I cant tell you how many times I have heard the words " You are such a Martha Stewart" (haha) I just love crafting, diy, painting, sewing, and home decorating. It gives me great satisfaction to look around my house and say " I MADE THAT!"

Friday, October 7, 2011

Creating a Family Look

From Fall Family Pics

 Well I am back with some awesome pictures to share! The fence was a success!!! Amy our photographer LOVED it so much she wants to buy it! ha ha ;) The hardest part was pulling together a family look that didn't look too matchy matchy. I first found material that had all the colors from our living room in it (because that is where the pictures will be hung). I made Abby a skirt from it, and made a cute flower pin for her little brown sweater. If you would like I could do a tutorial on that, just let me know ;) Next I found Greg and Cole's shirts from Target, and I already had the brown jacket from Cato's... It was finally coming together. I hung all the outfits on the fence, just to see if it was going to pull out the blues and reds. It looked great so we were good to go!

   I thinking having a GREAT photographer is definitely the KEY to amazing pictures! Amy from Murphy's Memories Photography was awesome with our kids!

From Fall Family Pics

  When I wanted to cry and pull my hair out because they were not cooperating, she was calm, cool, and collected. (Just what they needed) Because of that she was able to get 62 amazing proofs! I couldn't believe she got that many from what to me seemed like utter chaos. ha ha

 Ok lets look at some pics!

From Fall Family Pics

I think the red ric rac I put at the bottom hem was the perfect touch! Don't you just LOVE the adorable Flower pin I made out of scraps!!!

From Fall Family Pics
Abby and Mommy

From Fall Family Pics
Look at my FENCE, I just LOVE how it turned out!!! My kids are pretty cute too! ;)

From Fall Family Pics
Cole and Abby

From Fall Family Pics
My sweet little girl :)

From Fall Family Pics
My handsome little man

From Fall Family Pics

Hey everyone is looking and smiling!!! I am so happy I got this shot!

From Fall Family Pics
She took a bunch of them hugging and playing together. I love love LOVE it!

From Fall Family Pics

So what do you think, will you be painting a fence panel for your next family session? ;)

From Fall Family Pics

We were just happy it was over :P

   I cant wait to plan out my collage wall!!! I am pulling inspiration from Shelley over at House of Smiths (she is amazing and I got so many ideas from her family photo tips)  I will post updates when I get it started!


Thanks for stopping by,

Jeni Ream

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

On the Fence

  It is that time of year already? Fall Family Pictures :D  Well we have been super busy here getting things together for our family photo shoot. I am so excited, we are going to do it House of Smiths style! I just needed to find the perfect background. Sadly we don't have any cool painted brick like in their family photos, but I figured out a way to get that same POP in our photos.

Introducing the Becoming Martha style... (ha ha)

From September 26, 2011
  I got this 6ft x 8ft fence panel at Lowe's for $20 and finished all the coats of paint this afternoon. I am really loving all the colors. I wanted it to look like it was 100 years old, and the paint was fading and weathered. Here is some pictures I took of the kids just to see if the colors on the fence were going to be noticable.

From September 26, 2011

From September 26, 2011

From September 26, 2011

   Our photographer is coming over Thursday afternoon for our family photo shoot!!! I will be back with tons of pictures and tell you all about it! Hope you guys are having an amazing week!


Thanks for stopping by,

Jeni