I regret that I could not take on holiday card photo sessions this year for clients, so I’ve posted 10 Photography Tips for photographing your family this season on the Paper Boat Photography fan page on Facebook. And, to thank you for coming back here to read, I’ve put together a Teaworthy Holiday Gift Guide...
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This beautiful soul came into our world three weeks early. He came so fast and has seemed so pleased with himself to be here. We are overjoyed and I hear Billie Holiday’s version of Moonglow in the margins of my days. “I still hear you sayin’, “Dear one, hold me fast” And I keep on...
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I wanted to share this little book I made via Instagram & Blurb. I had a coupon so it cost me $7 bucks and took less than 30 minutes to make because you just go to Blurb.com and type in your Instagram info and it brings your photos over from there. {Instagram is a free...
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Esperanza Spalding is a new favorite. I love that her name means “hope” and love her covers even more than her original songs. Like this one of Lauryn Hill’s Tell Him. …and this one of Stevie Wonder’s Overjoyed.
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…and look a little like this {To watch the video version of Ben Sollee’s Tiny Desk Concert, be sure to click through to NPR. I love the first song he plays called Hurting. Ben is one of those talented, positive Kentuckians who make us all proud of home.}
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Crossed off of our Summer To-Do list so far: we’ve had sundaes, a trip to the Drive-In, a sprinkler run, pool time, park visits, dinners on the screened-in porch most nights, catching lightening bugs only to let them go, grilling out, and farmer’s market fruits and veggies. In between has been a very busy time...
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My daughter (6) looked at the finished crib and said, with a hand on her hip, “I am just not going to be happy until there is a baby in that crib.”
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Writing you from here today. I’m still finding homes for things in the new shelves, but it’s nice to have just the keyboard and some pencils in a cup that my sister made for me. I’ve been reading What There Is To Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell edited...
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Will it come like a change in the weather? Will its greeting be courteous or rough? Will it alter my life altogether? O tell me the truth about love. -WH Auden We are working on getting the little cottage ready for our new baby. Three in this house has taken some creative storage solutions. Four...
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