Pinterest-Inspired Photography

I'm so excited for another round of Pinterest-inspired projects! I love me some Pinterest.

Pinterest is a fabulous source of inspiration for all sorts of things, not just home and DIY projects. When I was hospital-bound for a bit in my pregnancy, I found new photographers through links to their photos on Pinterest, and browsed around for inspiration for once my little one arrived.

Here are a few of my favorite photos found on Pinterest, and my own take on these

When I saw the below photo on Pinterest, I was instantly swooning. What a sweet love there is between a mother and her baby.

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Here is my take on this kind of shoot.

Hannah and I spend plenty of time playing like this right now: talking, imitating facial expressions, smiling at each other.

No posing necessary for a photo shoot like this. I think the love for my girl is written all over my face.

(Find the rest of the pictures from this session here and here.)

There are so many ways to document the age of a baby, and I loved this idea of a monthly set up on the corresponding month of the calendar.

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Here is my take.

This is Hannah's October shot, 4 months old.

This picture of the baby and big sister is too sweet. I had to try it with my set of siblings!

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Here is my take.

I only got one shot like this, because my son was bouncing around on the bed and Hannah started crying, but I think this one is a keeper.

(Find the rest of the (crazier) pictures from this session here.)

Has Pinterest inspired any of your most recent pictures? Feel free to share those in the Pinterest link up party, going on this Thursday!

Click here to follow all of my Pinboards, including my Photography board.

Also, come back next week where I'll be starting a new photography related series, full of tips, tricks, gear and gadgets.

Have a great week!

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Friday Finds {Pinterest-My Style}

Happy Halloween Weekend!
Let's wrap up the October Pinterest Style with nothing less than the fun part:
playing dress up!

Some fun and {DIY} costumes to give a whirl:


{Cute Toddler Costumes}





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What are you dressing up as? Care to share? Leave me a comment below..have a particular board on Pinterest you think is awesome? I'd love to follow you! Let me know!
Have a safe and Happy Halloween!

Jessica

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Friday Finds {Pinterest-My Style}

Yummy, Yummy in my tummy. {Pinterest Style}

I adore browsing Pinterest for yummy recipes and creative ways to spruce up my theme for any event. Halloween will be no different.

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{To the Table}


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I love guacamole!

Check out these cute party favors! {Bonus: printables!}

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If you have a {Halloween Board} or a {Recipe Board} that you would love to share, leave me a comment. You can find my {In My Belly} Board here.
I'm always looking for new ideas and inspirations as the holidays come and go!
Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!

Follow me here!

Happy Friday

Jessica

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Friday Finds {Pinterest-My Style}

Halloween {Pinterest} Style
Take 2: Let's Decorate!

If you tuned in last week to the Friday Finds, you noticed some great pumpkins on the mixer! This week I want to share some fabulous ideas for decorating in or outside for parties or just for Halloween pleasure!

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Tons and tons of ideas are just floating around on this site waiting to be repined and saved to your board for future references and projects...it's endless and {oh so} exciting!

Below are just a few I adore and want to share..just click on the picture to view their inspiration or shall I say PIN-SPIRATION!

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Mantle Inspiration {Show Stoppers}


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{Wreaths}


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{If you follow me at all on Pinterest, you know I adore Chevron. When Tatertots and Jello posted this...I fell in love!}

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{From our very own LTC..Patrice...Love this!}

I would love to see your Halloween inspirations on Pinterest or check out your inspirations. Leave me a message and I'll gladly check them out. You can check out my boards here!


Happy Friday LTC

Jessica

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{Link Up} with Lemon Tree, Pinterest style!!

Thanks for stopping by again this month to 

{Link Up} with Lemon Tree!

The rules are a little different this month, as we would love for you to link up your Pinterest inspired projects instead! Who out there hasn't been inspired by Pinterest at least once or twice, right? Let us know what you pinned that inspired you this month's party. As always, please link back to Lemon Tree in your post so that others know to stop by and party with us too. And, while your add it, link to your Pinterest account in your post as well so that we can hop on over and take a look at your board for a little inspiration too!

Be sure to stop back by this week and check out some of the great 'pin-spiration' to be found from your own great projects. We'll be featuring projects here and on our Facebook page as the week goes on!

 

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Documenting a New Arrival {Pinterest Style}

On September 20th my little family grew by 19.5 inches, and we were thrilled!

We were blessed with a beautiful baby boy named Abbott. He is perfect in every single way.

I have always regretted not documenting my daughter Laurelei's growth in an obvious way, and knew that this time around I didn't want to miss out on those monthly shots. Luckily, my baby pinboard on Pinterest came to the rescue in the perfect way...

via {melange photography blog}

Someone had pinned the perfect idea found on melange photography, by Mary Schannen. I loved the idea of the blocks and knew that I could create my own fairly easily. After finding a set of blocks at Marshalls for $0.70 I knew it was meant to be!

