I’m sure you’ve seen this picture of my bulldog when she was a sweet little puppy. Well, she’s still a sweet but not so little. In fact she’s grown into quite the fat piggy, complete with snorting!
Iheartfaces is have a pets photo challenge this week and I knew right away this is what I wanted to enter! Wish me luck!
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It’s our first ever giveaway on our blog! We’re so excited and we hope you are too!
We’ve been working hard behind the scenes coming up with new designs and updating some of the older patterns. We need a break and are ready to have some fun! 
We are giving away three sewing patterns of the winner’s choice. If you are not a sewer and just love beautiful things then you can win the Sweetheart Headband, modeled above. There is no purchase necessary to win.
Here’s how to enter the giveaway…
- Like us on Facebook and post this on your facebook status… Romeo and Mae is having a fabulous giveaway! http://www.romeoandmaeblog.com
-Follow us on twitter and tweet this… Romeo and Mae is having a fabulous giveaway! http://www.romeoandmaeblog.com
-Belong to a forum? Tell them about the giveaway and past the link to your post.
-Blog about the contest…feel free to use the image above and link back to the blog.
After you’ve spread the word come back here to the blog and leave a comment for each one you did with the link. You can enter four times, leave one comment for each thing you do. Make sure you leave your first and last name with the comment!
Contest ends July 3rd at 12:00 a.m. central time. The winner will be announced on July 5th.
Isn’t she a beauty? The headband I mean…ok, the girl is pretty cute too! That’s my niece, Dominique, modeling my new headband design. I love how it turned out. I’m totally feeling feathers and vintage designs lately. I’ve also added another feathery headband tutorial to the shop, Greta. She’s pretty glamorous too!
I sincerely hope that all of you beautiful, amazing, talented women had the mothers day that you deserve! I personally think we should get a week long celebration.
This is our first pic I’ve taken of my family all together. It was a lot of work but I love how it turned out. I actually planned on putting it on our xmas card but I changed my mind when I was designing it. I can’t wait to do another one this summer. Hopefully my skills will have improved by then.
I know I totally don’t blog as much as I should. But I just can’t do posts without pictures, can’t do it! And I’ve been so crazy busy that I can’t find the time to take pictures. I got my new 7d back on the 18th and just today had I really gotten a chance to read most of it. I’m not feeling as scared of it now. I think we will become really close!
What’s up with the green face you ask? Just another picture I found when I was going through my 2009 folder. I just love everything about this shot, the curl hanging down in front of his eye, the way he has his chubby little lips, the frosting from the nose to the chin…that is totally Julz! He’s a mess and that’s just how I like him.
Please someone give me some inspiration for a new pattern! It’s not that I don’t have design ideas I just don’t have the motivation. I’m sure it’s partly due to the fact that I’ve been feeling completely overwhelmed with work and home duties. It just feels almost impossible to get it all done in a day and stay sane. Oh and also add in there that I started doing P90X this week! It’s a killer workout and leaves me craving a nap. But I’ve got to stick with it, I need to do this for myself. You should try it too!
I missed Niko’s hair this long! He begged me at the end of last summer to cut it off. I was pretty much in tears. I got so excited a few weeks ago when he told me he didn’t want it cut short again cause he likes it long…good, me too! It’s starting to look like this again. I love when it falls a little in his face and brushes it over with his hand. His big brown eyes just pop out at you!
Oh and sorry if I bore you, constantly talking about my kids. What would you want me to talk about, work? There is absolutely no entertainment in that subject! It’s so unentertaining that I’ve barely felt motivated about it lately. I bought a new serger over a month and a half ago and haven’t used it yet. I can’t remember when I last designed a sewing pattern. I got my new Canon 7d almost 2 weeks ago and finally used it last night for the first time! I swear I’m scared of that camera. There is just so much more too it than my little old Rebel. It will just take some time to get used to I guess. Hopefully once it warms up and the kids aren’t trapped inside (making me crazy) I’m sure it will get better. I’ll be sewing away and snapping pics like a pro…ok, maybe not quite like a pro. But hey practice makes perfect right?!
Oh my gosh, do you ever feel like you’ve totally caught up? I swear I don’t know what that feels like! Maybe that means I take on too much…which wouldn’t be too hard to believe. But really, how do I narrow it down? There’s stuff I need to do and stuff I want to do. I need to clean the house, give the kids a bath, answer customer questions, send out orders, take a nap (definitely a need at this point), etc. I want to play with my new camera 
, design a new pattern, take me boys out so they can drive their powerwheels, take a break from work totally for one whole day. How do you do it? How do you run a business alone and take care of your family? It’s hard wearing all of the hats in a business. But I also have to admit it’s exciting and fulling knowing that this is all me. I did this, ME! Ok, so since I’ve worked so hard I’m going to give myself a pat on the back and a vacation day…here’s one for you too!
Oh, and who is that little cutie above? That is Daniel, one of my oldest friend’s little boys. I secretly took pics of him while she was away. She hadn’t had any profession photos done of him so I thought that she would totally appreciate it. Finally two weeks after I had taken them I was able to drop them off at her door step. Man, I wish I could have seen her face when she opened them! Made me smile though to know that something so simple could mean so much to someone.
Yay! This is the first RAW image I ever processed. I’ve took plenty of RAW pics but couldn’t figure out how it the heck to get them to open on my computer. Yeah, I’m a dork! Anyway, I’m excited and hope to start shooting in RAW full time. I know, I’d better invest in some large memory cards.
Oh and thanks Amanda for reminding me to update my blog…could you do that a few times a week please?!
You have no idea how excited I was to see that my pic of little Lola Mae made it on to the Pioneer Woman’s blog for her photo contest! I was laying in bed with my hubby and decided to check her site one last time from my phone. I seen that she had posted some of her picks. Decided not to get too excited as I kept scrolling down. Eleven pics from the was Lola! Of course I’d totally love to win but I really am just super happy to even make it this far. Photography has been an accidental love for me. I didn’t realize until I had joined Clickin Moms that there was such a technical side to taking pictures. I’ve totally fallen head over heals and totally enjoy learning more and more about photography.
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