I love shopping for souvenirs when I am vacationing,bring home something to remember our special trip. I found many souvenirs this past trip like perfume,a few Vera Bradley bags,and a few music cd's of the music they played at our resort. While I was out shopping at our resort I stumbled on a lovely print they had of the Grand Floridian. As soon as I saw it I knew just where I wanted to put it,but I was not sure how I wanted to frame it. Of course I  did not want a brand new frame,I wanted it to look old. Still I had no idea of what to do so I started looking in my studio for frames I had. Nothing was really speaking to me,until I stumbled in a few chippy scrap pieces I had. Yes this was a light bulb moment! This won't be a tutorial because I was making this up as I went ... View Post

I shared a little about our Disney trip and also a few tips HERE,today I wanted to share our visit to The Grand Floridian resort and spa. We did a split stay five days at the French Quarter and six days at the Grand Floridian. When you do this they will take your luggage and bring it to the resort for you,nothing is complicated you can still enjoy your vacation. Disney was offering a 35% off some of  the resorts,because of this offer we decided to jump on it and stay at the Grand Floridian as part of our visit. This offer was good until the end of February yes that is how far in advance you need to start booking your trip. This offer was not available for our favorite resort the French Quarter,but was available for most of them. Since we were celebrating our silver anniversary we ... View Post

Back from vacation and I thought I would give you a few tips on planning your Disney trip. Many of you know that recently my husband and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary,we decided to celebrate at our happy place Walt Disney World. Our first trip together was in 1991 way before my daughter was even born,we had an amazing time but did not return until 2005 with my daughter on her first trip. Since then it has been our favorite place to vacation. (I took this shot while my husband was driving, we were coming back from the NASA space center.We rented a car and spent the day there,more on that tomorrow) This was my daughters 5th trip and our 6th trip. Since we were celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary we decided to do a split stay at two resorts. Five days at The ... View Post

When I first started my blog I was pretty new to taking photos of rooms,I took many photos of my daughter when she was small. It was fun dressing her up in pretty outfits,using props and things and doing a photo shoot. Sort of like playing with a doll in the early days. She had so many outfits,too many to wear before she grew out of them. So I would take photos of her in the outfits so I could remember her wearing them. Lighting is always key in photography,and I want to start practicing taking photos of people. I recently found this sweet pink apron and it had to come home with me. Inside the tag reads neat and tidy,wonder if this was a uniform apron someone wore. The photo is a bit blurry because my subject,my daughter kept moving. I want to keep practicing so I can get ... View Post

Spending time with my family this week and nearing the fourth of July can you believe it? So I thought I would re-post one of my recent most treasured finds,hope you enjoy it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is it with me and vintage scales? My daughter had an early dismissal from school today so on the way to the library I stopped by to see a good friend who also owns a beautiful resale shop. And as I walked in I saw this old scale. Not very pretty,this was taken in my studio and as you can see it's a little messy. Even though the dirty gray was not the color I wanted I decided to bring it home and freshen it up with a little paint. At first I was thinking of painting it white which would look lovely. Then I thought about a soft light shade of pink. I ... View Post