Wendy VonSosen Photography http://wenderful.com childhood. beauty. life Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:28:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 16×24 Standout Giveaway | Wendy VonSosen Photography http://wenderful.com/2012/01/16x24-standout-giveaway-wendy-vonsosen-photography/ http://wenderful.com/2012/01/16x24-standout-giveaway-wendy-vonsosen-photography/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:28:02 +0000 wenderful http://wenderful.com/?p=6153 Every time I find a package on my doorstep from my photo lab, it’s like Christmas morning!  There is just nothing like seeing and holding your own photos in print. Since starting my business, I have been terrible about getting my own photos off of my computer and printed.  As you know, this year my goal (and I hope by now, yours too) is to get my photos printed!  It scares me to think the fate of my work is in the hands of technology which could fail me at any moment (although I do back everything up in 3 places just in case).

 

MPIX is a the consumer lab I recommend to all of my clients who order digital images. They not only offer fantastic print quality,  but they have a huge selection of products as well.   Their customer service is amazing and they are FAST!  Orders are usually sent out within 24 hours after ordering (if received before noon, they can go out the same day).  To help you in your printing endeavors, I’m thrilled to announce this giveaway!

GIVEAWAY:

Mpix is giving away one 16×24 foam-mounted standout!  (an $80 value)  I love standouts because they are ready to hang or to prop on a shelf, and they are lightweight and easy to display.  

 

HOW TO ENTER:

1.  Check out their website and leave a comment HERE about your plans to print and display your photos this year.

2.  ”Like” Mpix on Facebook.

3.  ”like” Wendy VonSosen Photography on Facebook.

4.  Share this giveaway (on your blog, your favorite forum, FB, Twitter)!  Tell me how you did it in the comments.    

Please leave a comment for each of the above.  One entry for each.  

Please leave a valid email address so Mpix can contact the winner AND they will be emailing a print discount to ALL who enter!!!

 

You can enter each method once a day each day until the contest ends on Tuesday January 31 at 8:00 PM PST.  After the contest ends, I will be randomly choosing a winner who will be announced on Wednesday morning! 

Good luck!!!


]]> http://wenderful.com/2012/01/16x24-standout-giveaway-wendy-vonsosen-photography/feed/ 44 Art Display Project | Shannon Harrison http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-shannon-harrison/ http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-shannon-harrison/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:38:28 +0000 wenderful http://wenderful.com/?p=6144 It’s intriguing to me how, through this project, I’ve noticed that the personality and stage of life of each guest blogger is reflected in their homes and art. Take for instance my sweet friend Shannon Harrison.  Since I’ve met her in person I can tell you what a laid-back, down-to-earth girls she is while being an extremely devoted mom of little people.  I love that she is planning into the future by recording lasting memories for her posterity.  I love that those memories are in among the other well-loved, well-read books.  I love that her kids have access to her art and can feel an ownership in it.  Take a look…

Well my dear friend Wendy, I have to say I’m pretty stoked you asked me to share how I display my personal photos throughout our crazy little home! Ive surrounded by some pretty excellent company here on your fantastic blog! Dare I say my entry here may just be the most imperfect and random way of placement of photographic art in a home? Truth be told, so many times I have gone to purchase a huge gallery wrap of each of my children but the reality is for me, its just too hard to make that selection and spend that money when they’re each changing so fast. Besides, I just know I’ll have a new favorite image next week. Our house isn’t of the formal kind these days so our displays kinda reflect that. Heck, let get real; it looks like a run a 24 hour preschool over here. You may or may not notice little fingerprints or smudges on mirrors as you tour, just please pretend you don’t for my sake…

