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Tiny Prints Holiday Photo Cards—Some of My Favorite Picks

November 19, 2012 by Laura Lohr Leave a Comment

Laugh Out Loud

It is the holiday season again already. It is difficult to believe we are already nearly done with 2012. One of my favorite things about the holidays is getting a family photo of the three of us and getting our holiday cards out. In years past, I have designed my own, but I have fallen in love with the designs that Tiny Prints offers, year after year. Of course, I am usually putting everything together at the last minute during the holiday season and I have only drooled over the beautiful cards.

For example, I love, love, love the tri-fold cards, like this one here:

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Or, this one here:

Happy Holidays

In years past, I have enjoyed including highlights of the year in a newsletter. This card would really meet my desire to share annual highlights:

Wishes You a Merry Christmas

I absolutely love these cards and I may just order them this year—with our own photo that we still haven’t taken yet!

Check out the beautiful selection of holiday cards Tiny Prints has available this year. You are sure to fall in love, like I did. The hardest part is going to be narrowing down my selection!

Disclaimer: I received Tiny Prints credit in exchange for this post. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. All opinions are my own and based on personal experience and genuine love for the brand.

You can connect with Tiny Prints using the following connections:

• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tinyprints
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/tinyprints
• Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tiny_prints/
• Instagram: Tiny Prints (We were just able to buy likes on Instagram for all of our posts)
• Google +: https://plus.google.com/+tinyprints/

Filed Under: Allison Weekly, Family, Friends, Holiday Cheer, Pictures, Reviews Tagged With: family, friends, Holiday Cards, Photo Cards, Photography, Photos, Reviews, Tiny Prints

BlogHer 2012—My Thoughts and Critiques

August 29, 2012 by Laura Lohr 3 Comments

We got back from our trip to BlogHer and our Tour d’East Coast two weeks ago now. It was an exciting adventure and like any fabulous vacation, I am glad to be home, sweet home, savoring the memories. The BlogHer conference was a letdown this year; I am very disappointed to say. It was disorganized. It was chaotic. It was crowded. It was stressful.

The Bad:

1. They had over 5,000 attendees and that was way too many! The New York City Hilton was completely unprepared and unable to accommodate this many people. I was at BlogHer two years ago, with 2,000 less attendees and the cracks were beginning to show back then. Thankfully, we did not stay at the Hilton. I understand there was a 15 minute wait (and more) for the elevators during peak times. Yikes!

2. There was a stampede of pushing and shoving at the Martha Stewart lunch the first day. People were stuck on the escalators and could not get off. There were so many people on the upper level, where the food was served. It did not feel safe at all. I nearly had an anxiety attack and I was not the only one. I did not talk to anyone that had a different experience that day.

Here is the only surviving photo of the Martha Stewart luncheon. Somehow, I managed to delete every single, last photo from my DSLR camera before it backed up to the Cloud or my computer. EVERY ONE!

But, THANKFULLY, my friend Danielle of SimmWorks Family Blog saved the day and sent me some of her. I am totally appreciative! Thank you! Thank you!

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Here is Martha tweeting about us. 🙂

3. At the Katie Couric luncheon the following day, I was looking for a place to sit, but every single table I went to sit down at, one person was “reserving” the nine other chairs at the table. I finally sat down and held my ground at an EMPTY chair. I was tired of caring if people had saved seats for people that had not bothered to plan ahead to get a seat before I got there. I think saving a seat for one or two people is fine. More than two people? That really is unfair. This particular person I have been following on Twitter for some time now and she is a lovely, genuine, sweet person. I think the crowds brought out the worst in a lot of people. It was tense. Once her friends arrived, however, I felt like we left on good terms. (By the way, I still think this person is a very lovely person!)

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I am maybe ten feet away from Katie Couric. I thought she was great! She has some serious arm muscles too! Man!

4. The expo was so disjointed. Rooms with brands here. Rooms with brands there. It was completely different from last year. It was difficult to locate the brands I wanted to connect with. There was not a flow. Also, from what I understand, there was some bad behavior from other bloggers that completely had some brands totally turned off. I found that some of the brands were a little more willing to give away swag than to discuss relationships. Last year seemed a lot easier to make connections.

