At home

Has your house every spoken to you?

Mine does. Really.

They are very loud...these walls.

They say things like, "Can't ya decorate us already? I mean, come on, we've been sitting here a few years now!" (They speak in a New York accent, too.)

The one that yelled the loudest, or at least got my attention as of late is a main wall in the living room. It was big and blank. And not only did this wall yell at me..it kinda stared at me as I would walk by.

Not good.

So, I finally mustered up some mental energy....I tell you when you have 2 teens in the house....plus little ones...and your pregnant!....mental energy is hard to come by! I needed to think of an inexpensive way to decorate said wall. Okay then. I decided to wrangle some of the kids and see if they would pause for a photo. I told them to choose something nice to wear, but I didn't care about the color. I had the idea in mind that using greytone or a version of black and white would keep me from coordinating their colors in clothing, and would make the photographs come together nicely when hung on a wall near each other.

This was ALOT easier than getting the kids in fancy clothes, driving to a photo place, waiting in line, and of course the payout usually isn't too cheap either. Of course, I've gone that route, but I choose to now stay away. Plus, the mall is a 45 minute drive from my house......that is, when it's sunny, we somehow miss all the red lights, we don't get behind any TRACTORS, and noone has to stop for a potty break.

I bought the Kodak printer paper at Wal-mart, and I bought the frames there as well. It was a quick and easy project. I did take maybe 8 photos of each child, maybe more, hoping at least to have a few good photos to choose from. The point was not to have a perfect picture, but to somehow get a glimpse of them through this photograph. If I was going for "that perfect shot", I am sure I would never have been satisfied and I would have had some very cranky children as well!

Right now I do not have this photo in the frame, as you might notice in the last photo. I decided to switch for this one instead, which has more of a crisp outline in the black and white, which is similar to the others.

{And, I tell ya, she looks almost a little too angelic in this photo......she's got horns holdin' up her halo, if ya know what I mean! However, I must recall my post as of late, and remember the positive...yes, remember the positive side of two!}

I scanned this wedding photo and enlarged it to the same size as the other photos, and changed it from it's original colors to greytone as well.