The Intersection of Design & Motherhood
I’m nuts over these images by Tim MacPherson. Wouldn’t it be fun to recreate something like this for a portrait of your child? They remind me of the work of Jan Von Holleben that we used to inspire our Christmas card a few years ago.
Would your kids love creating something like this? I know mine would for sure.
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We love coming up with fun valentines to make and give. Here are some of our favorites (many are candy free!):
3-D Lollipop Valentines - Easy! And a big hit. Try it with crazy straws or pencils too.
Fortune Teller Valentines - with free printable!
You Blow Me Away, Valentine! - Everyone loves party blowers. : )
Wild Animal Valentines - Family Fun Magazine requested my idea for their latest issue.
Mad Lib Valentines - Family Fun requested this idea too!
Friendship Bracelet Valentines
And here are a few more ideas I've featured over the years that I bet you'll love:
- Fresh Fruit Valentines
- Color Theory Valentines
- DIY Scratch Off Valentines
- Shaving Cream Valentines
- Mini Valentine Boxes
Here's something fun. Our family was featured in an episode of House Hunters International! Spoiler: we choose the gorgeous French Farmhouse. It's called La Cressonnière and we take pictures of it all the time. If you're curious, try these links:
The Kitchen
Summer at La Cressonnière
The Halfbath
The Stairwell
The Neighbors
Ralph's Bedroom
The Studio
Springtime at La Cressonnière
The Living Room
Maude's Bedroom
The Artists
Oscar & Betty's Bedroom
The Exterior
The Floors
Olive's Bedroom
The Treehouse
The House: La Cressonnière
I hope you enjoy the house tour! Oh. And if you'd like to see the episode, you can find it on Youtube here (it's in four parts).
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I love the look on the cowgirl’s face! These are so fun!
Those are amazing and so creative! It took me a minute to realize the red bike wasn’t really a bike! :)
These are so fun! They remind me of the guy who did “Art Attack”. Only he created the art, but didn’t take photos.
These are ingenious. Love it!
Brilliant. My son would love this. He’d go for the surfing one.
These are brilliant. I can’t stop looking at them and smiling.
The kid skiing cracks me up. I love it.
Oh man. You just made my day! cp
I need to figure out something like this to do for our Christmas cards! Neat!
I love them! The look on the cowgirls face is hilarious!!!!!
I adore there! So much imagination and fun in each shot.
Amazing! Some of these remind me of Anthropologie display ideas.
TOTALLY cute!
wow!! These are incredible! I posted quite a few links from you on my friday favorites last week. Here is the link, in case you want to see the link love. ;-)
http://themancheskys.blogspot.com/2010/09/friday-favorites-longest-edition-ever.html
Oh boy. I love a good series. And this is just incredible work. Makes me want to work harder, so I love it.
Oh, wow!!! These are SO DANG RAD!!! Thanks for sharing them! I think the skiing one is my favorite!!
These images are awesome. However this post should have a disclaimer that if you click through to his official site and then click “portfolio,” which I did because I wanted to see more, a few photos in there is VERY explicit photo of naked adults showering together. I know, because we share the same values, that this does not reflect the values you have or the image you want to project. I highly recommend a disclaimer.
Aren’t they great! Looks like a whole load of fun :)
thats brilliant! reminds me on my childhood. my sister and me always always played with things like that…
Wow, the creativity of some photographers never ceases to amaze me.
I am, however, a little concerned that that girl is going to ski down the stairs; she sure looks like she intends to.
The eye of a photographer! Gotta love it. I think my favorite is the “surfer dude”.
Awe. some.
OH I LOVE THESE! They remind me of a photo project I did in college! Thanks for the inspiration! I have goosebumps of excitement right now!
Reminds me of the post you did on Mila’s Daydreams – what a fun way to photograph children & their personalities!
imust say the pics you posted to display were Very cool and inspired! BUT, i was very disappointed to click on his link and see that some of his work is HIGHLY inappropriate:(
SO awesome!!
Genius! Love ‘em!
WOW!!! Sooooo love those!!! Love how original they are!!
~gillian
8 thumbs up here…the whole family got a kick out of the images!