The Good:

1. I got to hang out with some of my very favorite people and meet some new friends along the way! It was wonderful to spend time with some of my friends I had met years ago and we get to see each other once a year at the conference.

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2. I went to a lot of really fun parties with a lot of fabulous people. It was so much fun! I have to blog about the Harley Davidson party, the Land’s End party, the California Dreaming party and The Odd Life of Timothy Green premiere that Allie and Mr. Bear went to. There were so many incredible experiences, they all deserve their own post!

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3. New York City was fantastic, as always! The city was bustling and full of energy all day and night. It was awesome to go to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, just the three of us. Mr. Bear and Allie spent the two days I was at the conference roaming around the city. They went to a tour of the NBC studio, to the Empire State Building, to the Natural History Museum and wandered aimlessly through Central Park. Allie had a blast playing on the playground, while Mr. Bear had a leisure chat with the other dads with their kiddos. The last day in New York, we took in a Broadway show together. I have always wanted to do this! Mary Poppins was a great show. I have so many posts to write! We had a blast.

4. This was the first time Allie was in New York City with us, outside the womb. (See my post about this!) It was exciting to be in Times Square with her. She was so in awe of everything going on around her.

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Allie and Crystal—This is the bear she convinced Mr. Bear she MUST have because all of her stuffed animals were at home. In her defense, Crystal went everywhere we did.

Filed Under: Allison Weekly, Blogging, BlogHer 2012 New York, Community, Events, Family, Friends, Pictures, Social Networking, Technical Difficulties, Vacation Tagged With: Allison, BlogHer 2012, Camera, DSLR, family, friends, Land's End, New York city, Odd Life of Timothy Green, Photos, Technical Difficulties, Vacation

It’s Tough to Live in Paradise

March 17, 2011 by Laura Lohr Leave a Comment

We spent another wonderful day exploring the Big Island. We drove from Kailua-Kona, where we are staying, all the way over to Hilo. Along the way, we stopped at the Kalopa Native Forest State Park, where we did a three-ish mile hike. It took us a couple hours and we were surrounded by many beautiful things. Then, we went to Akaka State Falls park and enjoyed the waterfalls. It exceeded my expectations. It was phenomenal! We ended our busy and fun day with dinner in Hilo with our gracious tour guides (my mom’s cousin and her family). It was an amazing, amazing day!

I am not sure what to post first! I was experimenting with different camera techniques and was pleased with the results. Here are some of my favorites:

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Akaka Falls

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Akaka Falls

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Along the trail to the waterfall.

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As we were leaving the Kalopa rainforest, the biggest and most beautiful rainbow I have ever seen was before us.

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This was some mushrooms on a log we saw while walking through the rain forest. It was stunning and other-worldly, all at the same time.

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I have never seen so many varieties of fern. B E A U T I F U L!

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These last two I did using a photographic technique I had read about. They remind me of Impressionist paintings and I am in love with them. I took almost 600 photos just today.

I love this vacation! We are having the best time!

Filed Under: Allison Weekly, Family, Pictures, Vacation

Soggy, Rainy, and TOTALLY Worth the Trouble

April 10, 2009 by Laura Lohr 5 Comments

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We went to the Wild Animal Park to see the Butterfly Jungle that is only on for three weeks, once a year.  When we arrived, we had clear, beautiful skies, with a bit of sunshine.  I layered Allie Kat and dressed myself in a short sleeve, summery blouse.  I brought a sweater in case it got cool.  We were there for less than an hour before the skies began pouring big, beautiful raindrops.  I left the umbrellas in the car.  DOH!

We stood in line for an hour and a half to get into the butterfly exhibit.  It sprinkled, it poured, and there was no protection from the raindrops, exclusive of the heavy tree cover of the park.  While Allie jumped in any forming puddle near us, we waited for our turn.

It was worth every moment.  I captured some stunning pictures of the butterflies!

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Can you see the butterfly?

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How about here?

Filed Under: Allison Weekly, Entertainment, Pictures

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