Photographer, Educator, Student, Mother & Wife Obsessed with sharing moments through pictures & words
I must admit that a year ago when we began the monthly trips to photobooth that I wasn’t so sure if I’d be able to keep up with the idea…I mean, I am just a little busy these days. Here we are a year later and this evening I proudly compiled the photobooth pictures so...
December 29, 2008 - 11:14 am - These are really cute, Amanda. What a great idea! You should make some sort of calendar project out of all of them :)
January 25, 2009 - 9:55 pm - I'm finally getting around to catching up on my Google Reader feeds... (yikes!) This was such a great idea and I'm so glad to see that you kept up with it all year! The end result really is priceless! You get to see how Jaylen's hair grew! haha
For the third year in a row, Hope and I created our family Christmas cards which are now in the mail. Hopefully by now most of you on our mailing list have received them but I wanted to take a moment to share the fun process we went through in the creation of this year’s...
December 24, 2008 - 7:15 pm - The cards are beautiful and so are your kids!! I always enjoy looking at Hope's artwork. Looks like she's getting better and better at it every year. Merry Christmas and blessings to your family!
December 24, 2008 - 11:00 pm - Oh what a fun learning process. I give you till the end of January where you master it. I love version 2 of the cards, the gloves. And that first b&w of the kids is awesome. I hope you and your family have a merry Christmas and hope to see you soon.
December 24, 2008 - 11:39 pm - I smell an ETSY shop. ;o) Lovely, lovely, lovely... The ONLY thing that could possibly make it any better is if I were actually on your recipient list. ha! Happy holidays to you all!
December 25, 2008 - 12:00 am - Thanks guys. Yes, Eddie this is far from my last attempt at screen printing! :o) And Phyllis...do I really need anything more to add to my to do list? I've been told by many that I could sell these...but ah, time...I'd much rather buy some of that. Do they sell that on etsy too? :o) And of course if I don't have your address...I'm taking orders for next year...email me your mailing address. :o)
December 26, 2008 - 11:08 am - Merry Christmas! Those cards look so good you should consider starting a line or maybe selling the idea to Hallmark®. And the Babies as beautiful as ever.
December 27, 2008 - 9:47 pm - Way to go! Im sure you all had fun making those :) Feliz Navidad y prospero Año Nuevo!!! HUGS
December 28, 2008 - 3:30 am - Hi.. Really cute cards by cute kids...
I can’t deny it any longer…my baby is one.
The time since Jaylen was born has passed entirely too fast. We continue to feel blessed with the fact that our little guy is doing quite well and has filled our family with more love than we imagined was possible. His birthday was a memorable milestone where...
October 13, 2008 - 2:17 am - awwwwwww! omg he is so cute! it is amazing how fast it happens!! I love the selection of pictures. awww! he is such a cutie.
October 13, 2008 - 7:08 am - Too sweet! Thanks for sharing him with us Kern Family! Happy Birthday Jaylen!
October 13, 2008 - 8:22 am - Happy First Jaylen!
October 13, 2008 - 8:25 am - he's having his cake and eating it, too! happy birthday, jaylen. :-)
October 13, 2008 - 8:40 am - Time flies! Such cute cute pictures! Happy Birthday, Jaylen!
October 13, 2008 - 9:09 am - YAY! That is awesome! Congratulations and Happy Birthday Jaylen!
October 13, 2008 - 12:36 pm - He is so cute!!! GIve him a big hug and kiss for me!! Happy Birthday Jaylen!!!
October 13, 2008 - 1:16 pm - Jaylen is just too cool. He doesn't let anything get him unraveled. Congrats.
October 13, 2008 - 2:39 pm - It's the big ONE! Where did this year go? Seems like I was just clicking on his delivery photos. ;o) LOVE Hopes typography on the balloon. Priceless!
October 13, 2008 - 2:41 pm - Happy Birthday Jaylen. I thought his birthday is October 14. Same as my mom!! I can't believe it's been a year!! He is getting so big.... YEah!!!
October 13, 2008 - 4:21 pm - Serious case of the cutes, your kids!
