And, the winner of the "Blessings" photo challenge is...

This weeks guest judge: ME!
This weeks challenge: Blessings.
The challenge: The challenge will be based around your children. Take or find a photo of your baby (or kid... or puppy... or kitty) from your holiday meal or from Thanksgiving day. Or, if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, a photo of you and your loved ones together. A photo of your blessings.








My winners for this week:

• 1st: Why I chose this photo: "This blessing is so sweet. Such a beautiful photo!"

{These Days}

Congrats! Please feel free to grab a "fact: I'm awesome ... #1 winner" button below. Because: you ARE awesome! And, thank you SO much for participating!





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• 2nd: Why I chose this photo: "This moment is so sweet! I love the little kiss!"

{Being What I Want to Be}

• 3rd: Why I chose this photo: "Something about this photo is SO magical!"

{Tezzie}

• 4th: Why I chose this photo: "I love all the sparkle. The sweet little girl. Love it all."

{Window to My Soul}

• 5th: Why I chose this photo: "I love the focus on the Thanksgiving dinner with the little baby in the background."

{Capture the Moment}

Congrats to the top 5 winners! Great job, and please feel free to grab the top 5 button below! You're all awesome!




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My favorites (in no particular order):

{Live Every Mom}

{My Life, My World}

{Hi, Baby}

{L to the third}

{Buckeroomama}

{Bunch of Barrons}

If you're one of my favorites you are more than welcome to grab a "Paper mama hearts me" button below!

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Guess what.... after 4 challenges there will be a week long vote off of the winners from the 4 previous challenges... 0 more challenges to go...

Winners so far:
Cozy: ... Hi, Baby. ...
Eyes: ... Bunch of Barrons ...
Black and White: ... Window to my Soul ...
Blessings: ... These Days ...

Would ya could ya? Vote for me?

Paper Mama Photo Challenge:

This weeks guest judge: ME!
This weeks challenge: Blessings.
The challenge: The challenge will be based around your children. Take or find a photo of your baby (or kid... or puppy... or kitty) from your holiday meal or from Thanksgiving day. Or, if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, a photo of you and your loved ones together. A photo of your blessings.








My examples of "Blessings":

Ruari's first Thanksgiving! She had her first taste of turkey (in a jar)... at first she wasn't too sure about it... But, that quickly changed. She LOVED it.

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Here are a couple links to some free photo editing software if you don't already have something:
Picnik
Picasa
Gimp
Pixlr

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There always has to be rules... I know, boring right? But, it's to help me and you. :) Click on the link for more details... Each entry does need to link back to my blog... All photo entries need to be in by 11:59 PM Pacific Time on December 9th...
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Guess what.... after 4 challenges there will be a week long vote off of the winners from the 4 previous challenges... 1 more challenge to go...

Winners so far:
Cozy: ... Hi, Baby. ...
Eyes: ... Bunch of Barrons ...
Black and White: ... Window to my Soul ...
Blessings: ... no one yet ...




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And, if you all get a moment.... I'd LOVE a vote! :D

Would ya could ya? Vote for me?