10 of the most awesome ideas for creative holiday photo cards
I am always amazed by some of the creative holiday photo cards that come my way in the mail each year. I have some creative friends and family, I guess! I love them all of course, but there are always a few shots that take my breath away, make me laugh out loud, or...
Tinybeans app: A smart, simple, free baby book app to keep you from annoying everyone on Facebook
If you have a baby, you’ve probably said it’s all going by so fast 20 times just this week alone–and then felt guilty at least four times for forgetting to record all those sweet moments in a baby book somewhere. We get it! We look for the best apps...
Flic app makes iPhone camera roll management super easy. You only have to lift a finger.
We’re always on the lookout for new, fun ways to help you finally do something productive with all those photos you have pilling up on your iPhone. You can print your photos. Make them into darling photo books, Turn them into magnetic photo artwork. Well,...
7 helpful tips for taking Halloween photos of your kids. Your Instagram friends await!
In addition to fun-sized everything, one of the best parts of Halloween is seeing all of the adorable (adoraboo?) photos of people’s kids in costume. Some of you are so clever with these costume ideas you dream up for your kids! We wanted to help you show off...
Need Instagram photo gift ideas? The Novogratz can help.
The Novogratz family is back, and since I’m a fan of their accessible but eclectic decorating style, I like that they’re continuing their quest for colorful world design domination with a new line of modern custom photo gifts that should be a big hit this...
7 creative video ideas to help preserve family memories in cool ways
It’s hard to believe that when our first children were born, capturing them on video meant getting out a clunky camera, hoping the batteries were good and that the card still had some memory left, then finding the right cords to connect it to a computer so we...
Boomf Marshmallows make your Instagram photos delicious
Is there anything more royally British than marshmallows? Yeah…no. Those two things have never existed in the same sentence together that I know of. Until now. Enter Boomf Magic Mallows. The delicious start-up out of the UK that allows you to print your...
Timeshel helps you get all those iPhone photos printed (finally!)
One day I’m going get all of these special iPhone photos printed. How many times have you said that after scrolling through a month’s worth of pics, hunting for the cute one with your kid doing that thing? Yeah, same here. That’s why I’m always...
Polaroid Cube camera: Cute enough to eat up. But don’t. Because it’s a camera.
Can it get any cuter than this? That’s the first thing that I said to myself when I saw The Polaroid Cube camera. I mean, look at it: This new little number is teeny — less than 2 inches — but can shoot quality 6 megapixels photos and 1080 HD video....Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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