My husband and I have both said, if God forbid there was ever a disaster in our home, we would grab the children, my hard drives and our Blurb family albums. Since 2009, at the end of every year I have collected what are my favorites from the year and told the story of our last 12 months through a Blurb book. I usually include some thoughts about the year and a sort of a mushy love note from me to them in the front. I am still working on 2011, but here’s a little peek at 2010. If you haven’t tried Blurb, I highly recommend them. Their customer service is awesome and the quality of their press printed books is super. Either way, I highly suggest starting an annual book for your family, if not for yourself. I have made copies for each of my kids too so they can share the visual journey of our crazy little family with their own kids when they’re all grown..
The “gallery” that probably changes most often is the doors of our kitchen fridge. Its usually peppered with our weekly schedule, school work, coupons and reminders and random shots from our Fuji Instax. Recently I ordered some really fun Instagram magnets from a company called Stickygram. It took all of one minute to log into my Instagram account from their site and select which ones I wanted. They were at my mailbox in less than a week! If you have some favorites sitting in your Instagram account, this is a fun way to print and display them and my kids love playing with them. I’m trying to complete an Instagram 366 this year so I’m sure Ill have many more as months roll on!
Another one of our interchangeable “galleries” in our kitchen is this little memento/blackboard I made last year. The decal is from the awesomely talented illustrator, Shanna Murray and the frameless blackboard is from Billy Boards. My kids play with my Fuji Instax most and this is where I display their random little photos with washi tape. They LOVE that camera and they love it even more when we tape up their photos!
Here is our eclectic little fireplace mantle. These photos change out quite frequently here too. We’re in this room the most so I usually have my current favorites of our kids framed here.
This is my office or what I like to call “the desk at the top of the stairs where i can see everything“. Even after 5 years, Ive never really been able to decide what I want to hang above that desk so I ended up randomly propping stuff up against it. (Perfect for the lazy lady, no hammer or nails needed.) I printed up this little 20×30 calendar template from Paislee Press this year instead of opting for my regular monthly flip gig. I love it because it gives the look of a big organized gallery without too much thought. I printed this through WHCC using their 2mm Styrene so it could prop up easily without a frame.
I also recently framed this group of photobooth strips our family took on a recent trip to Santa Monica Pier. I am a sucker for a good old fashioned photobooth! The new ones just don’t cut it in my opinion; I like the faded old nostalgic 70s look.
This funky little gallery runs along our staircase and entry way. I usually change up the photos in here about every 6 months. Some of the good ol’ favorites stay and some frames I change out more than others. I’m not going to lie, this was the biggest pain in the BUTT to create- I was spray painting and hanging for over a week. That being said, there is not a day that goes by that I’m not elated I hung all these. About 2 years ago, I ended up scrounging together all my ugly old mismatched frames that had no place in our home and spray painted them either a matte black or matte eggshell. I added art mattes to some from Aaron Brothers and left some without. I might clean it up someday but I kinda like the randomness of it for now. Oh, and that little print smack in the middle is from Studio Mela, one of my favorite print shops on Etsy. I just felt overwhelmingly that “Let Love In” was just kind of a perfect theme for this gallery.
Thanks, Shannon!

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]]> http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-shannon-harrison/feed/ 9 Art Display Project | Gretchen Davis http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-gretchen-davis/ http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-gretchen-davis/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:15:42 +0000 wenderful http://wenderful.com/?p=6116
I am loving all the color in Gretchen Davis’s post today.  The interchangeable system she has for small prints is genius!  And I am adding albums to my to-do list this year for sure.  Come take a look!

 

