This year telling boys she “loves them” or anything else that is “mushy stuff” is OUT OF THE QUESTION, so take a look to see what she came up with.  I was pretty impressed.

Happy Love Day everyone!

so what did we do with the final image?  We added peeps of course! (after we dipped them in chocolate)

We hope your day was a sweet one!!

Last year we unveiled our new baby plan, called the Little Loves plan.  It has been such an honor getting to know these beautiful babies that allow me in every few months to document their milestones!  I know I probably sound like a broken record, but I LOVE my job.  How can anyone have a bad day when I’m surrounded by these sweet little ones.

To all my current Little Loves clients, THANK YOU for sharing your beautiful babies with me, and to all of those thinking about our Little Loves plan, NOW is the time to book!

Spring and Summer babies will be here before you know it, and our Little Loves plan is best set up in advance so that we have your due date in our calendar and get there as soon as possible to capture those beautiful fist days of life.

Want more information on our Little Loves plan?

AND as a super bonus, any new Little Loves Sessions that book THIS MONTH, the month of February, will be entered to WIN a CUSTOM CANVAS for their babies 1st birthday, that will include an image from each of their Little Loves sessions! 

Earlier this month, I decided to get a jump on Valentines Day (or Love Day as its known in our house) with a super cute idea for my little guy that I had seen floating around the web.  I love these fun little mustaches and had planned on using them for a photo booth for my oldest daughter’s birthday party last fall, but never found any I loved.  So I put the idea on the backburner, and tabled it for a few months.

My little guy is 3 and fancies himself a bit of a comedian so when I brought up the subject and showed them to him, he was all about it.  I started searching out the perfect mustaches and low and behold my search landed me at one of my FAVORITE blogs.  Easy Makes me Happy is the blog of a dear web friend, Tara, who designs the BEST patterns for all things crocheted.  But we’re not here to talk about that.  We’re here to talk about these great mustaches.  SO if you’d like to see Tara’s tutorial and get the free mustache download, just click HERE and it will take you right over to her page.

So we cut out a few of the mustache’s and used a little glue dot (shhhh, photographer’s secret to get it to stick on.  Here’s the one we started with:

He loves his hat and suspenders and tries to use them every time we take pictures, so who am I to say no.  After all, this was all about HIM.  So from there he humored me and we got to this shot:

which, oh my goodness…KILLS ME!  It was ALMOST what I had visioned…but since it was nice out, we decided to try another mustache and go play on the porch.

We have a lovely screened in brick porch and took full advantage of it.  I let him pick out another mustache, and we started playing again.

I was singing some of the tunes to Mario Brothers to him as we shot these, and obviously he thinks his momma is silly.  But c’mon.  THAT mustache is totally Luigi.

this one was ALMOST perfect, but I wanted a more serious shot for his valentine.

and there we have it.  PERFECT.  Remember this is all about FUN, so make sure not to make it too stressful and just go with it.

So Ready to see the COMPLETE valentine?

We are making them into fabulous bookmarks, for him to give to all his girls in his life.  All I know is Momma better get the first one!  I hope you enjoyed a little behind the scenes peek at my handsome man, and our fun photo shoot!

If you have any questions or just enjoyed this post, please feel free to leave us a comment below.  If you’d like to see MORE of our work, there are always current images over at our FACEBOOK PAGE.  Come on over and check us out!

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So it’s no secret that we LOVE to craft at our house.

We’re constantly looking up fun new things to make to decorate with, and if it can be used during a session, then it gets super bonus points.  For this session, we crafted the tie onsie, hat AND the garland in the back.  This tutorial is all about the cute garland.

It is a great kid-friendly craft that doesn’t take that long at all (and it’s not expensive, horray)

We had the felt on hand, but only used 4 pieces of felt to make two 4 foot (roughly) lengths of garland.

So Here’s what you need:

4 pieces of regular sized felt

Yarn (or string, jute, ribbon) whatever strikes your fancy

Marker, Scissors, pins, and a hot glue gun.  I also had a little heart shape that I used as a template, but size yours as you want.

