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{Wordless Wednesday} Seattle Area Lifestyle Photographer

March 14th, 2012
 

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{Spring is in the air} Seattle Area Lifestyle Photographer

March 11th, 2012

We had a gorgeous day on thursday this week, with the sun shining, and spring in the air. The buds are beginning to come out on the trees, and our plum trees were blooming as well. I saw this cool craft on pinterest painting blossoms with the bottom of 2 litre bottles, and thought it [...]
 

We had a gorgeous day on thursday this week, with the sun shining, and spring in the air. The buds are beginning to come out on the trees, and our plum trees were blooming as well. I saw this cool craft on pinterest painting blossoms with the bottom of 2 litre bottles, and thought it would be a fun craft to do with the boys. Of course, this weekend has been grey, mucky, and rainy, but we got to bring a little bit of spring inside our homes yesterday. This craft is also part of the Kids Weekly Coop at Lets Lasso The Moon! Come check out all the other cool crafts and science ideas there!

 

What you need:

  • paint (we used blue, black, and pink)
  • 2 litre bottles
  • brushes
  • straws
  • paper
Our inspiration, our blooming plum trees

 

For our first painting, we started off with a blob of black paint. I think I thinned ours down with water a little bit too much, you want to thin it a little bit so it’s easy to blow, but not too thin

Then, I had the boys blow the black paint around to make a tree

This was the fun part. Then, I let them splatter the pink paint onto the canvas to make blossoms. They totally LOVED doing this. WARNING: this is a messy craft.

Splatter splatter splatter!

Our finished splattered trees. It looks very abstract, and the boys loved making it. Here was my six year old’s finished painting

 

My three year old’s splatter tree.

 

For the second painting, I had the boys paint the background a sky color. I let them choose how much they wanted to cover the paper.

 

Then, we painted on trees and used the 2 L bottle as a blossom print maker.

 

And our finished print blossom trees. Here is my six year old’s project.

 

Here is my three year old’s painting.

 

Overall, these were two really fun projects to do, and the boys heartily enjoyed themselves. Yes, they got very messy, and I had pink paint splatters everywhere, but the glow of pride in their faces seeing their finished paintings was worth all the mess. We’re going to be hanging these little windows of spring around our house to enjoy to counteract the greyness outside. I hope you guys have fun with your own little ones doing this project!

 

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{Up, up and away!} Seattle Area Lifestyle Photographer

March 10th, 2012

This is part craft, part science experiment, and 100% fun. We did this last summer, to learn about equilibrium. The boys had a blast figuring out how best to balance the balloon, and had so much fun floating it around in the backyard. The balloon only lasted a day, but it was a fun day [...]
 

This is part craft, part science experiment, and 100% fun. We did this last summer, to learn about equilibrium. The boys had a blast figuring out how best to balance the balloon, and had so much fun floating it around in the backyard. The balloon only lasted a day, but it was a fun day while it lasted! (or, at least until I fell off a ladder, but that’s another story). I got the idea from the lovely BookHaus Crafts, who always has fun and interesting ideas!

What You’ll Need:

  • large helium-filled balloon (I got mine at the party store, filled with helium for $2)
  • small basket (I used a plastic strawberry crate)
  • Netted  produce bag or ribbon/yarn (we used yarn)
  • toys
  • Scissors
  • tape
Things I learned:

  • you can tie the ribbon/yarn to the netting for the top of your balloon, or just tie ribbon/yarn. We used yarn, and taped it to the sides of the balloon to make sure it didn’t move around
  • do the balancing indoors first before you take the balloon outside, it will save a lot of time
  • have your kids chose an assortment of toys to put in the basket, both big, heavy, and small. make sure it covers the bottom of the basket though, so it doesn’t tip over
  • check out if it’s windy and how the weather is outside. in our case, it was very windy and muggy so when we went outside the air expanded inside the balloon causing it to float up much higher
  • believe in the equilibrium. no matter how far up the balloon floats, it will come down
  • this might be better to do indoors if you have high ceilings, although my kids did have a grand ol’ time chasing it around the yard
  • do NOT, under any circumstances, try to get the balloon if it gets stuck in a tree. the balloon will come down on its own
  • if you are unlucky like I was, you can turn the lesson about equilibrium into a lesson about gravity instead

 

We found out that pink Domo Kun was a perfect fit to achieve equilibrium. this was after many tries with other toys. I do not recommend anything small and rolling, as the basket has a hard time staying level.

 

My youngest doing the first launch

 

And there it goes up!  Look at the excitement on his face.

You can see it’s starting to float back down again here

And floating up again. You can see how we taped the yarn to the sides of the balloon here

My oldest does a launch as well.

 Up, up and away!

 

So starting with it on the ground, you can see how easily the balloon floats up and down with its Domo Kun passenger

 

And another look at my youngest launching the hot air balloon. Such a fun craft!

 

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{Snips and snails and sweet stripey suckers} Seattle Area Childrens Photographer

March 4th, 2012

Sometimes I love just taking the boys out and doing our own photoshoot. Of course, having a giant lollipop bribe, er, “prop”, just sweetened the deal for the kids. You know what else I love? That while I love matchy shirts and buy them for my kids, my boys actually love to dress up like [...]
 

Sometimes I love just taking the boys out and doing our own photoshoot. Of course, having a giant lollipop bribe, er, “prop”, just sweetened the deal for the kids. You know what else I love? That while I love matchy shirts and buy them for my kids, my boys actually love to dress up like each other. I love these kids!

 

What? I’m not suppose to eat the prop, mom?

MMmmmmmMmmmmm how many licks does it take to get a little boy hypered up?

Show mommy the lollipop! heh

My littlest one was more interested in doing anything but show me his lollipop

I love how little brother is like, mom, can I go back to eating my lolly now?

He posed himself. Honest.

Those eyes kill me. I am going to be in trouble when he hits the teenage years.

My boys, love these kids.

 

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{Baby B. 13 Days New} Seattle Area Newborn Photographer

March 4th, 2012

Sweet Baby B. was born at home 13 days ago. His parents were gracious enough to bring him over to capture this special time in their lives, and he was such a cooperative baby! Very sleepy, very poseable, and oh so adorable. Thank you for letting me meet your sweet baby boy. Congratulations to the [...]

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Sweet Baby B. was born at home 13 days ago. His parents were gracious enough to bring him over to capture this special time in their lives, and he was such a cooperative baby! Very sleepy, very poseable, and oh so adorable. Thank you for letting me meet your sweet baby boy. Congratulations to the family, and welcome to the world Baby B!

 

Meet Baby B!

 Such a sleepy boy

 

Hey look! He opened his eyes and looked straight at my camera for me. 

Being held by dad

Such an easy baby to photograph. I wish all my babies were this sleepy.

I love his spikey hair, it was such awesomeness.

Squishy baby in daddy’s arms

Hey look, it’s a baby in a cocoon!

Happy Family

 

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