Thursday, December 26, 2013

Christmas Maternity Photo Session

When your baby is due at Christmas time, it only makes sense to do a Christmas themed photo shoot.  A tree lot seemed like the best place to make this happen. 

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I hope you all had a Merry Christmas.

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Christmas Letter 2013

My Christmas letter tradition brought a tear to my 15 year old son’s eyes this year.  I definitely think this is a tradition everyone should do.  Here is the link again if you need it.  http://tracys-trinkets-treasures.blogspot.com/2010/12/handmade-ornament-with-special.html?m=1

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Sunday, December 22, 2013

Merry Christmas from Izzy

Izzy is ready for Christmas.  Are you?

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Tracy

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Vintage Mason Jar Holder Repurposed

I really like the Glade candles.  They smell good, burn well and are reasonably priced.  They also just happen to fit perfectly in a mason jar holder that I own. 

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

My Dogs and our Christmas Tree

I thought this was a sweet photo of Izzy and Harley. 

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Tracy

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Vintage Bells and Pine Cones for Christmas

My husband’s great aunt gave me some vintage bells and I love how they looked mixed in a bowl with pine cones and ornaments.  I added my trees I got from Hobby Lobby last year. 

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Friday, December 6, 2013

Christmas Mantel 2013

I saw a lit Joy for sale at Target and grabbed it.  I knew I wanted it on my mantel.  I also added a little $25 tree to the mix.  5W3A6019

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I made the stockings a couple of years ago. I put about 4 to 5 pieces of copy scrunched copy paper in them to give them a little shape.

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The hangers are curtain clips.

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Thanks for stopping by.

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Friday, September 27, 2013

Cute Family Photo for Fall

I am getting a lot of response from a family photo I did last night so I thought I would share it here.  My client is pregnant and I brought some pumpkins for her family to hold in the pic.  So cute.

 

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Don’t you just love fall?

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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Stacked Books Made Into a Pumpkin

Once again it is time to bring a pumpkin to the dental office where I work for our annual decorated pumpkin giveaway.   This year I painted some books orange, added a brown glaze and tied them up with a green burlap bow and I am calling it a pumpkin. 

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I found a pumpkin orange spray paint at Walmart and used 3 different sized books to make my pumpkin.

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Here are a couple more photos. 

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I hope to get photos of my coworker’s pumpkins to share with you.  Thanks for stopping by.

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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Camera Lamp

My birthday was in June and I had shown one of my coworker’s a cool camera lamp photo a couple of months before.  She happened to draw my name for my birthday and I was so surprised to see that her and her husband made me a camera lamp.  I just love it and wanted to share it with you.  I did change the lamp shade.  Hers was really cute, but I wanted a plain and simple shade and I already had one that was perfect for the lamp. 

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It is so perfect.  I love it.

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Gonna Mix Some Good With The Bad

I wanted to stop in and share about my summer vacation and let you know about some bad news I got recently.  Let’s start with the good. 

We decided to go to New Braunfels this year for vacation and we go the bright idea to buy a used boat and take it with us and sell it when we got back.

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We picked such a popular boat we sold it in New Braunfels and didn’t have to bring it home.  We have been in a severe drought in Amarillo and our lakes have gone almost dry so no reason to have a boat around here. 

Izzy loved the boat and tubing.

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She also liked going on the kayak.

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And she loved going to the restaurants with outdoor seating.

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It was so good to get away and spend time together relaxing and having fun. 

Then I had to come back to reality and face some tough decisions. 

I have been diagnosed with a cancer gene called BRCA2.  It is what Angelina Jolie has only hers is 1 and mine is 2.  I am facing a hysterectomy and the decision to do a mastectomy.  I have an 85% chance I will get breast cancer.  Those odds pretty much suck. 

So I will be busy with doctor appointments and one maybe two surgeries.  I will let you know what I decided to do and how it all goes. 

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

New Entryway Chest for Storage

I have been on the search for a chest that will fit in a narrow space in my entry way.  I need it for storage.  I have asked my friends on Facebook and they vote leave it as is.  My other furniture in my entry is black, but I think they are right.  What do you think?  Paint it black or leave it alone.  Keep the pulls or change them? 
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I did some redecorating in my bedroom about a month ago and took pics of it and then accidentally erased them all.  I need to retake them and show you.  I like the changes. 
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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Have you missed me?

I got an email and I can’t find it in my stack of other piled up emails asking if I was ok.  I am and it felt good that someone cared.  I have been really busy with my photography business.   I have been doing graduating senior sessions and I love them.  I am using some of my projects I have posted about on my blog.

I have used my suitcases I have painted.

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I buy chairs that I don’t have room for because they fit in my car and can be carried to a field.

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I have to throw in an Izzy pic for those of you that miss seeing her.  She is sitting on a cool chair I found.

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I use my chalk board I made as a prop.

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I use my camera skills I started learning when blogging to do cool pics like this.

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And this.

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So that is what has kept me busy.  I JUST took down my Christmas décor from my porch a week ago.  That is so not like me.  I am itching to do a few things this summer when it slows down a little so maybe I will have something good to show y’all. 

Oh I have also been doing lots of working out and I can finally do a pull up!  I am so proud.  My house looks like crap, but my biceps are getting bigger.  Too bad there are only so many hours in the day. 

Oh one more thing.  Look how I caught Izzy sitting the other day.  Cracks me up.  I love that silly dog.

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