Some fashion inspiration & instant photos...

I hope all of you in the States have enjoyed your holiday weekend. :-) We didn't have ONE thing planned, but it was a great weekend. I have a full report of thrifty finds I'll need to share with you and I have a Carnival-inspired post I'm working on for later this week. I'll blame it on watching Adventureland for the Carnival inspiration, and the recent photos of Campbell that I took last week for the color inspiration... more to come on that. It has inspired a new digital kit!

I saw this dress on the front page of Etsy today and my eyes were open to the super-mod-wonders of this shop, Love to Love You... I'm in LOVE! :-)

I'm already talking with her to see if she can make some of them in my size. She makes alot of them with vintage fabrics so that is the only roadblock since most of the items are one-of-a-kind. But her designs are so wonderful! (aren't the shoes to die for below?)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And my favorite:

 

I love the shapes she creates with her designs and how she mixes patterns... YUM!

I got to take a few photos of this little one today... remember her? She's gotten bigger! She's such a sweetheart. She's the daughter of a good friend of Ethan's... I've enjoyed getting to photograph her! I hung the vintage unfinished quilt top over an ugly rail/gate at the park today for a backdrop...

 

(Woodgrain frames digital kit found here.)

She is quite the serious one, so it was a treat to catch her smiling a few times!

And last, I got this in the mail this weekend.. i'm SO SO excited about it.. i've been eyeing these new instant cameras for a while now, and decided on this one.  It takes credit card sized photos.. can't wait to play with it!

Here are a few Fuji Instax Mini 7 photos I found on Flickr... :-)

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And this person has a great set of pics from her Mini 7... here are a few...

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And this particular camera model also has novelty films available.. i'm not so much into the Disney characters ;-), but i love this Hello Kitty one! 

I'm really excited about the thought of using this camera in Japan... there's a big possibility we will be going there on vacation next year (sans boys!)... crossing my fingers it happens... (EEEEEK!) We'll be finalizing travel plans soon and as long as we can use our miles towards a ticket (crossing fingers!!) we'll be going.

We were supposed to be going to South Africa next year for the World Cup (obviously a trip geared much more towards Ethan.. haha) but the plane tickets were going to be astronomically expensive which we didn't expect and just found out last week. Japan was sort of a distant dream.. for it to happen sooner makes me sooo happy. Hopefully it works out!

Comments

[Chelsea Ann]

WOW JAPAN! You are a lucky lucky girl. I would have a tuff time being there. All I would want to do is SHOP!!!!! can't wait to see you carnival treats... Mine will be done in a week or two. My little nose has been deep into my CS4 for dummies. I am very excited to try to leap into the world o creating digital scrap-booking and I owe so much to you for your super amazing friendship and encouragement. Hopefully our two carnival kits will work well together!?
Love the second picture up above. That skirt is just TO DIE FOR!!!!! I really really have to learn to not spend money anymore :( I think that is why I like digital scrap-booking so much. Keeps me busy without too much money falling from the holes in my pocket. I am still working on Peter Pan... I am almost done with the lost boys. So sorry I am being so dang slow.

Hugs~
Chelsea Ann

[Sarah]

I love that you took the photos of the gorgeous babe in front of that quilt. (Which is wonderful in itself.) Why didnt I think of that? Must take photo of Jack in front of quilt this week. :-)

[Lu]

You are so wrong for sharing that camera!! Love it.

[Susan]

You are speaking my language sister! From the amazing dresses to the gorgeous photo on the blanket to the instant camera!! What a happy happy post :)

[Marilyn Tan]

haha! So like minded. I have just got my instax mini 25 hello kitty in mid august and loving every shots taken with it! have fun!

[The_white_hare]

the Fuji Instax reminds me of my old Polaroid Captiva which took pics that size

I loved that camera