Turning my friend's photo into canvas art :: Rosenlof Photography + Easy Canvas Prints

In a previous post, I shared my photo turned canvas art by Easy Canvas Prints. I liked what they so much that I had them create another print for Chris' birthday. This photo was taken by my friend Mary Ann (Mary Ann Rosenlof Photography).

I hung the photo in our hallway to take the picture.  For perspective, the framed photo is 10"x10" and the canvas is 16"x20"

A few years back, when living in RI, we found this huge spider and web between two of our bushes. Mary Ann, always swift with her camera, shot a photo with Ethan in the back ground. This spider was at least two inches tip to tip.

Chris really liked this gift and now it lives in his office at work.  I love it when a plan comes together.  Thank you Mary Ann and Easy Canvas Prints.

Sucker punches in the moving process

Not so itsy bitsty spider, originally uploaded by alamodestuff.

As I've been going through our "stuff" in preparation of selling the house, I feel like I keep getting sucker punched. At every turn there is a memory that has to be removed from the walls or packed away. This big guy was hanging from a chalk board just outside our kitchen. E made him in school several years ago. I can't keep him, or many of the saved art and school items because it's just too much stuff. So, I took this picture (as I will with other items I come across but must let go). I'm glad it is so much easier to catalog our lives through photography these days.

The "for sale" sign is in the yard today. It's sad. We have 6 house showings between today and Saturday. That's painful. I'm following the boys and the dog around wiping up every crumb they drop. That's crazy. Such is my life right now.

Happy hump day!

OM [one moment] meet up - week #12 - Life goes on

I walked out on our patio one morning this week to find this spider suspended between my two deck chairs. Little did it know that these chairs are used and moved around daily. I took some photos, kept Sophie from running between the chairs and contemplated the spiders existence. Then, in a blink of an eye, E ran out of the house and through the web to sit down next to me. There goes that web. I'm certain the spider, although jolted, found solace elsewhere.

I realized in this moment, that the spider can teach me a great deal about handling stress in life. We go about our day doing the best we can and never know when something will happen to upset the comfortable world we've built for ourselves. Great or small, these incidents can jolt us a bit. It's best that we just shake ourselves off and go about life as we know it. I doubt the spider sat around and contemplated its next move. It simply found another place to rebuild its web. Life goes on.

What was your 'one moment' this week? What took you out of your present moment and made you think, laugh, sigh?

Share in the blog comments here, on your own blog (and link back below) or on my Facebook fan page. If you are on Twitter, I've started a hash tag - #OMmeetup so that we can converse if we'd like. We'd love to hear your moment this week!

Photo of the week - Itsy bitsy spider...NOT!

This spider is the biggest I've ever seen in nature. Its body is at least 1" long and stretched out it is probably close to 3". And it's thick. When we found it last week, I had to call my photographer neighbor, Mary Ann. She took this great shot with E in the background. It still lives comfortably in our hydrangea bush and doesn't appear to be leaving anytime soon.

Visit Mary Ann's website, Rosenlof Photograyp, and blog here. Local friends, if you need candid shots for the holidays, school or special events, you should give her a call. She is great.