One of my favorite things about having photos displayed in our home is being able to remember little things about my family and how we’ve grown and changed just by walking through a room. About six months ago we moved and the house we live in now doesn’t have as much wall space as the one we left, so many of the things I had printed and up in our old house are stored away until we move again in about 18 months. However, in a wonderful trade off, this house has tons of windows and light so I’m snapping away with lots of new material to print and fill our future walls. This tiny little room I’m sharing is sort of an office or den space in between two bedrooms. It may be small, but we walk through it many times through the day, and its right by the boy’s bedroom so it ends up being a place where I help them get ready for school, or read a book before bed and more often then not fold the never ending laundry, so its a great place to have some of our favorite memories out.
First, over the daybed, there are about 50 5×5 prints, mostly from the 52 on fridays project from 2010. I initially printed about 100 5x5s, so these can be changed out when ever I have a new favorite to add. I love that they move around and it seems like a new one always catches my eye when I’m in here. I like to have lots of images of our families who are pretty far away so that their faces can still be a familiar in our home! The boys love looking through these and remembering where we were when they were taken.
To the left of the room, there is a small built in bookcase, I’m constantly on the look out for new items that represent a trip or a cherished family member to keep here. There are small art work pieces here we’ve found different places, a few cherished baby items from when the boys were tiny, and some practical items that are used lots, like a current knitting project and our laptop. I also have a 24×36 gallery wrapped canvas of my youngest, Sam on the bottom shelf and the matching 24×36 canvas of his brother Gabe is on a small wall area next to the doorway. I love how canvas adds texture to a photograph, and I love these two images of my boys, I still remember the day I took those! These were printed from WHCC as were all of the other prints in this room.
On the top shelf, two 12×12 standouts live side by side, these are older images of the boys when they were ‘babies’ and these have already lived a couple of different places in our new house, and I’m not sure this is their final home either! There are also a few albums and an 11×14 framed print that live on these shelves too.
One our our most cherished albums is the 10×8 album from Loktah that holds some of my favorite images from our family session with Raye Law. I love the textural feel to the paper on the pages in this album and especially the handmade cover. I’ve been using Loktah with my clients for a couple of years and adore all their products. There are also a couple of 5×5 albums from Finao that hold some of my favorite sessions that I’ve shot with my boys. I think albums are a wonderful way to display a session, especially if you don’t have tons of space to hang larger prints. If you keep them out like ours are, they get a tons of viewing and its nice to be able to have so many images from the same session all displayed.
The last thing I picked to photograph is the the print box, also from Loktah. It holds between 400-500 5x7s and I haven’t quite filled it up yet. Even though this images are tucked away out of site, I feel like they do get seen when we have friends and family over and this little system helps me feel like I have some extra security against losing the digital version of our family favorites since its easy to send off a few prints at a time with a client order and not have to worry about where they’ll be displayed. I like to print the ones that go in this little box with the white border, it looks like it may be time for a new box soon!
Thank you Wendy for letting my share my cozy little space on your blog! I love clicking through all the talented photographers you’ve featured and seeing all the different ways they’ve used photographs in their homes! I know just where I’ll be looking for inspiration when we move again and have new walls to fill!
Thanks, Gretchen!
Stay tuned tomorrow for a fabulous giveaway!
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]]> http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-gretchen-davis/feed/ 11 Art Display Project | Kristin Young http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-kristin-young/ http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-kristin-young/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:53:39 +0000 wenderful http://wenderful.com/?p=6094 Continuity.  One of the things my home is lacking.  One of the things I LOVE about Kristin Young’s home and art displays.  I adore how she chose a theme and stuck with it and how everything flows so well.  I may be a tiny bit envious of those amazing huge frames from Pottery Barn.  And I may or may not be in the midst of a chalkboard/clipboard display project myself.  Kristin, we miss you out here in Northern California but love that you are just a mouse click away and thrilled that you joined in on this project.  

 

Can I just tell you how excited I was when Wendy asked if I could be a part of her Art Display series this month? It was just the kick I needed to fill in the empty frames (yes, I had frames up, but they were empty) on our walls. When we sold our home and moved cross-country last year, I decided to change the walls in our house. I wanted to put away all our fine arts painting and just put up black and whites images of our family framed in black frames with white mats.

My goal was to let our walls reflect us….where we had been and where we are at the moment. In order to do that, the easiest thing (and possibly the cheapest) was to start collecting frames from all over and slip photos in as I wanted. I love gallery wraps but did not want to be tied to the same images on the walls nor did I want to use up wall space with just a couple of images (plus I like to change it up as I take pictures and have new favorites).

Above my kids workstation, I hung six square frames…

Around the kitchen and back entryway are most of the frames…

I used chalkboard clipboards to hang these set of three.

I purchased art hangers from Pottery barn years ago. Now I like to hang the kid’s artwork and some black + white photos to display their art.

The only color frames I hung were these four…discontinued from Pottery Barn years ago, but I still love them.