I tried regular glue, but it would have taken way too long to set up.  If you try it, let me know.

Okay, so yes my little heart is a previous love day craft-from two years ago…we’re recycling their use for this craft.  I liked their size.

So here’s how easy this craft is.  I folded the felt in half.

I traced the heart to maximize the felt usage, so keeping the hearts as close together as I could.

I filled the whole sheet as best I could and got a few more hearts out of some of the other colors.

I pinned some of the hearts and then cut them out in sections to keep everything together and orderly.

I did this with all 4 colors.  Just a note: If you’re going to use sparkle felt, make sure you fold the sparkle side together, keeping the sparkles in the middle.

I tied a slip knot in the top of the yarn, then put both ends of the string in the middle of the first heart to anchor it.  I then just hot glued the hearts in a pattern down the yarn.

At the bottom I tied another knot before gluing on my last heart and also glued those strings inside the heart so that there was a loop on both ends.

We used them to decorate our little trees next to the fireplace in lieu of all our pretty Christmas decorations that just came down.

So that’s it.  See how easy!

What will you do with yours?  I can’t wait to see!!

Congrats to Lannea D. who WON this Turtle from Happy Baby Company!!!

Okay everyone, this one’s for the kiddos.

Our good friends over at Happy Baby Company

have graciously donated this AWESOME Twilight Turtle for our give away.

We have first hand knowledge of this turtle as Fionn got one last year for his birthday.  He LOVES his turtle.  Cate loves his turtle too, so sometimes Mr. Turtle has to come hang out with mom and dad for a while.  You all know how it goes when two kiddos love the same toy.

All the pretty colors

If you have been a fan for a while you know that I can’t say enough about how much I LOVE Happy Baby Company.  We decided to start cloth diapering when Fionn was just about one.  I contacted Lilli over at Happy Baby Company and she was SO helpful.  I went in and looked at all the choices, listened to her recommendations and have been a loyal customer ever since.  I’ve gotten to know Lilli and Adam over the past three years and they are always so helpful and knowledgeable if I have any questions.  I urge you contact them if you have any cloth diapering questions…remember they are MORE than Cloth Diapers though.  They have a great selection of toys, wraps, slings, and so much more.

so, GO check out their site and give them some love.  Go say HI on facebook and tell them I sent you.

Okay, Here’s how to enter.  Remember you can ALL of the options to enter, not just one.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

I’m not going to lie, I started to feel like Oprah as I put this give-away together.  It’s basically a list of some of my favorite things.  A mix-mash that IS my life.

TODAY’S give away is a MOMMY give-away.

I cannot say enough about how much I love everything Scentsy, and Heather (who is my Scentsy “dealer”) was so sweet to offer up a wonderfully festive prize for this give-away.  She no longer has a page on facebook, but feel free to say hi and friend her on that page I have linked above.

My addiction started this fall, with a jack o lantern plug in for fall with the pumpkin marshmallow scent in it.  THEN I fell in love with the Honey Pear Cider.  My kitchen smelled so good, that both Greg and Maggie both came home asking what I was baking.

Last month I bought more.  A lot more.  The Blueberry is AMAZING.  I upgraded to a mid-size warmer that matched my kitchen and the Blueberry’s been in the warmer ever since.  It’s just about time to change it to a more Holiday themed scent, and I have the perfect one waiting.

Heather has graciously donated THIS beautiful plug in to our give-away.  How PERFECT is this?

It is the Silent Night Plug in warmer.  I’m not going to lie, I want it myself!

Are you excited yet, because I sure am!

Are you new to Scentsy, or just want to learn more?  Then pop over to Heather’s page and read up!

There you will find all kinds of great stuff, including

THIS

This is the Blizzard Full Size Warmer, which when turned on, casts snowflake shapes around the room.  Yeah, I want that too.  I told you I’m addicted.

