Photo challenges for Friday

Macro Friday:

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Fix-it Friday:

Edit 1: I just did a basic touch up edit here.

Edit 2: Then I added a black and white layer and set it to overlay.

Edit 3″ I added a solid blue color and set that to screen. 

Flashback Friday: Kelsey, Chelsey, Coral , and Ruari (16 weeks). This was just in April. My poor little bald baby. Visit Kelsey at K.B. Squared. She’s pretty. And awesome. ๐Ÿ˜€

{Kelsey, Coral, me, and Ruari}

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New Friend Fridays

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My favorite three on Thursday

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1) My 365 challenge:

I was a little late on the whole 365 photo challenge thing. But, I started mine 25 days ago. I’d love to share a few of my favorite photos I’ve taken so far:

Day 3:

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Day 4:
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 Day: 5
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 Day: 12
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   Day: 20
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 Day: 24
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 Day: 25 (Yesterday)
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If you’d like to see all of my 365, here’s my flickr set: The Paper Mama 365. If you want to share your 365 photos on flickr, you can join the Paper Heart Camera 365 share group. And, feel free to also join the Paper Heart Camera flickr group to share your favorite and best shots! If you don’t already know, Paper Heart Camera is my photo community. It’s pretty new, but feel free to join up!

2) Weird Halloween costumes:

Ha! I’ve been browsing around, checking out Halloween costumes… just for fun. I’ve found some weird ones… which of course: are the best!!!

Ok, this one is not so weird… It’s just sort of creepy. Clowns have never been the same since the movie It. You can buy this vintage costume on Etsy (Trucks and Dolls):

3) My 499th and 501st followers!

So, I thought I’d introduce you all to my 500th follower… but, she doesn’t have a link when I click on her photo. ๐Ÿ™   Soooooo, I’ll just introduce you all to the 2 ladies that were VERY close to be the fabulous number 500…

Miss 501: Is the LOVELY Tahnie from Two.One.Ten. You should head over and read her story. VERY interesting.

She has a very cute blog, a Stella and Dot shop, AND: her daughter Sookie is WAY cute and was born on my birthday… so, that makes her even cooler!

Please give her blog a visit:  Two.One.Ten.

Miss 499: Jaime from Beneath the Acacia Tree. What a beautiful family! This family of 5 will soon be a family of 7! Wow!

There are so many lovely photos to view on her blog. I just love exploring it! I plan on reading more there. I’m sure there is A LOT I can learn about adoption from her.

Give her a visit: Beneath the Acacia Tree.

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Photo Challenges on Wednesday

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Shutter Love Tuesday: Blue

A sorta fairytale: Snoozing

OKAY… So, Ruari is not actually sleeping… BUT, she was very tired and grumpy. This was her grumpy tantrum pout. She was probably sick of me taking photos too. ๐Ÿ˜€

 Black and White Wednesday: (It’s a SORT OF black and white Wednesday for me)
 
 the long road

ABC photo challenge: “D” is for dog…

Yes, he is a dog. ;D


Ten Thousand Words Wednesdays: Beginning

Ruari just began to crawl on Saturday. Yay!

a thousand words wednesdays

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Wordless{ish} Wednesday: Hardwood floors.

{Since Ruari is crawling Mike and I decided to remove the area rug from our living room… the designer in me is saying, “No no! Now what will define our living space!” While the mom in me is saying, “Well, the rug just collected hair and dirt anyway. It’s easier this way.”}

{It’s so much easier without the area rug. With two cats and a dog, it’s hard to keep Ruari from eating every hair that collects. I can just run our Swiffer vacuum each morning and we’re good. Ahhhhh. Did I mention that I forgot how pretty our floors are? They’re 90 years old. How many babies have crawled on this floor? Hmmm…}

{Happy Wednesday everyone!}

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The Paper Mama Boutique

Yup, it’s official. We have a boutique. It’s all Ruari approved! ;D

As of right now… we’re still adding our favorite things, so it’s a little empty. But, we’re working on adding more right now.

My favorite section is the Halloween for Baby section! There’s a link for it in the left sidebar. We chose all our favorite Halloween costumes! I am so excited for the Halloween Holiday this year! Probably because we have a baby to torture dress up!

Check out the store! Here are a couple of my favorites in the boutique:

{The Paper Mama Boutique}

{The Paper Mama Boutique}

{The Paper Mama Boutique}

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I heart faces: chalk

So, I had this big plan to draw some fantastic drawing all over outside… but, then it rained. Such is life in the North West.

This meant we did our chalk photo inside. It’s our menu for today.


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