Sunday Challengin'

Scavenger Hunt Sunday:

Black and White

  Reflections in Glass

Headlights

 
Seeing Double

Bare

Steppin Out Saturday:

My outfit: 

Little pearl earrings: Gift

Brooch: Thrift find

Dress: f21

Slip: Anthropologie

Shoes: Blowfish

This Saturday I stepped out to the bridal shower for my friend Nedra. I took some pretty sweet photos of these girls and their little hair facinators. I will share soon. :D Loved it. Ruari stayed home with daddy for the day. It was pretty nice to get out with baby at home... girl time. :) I hope you all had a lovely weekend too! <3

And, if you all get a moment.... 

I'd LOVE a vote! :D

♡ Chelsey

Wordless{ish} Wednesday: Helloooooo new tattoooo.

{linked to black and white wednesday}

{There she is. My sweet new tattoo. I've had the flowers on my shoulder for about three years now... and, have been scheming out my newest addition ever since then! I wanted it to sort of be a continuation of the shoulder tat. There's a honey bee by my wrist... she represents Ruari for me... AND, I also added two bees on the front and back of my shoulder... these represent Mike and I.}

{I had planned to add more branches/touch up my original tat, but because of the surprise Angus butt surgery costs... I thought it was best to scale it down. :) Maybe this fall I can add more? :) And, I wont be filling it in. It's done with grey ink and she just did some shading. Exactly how I wanted it. It will fade more and look as light as my shoulder in... I don't know... 3 years? :D}

{Let's talk about my amazing tattoo artists... Traci Manley from New Rose Tattoo in Portland, OR. She did the original... and then she did my addition. She's so talented. Please check out her website and visit her portfolio. She's awesome. AND... hey! If you're in Portland and need a tat... why not schedule one real quick at New Rose Tattoo? Great idea!}

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{And, if you all get a moment.... 

I'd LOVE a vote! :D}

{If you have a Wordless{ish} Wednesday, please feel free to link it up below. BY the way: Shawntae from A Little King and I now share our Wednesday Linky's. :D. And, feel free to link up to these blogs too... 5 Minutes For Mom, Parenting by Dummies, Project Alicia, Supermom, And Then She Snapped, and Live and Love Outloud.}

{Hey! Don't forget to check out my sponsor me button below! Yeah! Lots of great advertising deals!}

♡ Chelsey

What I've been up to...

Happy Tuesday everyone! I have been so crazy/awesome busy with my shops and I just wanted to share with all of you what I've been up to... LOTS of blog banners.... tattooing babies... paper crowns... there are so many. I wont share ALL of them... but... here are a few:

Blog banners:

This is the blog banner and button I created for the lovely Wendy over at Letters to Hannah. It's a combination of my drawings and some photoshop goodness. Please, give her cute little blog a visit! Hannah's adorable!

Courtney over had Daily PawPrints requested a banner with the skyline of her city in it. I added her dog, Mack, to watch over the city.

Fiona from Letters to Littles wanted to update her blog header because her Letters to Little blog would soon be turning into a Letters to LittleS blog! Give her a visit.

Tattooed Baby:

 I was lucky enough to tattoo little Piper (daughter to Amy) from Super-Piper-Callie-Docious. Say that 5 times fast! ;D Please, give her blog a visit! She's a very talented photographer. (And, yup... I put a ton of watermarks all over her. I don't want creepers to steal).

Paper Crown:

I made this crown for a fellow blogger to give to her friend... I don't want to say her name just in case... for whatever reason... the bride-to-be might read my blog. I have no idea if she does or not... but, better safe than sorry! :D There is a title that is on the crown... but, I didn't want to share that... just in case. :D

LOTS of drawing...

Ever since I drew these and made this banner for Mandy at Harper's Happenings:

I've had SO many requests for custom drawings. I have 3 custom drawing orders right now. I really need to say THANK YOU so much to Mandy! I hadn't drawn anything since I was pregnant. Then she saw a couple of my drawings in my Etsy shop and wanted me to draw her and Miss Harper. Thanks Mandy!

AND.... I'm slowly (but, surely) finishing up the next grouping of blogs into my Paper Mama Blog Directory... I've had a LOT of positive feed back since I launched it a couple of weeks ago. Tara from Our Journey has said that she's been found through my directory by people that are going through the same things that she has dealt with.

So... that's what I'm up to... along with blogging of course! One more thing... I'll be accepting new sponsors for the month of April soon! I'll do a real blog post for that later.. but, just a heads up if you're all interested!

Thanks again to everyone that is supporting my business! It's always nice to be able to contribute to the family and help pay the bills! And, I'm getting closer and closer to my savings goal to go to BlogHer '11. Yay!

❤ Chelsey
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Wordless{ish} Wednesday: My tattoo

{I thought I'd try and take some photos of my tattoo today. BUT, I didn't want to use a mirror for the photos... and, I still don't have a shutter release... so, this leaves me with holding up my camera and hoping I get the tattoo in the shot! :D}

{I ended up really liking how my little detailed tattoo shots turned out. I LOVE tattoos. I think most are very beautiful... except this one...

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...that's a pretty horrible tattoo! BUT, I mostly love all tattoos. I think they can be very beautiful. I would love to get more in the near future... but, I like to think of my future tattoo's for quite a while before I actually get them. :)}

{Have you taken any detailed shots of your tattoos?}

{A vote for our blog?}

{If you have a Wordless{ish} Wednesday, please feel free to link it up below. BY the way: Shawntae from A Little King and I now share our Wednesday Linky's. :D. And, feel free to link up to these blogs too... (Wordless Wednesday HQ, 5 Minutes For Mom, Parenting by Dummies, A Beautiful Mess, Go Graham Go, Supermom, Live and Love Outloud, and My Wee View.). Happy Wednesday to all of you! Don't forget to check the announcements above the posts. Giveaways and the photo challenges!}

❤ Chelsey


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