Easy Bed Making with Beddy's Zipper Bedding!

We recently got new bedding for the girls and we are very excited about it- not just because it's super cute (although it is), but it is VERY practical and has made it WAY faster for the girls to make their own beds... AND believe it or not... they LIKE to make their beds now!

Before I tell you about its cool features, let me show you how CUTE this beddng is!  The one shown below is the "Perfectly Miss Matched" set.  These are made by a company called Beddy's (bed-ease).

The coolest thing about Beddy's is that they are zipper bedding.  They were originally designed as bunk bed zipper bedding, to solve the problem of making a bunk bed, but they make bed-making easy for any bed!

Laundry Room Makeover

My mom has been wanting to freshen up her laundry room for a while. My sisters and I have introduced her to Pinterest, so she gathered a few ideas there before deciding on her inspiration. A laundry room with a chandelier... you know this is gonna be good! ;)

She set out to find the perfect shade of paint, found cabinets to replace some plain old shelves, put up new shelves, and found a chandelier. :) I love the result and knew I had to share it with you here!




Isn't it lovely?? :)
It just makes me smile.



In the photos below are a few details:

- the chandelier
- the new turquoise uh.. knob surround? haha what do you call that?
- the shelf with mother's day cards & special photos (that all happen to match the decor)
- the framed collection of carefully chosen photos of my mom's children & grandchildren (all dressed in the correct colour! ;)



They (my dad was a big helper in this project) even painted the central vac. holder!



Have you re-done any rooms in your house that just make you happy now?
Have you tried a project from Pinterest lately?
If you've blogged about it, please share in the comments!

Photoshop Fun

First order of business: If you've left me a message in the last 2 weeks, or are waiting to schedule a session, I will be in touch with you this week.

I've been away on vacation for 2 weeks and I know it's been pretty dead around this blog, so I thought it was about time I posted!

And no, I don't have any photos to share from our trip- they haven't even been loaded onto the computer yet!

But I do have something photo-related to share. This evening after I got the girls to bed, I decided to get on the computer and play around with some things in Photoshop, for fun (it's been a while!).

I pulled up a photo that I took in January of 2008 and re-did the processing.
Here's how I processed it then:



Tonight I did some sharpening, burning, cloning, channel mixing, and added a border. When I was finished, it looked like this:



It's always interesting to me, to pull out an old picture that I took, and then re-process it the way I would do it now. It's encouraging to see that I'm learning more about Photoshop over time!

I love computers, art, and photography, so processing images on the computer after shooting is one of my favourite parts of photography. I've shared a few before & afters on my facebook page and have received interested comments about them, so I thought I'd make this the first of more posts on the blog about Photoshop and sharing some before & afters.

Now, I'm just curious... to me, the above photo is about the two birds sitting together... did your eye go to them? Or was it just a picture of part of a tree, to you?