(In case you don’t want to wait to see if you win, there’s a party open on Heather’s page with my name on it.  I decided to host a party WAY BEFORE this give-away was set up, but it’s there just the same in case you decide you NEED Scentsy.  And there’s still plenty of time to order and get it before the Holidays!  When you go to Heather’s Page, just click under Open Parties to find my name, and Happy Shopping from there!  It will ship right to you)

We’re trying something new with the ways to enter, so let’s see how this works!

Here’s how to Enter:

BONUS CHANCES TO ENTER BELOW

I am so excited about what we have coming up over the next few days.  I am blessed to have a loving family, great supportive friends, and wonderful clients.  I’m also pretty lucky to get to interact with other fabulous small businesses(and their owners)  When I sent emails out asking if others wanted to be involved with this give away I got a fantastic response.  Just you all wait until you see what I have in store for you.  We have so many great products…BUT I’m NOT going to list them, you’re going to have to come back and see for yourselves.

Today’s give away is something little different.  In the spirit of Christmas and giving, we’re doing a 2 part give-away.

It’s a one for me, one for you kind of deal.

In the spirit of the Holidays, we are giving you and a person YOU decide each $25 gift certificates to Frames of Infinity.  It can be used towards your session fee, or your order after your session.  Heck you could even give the whole $50 away, but that is the ONLY way it can be used that way.  The winner cannot keep the whole $50, it’s a shared deal.

So, want to win?

Entry #1.  Just leave a post below for a chance to enter.

More chances to win:

Entry #2.  Find us on FB and say hi, make sure to give us a like if you don’t already.

Entry#3. SHARE this giveaway on fb.  If you share right from fb I can verify that you did share.  Remember I have to be able to SEE the share, so make sure your status is listed as public.

Okay, everyone that’s it for today.  Since it’s later in the day, i’ll run THIS give-away until Saturday.

If you come back tomorrow, there may be a BONUS way to enter….so check back!!

Okay, HERE is how you can get TWO more entries to this give-away.

BONUS ENTRY#1.  Head over to Burgh Baby’s page and read a little bit about Christmas Crazy.

You do not have to donate to Christmas Crazy (although you’re MORE THAN WELCOME to) all you have to do is spread the word.  Blog about it, post a link on twitter, fb, wherever it is that you put up information on the web, share it THERE.  And then come back and tell me where you shared the information.

BONUS ENTRY #2. Head over to PLAY IT FORWARD on facebook and say hi.  If you live in or around Pittsburgh, or have family and friends that do, PLEASE take a moment and share this information.

I think that both these charities ROCK, and hope that you do to.  Let’s share their message!

And REMEMBER, you MUST LEAVE A SEPARATE COMMENT FOR EACH THAT YOU DO.

Good Luck, and Happy Holidays

SO, ready to save??  Click below to be taken to our online shop.

YOU all asked for them, so here they are.  Come explore Phipps Winter flower show while we shoot a Holiday Mini-Session.  Sessions are booking December 2nd through the 9th, and are on a first come, first serve basis.  We are only booking EIGHT, so act fast to reserve your spot.

Details:  $100 down payment to confirm your payment.  Your session does NOT include the price of admission to Phipps.

From Phipps Website ” Winter Flower Show, which runs from Nov.25, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012, will be open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and until 10 p.m. on Candlelight Evenings in Dec. Admission costs $12 for adults, $11 for seniors (age 62 and older), $11 for students (with valid ID), and $9 for children (ages 2-18). Members and children under 2 enter for free.”

Please contact ginger at 412-715-5294 OR email me ginger(at)framesofinfinity(dot) com

ACT FAST, these are already booking!!

Last sessions before the HOLIDAY deadline (unless a Little Loves plan member)

Here’s the details:

30 Minute sessions, 3 locations.   Limited times for these dates, and they are first come, first serve.  You receive a CD of edited images (up to 10) with print release and 25 flat custom Christmas Cards.  Your session CAN be upgraded to the cool new boutique shaped cards for an additional fee.

Email me at ginger (at) framesofinfinity (dot) com to reserve your date and time.  Once you email me I will go over available times with you.  These are going to go FAST so don’t delay in contacting me!