If you're currently parenting one or more children who are afflicted with summer boredom —or if you know someone who is —we'd like to introduce you to Tami Morrison's proven summer solution.
Since 2009, Tami has delighted more than 1,245 children and families worldwide in her wonder-inducing workshop series, Kidding Around: A summer memory-keeping adventure for kids.
This summer, for the first time ever, Kidding Around is available for up to 8 straight weeks! Choose for yourself:
This month I invite you to watch this TED talk: 5 Ways to Listen Better, by Julian Treasure.
In fact, I think you should watch this video twice. Once to get the gist and the second time to decide how you will apply Julian’s expertise.
Silence
Mixer
Savor
Position
RASA
Step off the beaten path on your journey to inspired scrapbooking this month and think about how could you employ one of Julian’s tactics listed above. Only by asking and then truly listening will we be able to hear the stories we most want to tell.
As I have been viewing the loss and destruction caused by tornados in the mid-west, especially Oklahoma, I have been reminded of what I value most. As scrapbookers we speak the same language and we support and encourage one another to document our stories. The layout that moved me and made me want to stop and make a layout, is the one below made by Karen Grunberg. It was orginally created as part of our 2013 Creative Crop and her challenge was to use your own handwriting, I was drawn to the title, the story of the page, Savor the Gifts of the Present Moment.
My challenge to you is to TAKE A MINUTE out of your day and make a page like this!!! regardless of your to-do list, the places you have to go, the messes that need to be cleaned up, just do it!
I am going to do it (after I get my BPC work done for the day) before I make dinner, take Caden to soccer, finish the laundry, and on and on. Join me! Make your own page and upload it to the student sharing gallery and help motivate others to make this page as well.
Thanks Karen for making this page and sharing it with all of us
Hope you getting to the know the six talented photographers who are participing in our NEW Finding Your Photo Style workshop that starts on Thursday, May 23. (if you missed it see the archived links below) Today I get to share a sneak peek of the classroom.
Each time you login to the class you see the welcome page where the teachers communicate their plans for class that week.
The assignments, videos, and handouts in the class are robust and timeless. See part of Maggie Holmes content below.
Elizabeth Dillow is a professional photographer, author, scrapbooker, and blogger who lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming with her husband, three daughters, and seven-year-old Australian Kelpie rescue dog. She’s had a camera in her hand since 1974—there is proof, even though it was upside down—and can’t remember a time where she wasn’t documenting family, friends, and daily life. She takes a camera with her everywhere—right side up these days, fortunately—secretly believing it to be just as important as any attached appendage. She is a frequent instructor at Big Picture Classes, the author of the print book The Scrapbooker’s Almanac and most recently, the eBook Meaningful Minis: How to make little scrapbook albums with lots of heart.
What do you believe with all of your heart?
People matter.
What do you teach, write, blog, and talk incessantly about?
How important it is to photograph and document your regular, ordinary life for your family and for future generations… and about stuff Apple makes.
When did you get your start?
With a camera: 1974; with “scrapbooking” ephemera:1978; with an SLR: 1990; with modern scrapbooking: 2003; with a DSLR: 2004; with a blog: 2005; with Big Picture Classes: 2006
GIVEAWAY
We are giving away six spots in Finding Your Photo Style, you can enter each day using the form below.
Giveaway closes Sunday 5/19 at midnight PT winners announced Monday 5/20
**if you win a spot and have already purchased the class you will be reimbursed**
Tracey Clark is a photographer, writer, mother, collaborator, and founder of Shutter Sisters. She is the author of four books including her most recent,Elevate the Everyday: A Photographic Guide to Picturing Motherhood. Tracey writes for Babble Voices, teaches at Big Picture Classes, advocates for Shot@Life and is raising both a teen and a tween which makes for a pretty awesome balance of everything she’s passionate about. She lives in sunny So Cal with her family and their two adorable dogs.
Who are you?
Light stalker and seeker of beauty in even the most ordinary things.
Who has inspired you, personally or professionally, to be who you are?
Almost everyone I have surrounded myself with in my life has helped me become and be my truest self.
What do you believe with all of your heart? That perspective—and love—changes everything.
GIVEAWAY
We are giving away six spots in Finding Your Photo Style, you can enter each day using the form below.