Near one entryway, I chose to hang different sized frames…

We have another hallway that is long and dark, but has these great art spotlights. I chose to hang several different sized frames in groups of three or two. The really big 48×48 frames are from Pottery Barn. I loved them, but sadly haven’t taken the perfect photos for them….yet.

In one of the girls’ rooms, I hung three 11×14 frames over the bed.

In my office/craft room, I wanted to get a little creative so I got these frames and attached string and chicken wire to the back of them to hang up Polaroids.

Finally, my inspiration boards near and above my computer. Random pictures are tacked up along with my kid’s artwork and whatnots.

Now the fun part for me will be to change the images within the frames and wait to see who notices in my family.

Thank you Wendy for doing such a great series. It has been fun to pour over old pictures and put everything together!


 

Thank you, Kristin!

If you’ve missed any of my guest bloggers for this project, you can find the right here:

StaceyWoods

Aubry Startin

Breeze Floyd

Tamara Burross

Carey Pace

Nancy Lary

Jules Trandem

Gail Pomare

Elisabeth Ross

Amy Lockheart

Jasmine Johnson

Hope Toliver

Kristina Buskirk

SaraTegman

Misti Dawson

Deb Schwedhelm 

Jennifer Nguyen

 Jolie Starrett 

Val Spring 

Jasmine Sargent

Ali Crane 

Jobrina Hofleit

Rachel Chaney

]]> http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-kristin-young/feed/ 9 Art Display Project | Rachel Chaney http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-rachel-chaney/ http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-rachel-chaney/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:20:59 +0000 wenderful http://wenderful.com/?p=5766 When I read through Rachel Chaney’s blog post a few weeks ago after she sent it, I was blown away by her beautiful home and lovely art displays, but the one thing that has been swimming around in my mind since that day is her philosophy of sharing the prints of her kids with her kids.  As in, give them their own copies.  So often I’m too concerned with  keeping the photos tucked away from sticky hands so that I can get the prints in frames, that I don’t consider how important it is to my kids to be able to have copies of their very own.  Take a look at Rachel’s beautiful art and be sure to read what she says at the end of the post.

Thank you, Wendy, for inviting me to share how our family enjoys the photos
that I take.  I have already been inspired by the display ideas so far.  It
has been interesting to see how the display ideas are often a continuation
of a photographer’s photographic style.

This year I made a 5×7 flat family stationary card.  The front features a
collage of some of my favorite images of our family.  The back simply has an
outlined “frame” on all four sides to accommodate a handwritten note.  I
like that this card allows people to get to know us a bit better.  It is a
way for us to reach out to other people, share our family story, and use my
art all at the same time.

I took the plunge and got a gallery wrap canvas of each of my kids when the
canvases went on sale.  These hang on a small wall in a hallway that runs
alongside my open kitchen.  I love that I can see these when I eat my cereal
in the morning and when I am prepping dinner.
I plan on refreshing these periodically with newer images and dispersing the
older ones throughout the house.

Each year I dream of sitting down to build a proper family yearbook album.
I haven’t done it yet because I am too busy at the end of the year.
However, in the meantime, I enjoy printing up our family’s “greatest hits”
from the past year in a bound proof book.  This particular books holds about
80+ photos from the past year.  They are 4×6 prints on 5×7 paper, spiral
bound with a clear cover. I don’t have to put in any design time in terms of
album layout (other than simply putting them in the order I want).  I like
that I can carry this book around and share it with other people.  I make
several copies and give them out to grandparents and great grandparents for
Christmas.  They’re a big hit with them.  
I am passionate about telling my family’s story–not just taking portraits.
I like that these proof books allow me to print and share everyday moments
that I probably would never blow up as a canvas and hang on a wall.  For
example, I took this image of my daughter with her permission when she was
very sick.  I like the way she is holding onto her doll while she is
watching TV.  I like that it shares the honest truth about family life.
Family life isn’t just birthdays, smiles, and “perfect” outfits.  It is also
life shared in sometimes challenging circumstances.