There were only 5 blocks in the set, so I had to get creative. In order to have all the numbers, I needed two of the blocks just for them. That only left 3 blocks for the word 'months.' I decided just to abbreviate and go with it. It wasn't ideal, but did I mention that it was only $0.70? :) The blocks were already the perfect distressed milky white, so all I had to do was cut out the numbers on my Silhouette machine and use the outline as a stencil.

I let the paint dry, peeled off the Silhouette stencil and voila, instant block set!

I am so in love with my newest little sweetie. I cannot wait to watch him grow over the next 12 months, documenting it along the way. We are over the moon!

You can read more about little Abbott's journey here, on little burlew our family blog.

Happy Wednesday!

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Pinterest-Inspired Nursery Projects

Welcome to our first Week of Pinterest!

If you missed our Week of Pinterest post you can see the full details here, but, in a nutshell, the first week of every month will be dedicated entirely to Pinterest!

We all need an excuse to start actually doing some of those things that we are pinning for "one day," right?! Now is the time!

Here is what you can expect the first week of each month

- Monday through Wednesday, Tiffany, Patrice and I will each share a project that is Pinterest-inspired.

- On Thursday YOU will have a chance to show us how Pinterest has inspired you in our Pinterest Linky Party.

(It doesn't have to be a DIY project, it could be a recipe, a game you tried with your kids, a picture, anything so long as it originated from Pinterest!) We'll be pinning our favorites, so don't forget to link up!

- On Friday Jess will be doing a Best of Pinterest Roundup. Love it!

To start off I thought I would show you how Pinterest helped me with a few ideas for decorating my daughter's nursery.

I saw this adorable bookmark and fell in love. My son has spent tons of time reading in our laps and I know that his sister will be the same way, so I wanted to get this saying up in her room.

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I played around with several different fonts and layouts, but eventually used something similar to what was used on the bookmark in the first place. The frame was an unusual size, so I used fabric as a mat, and printed the saying on photo paper so that the red pattern from the fabric wouldn't show through. I sewed the bunting from fabric scraps that match Hannah's bedding, and hot glued the bunting to the back of the frame. I love this!

I had cardboard letters to spell out Hannah's name beside her crib, but I couldn't decide how to embellish them until I came upon this picture of a beautifully wrapped package.

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I had already used doilies to make Hannah's mobile, so I thought this would be perfect. I cut out the center of some 5 inch doilies, and wrapped them around the letters, securing them with a glue stick. I used Command Strips to stick each letter to the wall, and framed them with an elegant but aged frame that I had purchased from a thrift store and re-sized.

I wanted just a bit more color beside her name, so I decided on some beautiful pom poms. Where better to find instructions than Pinterest?

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They are light and lovely. And the pop of color is perfect.

Don't you think?

Come follow my pin boards here.

I'm really looking forward to Thursday!! I can't wait to see what you guys have come up with!!

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Friday Finds {Pinterest-My Style}

Tomorrow begins my favorite month of the year!

My Pinterest finds this month will lead up to Halloween each week with a different theme.

Lets start off with what I find to be the best part of decorating this time of year {almost as much as cookies} the good ole....

It amazes me when I see all the different variations that people use. Typically carving was the only option and I was finding myself borrowing templates from Martha. Now with Pinterest, I've discovered such wonderful ideas on the mixer {as I like to call it}.

The Pumpkin {Mixer}

A few of my {personal} favorites.

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{LTC Tutorials!}

Aren't these great? Potato stamping on the left and a simple sharpie on the right...genius!

I can't wait to start pulling out my own ideas and using some of the great ones from my boards that I have logged. {Oh the simplicity of Pinterest..I don't have to think of what I want to make...I just look at my boards}

Hope you'll follow me here. Leave me a comment on how you love to decorate your pumpkins! I'd love some new inspiration!


Happy Friday and Happy October! {well almost;)}


Jessica

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Friday Finds {Pinterest-My Style}

"That's a neat idea.."

"I like that one.."
"Me too!"
"I digg that one."
"I'll tweet that."
"Hmm.. where did I find that website?"
"Gosh..I wish I knew..."

These are all comments that many of us have had made a million times. Now, thanks to the wonderful world of PINTEREST we are all having {endless-gasps} of pinning our finds and sharing our ideas while we log everything!

I'm ecstatic to share with you today a couple of the TASTEMAKERS of Pinterest and I look forward to our Friday Finds as we peruse pinterest.


Sherry from Young House Love has been a favorite of mine for quite sometime; you can check her boards out here.
Some of her fabulous pinning inspirations are what inspires her DIY Board:

The next Tastemaker: Ben Silbermann is a pure pinn-ing genius as well as the Co-founder of Pinterest. He grabs me by the mouse and my heart goes click click click { or is it repin, repin, repin} when I login to his boards? I adore his board Gifts for Girl Friends.

You simply must check him out! Won't you? To do so, simply click here.



Pinning is my new found love and I can't wait to log in daily..I must admit I lie awake at night pinning and repinning.

Check out my personal obsessions here and I'm anxious to start following you as well.
Have a great weekend!

Jessica

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