10 on Tuesday

Lyndsay Stradtner2011-11-29T10:38:27-06:00November 29th, 2011|Craft Projects, Elf on a Shelf, Funny Places Taryn Sleeps, My Family, Our House|

1. Our Thanksgiving was awesome. I hope yours was too. If you want details about ours, you can find them over on Finding Our New Normal, complete with menu and photos. I get a lot of questions about how we eat so I thought a pretty detailed post would be fun. I will say all those carbs had me running for salad and extra fermented food for several days. But maaaaan, it was good.

2. Speaking of good great food, I got an email yesterday from the Executive Director of the Non-GMO Project. Shortly after that, this happened. Way cool right?! That photo was taken at the Real Food Rally in Austin in October. You can […]

easy & cheap photo display

Lyndsay Stradtner2011-10-31T21:21:21-05:00October 31st, 2011|My Family, Our House|

We bought several large frames at an auction 3ish years ago and they have just been sitting in a closet every since. I spotted this idea on Pinterest and knew it was perfect for our unloved, massively large frames. This one is over our bed holds 5×7 photos from the Love Light Night Session we did with Michele almost 2 years ago. I’m so happy to have these up! There are photos of the kids all over the house, but these are just us and I now get to look at them every single day. We did another setup just like this one, except for vertical with 4×6 […]

The 10 Foot Photo Frame

Lyndsay Stradtner2011-06-08T18:20:01-05:00June 8th, 2011|My Family, Our House|

No exaggeration! Each image is 20×20 and the entire frame spans almost floor to ceiling. Yes, when I tell my clients it is better to *go big* I can put my money where my mouth is 😉

This project has been a few years in the making. We have this odd space in our foyer and it is the very first thing you see when you walk through our front door. We really struggled with what we wanted to put there. For a long time an art canvas hung there, it was art from Hawaii, where we got married. But it just didn’t fill the space right. I wanted something really *wow* […]

10 on Tuesday(ish)

Lyndsay Stradtner2011-03-23T20:07:08-05:00March 23rd, 2011|Craft Projects, My Family, Our House, Uncategorized|

Totally forgot to his publish on this yesterday. It might have something to do with 3 pending blog posts open on my screen right now…my next blog post will give you a good laugh at my expense!

1. I’ve been in a funk about sharing and documenting my life here. I’ve been posting here and here and I need to snap out of it already and get back to using this blog for the intended purpose and show it (and myself and my family) some love.

2. I joined the gym last week. I hurt. My knee that has been bothering me for months hurts. But it feels SO good to be back in the gym. I love it already. […]

diy christmas craft

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-12-21T18:02:57-06:00December 21st, 2010|Craft Projects, My Family, Our House|

It has been a very simple Christmas at our house. We’ve cut out a lot of the more toxic aspects (greenery, candles, lights, etc.) which leaves me to get creative when it comes to helping our house feel homey and warm for the holiday. Instead of greens this year we are utilizing other options and textures. I made this paper wreath out of coffee filters to replace our normal green one for inside the house. It took forever, 500 coffee filters and a whole lot of hot glue, but I LOVE it. After Christmas I’m going to add a pretty letter “T” and hang it over Taryn’s bed. You can’t tell […]

One Frame A Day

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-12-12T23:15:17-06:00December 12th, 2010|My Family, Our House, Uncategorized|

Erin Cobb made me do it. She drew me in with her shiny press printed book and talk of real moments and real memories and day to day photos with meaning and simplicity. I can’t resist any of those things. Especially since on the day she posted, I had been looking through my strikingly empty personal photo folders. It hit me. Hard. Yes, I have a good reason for not photographing my family all that much this year. Yes, we were busy, we were struggling, we had dark days. But you know what, there were shimmers of hope, even on the darkest day and I cannot convince myself that I couldn’t have found one single beautiful moment to […]