Giveaway closes Sunday 5/19 at midnight PT winners announced Monday 5/20
**if you win a spot and have already purchased the class you will be reimbursed**
Rebecca Cooper is a 32-year-old wife and mother of four. As a professional photographer, she’s captured thousands of beautiful portraits, but she finds the most joy and fulfillment in snapping everyday photos of her own family and documenting her ordinary life. She believes that pausing to take these shots increases her appreciation for the details of her life, making them seem almost magical. Rebecca is also a three-time eBook author, the author of the print book Real.Simple.Scrapbooking. and a popular blogger, Simple as That.
Where is your favorite place on earth?
Outside in the sunshine.
Where do you go to be inspired?
Sometimes my quiet cozy bedroom. Sometimes Pinterest
. Why are you here at BPC?
To share my love for photography + hopefully inspire you to find new ways to photograph the everyday.
GIVEAWAY
We are giving away six spots in Finding Your Photo Style, you can enter each day using the form below.
Monday 5/20
Giveaway closes Sunday 5/19 at midnight PT winners announced
**if you win a spot and have already purchased the class you will be reimbursed**
IF THE GIVEAWAY FORM DOES NOT LOAD LEAVE A COMMENT TO ENTER GIVEAWAY
Kate lives and shoots outside Atlanta, Georgia. Her two daughters and everyday life with her family are her inspiration and favorite things to shoot (even though they hate it.) Currently working with families, weddings, fine art and commercial work, Kate tries to find a way to impart her aesthetic and sense of beauty across them all. Her photographic goal is capture a sense of honesty and truth in her subjects while not taking life too seriously and making sure there’s enough time to get a run in.
Where is your favorite place on earth?
Grayton Beach, FL surrounded by the white sand, green water, my husband and two girls, sunscreen on my back, sand in my toes and salt water in my hair.
What do you believe with all of your heart?
Trust your gut. Follow it, believe it. It doesn’t lie. Hard work is rewarded. Everything feels better after a run. Poop jokes are always funny.
Where do you go to be inspired?
Anywhere new. New places, new light, new people, new activities are always inspirational.
GIVEAWAY
We are giving away six spots in Finding Your Photo Style, you can enter each day using the form below.
Giveaway closes Sunday 5/19 at midnight PT winners announced Monday 5/20
**if you win a spot and have already purchased the class you will be reimbursed**
A scrapbooker since high school, Maggie is passionate about scrapbooking and loves the fact that she can record all of her special family memories and create art at the same time! She currently designs for Studio Calico and is also on the Creating Keepsakes Dream Team. Her inspiring layouts and ideas can be found on her website at MaggieHolmes.com. She lives in Arizona where she is a professional photographer and mother of five amazing children. She feels blessed to share her talent with others and capture meaningful photos for her clients. She also teaches others how to capture amazing images themselves through her online photography workshops. Maggie loves to read, organize, and decorate her home. Always juggling many projects at once, when Maggie gets a quiet moment, it’s usually spent dreaming up the next project (while snuggling with her babies, of course).
Where is your favorite place on earth?
Our home
Where do you go to be inspired?
Clothing and home catalogs/stores—J.Crew, Anthropologie, Land of Nod, West Elm.
Why do you love your life?
Because I get to do what I love every single day, all while being at home with my family. I truly feel blessed that it all meshes together so I can be a mom and be creative all at the same time.
GIVEAWAY
We are giving away six spots in Finding Your Photo Style, you can enter each day using the form below.
Giveaway closes Sunday 5/19 at midnight PT winners announced Monday 5/20
**if you win a spot and have already purchased the class you will be reimbursed**
IF THE GIVEAWAY FORM DOES NOT LOAD LEAVE A COMMENT TO ENTER GIVEAWAY
Andrea Corrona Jenkins is one part photographer, one part writer, one part teacher, one part (modern) dancer and one hundred parts mama. She lives with her spectacularly bearded husband and two children in Portland, Oregon in a small cottage filled with too many collections and probably too many legos.
Where is your favorite place on earth?
Italy, where the alleyways are filled with hanging laundry and the color there is so good you can almost taste it.
Where do you go to be inspired?
Downtown. I walk the streets, take time to notice color, light, patterns, people. Works every time.
When did you get your start?
I took my first photography class when I was in high school but was immersed in the study of dance at the time and couldn't think of anything else. So I devoted my twenties to the study of modern dance but my thirties have been all about photography. I was 29 when I finally found my way back to my camera. After my first child was born, I found that photography was something I could do with a baby attached at my hip. I began to shoot everyday and then I began to share work on my blog (and elsewhere online). Really, it grew out of that place.
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