What to Wear | September

September 6, 2023 by GmasPhoto 4 Comments

What to Wear | September

Hi, we have some holidays soon approaching and this means family time! With family time there will be many photo opportunities. Remember, taking the shot is the first step in getting a good picture. And that is the most important step. However, you may be wondering how to make the picture a better picture. This is the inspiration for the What to Wear posts!

It is not necessary to purchase new clothing for better images. When planning the wardrobe, do wash and dry the clothing. Immediately after drying, hang the clothes on a hanger. Or iron, if you like. The main goal is wrinkle free clothing.

Shoes do not need to be new either. New shoe laces is an inexpensive purchase to spruce up the look. Polishing leather or washing canvas shoes is another solution to brighten their appearance.

Have the socks match either the pants or shoes. This is important for anyone who may be sitting or squatting in the group. Imagine if the pants are navy blue, shoes white and you see bright green socks. Very distracting. Your eyes will go straight to the green socks and not the person’s face! However, if the socks were either white (matching shoes) or navy blue (matching pants), your eyes will flow over the person and land on the face/eyes of the person in the picture.

What to Wear will feature different palettes providing ideas when you plan the wardrobe for individual pictures or your family images during the holiday gatherings.

What to Wear | September features ideas for all family members: mom; dad; big brother; big sister and little brother and little sister. Have fun preparing your stylish look for family pictures!

Take Care. Best wishes, Debra

Love is in the Air!

February 13, 2023 by GmasPhoto 2 Comments

Love is in the air!

Today’s inspiration began with lunch at Subway. One of my favorite places for a BLT wrap. Then off to the library to work on my blog!

Sitting here reflecting on the events of this weekend, not only am I a middle-aged person or senior as some may say, but I am actually doing some of the very things other folks my age does.

What did Kevin and I do Saturday evening you might ask. Well we went grocery shopping. We went to Price Chopper first. As we were strolling the isles, I passed several couples and individuals. A few moments later after going to a different isle, we passed by a couple we ran into several times throughput the store. I mentioned to them, ‘you know when you are old when, when you go shopping on a Saturday night.’ Most of my fellow shoppers were senior citizen’s.

We then went to Wal-Mart for the items not available at the grocery store. Again I made the same observation, most of the shoppers were middle-aged senior citizens. Two stores, same scenario!

Okay, you may wonder when I will get to the description of the post, love is in the air. Saturday evening there was love in the air. I felt it with my husband as I am sure the other couples felt it with their partners. Especially when my husband helped me carry the groceries into the house. Love is shown in the smallest gestures.

While eating my Subway BLT wrap, it occurred to me, tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. My mind drifted to my grand girls, wondering what they will be taking to school. Wondering if their Valentine’s Day was like I had in my school days. Thinking of all the Valentine cards I got and how I read and re-read them.

A bright idea came to me. I would make my own Valentine’s Day cards for my loved ones! This was a bunch of fun. My daughter had used Wal-Mart for Christmas cards and they turned out nice. I had to check out Wal-Mart Photos for Valentine’s. Knowing my daughter already planned for the grand girls school party, I wasn’t sure she knew how cute the Wal-Mart templates were. I created one for each granddaughter. Here they are.

Brie v day card — Brie’s Valentine’s Card

Bryn v day card — Bryn’s Valentine’s Card

These were fun to make. I also wanted to try and make my own without using the desktop computer and photoshop. The below 6X4 was designed on my iPhone using ProjectLife for the collage then imported into GoodNotes to add the ‘stickers’. If you would like more details on how I did this, leave a comment below!

The first three were printed on card stock paper. My 6X4 was printed as a matte picture. I was very pleased with the turnout. Of course I bought some chocolate candy and cute containers. Will add the candy and card to the containers, tie some cute ribbon and share with my family!

Wishing you a love, fun filled Valentine’s!

Best Wishes, Debra

Get Brain Farts?

January 23, 2023 by GmasPhoto 8 Comments

Hi, did I get your attention with brain farts? Hahahah, maybe I should have said senior moments!

This is what I will be writing about for this post, forgetting. Thru my life journey, I had the pleasure of experiencing cancer. I say pleasure because I was lucky in the respect of an extended lifetime and cancer brought about changes that I would not have taken if I never had cancer. This can be another post. I mentioned this because I did experience the chemo brain. I had a very difficult time with remembering appointments and simple stuff. Prior to chemo my short term memory was excellent and long term memory ok. But boy, I sure had issues once in remission. As time progressed (like a year after remission) I still experienced the chemo brain. My father who is 20 years my senior said to me, “it could simply be your age.” Either way I had to do what ever I could to remember.

At that time I used many different colored sticky notes. Today, my phone! No need to dig for paper and pencil. Just whip out that phone. See what I mean in this illustration.

Brain farts

When I need to remember something I take the shot. Then I can look at the picture later to recall the desired information I wanted to remember. Or when the print is too small, take a picture of the print and enlarge the picture. This has been a handy one for me! Once I have taken action of the saved info, I delete the image. Here’s another example.

Brain fart

There are many different ways to help with recalling information on the fly. My daughter uses her refrigerator as a white board. She will have a few different to do list written on the front doors of the refrig. Well we have a few different things on our frig. The most common is business cards. There was an exception.

Brain fart list

I’ll keep this picture. My grand-daughter wrote this and now I can keep it forever. Don’t have to worry about loosing it or taking up lots of space. I have added it to my favorites folder!

Cell phones were not common when my kids were younger. Definitely the cell phone we did have back then did not have the camera capability like today. But I could have taken a picture with my 35mm camera, but did not.

Whether you call forgetting things brain farts or senior moments, remember you can take a picture of something that you want to remember. Think smarter, not harder!

Best Wishes, Debra

What to Wear | September

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