This bulletin board hangs just a few steps inside our front door alongside
our dining room.
Whenever I’m ordering prints for clients, I just snatch up a few favorite,
recent family photos.  I like the flexibility this bulletin board offers.  I
don’t have to worry about aspect ratios or filling a specific sized hole in
a frame with a specific sized print.  The bulletin board, like the proof
book, allows me to enjoy and display certain photographic stories that I
wouldn’t enlarge to display on a wall. It is one of the first things people
see when they come into our house.

I have another smaller bulletin board right by my computer.  You can post
images using magnets or push pins.
Here’s the link:
http://www.containerstore.com/shop?productId=10000382&N=&Ns=p_sales_quantity
%7C1&Ntt=magnetic+board

Oh, and one other little note. . .
I try to regularly give my kids loose prints of our family–especially of
images that feature them.  I tell them thank you with my words when I
photograph them.  I tell them thank you with my actions when I share the
finished product.  These prints get wrinkled and fall behind their beds, but
they eventually end up in some “secret stash” tucked away in one of their
drawers.

Thanks, Rachel!

If you’ve missed any of my guest bloggers for this project, you can find the right here:

StaceyWoods

Aubry Startin

Breeze Floyd

Tamara Burross

Carey Pace

Nancy Lary

Jules Trandem

Gail Pomare

Elisabeth Ross

Amy Lockheart

Jasmine Johnson

Hope Toliver

Kristina Buskirk

SaraTegman

Misti Dawson

Deb Schwedhelm 

Jennifer Nguyen

 Jolie Starrett 

Val Spring 

Jasmine Sargent

Ali Crane 

Jobrina Hofleit

]]> http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-rachel-chaney/feed/ 9 Art Display Project | Jobrina Hofleit http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-jobrina-hofleit/ http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-jobrina-hofleit/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:41:12 +0000 wenderful http://wenderful.com/?p=6074 I’m starting to regret this project, only because there are so many ideas I want to try and not enough wall space in my house!  Jobrina Hofleit’s home is full of amazing ideas!  That screen door is awesome!  As is her son’s room with the clipboards.  I know I will be giving that idea a try, I just have to decide where.  Take a look…  (Oh, and I kept her wording blue because it matches her home so well.  And because I have no idea how to change it back to black.  LOL)

 

We have recently moved into a new home (a rental, which limits me on what I can and cannot do for the time being) and my #1 priority was to get family images up on the walls ASAP to help us feel more at home.  Then the busy holiday season hit and it all kind of got put on the back burner.  So when Wendy asked if I’d like to be a part of her amazing idea called “Art Display Project”, I didn’t have to think twice, I was completely on board!  Now I had NO excuses, I was ready to get our walls filled with canvases and framed images that had been sitting in boxes, along with starting a new “wall” project I was so badly wanting to do.

As soon as you walk into our entry way, I have placed this old refurbished screen door, that my super talented friend made for me.  It’s great cause we are constantly changing out the chalkboard to new inspirational sayings and then the bottom portion with the chicken wire is so great to add and change out current and past 5×7 prints.

Here in the family room I’ve placed a couple of our 16×20 canvas wraps.  I’m such a huge fan of canvases, so great that they come ready to hang.

Here is our son’s room, I couldn’t wait to do this idea I found on pinterest.  I hung 6 standard sized clip boards and clipped 8×10 prints and am pretty happen with the outcome. Love that I can change out the images periodically.  Then we have another 16×20 canvas wrap of our son, Raney, and our 10 year old golden, Koda, hung in his bathroom.

This next set is up in our windy hallway, which is pretty narrow and actually really hard to “take” pictures of. Ha!  I had been wanting to do a wall in these squared white frames forever and couldn’t wait to get it done once I knew I was doing this project.  These are 20×20′s and there are six of them and they are holding pictures of our family’s most recent photo session this past December, self-timer and all.  I absolutely LOVE these frames, they are a great size and stand out just the way I had envisioned them to.

Towards the end of the hallway these ledges hold older images of when our son was a newborn and images of all of us when he was 6 months old.

