Links for 3 December 2010

 Have a look at these recent posts on my new blog, www.bluebadgerbaby.wordpress.com.

Vintage Christmas Postage- Where to buy vintage stamps for your Christmas cards.

Christmas Craft Kits- Everything you need to keep your kids occupied during Winter break, pre-cut.
Pinhole Press Christmas Cards- Beautiful graphic photo cards
Super Mamika- The coolest photos anyone has taken of their grandmother...ever.

Links for 8 October 2010

I moved my blog to here, but a lot of readers are still turning up here. So here are links to the posts I wrote this week.

• Chanel for Children -Lagerfeld sent a tiny boucle jacket down the runway.
• J.Crew Free Coloring Pages- coloring pages on shoes from JCrew's Fall kids' collection
• Price of Mima Strollers- prices for the new high end stroller brand, and where you can order them.
• The Wee Tyrant- I love this photo.
• Foppapedretti Myo Tronic- An electronic stroller shown at this year's Kind + Jugend that will push itself

Photo Apps For iPhone

The iPhone is the new toy camera. I love how I can just pop it out and take a picture. And pretty decent ones at that. I have printed photos that I have taken with my iPhone 3GS up to 8x8. And I think I could push that up to 10x10 without much loss of picture quality. Here are some of my favorite photo apps (Most of them give photos a cool retro look.):

Lo-Mob
Lo-Mob has 28 different film effects. Also the app develops all the various effects at once, so the time needed to preview the photos is shorter. It was the first camera app that I bought. $1.99

Film Lab
Film Lab is an improvement on Retro Camera. Film Lab simulates the look of various classic film stocks. And unlike Retro Camera you can save your photos in full resolution, so you can create prints that are larger than wallet sized. I just wish it had the ability to play around with grain size. $0.99

Hipstamatic
I love Hipstamatic so much that I replaced the phone app with it. It is right there next to the Safari and iPod apps. You pay $1.99 for the standard equipment pack which contains 3 lens, 3 films and a flash. Then if you find that you love the app (And you will love it.) you can purchase several expansion packs for $0.99

SwankoLab
The people behind Hipstamatic have come out with a new app, SwankoLab. It aims to recreate the feel of the darkroom. You can even mix up and save your formulas. The $1.99 purchase price  gives you access to 8 "chemicals", and for an additional $1.99 you can purchase a lifetime subscription that gives you 9 more chemicals and free chemicals with each update. It's fun to play with, but I don't find myself going to it as much the other three.

The one problem with a lot of these apps is that they create square photos instead of the standard rectangular ones. I have found a photo lab that creates square photos starting at 5 inches. And I just love the Fuji Pearl paper, it gives the prints a beautiful metallic finish that is hard to recreate on a computer screen. Warning, it can give some Hipstamatic prints a green tint. myPhotopipe.

Once Your Parents Were Awesome

I am totally in love with the blog, My Parents Were Awesome. It is simply a site with old pictures of parents and grandparents enjoying their youth. I am trying to convince my mother to submit a photo of her in the seventies with a huge blond afro. It is a cool site to check out if you have a few minutes do something fun.

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Polaroid Bringing Back Instant Film

Polaroid will be reintroducing instant film and the one step camera in 2010.

Funny But Tacky Baby Photos

These photos were emailed to me. Thought I would share them with you.

More photos below.

Teri Lyn Fisher

I love these photographs by Teri Lyn Fisher. They are so simple, but so beautiful.

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The Flashdance

I love looking at portrait photography. And if you live in the Los Angeles I may have found the coolest family photographer around. You always read about The Flashdance's wedding photography, but their portraits are lovely and natural. A ton more photographs below.

TiltShiftMaker

TiltShiftMaker allows you to create photos that look like photos of model miniatures for free. You just choose a digital photo and play with the focus.It is rather easy to use.The photo above is the one I created on my first try, and the one below is from their website.

Mothers Day Gift Ideas

The Ipevo Kaleido R7 is one of the best looking digital frames that I have seen. The WiFi enabled screen rotates for both horizontal and vertical viewing. There is 512MB of internal memory (up to 3000 images), an USB port for thumb drives, and a card reader. Content can also be streamed from a networked computer. And since it is WiFi enabled you can link to your RSS feed, Picassa, and Flickr. $199.99

Everything That Was Good

I love this Alicia Bock print. It has a dreamy quality to it. $35

Thierry Bouet's Baby Photos

Thierry Bouet has proven one thing by photographing French newborns immediately after birth, that newborns are probably pissed after being removed from the only home they have ever known.
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1st Photo Of Bronx Wentz

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz (the tackiest husband alive) released a photo of little Bronx. He looks like a lot of other babies, but they all look alike at that age.

“We decided to share the best gift we could ever receive with you: Bronx Mowgli Wentz. We couldn’t be happier. And in the spirit of the holidays, we’d like to encourage you to give on your own. Below is a list of worthwhile charities that need your support: TheIRC.com, RoomToGrow.org and RichieMaddenFoundation.com.”

Other Ashlee Simpson Posts

Sharon Montrose Animal Prints

Sharon Montrose is having a sell on her animal photographs. Buy three 7x8 or 7x10 prints ($25) and get one free. Or buy one large print 16x18.5 ($95) and get one 7x8 or 7x10 print free.

Other Art Prints Posts
Other Etsy Posts

Vicky Ceelen

Vicky Ceelen takes amazing photos of babies and animals. Ceelen whose work has appeared in Vogue, GQ, and Elle comes from a family of painters and it shows. She has several books, the most popular of which is Close Friends, which has been published in over two dozen languages. The book mirrors the photos of infants and animals. It would be a great baby gift. $9.95

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes from the cover of the New York Times Style Magazine. The cover is really in the style of Valkyrie. Love or hate TomKat, you have to admit that they are great photos.

Other Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Posts (ok most of them are about Suri.)
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Sheila Nielsen Photography

If you live in Oregon and need photos taken you should have a look at the portfolio of Sheila Nielsen. I came across her blog when she corrected the title of one of my posts. I saw the word photography and had to click the link (I love photography). Her blog is filled with beautiful pictures of children. In all of the pictures it looks like the children are enjoying the sessions. That is the true hallmark of a really good family photographer.

Moo Mosaic Frame

Moo has designed a frame to hold 20 of their MiniCards, they really wasn't a way of displaying them before. The cards can be placed portrait or landscape, or a combination of the both. And they can be moved around until you have the perfect placement or if you want to change out one or more of the cards. The frame is $39.99.
The MiniCards are $19.99 and you can even use a different photo for each card.
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