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A Mother’s Gift

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Happy Mother’s Day Sisters!

In honor of the mother’s out there, the generous and ever-so-talented sisters at Blue Poppy Jewelry are offering one lucky shutter sister their thoughtfully created motherhood necklace especially for Mother’s Day. It’s our first ever giveaway here and we are delighted it’s come from Blue Poppy. You know we’re big fans. As a matter of fact…we’ve got a very exciting project in the works with them that will soon be revealed (here’s hoping your interest is now officially piqued) but for today, it’s about our little celebration of motherhood.

Because many of you are busy basking in the glow of handmade cards and clay handprints, today we’re making it easy on you. All you have to do to be included in the random drawing for the Blue Poppy Motherhood necklace is leave a comment here anytime between now and Monday at midnight EST and on Tuesday, we will reveal the lucky winner. If you’d like to share a link to a photo that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy in that mama way, you are most welcome but the only thing you have to do is leave a comment.

Speaking of warm and fuzzy…what about this gorgeous and poignant self-portrait a la Toyfoto? Her work makes me weepy. Weepy or hysterical with laughter. And as synchronicity has it (I swear it was a total coincidence), it’s her birthday today. Happy Birthday to you Siobhan! Is it me or is there something kinda magical about that?

Again, Happy Mother’s Day to you. May you enjoy every minute of your day. And don’t forget to hand over the camera (or at least use your self-timer). You can always use a photo of the day to enter the MamaFocus contest too. Just a thought.

edited to add- Congratulations to Anna of the blog Hank and Willie. She is the lucky winner of the Blue Poppy Motherhood necklace. Hooray for Anna! Thanks to all of you who commented. It was nice to get your Mother’s Day wishes. We hope yours was wonderful.

Comments

  4. I love all the photos. This one brings back memories. My ‘little girl’ (big grin) got married last Saturday. She isn’t the youngest, but the last to get married. This mothers day I will have one more added to my group. : )

  6. a beautiful photo! your very first giveaway!? i went to her site and the jewelery is gorgeous! thanks.

  11. I LOVE this necklace. I have been searching for a few years for a piece that is beautiful and grown up, but have been unsuccessful. Until now. Maybe just maybe…. 🙂

    I love coming to this site because I love photography. I love seeing the work and reading everything about them. In searching for perfect photos of my children to share, I decided to post videos my husband has made for me over the past 3 years. All about motherhood. I am so proud of him and grateful that he has the talent to do these little videos for me. This is our family’s scrap booking. And video is not as cool as still photography sometimes, but in this case its cooler. 🙂 (You can also see some of our entries with stills, just click on the logo in the top left corner.)

    Elliott: http://feb28.com/2006/ethan/the-elliott-movie/
    Neela: http://feb28.com/2006/ethan/the-neela-movie/
    Roland: http://feb28.com/2008/ethan/the-roland-movie/

  21. I’m thrilled with Mother’s Day. Celebrating my mother is just a great gift I can give to her. Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms out there!

  35. Happy Mother’s Day! I’m always the mama behind the camera…. perhaps I will be brave and hand it over today. L)

  38. My three boys are definitely my favorite subject. I love the ideas I get from Shutter Sisters for how to photograph them and the little details even better.

  43. Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful Moms out there! I look at my two beautiful babies and couldn’t feel more thankful to have such amazing munchkins in my life. How did I ever get so lucky????
    Here’s a photo I uploaded recently that was taken last year. I loved this moment with them…http://www.flickr.com/photos/barilynn/2475332082/
    Enjoy your day!

  71. I was vacuuming this morning and the vacuum handle fell on my thigh, leaving a nice big bruise. Not the Mother’s Day gift I was expecting. 😉 But now the baby is napping and I’ve got my first set of Holga negatives to scan. I think things will start looking up soon…

    Big love to y’all!! Happy Mother’s Day

  73. Won’t link you to a photo of warm fuzzies because all my kid photos are warm and fuzzy to me. And I have 4 dogs…need I say more?

    Happy Mother’s Day to all!

  76. Thank you for the link to Toyfoto. What an awesome site! I’ve added it to my list of places to visit regularly. Happy Mother’s Day!

  86. Happy Mother’s Day Sisters!

    I wish I had more pictures of me and my little one together but seeing as how I’m the shutterbug in this relationship those opportunities are rare. But here’s one taken ages ago on my birthday with my then 7 month old on my ‘about page’

    http://www.dolcepics.com/about/

  89. Happy Mother’s Day, to all! The necklace is AMAZING…I am keeping my fingers & toes crossed…

  90. Happy mother’s day! I absolutely love your site… and come here often for inspiration. Thank you, sisters!

  96. When I am loving on my little Kaya I think to myself, "There is no other mother who loves her child as much as I love this little girl." Then I come out to Shutter Sisters, and the links within, and read beautiful missives on the love that all you mothers have for your children… and I discover I am wrong. But Kaya doesn’t have to know that.

  99. Thank you for the daily inspiration. I recently found your website from another blog and I love seeing the new daily inpsiration.

  100. Happy Mother’s Day to everyone! I love this website. It is so fun and inspiring.

  112. What a gorgeous photo – I just love the expressions on both Mom and Baby!
    Happy Mother’s Day to all of you amazing super moms out there!!!

  113. Happy Mother’s Day to ALL of the AMAZING Mother’s out there!
    It’s my first "official" Mother’s Day & I’m happy just to be in the club!!
    My Kaia Rae is 8 months old now, YAY!!

  115. my dearest tracey jo,
    thank-you ever so much for choosing my hand
    to hold as we both learned how to be mother
    and child for the very first time
    taking baby steps, teaching and learning
    from each other a day at a time…
    and then a most marvelous gift from you… a grandchild!

    happy mothers day and thank-you for still choosing my hand to hold
    while holding your own sweet babies. love you dearly, your mom

  122. Happy Momma’s Day, everyone! What a beautiful photo to remind us what an important job it is that we do.

    And, yay for jewelry!! 😉

    ~Jen

  123. I appreciate this and so many of your artful and inspiring photos. Thanks again (and again)!

  132. My children playing, hearing them laugh, makes me feel so happy. Here are two photos that I love. The first is of my six daughters playing ring around the rosies to get my son to stop crying while we took pictures. It was a totally candid moment that I was lucky enough to capture.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/7914841@N08/2221756820/in/set-72157603801459227/

    The second photo captures on eo four favorite things to do – tickle fight!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/7914841@N08/2454130723/in/set-72157603801459227/

  134. That is an incredible photo. It makes me happy to be in the elite group of mothers. Happy belated Mothers Day to all.

  140. I absolutely love this photo. I must find someone to take a good one of me and my little ones. And, this necklace is so simple and beautiful. Please enter my name.
    Sarah