We bought this huge wood frame about two years ago from another very talented local girl and it sits in this spot as you enter into our master bedroom for now, I love looking at it and being reminded of when our family started. ;-)

 

Thank you, Jobrina!

f you’ve missed any of my guest bloggers for this project, you can find the right here:

StaceyWoods

Aubry Startin

Breeze Floyd

Tamara Burross

Carey Pace

Nancy Lary

Jules Trandem

Gail Pomare

Elisabeth Ross

Amy Lockheart

Jasmine Johnson

Hope Toliver

Kristina Buskirk

SaraTegman

Misti Dawson

Deb Schwedhelm 

Jennifer Nguyen

 Jolie Starrett 

Val Spring 

Jasmine Sargent

Ali Crane 

]]> http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-jobrina-hofleit/feed/ 9 Art Display Project | Ali Crane http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-ali-crane/ http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-ali-crane/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:42:15 +0000 wenderful http://wenderful.com/?p=6062 When I opened Ali Crane’s photos to write this post, I was so happy to see Legos.  It felt like home.  We are so inundated with those tiny pieces at our house, I’m considering a new project all about how to organize and display Legos.  Anyone with me?  I’m adding Ali to my list of  friends whose homes I adore.  She’s my neighbor and I can tell we are going to have to do a meet-up sometime very soon.  I adore that hallway gallery of matted black and white prints and that adorable monogram pillow!  Take a look… 

 

Part of the reason I fell in love with photography is its ability to capture not only how someone looked at a given time but how a moment felt long after it has passed.  As my children grow, the photos that fill my home bring me back to their early curls, their belly laughs, the babies who have long since grown up.

 

For many years, in my living room above the couch I had a display of 6 framed and matted 8 x 10s.   Recently, we gave the living room a fresh coat of paint and I replaced those images with a 30 x 40 canvas.  On the console, I keep a collection of images in coordinated but not identical frames which are easy to change out.  I love that this collection gives me a place to display some favorite images without the commitment to an art piece.

When I took down the 8 x 10s in my living room, I still wanted to display those prints.  This series in our hallway has an image of each of my children as infants.  (top images courtesy of Jonathan Payne Photography).

The remaining prints line one side of the hallway in our master bedroom.  On the other side, I have a series of 11 x 14 gallery wrapped canvases in black and white, again, one of each child.

My girls share a room and I knew I wanted images of them to be an integral part of their space.  The largest displays are a 20 x 30 gallery wrapped canvas over their desk and a series of 8 X 10s in contrasting orientations lining the wall above their storage unit (along with a lot of Harry Potter Legos).  Other smaller, framed images are on the shelves and on other locations around the room.

Lastly, this 20 x 30 gallery wrapped hangs over my son’s bed.  Some smaller, framed prints line the window on the opposite wall.

This project was the impetus to get the canvases in both of the bedrooms ordered and hung so I am so grateful to Wendy for including me.  I am also glad that I still have some empty walls to incorporate some of the wonderful ideas I’ve picked up over the past several weeks!

Thanks, Ali!

If you’ve missed any of my guest bloggers for this project, you can find the right here:

StaceyWoods

Aubry Startin

Breeze Floyd

Tamara Burross

Carey Pace

Nancy Lary

Jules Trandem

Gail Pomare

Elisabeth Ross

Amy Lockheart

Jasmine Johnson

Hope Toliver

Kristina Buskirk

SaraTegman

Misti Dawson

Deb Schwedhelm 

Jennifer Nguyen

 Jolie Starrett 

Val Spring 

Jasmine Sargent

]]> http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-ali-crane/feed/ 6 Art Display Project | Jasmine Sargent http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-jasmine-sargent/ http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-jasmine-sargent/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:40:04 +0000 wenderful http://wenderful.com/?p=6039 Jasmine Sargent sounds just like me.  I get stuck in the same rut of not having time or decision-making ability to get my print up in my house.  I’m so happy that this project gave her just the push she needed to make some progress.   I adore the session she had this past fall and so enjoy seeing those images big on her walls.  And I can not wait until Baby Sargent makes an appearance this year and she can add to her art collection!

