November 2010

iHeartFaces: Scenic B&W

November 29, 2010

This week’s theme at iHeartFaces is “Scenic B&W.” This photo is of my son in the Smoky Mountain National Forest. The original is almost completely green, even the rock is covered in moss. I like the solid, unbroken view of rock, wood, tree, texture. He almost glows in the middle.

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Christmas Gift Baskets with Cold Stone Creamery

November 28, 2010

One of the most meaningful things we do at Christmas is give gifts to acknowledge those who bless our lives. Unfortunately, choosing, purchasing, and wrapping those gifts often adds stress at an already hectic time of year. Last week my kids and I created gift baskets featuring Cold Stone Creamery Hot Chocolate for their tutors [...]

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Christmas Cards from Studio DaySpring

November 27, 2010

Last year was our first to send Studio DaySpring Christmas cards. We’d never made photo cards and it had actually been a few years since we’d sent cards at all. Disgraceful, I know, with my brood of kids to show off to friends and family. Part of my problem was finding the right image. Here’s [...]

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Reupholstered Dining Room Chairs for $20

November 26, 2010

One of the neatest things about blogging (or being a blog reader) is insight into the way others think, things they do, tips they share. Maybe they don’t really think outside the box, just outside of your box. Some of my blogging sisters are inspiring me to take a few chances to spruce up my [...]

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Runaway Mommy

November 24, 2010

I replied to an email of Heather’s last night and admitted that I was at Barnes and Noble because I’d run away from home. Not in a dangerous, abandon-my-family kind of way—Daddy was home and I was 20 minutes and a phone call away—but in an I can’t do this anymore and I have to [...]

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Personalize with PictureItPostage

November 23, 2010

PictureItPostage enables you to create custom, personalized postage for business or personal use. I have a logo in the works that will combine photography and web design work. Since it isn’t ready, I used a photo that looks appropriate for the Christmas season— the one I used for November’s (in)courage desktop wallpaper—and typed “Dawn Camp [...]

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2010 Christmas Gift Guide and Giveaway Extravaganza

November 22, 2010

{Entries for the giveaway are now closed, but please continue to use this guide for your Christmas shopping!} This is not your ordinary Christmas Gift Guide. It doesn’t necessarily have items for everyone on your list, or an equal selection for men and women, or adults and children. What it does have is an assortment [...]

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Something big is coming!

November 19, 2010

There’s something big in the works, just for you! I’m creating my first ever Christmas gift guide. This isn’t your typical gift guide, because every company featured has also agreed to give away either a one or more of their products or gift certificates to their store. At the present time there are 13 products [...]

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…Featuring Norah Jones

November 18, 2010

Norah Jones possess a voice that’s rich, smoky, unmistakable. On her new CD, “…Featuring Norah Jones,” she cameos, duets, and collaborates with 18 other artists on selections recorded from 2001-2010. Although the music contained here is quite diverse—from country, to jazz, to pop, to R&B—it flows easily from song-to-song. It’s quite a testimony to the [...]