October 13, 2008 - 9:34 pm - What a beautiful web page. He is so cute and looks just like his daddy! Happy Birthday! Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
October 13, 2008 - 11:52 pm - wow.. 1 year already, time does fly. Happy happy bday Jaylen.. he is soo cute. :)
October 14, 2008 - 5:34 pm - Happy Birthday Jaylen! I wish I was there to be at your party. I love you. ~Aunt Terri
October 20, 2008 - 5:27 am - looks like he had a wonderful day! he's growing up so fast - he'll be two before you know it!
October 20, 2008 - 10:19 pm - Happy Birthday! I love the photo collage!
October 26, 2008 - 5:33 pm - hi, love your book! I'm wondering if you can help me; I made a book with blurb but didn't like the templates available in booksmart. If I create my own text and image layouts in photoshop, how do you import them into book form in booksmart? Thank you, Joe
November 2, 2008 - 11:27 am - I can't believe he is growing up so fast. As I had said a while back in a e-mail it just seemed like yesterday I was holding him as a newborn!. I sure wish I was healthier and in a better condition with the job situation etc that I could have been down there. I sure do miss them. I look at the pictures and hear their giggles and wish I was there. It makes me happy and sad. Hopefully things will turn around fast. Give them both hugs and kisses from me and Ashley and tell them that we love them and wish we could be there. Love you guys!
Lets be honest, with all that’s going on with the economy our schools could use as much help as possible. Though it may be tough for many to contribute financially to our local schools you all could be a small part of raising money for local schools. You may have noticed while doing your grocery...
Hope just finished up her second set of lessons at Crealde and I thought we’d finally share a few things on our blog. Thanks to Jason’s aunt Connie, Hope received a gift certificate to attend her first set of art lessons at Crealde. As most of you know, I really enjoy being able to involve...
September 28, 2008 - 2:17 pm - Wow.. her paintings are really good!!
It seems as though I blinked and the summer has passed us by. This past week Hope began the first grade. I must admit that the last few weeks she’s been anxiously awaiting school to start. So on the first day of school it was no surprise that she was excited. I found myself jotting...
It’s always exciting to get your hands on a new book, but when it’s one you’ve put energy into creating yourself it’s that much more thrilling. Hope and I have been waiting patiently for the last week and so we were quite excited to finally get our hands on the book I created capturing memories...
June 18, 2008 - 12:10 pm - Lovely! When can I drop off Savannah's for you to do? Oh, AND her baby book, AND our wedding album (23 years ago!) AND... I'm sure I'm going to h*ll. HA!
June 18, 2008 - 9:12 pm - What a great looking book Amanda. I also see that you ordered the large book. This is one of the Blurb features that I really liked. Thanks for sharing. Jeff
June 19, 2008 - 12:45 am - OMG!!!! it is awesome! she looks so proud of it too! this is such a good idea! I am impressed. I am off to flickr to look at all the pics. :)
June 19, 2008 - 12:00 pm - OMG Amanda!!! What a beautiful piece of work. Thank you for sharing:))
June 19, 2008 - 4:02 pm - That's wonderful your book! I tried to download the program from blurb, but it doesn't work! :(
June 21, 2008 - 9:54 pm - Gorgeous book. I wish I had one from my years in school! What program did you use to make the pages? Did you use templates or create them all yourself? Hope will certainly cherish your efforts for years to come.
June 21, 2008 - 10:45 pm - Thanks for all the great feedback! @Kiki - blurb offers programs for both mac and pc so as long as you have a current computer it should work - perhaps try contacting blurb directly if you are having problems. @Tera - I used blurb.com's software to produce the book - however, the first half of the book which was created like a scrapbook I just used photoshop to compose the layouts - they're not a template.
August 10, 2009 - 9:21 pm - Seriously, let me link you into my iphotos and let you have your liberties.
June 19, 2008 - 12:06 am [...] experiences with Blurb (you can read her comments here). Also, head on over to her blog (click here) to see some examples from a recent book she had printed. It really did look nice. Thanks for [...]