 

I have a ton of intentions and ideas of hanging photos in my house, but they always seem to get put on the back burner.  I’m always ordering other people’s images and just plain forget to order my own.  When I finally do sit down to do it, I can never decide how or where I want to display my images.  I just know it makes me happy to see photos of different memories of our life hanging on the walls.

Entry Way:  We have a split level home, so when you walk in we have a huge wall in our entry way.  I have two 16 x 24 standouts of our wedding pictures hanging on the wall against the stairs.  I wish I would have gotten them bigger, but now my idea is to just add more standouts to the wall.

Bedroom:  We had a session this fall with Brittany Janelle Photography.  I’m so happy that we had this session.  I love all of the images she captured of us.  I ordered a 24 x 36 standout of my favorite image from the session.  It shows our true emotion and just makes me happy!  I have to admit I cry a little when I walk into the room and see this!  And above our king bed, I’m now wishing I would have ordered a bigger size.  I may just have to add some more standouts to the sides.

We also have frames on each side of our bed that we change out photos every once in awhile.  Usually a favorite each of us have.

Kitchen:  We have a tree outside our kitchen window that blossoms flowers every spring.  I love staring at it when I’m doing dishes.  I took this images almost 3 years ago and they sat on my computer for a year.  I knew I wanted them hanging in a row above the table, so three 20 x 20 canvases worked out great!

Living Room :  One of the first photos I got framed of the two of us was one of our engagement photos.  It was taken 4 1/2 years ago and is still one of my favorites.  It’s a 16 x 24 matted and framed.

Another favorite from our session with Brittany Janelle was one of us with our dogs.  They were our first babies and have become such an important part of our lives.  I know we will always treasure this image!  This one is a 30 x 40 canvas and works perfect above our sofa.

I’m so thankful that Wendy asked me to be a part of this project.  I do have all intentions of printing my own photos but just never get to it.  This gave me the push.  And being able to see how every one else displays their photos gives me ideas for my basement wall that right now is a big, blank, grey canvas!

Thanks, Jasmine!

If you’ve missed any of my guest bloggers for this project, you can find the right here:

StaceyWoods

Aubry Startin

Breeze Floyd

Tamara Burross

Carey Pace

Nancy Lary

Jules Trandem

Gail Pomare

Elisabeth Ross

Amy Lockheart

Jasmine Johnson

Hope Toliver

Kristina Buskirk

SaraTegman

Misti Dawson

Deb Schwedhelm 

Jennifer Nguyen

 Jolie Starrett 

Val Spring

]]> http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-jasmine-sargent/feed/ 7 Kira Stone {singer/songwriter} http://wenderful.com/2012/01/kira-stone-singersongwriter/ http://wenderful.com/2012/01/kira-stone-singersongwriter/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:34:04 +0000 wenderful http://wenderful.com/?p=6008 I’ve been dying to blog this session for a few weeks now!!!  This young lady is amazingly talented and at fifteen years-old,  knows just what she wants.  Writing and performing her own music is her passion and she is a natural at both.  She reminds me of Taylor Swift or a young Mindy Gledhill.  She just finished recording her first song, Peter Pan,  and it debuts on itunes today!  It has been swimming around in my head ever since I heard it about a month ago.  We went out a few weeks ago to shoot some images for her album and had so much fun.  This girl was either smiling or busting out laughing the entire time despite the wind and chill.  She is so sweet and  I can’t wait to watch her succeed in music and in life.  Congratulations, Kira Stone!

Be sure to watch the slideshow at the end set to her very own song.

 

 

Peter Pan is available on itunes!

 

]]> http://wenderful.com/2012/01/kira-stone-singersongwriter/feed/ 8 Art Display Project | Val Spring http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-val-spring/ http://wenderful.com/2012/01/art-display-project-val-spring/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:05:55 +0000 wenderful http://wenderful.com/?p=5992 I am honored and thrilled to welcome Val Spring of The Red Balloon Photography to be my guest blogger today!  Val has this amazing style; part retro, part vintage, part old school nostalgia, and often storybook, that I just can’t get enough of.  Her work stands out in a crowd and I’ve always been curious how that style would transfer to her own home and the way she uses her own photographs. (But, without a doubt, I knew it would somehow incorporate the color aqua.)  I am in love with the vintage camera shelf and the gorgeous light throughout her home!

