A New Endeavor?

About a week ago, I started a little craft project inspired from some Pinterest items for my mother-in-law's kitchen. (I'm helping her do a little updating. More on that later.) I loved the result so much that I've started making different versions for some other people in my life. I actually like them so much that I'm hoping to make it a little side business (as long as others like them as well).

I'm calling them "antiqued wooden photo plaques", but I also made a "antiqued wooden monogrammed plaque" as another option. I think they would make really wonderful gifts especially since they are so personalized. Basically they are painted with a couple different colors and then sanded to bring out the details with some distressing. Finally I add the photo and Mod Podge it into place. 

The final result works great either hanging on the wall or sitting on your table. Let's see what you guys think:

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So I'm loving making theses. I hope you like them! I already have a handful more to work on, but if you'd like one of your own, please let me know! 

Until next time...

snapFISHER

Yo. My hubby is taking pictures and blogging. 

You need to check out and start following his blog ASAP. 

snapfisher.blogspot.com

He's been practicing his photography skills over the past few months in preparation for the arrival of our little man, Fisher. (We're pretty confident that he's going to be the cutest kid ever so we know lots of pictures will be necessary.) Well it turns out that he's got a bit of natural talent and has become really interested in developing his new hobby. 

He's already had a few photo sessions with some friends and their adorable kiddos. If you want to see some photos of cute kids, babies, pups and a few others, check out snapfisher.blogspot.com. And once Fisher arrives, it will be the place to find all the newest, cutest photos of our baby boy. No one wants to miss that. 

Here's a sneak peek of Brent's work:

Thanks to Todd & Julianne for letting us take pictures of this sweet boy on his birthday. Adorable. 

Until next time...

A Budding Photographer?

My husband has shown an interest in photography over the past couple years. He's learned quite a few Photoshop tricks and we finally got ourselves a nice camera for him to play with. (It was our Christmas gift to each other which we purchased before Thanksgiving...impatient, huh?) We got a Canon Rebel T2i and it's been wonderful. 

Brent got his opportunity to practice with our new camera when we had some models friends that wanted us to take pictures of their adorable family for their Christmas card. We had a ton of fun taking the pictures and Brent did some great Photoshop work to jazz them up.

Take a look...

He also worked some magic on an oh-so-cute picture of Mak...

Not bad, huh? I'm pretty proud and he'll be able to rock out our baby's pictures come May. :)

Until next time...