence Day {Wordless Wednesday LINKY}

We went to the lake all weekend. We were surrounded by friends and family. And then we went and watched a spectacular fireworks display on the lake while sitting in my in-law's boat. It was pretty cool. It was my first time doing that. Peanut slept through all of the fireworks. It was way past his bed time.
 


Friday we went to the lake and Peanut fell asleep on the boat ride to dinner. He woke up half way through.
 

Six Flags Over Georgia {Wordless Wednesday LINKY}

Thursday we went to Six Flags Over Georgia, just my husband, my daughter, and me. It was through my husband's work. My daughter rode her first "roller coaster". She wanted to ride anything she was tall enough for. She was 41' inches and lot of rides were 42'. She was bummed, but it was a good opportunity to teach her about the reasons there are some rules and this time it was safety! It was a very HOT day, but such a great time!
 

15 Months Old {Wordless Wednesday LINKY}

 
Peanut turned 15 months old this month. And he had his check-up this week. We found out he is still borderline anemic, so we are working on that. He has started walking everywhere. He can say thank you, wave bye-bye, bark like a dog, and he climbs on everything. My new favorite thing he does is cheese for the camera.
 

Summer Fun {Wordless Wednesday LINKY}

We have been outside this summer enjoying everything the warmer weather brings, which means lots of lake and pool time for us! Here are some pictures from the past few weeks - not all which were shared on Instagram. ;)
 

Strawberry Picking at Southern Belle Farm {Wordless Wednesday LINKY}

If you follow us on Instagram (and you should), then you know my Hubby was on vacation last week and we had the opportunity to go Strawberry Picking at Southern Belle Farm right before the end of season. We almost went too late, but still got some good ones and some great pics! Enjoy! :D