 

I have, for the longest time, procrastinated on printing photos for our home. I’ve always had it on my “to do” list but it just never ended up making it to the top of it and instead kept being pushed down to the bottom of the list by other “to do’s” that at the time seemed more important. But last summer I finally made it a priority. The fact that my friend Breeze was coming to visit helped to bump it up quite a bit and I made it happen! Now I can not believe that I waited so long to do it because it makes all of us and the people that visit us so happy to see all these documented moments all over our home.

Our place is pretty small and I knew from the moment I took this picture of the birds that I wanted to hang it on the entrance wall. I just love the airy, peaceful feel that I get from it and I adore square crops so very much.
This is a 36″ x 36″ gallery wrap canvas.
These three images are displayed on one of the living room/dining room walls. I wanted a portrait of each of my daughters and one of them together. I will never forget the huge smiles on their faces when they saw their big photos on the walls.
These are 16″ x 24″ gallery wrap canvas’.
Between the kitchen and the dinning room there’s this tiny little window where I have a vintage scale that I got a few years ago and on it there’s now a mounted 11″ x 14″ print of a photo that I took of my husband and the girls last summer on the Oregon coast. I printed this for my husband to hang in his office but it’s still hasn’t make it there so I decided to find a spot for it until he remembers to take it along.
This is my work space. These two images are very special to me and I’ve always wanted to display them side by side. I took these the summer of 2010 and what I love so much about them is that both Lola and Olivia were totally unaware of me photographing them. They were both in the best of the worlds doing their thing, being carefree, enjoying life in a very child like way, which to me is just so magical.  Olivia’s is a 24″ x 36″ and Lola’s a 24″ by 24″ gallery wrap canvas’.
I also have an llustration Print of a girl with a camera. I saw that print on Pinterest and fell in love instantly so I went ahead and ordered it on the artist’s Etsy shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/NanLawson?ref=seller_info and taped it to the wall with some acid free glue dots.
Also in my work area I have some of my vintage cameras displayed on a shelf.
This is my favorite window :) I love the way light comes through it both in the morning and afternoon. On this little nook I have two photos facing each other. These are the only two images that we’ve had displayed for a long time. I took these two photos in my two favorite places in the world. One was at the beach town where I vacationed every summer ever since I was two years old up until I was eighteen. The other one was in the ski town where I lived for over three years and where I met my husband. I developed and printed these images in my home dark room down in Argentina several years ago.

This is the walkway that goes from our living room to the bedrooms. I have different sized and shaped photos hanging on a lace trim. I actually bought the trim to use along with the frame that’s on the last picture to make a jewelry holder that I found on pinterest. But then I decided to use the frame as a frame so ended up using the trim to hang pictures with clothpins. I tied two aqua ribbons on both tips to add some color. I kind of like it but the small clothpins would probably work better and look cuter. I’ll get to that soon.
Here is the frame that I was talking about. I bought this last year at an antiques show but it was white so I spray painted it in my favorite aqua shade. Then one day I was playing around with some prints trying to decide where to place them and I put the frame around this image and just loved the way it looked just like this, glassless and all. So I used some acid free sticky dots to stick the print to the wall and placed the frame around it.
One of the things we are lacking  is a family pictures. We have very few photos of the four of us together so a family session is in the plans for this year.
That’s about it for now. Thank you so much for inviting me to participate in this inspiring project. I feel extremely honored.

 

Thank you, Val!

If you’ve missed any of my guest bloggers for this project, you can find the right here:

StaceyWoods

Aubry Startin

Breeze Floyd

Carey Pace

Nancy Lary

Jules Trandem

Amy Lockheart

Jasmine Johnson

Hope Toliver

Kristina Buskirk

SaraTegman

Misti Dawson

Deb Schwedhelm 

Jennifer Nguyen

Jolie Starrett 

 

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