Inspired by Family

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3 Way Cake Stand

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I just wanted to give Sarah from Winthrop Chronicles a warm welcome to the Inspired by Family team! We are so glad to have her on board. You will enjoy all of your creative ideas! Cake stands can sometimes be expensive and you may not use them very often, but when you spend hours baking in the kitchen, it sure is nice to have something pretty to display all that hard work on. So I love making my own cake stands from thrift store finds because then it only ends up costing a couple of dollars. … [Read more...]

Tip #2- Life Lessons from Photography School

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#2 Life Lessons from Photography School Contributing Photographer: Carla Ackermann Summer is filled with opportunities to take a lot of great pictures - pictures that will capture memories which we will treasure for a long, long time. We welcome the sunny days that bring out the bathing suits and flip flops! When trying to produce portraits, however, these same sunny days can produce a lot of shadows.  It's not a problem with the pictures we take of our kids running through the sprinklers, … [Read more...]

Summer Reading Adventure: Week 3 Skippinjon Jones

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I am truly enjoying this fun Summer Reading Adventure! I am so glad Trish c0-hosted with me. Well, last week Trish from Mom on Time Out shared with us her fabulous reading adventure from the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. Today, we have Dusty Shell from Reach to the Moon and Back sharing her adventure with us! I am super excited to be participating in this summer reading adventure! We are avid readers here and we have shelf upon shelf of picture books---classics, series, humor, … [Read more...]

Summer Reading Adventure- Week 2- The Rainbow Fish

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Writer: Trish from Mom on Timeout ~For some more simple & summer fun ideas go here!~ We're back with Week 2 of the Summer Reading Adventure!  Last week Mari, from Inspired By Family Magazine, amazed us all with her fabulous crafts, activities and recipes for Tickle Monster by Josie Bissett.  This week I will be sharing activities and crafts that you can use to bring The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister, to life for your kids.   The Rainbow Fish is a book that we have enjoyed in our house for … [Read more...]

A Few Changes Can Lead to Great Photos: Tip 1

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Life Lesson from Photography School Contributing Photographer: Carla Ackermann So glad you can join me as we explore some basic photography concepts in this series "Life Lessons from Photography School." This wonʼt be a time where we learn a whole lot of technical stuff; there are hundreds of websites to do that! We are simply going to explore a few little changes that can be made to improve your photos. More importantly, we will see how these same concepts can help you improve your life. That … [Read more...]