Tuesday Night we celebrated Wes’s birthday with our family. One of the gifts he received was a fancy new camera that he was kind enough to let me “play” with today. 🙂 I spent the morning reading up on the different settings & messing around and then I wanted something “official” to photograph. So I headed on over to Pinterest in search of a Valentine’s Day project and found this:

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Pretty Self explanatory. I thought it looked simple & cute so I dug out my paper cutter and some colored paper I’ve probably had since middle school and got to work.

Using the ruler on my cutter I cut one inch strips.

I then started piecing it together and was loving how it was coming along…

Until I lifted it up and saw how droopy it was lol. I looked back at the picture guide and realized they cut the strips a second time – whoops.

So I started over and cut and my strips in half this time.

And then apparently failed to get “after” pictures. I guess I was just to darn excited to put these bad boys up. I chose our living room window as the lucky recipient of my multicolored garland {and removed the snow plaque.}

I ended up using 8 pieces of paper total {two each for the end colors.} Not too shabby for a little holiday decor.

I switched the direction after the blue “set” so that both ends would have the hearts facing the correct direction.

Of course throughout my day I also got in several shots of the squishy one…

Playing with her birthday present from mom & dad

 

It’s definitely nice to be able to get some quality pictures now! {We pretty much have just been using our phones for everything lol.} Hopefully I learn some more about all those snazzy camera settings as well to make the most out of {our} new camera. 🙂