August 12, 2008 - 2:13 am [...] kindergarten class a few times. Along the way I took a few photos and put them all together into a book that helped really capture the life of kindergarteners. I’m amazed how kids have so much [...]
So we’re into the first week in June and I’m just wondering who could tell me where the time has gone? As Hope just finished Kindergarten this past week, I was reminded of Hope’s first day of school. I’ve been amazed with how much she has learned this year. She’s grown by leaps and bounds...
June 7, 2008 - 10:24 pm - Amanda, that is pretty darn amazing. Let me see, Savannah is 15 now and I've yet to even put her photos in an album- much less create one digitally. What a great remembrance of a special year for Hope! You're such a good Mommy! ;o)
June 8, 2008 - 3:54 am - Thanks Phyllis. Well, I hate to admit it but I haven't finished any photo album or scrapbooks for Hope either. I have had the guilt trip for not finishing her baby scrapbook for the longest time. I really enjoy scrapbooking but between the fact that it is time consuming, things easily fall out of the books, and that I couldn't easily duplicate the scrapbooks so Hope and I would each have our own copy I really never devoted as much time to doing them. In fact, I have a ton of scrapbook supplies sitting in my closet waiting to be used. But NOW that there are sites like blurb that allow you to self publish I'd so much rather create a book that becomes a keepsake and as you can see in the preview I am able to design it with photoshop in a way that it can be similar to a scrapbook. With this project I approached the first half of it like a scrapbook and the last half solely featured including the imagery so that it was more like a "photo album". And the best part of it all is that it's not any extra work for me to duplicate the book so I can order a copy for myself, Hope and then also share it with her classmates, her teacher, and our family & friends. And though I'd hate to admit how much time I spent working on it between planning the ideas for it, taking the photos, and then creating the layouts in photoshop - it was so worth every minute of it. I'm finding that with the more books I create, the faster I become at creating them and blurb makes it super easy to create the book. In fact, so easy that I'm planning on now creating separate books for Jaylen and Hope's first year and then a separate book for each year after. If you haven't tried creating a blurb book - I highly recommend it. I've been quite pleased with both how easy they are to create and the final end results of each one I've created.
June 8, 2008 - 8:50 pm - Hi Amanda and Phyllis, I've been at this a lot longer than either of you and regardless of whether you put pictures in a scrapbook or not if you are there for your kids - as both you two are - they will be just fine. Remember there was a time when no one had baby books and people survived. But isn't it great that we have all these pictures to totally embarrass them at their weddings, graduations or whatever! Been there done that!
June 9, 2008 - 10:57 am - awwww. that is so cute! She will treasure that forever. I was thinking about doing something like this for my daughter and her friends. they got to OCSA (Osceola County School for The Arts) and the yearbook there is almost $80.00 and my daughter refuse to get it because i guess the yearbook committee only featured themselves and their friends... it would be cool to let her take some photos with her and her friends and we could make her own little yearbook! This is a really cool idea. i love it. and you are a good mommy!!! :)
June 9, 2008 - 4:52 pm - Aw, it's so cute that Hope wants to be in school during the summer!
This past month I was humored to hear Jaylen’s crying compared to a velociraptor. He’s started to become much more vocal and and expressive, which includes his cries. So the next time you watch Jurassic Park you may just think you’re hearing my baby dinosaur crying. Here’s a little video I took of him yesterday...
I’ve been meaning to post some more videos from the last two months – so here they are! Enjoy!
Bugz – ladybug dance (Nov 15, 2007)
Hope was a little lady bug in her first school performance “Bugz”. Check out a few seconds of her performance.
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Bugz – Picnic Song (Nov 15, 2007)
It was adorable watching Hope amongst...
January 11, 2008 - 10:31 pm - i love the 2st one
January 11, 2008 - 10:32 pm - and the 4th one..
January 11, 2008 - 10:34 pm - hope is so cute i love her
January 12, 2008 - 1:18 pm - Sweet baby sounds- it doesn't get much better. ;o)
by Amanda Kern
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