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Part 1 - Paying it Forward for Layla Grace Charity - #LaylaGrace
Posted by:
PillowThrowDecor
| Feb 24, 2010
 Layla Grace was a happy, healthy little girl ... always sweet as pie and a little cuddle monkey too. She was the inspiration for her mom, Shanna Marsh, who started a fun website called Baby Wears Prada. Shanna befriended and supported the handmade and the design communities through her site, blogging and promoting all things cute and cuddly for babies.
Ten months ago Shanna and Ryan Marsh were delivered shocking and devastating news. Layla Grace had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called Neuroblastoma ,... stage 4 with a very poor prognosis.
Shanna has shared her family’s journey in touching and inspirational posts at LaylaGrace.org .
The New Year brought the discovery of new aggressively growing tumors in spite of all the debilitating treatments. The doctors narrowed Layla's life expectancy to 2 months at best. Layla’s little body fights pain with diminished strength and waning energy, but her spirit is...
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Charitable Donations
| Tags: Layla Grace, children, kids, Family, charity, gift, kids, donate, donations, Neuroblastoma, giveaway, pillows, pillowthrowdecor
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Staging Your Photos - Mix It Up!
Posted by:
GalleriaLinda
| Feb 23, 2010
As I constantly try to upgrade my product photos, I am challenged as an amateur photographer! I have tried so many phases of backgrounds and staging for the jewelry product, it is not funny! With my point-and-shoot camera, I can only do so much, but believe that my photos have increased in value over the years. I have a Cannon A series camera that is the best value in the under $200 range. It has lots of manual settings that you can't get with other brands at that price. This little camera has helped to upgrade my photos a bit.
Lately, I have gravitated to plain white backgrounds for my primary photos. You can see this at the GalleriaLinda Jewelry iCraft.ca shop.
Recently though, I started thinking of creative staging of some jewelry items that found me rooting through cupboards and boxes of old treasures. I found my original doll furniture and thought - why not?!
Here are a couple of photos taken of jewelry on my doll furniture. I like the concept but am not quite...
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Art & Photography
| Tags: photography, online selling, shop photos, product photos
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