In a Yellow House Photo Challenge: Selective Coloring

July 6, 2010 | Posted by Chelsey

This week the Yellow House Challenge is all about black and white or selective coloring. Here’s my newest flower photo.

{Miss Daisy}

Please join us!

The numbers have been reset! Help me get in the top 10! I ♥ you!

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Monday’s My Pick: Manic 4th of July Weekend.

July 5, 2010 | Posted by Chelsey

{Ruari 6.5 months}

I have been wanting to participate in Manic Monday for so long! But, getting blog posts up on Monday nights never seems to work out. SOOOO, I’m going to do Manic Weekends. I take a ton of photos every weekend. Here they are:

{Hello flower.}

{“Why do you always do that?”}

{Pretty}

{Angus had the WHOLE dog park to himself!}

{The Kingdom of Angus}

{I heart}

{I actually got a family photo with Mike in it!}

{Make that 2 family photos with Mike in it!}

{Here, try this… :D}

{Had a little too much milk.}

These pet photos are for my sister:

{Poor puppy.}

{Pistachio}

{Princess}

{Hanging out by the fire.}

{Daddy did the fireworks this year.}

I hope you all had a lovely holiday weekend! I did!

OH, and my Monday’s My Pick:

A SUPER UBER cute Ruffle Bummie with halter top for baby: in festive red, white, and blue! PLEASE check out this Etsy shop for more cute creations!

{Ruffle Bummie and halter top: toochute}

Let’s see your Manic Monday (or weekend 😉 ):

Don’t forget to check out the Paper Lady’s Monday’s My Pick: Fireworks.

Just a little reminder:
Don’t forget to enter the giveaway: Chalkboard Pendant. Ends July 9th.
This weeks photo challenge: Favorite Toy!

The numbers have been reset! Help me get in the top 10! I ♥ you!

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Applesauce?

July 3, 2010 | Posted by Chelsey

{Made by my Grammy}

Just a little reminder:
Don’t forget to enter the giveaway: Chalkboard Pendant. Ends July 9th.
This weeks photo challenge: Favorite Toy!

The numbers have been reset! Help me get in the top 10! I ♥ you!

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Photo Challenge: Favorite toy!

July 3, 2010 | Posted by Chelsey

This weeks challenge: Favorite toy!

Since this is a mama blog all the challenges will be based around your children. Now, I’m not too picky on what you call your children. As far as I’m concerned my cats and dog are my kids too!

The challenge: Take or find a photo of your baby (or kid… or puppy… or kitty). Find or take a photo of your babe with their absolute favorite toy!

Here’s my example of Favorite toy!:

{Ruari at 6.5 months}

Hey: I’d LOVE to know what photo is your fave! Just leave it in the comment below. AND, Please show your neighbors some blog love! Try and visit at least 2 photo entries and say hello!

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There always has to be rules… I know, boring right? But, it’s to help me and you. 🙂 Click on the link for more details… Each entry does need to link back to my blog… Click here to see last weeks winner… All photo entries need to be in by 11:59 PM Pacific Time on July 9th…
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Guess what…. after 4 challenges there will be a week long vote off of the winners from the 4 previous challenges… The winner of the vote off will get a small prize! 2 more challenges to go after this one…

Winners so far:
– Yellow: … Life Through My Lens …
– Favorite toy: … no one yet …
– Make me laugh: … no one yet …
– Action: … no one yet …

Click here to see last weeks winner for “Yellow…”

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If you have an Etsy shop and would like to give away an item as a prize… please drop me a line! I ♥ sponsors and will show your shop some love for your contribution. 🙂
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AND, the winner of the Vote off is….

July 3, 2010 | Posted by Chelsey

Sleepy. from Christy at Skinned Knees!

{Original Post}

Congrats! What a lovely photo! Thank you so much for playing! You had 46% of the votes. The lovely House of Emery followed her, then Little Mochi, and then K.B. Squared. You ALL did wonderfully!

April from Flowers of Apple (or Fleurs de Pomme) has offered to donate a lovely prize to you. She wants to give the you a choice of a brooch or hair pin custom made to your heart’s desire!!! Oh, and please check out her blog! There will also be a little prize from me. I will give your e-mail address to April.

AND, if anyone would like to donate a prize for a vote off or challenge, please drop me a line! I would LOVE to show your shop some love.

{Flower hair pin: Flowers of Apple}

If you want to get your own… head on over to Flowers of Apple.
AND: The winner of this vote off will go up against the winner’s of future vote offs in 6 months…. Nice little prize to go with that. 🙂

Don’t forget to enter this weeks photo challenge: Favorite toy!

The numbers have been reset! Help me get in the top 10! I ♥ you!

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And, the "Yellow…" winner is….

July 3, 2010 | Posted by Chelsey

{Original Post}

Mommy of Five from Life through my lens!!! Congrats to you. How sweet was this photo? I love all the yellow outfits, and the view looking down is awesome! All of these cute happy faces make me think of the yellow smiley face. 🙂 Thank you so much! Please check out her blog and show her some love!

All of the photos this week were just wonderful! Thank you ALL for joining. Once again, I’d love to give a shout out to a few photos that were very close to making it to that top spot… i rock so what, 4 ladies and a patient man, Lovely Life of Leah, and The Story of Us.

Do you want to edit your photos but don’t want to buy a program? Check out a free program called Gimp. Try it out, play with your photos!

Sadly, there are no prizes this week. Just the excitement of winning! 😉 Feel free to grab a “fact: I’m awesome” button below. Because: you ARE awesome! And, thank you SO much for participating!

Please check out this weeks photo challenge: “Favorite Toy!“
Winners so far:
– Yellow: … Life Through My Lens …
– Favorite toy: … no one yet …
– Make me laugh: … no one yet …
– Action: … no one yet …

The numbers have been reset! Help me get in the top 10! I ♥ you!

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First Mohawk

July 2, 2010 | Posted by Chelsey

Ruari’s hair is just long enough now that we can style it in a mohawk. Lucky her!!!

{Rauri at 6.5 months}

{Yum… Foot}

For New Friends Friday: Your dream vacation…
Oh, I have MANY dream vacations planned in my head… I guess the one I’m most looking forward to (but isn’t officially planned since we’re all having baby’s and whatnot) is the trip to Italy with my girlies. Ahhhh. I can’t wait.

{Photo from here}

Just a little reminder…
This weeks photo challenge: Yellow… Ends today!
I hope you enjoyed! Don’t forget to vote for your favorite photo! Ends today!
Don’t forget to enter the giveaway: Chalkboard Pendant. Ends July 9th.

The numbers have been reset! Help me get in the top 10! I ♥ you!

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