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Posts from September, 2013

DIY tiny polaroid magnets

Tuesday, September 17th, 2013

Summer may be over but the memories last forever. Corny but true! And a way to keep those memories close to you is to have photos of your summer fun printed out in some form or other.

Don’t leave them in digital form on Facebook, do something with them!

Such as this…

Awesome image credit: Ambrosia Creative

These adorable lil Polaroid magnets from Jenn of Ambrosia Creative are a great way to remind you of those memories every time you open the fridge (which is often in my case).

Or perhaps use them in your office on a magnetic board… then, every time work’s getting a little much, you only have to look at these super sweet magnets with the photos of your kids smiling faces on them to feel a little more uplifted!

For all the details, including Polaroid templates to drop in your photos, head to this post.

Maybe I’ll even make some myself :)

Debs

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5 fantastic finger puppet sellers

Friday, September 13th, 2013

Is there any greater joy than putting a fake animal or person on your finger and waggling it about in front of a giggling baby? Probably, if I’m honest ;)

Still, finger puppets are a whole lot of fun! And there are SO many cute kinds out there.

I had a little wander around Etsy and found five of my favourite finger puppet makers…

Amy Panda

Raindrops Tops

Cherylasmith

Lazy Animals

Desa Boneka

Ahhh that lil’ grumpy gnome in the last shot puts a smile on my face! It’s the simple things :)

Debs

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The “World’s Best Father”

Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

Although “World’s Best Father” is a title bestowed upon many dads by their biased kids, I imagine Dave Engledow will be seen by many as one of the world’s best, purely because of his awesome photography project of the same name!

In the project Dave documents his life with his adorable daughter Alice Bee in a way that is actually the opposite of what a good father would do. Instead he is portraying a parody of the father he hopes he never becomes: distracted, self-absorbed, neglectful, clueless, or even occasionally overbearing.

The shot above is the first he took in the series, here’s what Dave says about it…
“The first World’s Best Father image I shot was initially intended as a one-off. I wanted to capture the dazed, sleep-deprived obliviousness of the new father, while at the same time gently poking fun at myself and new fathers everywhere. I knew I wanted to portray the new father absent-mindedly using the baby’s bottle of milk for his own coffee while holding the baby like a football. Right before staging the shot, inspiration hit and I decided that the shot might be stronger if the coffee mug said something like “father of the year” or some similar superlative so I purchased the mug that has since made an appearance in all images…”

After an amazing response to the first image Dave decided to create another one for Independence Day, featuring Alice with a lit match dangerously close to some fireworks…

The start of the series

“The 4th of July image is the one that really got the WBF series off and running, and provides the template for the vast majority of images in this series-multiple shots taken on a tripod and merged in Photoshop to create a (hopefully) realistic and humorous portrait of an act of parenting that is dangerous, neglectful, or just plain wrong.”

Here’s that image, and a few more…