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Full post of wedding day happiness.. photography: Mandy Lynne & Alisia K
Mother & daughter getting ready for a beautiful day..
This one.. sigh…
She is gorgeous in the soft window light.
So many pretty details! A true DIY wedding..
The bride designed her flowers and even made her own wedding cake the day before!
{First look}
Young love.. so sweet!
Congratulations! wishing you all the best Josh & Whitney.
- You are so amazingly talented it's not even funny. Great images. Thanks for sharing.
- Gorgeous!! You did an amazing job as always!!!!! love her flowers
- This has to be the luckiest bride and groom to have gotten you and your sister to do their wedding. Beautiful wedding, beautiful and talented wedding photographers!
- You and Alisia did an incredible job capturing their special day! Love these!
Wishing my Mom a lovely day!
Thank you mom for loving, praying and always giving of your time to others.
You’re never too busy to lift the load of someone else.
My childhood memories are full of your many acts of kindness to friends & strangers..
I remember a stranded young girl in need.. you listened to her, fed her, and paid for her bus ticket to wherever she was needing to go. I have other memories of you cleaning & cooking for the elderly, sending out cards.. and now you volunteer so much of your time with hospice etc.
Thank you Mom.. you are loved by many and the ultimate role model to me! love, M
- Lovely capture! I love the flowers with that quote...
- that`s from the book "she" isn`t it?? i love the look of your photos. pretty, pretty, pretty. :)
- Hello. I'm Argentina, Flirck knew your work, and was most impressed with your fotgrafías from that moment. I love what you do. A kiss. Maria
- I love what you wrote about Mom. She is an amazing lady. We are so blessed.
- You're such a sweet daughter, Mandy, and your Mom sounds like a beautiful person. Love your photo, too! :)
- Thank you for those sweet words Mandy... I am so blessed to have you for a daughter & I thank God for you. xxxoo
- this is such a gorgeous image and such beautiful words for your mother. that is my favorite book paired along with my favorite flowers. stunning work, as always!
Hi everyone! I hope you are enjoying this beautiful Spring!
I love watching the humming birds on my back porch fluttering around the wisteria on my overhead trellis.
The warm sunshine & the intoxicating scent of the flowers & fresh cut grass makes me want to be outside.
It sounds good to escape my “to do” list with a glass of lemonade. 
Life is so full at the moment.. photo sessions, art deadlines, craft & sewing projects, spring cleaning..
I haven’t had the time or desire to sit at my computer and edit pictures.
…but I will be sharing more soon I promise.
I am still enjoying my Saturday Polaroid project.. it’s so fun snatching a random little piece of each weekend.
I am shooting with a Polaroid 600, but now that the Impossible Project has finally released new sx -70 film,
I am eager to try out my cute rainbow polaroid camera.
- YOu look so Pretty as always! cute shots!!
- #1 - your photos of your daughter make me want to have girls. #2 - humming birds, fresh cut grass, & lemonade...I'm not sure it gets much better than that! #3 - you are absolutely adorable. your yellow cardigan & green dress match the season perfectly. Happy Spring!
- I absolutely love this project! You are doing an amazing job with it. I love every single shot!
- I LOVE it when I stumble upon a blog that I love! And, yours is one of them! I visited your Etsy shoppe too and I will definiely go back and buy. :) Your work is so fun and wonderful. I will be back! Joyce
- Mandy, I have the same camera and haven't used it yet due to the cost of film. I'm excited to find out it's available from The Impossible Project. Can I say...you are such an inspiration to me. :) Hope you're doing well and keeping up with your to do list. Take care! xoxo
- i loved the eye candy! polaroids are my weakness too! insanely pretty stuff here...
- what a neat project! as always, I LOVE your work. :)
Remember (this) gorgeous couple?
I recently had the opportunity to photograph their wedding in a vineyard overlooking the rolling hills of Defiance, Mo.
I love the country setting, soft colors, rustic elegance of this wedding..
I know this is more than a sneak peak, but the wedding was beautiful & this couple so in love that it was hard to stop at just one! more to come~
Whitney & Cami are best friends and nearly a foot difference in height, so Cami was enjoying this moment!
- WOW Mandy!!!!!! These are the greatest! Love them! :)
- These are absolutely gorgeous!! WOW!!
- Just Gorgeous!!!....but I knew they would be beautiful :) Love her colors!! The one by the pond needs to be enlarged!! Wow!
- So beautiful, Mandy! :)
- oh DEAR GOD these are stunning! holy moly.
- these are all so beautiful! you have such an artistic eye...love them all so much :)
- Mandy, these are stunning!! What every girl DREANS of for her wedding photographs. I'm considering that it would be worth it to put on another wedding just to have you do the photos. Serious, these are fabulous! :) xo – g
- I have to say that your images are always captivating and your style is impeccable. Way to go and Happy Mother's Day.!
- So utterly beautiful...the setting look idealistic and such a pretty bridal party. Great work...love your work ;-)
- Absolutely the most beautiful wedding photos I have ever seen! ( besidesine , of course) can't wait to see more!
- These pictures are AMAZING!!!
- this place is fantastic! great photos. congratulations!
- These are absolutely the MOST BEAUTIFUL wedding photos I have EVER seen!! Not to mention how beautiful/handsome the wedding party is. WOW!!
- like georgianna said, these are the photos dreams are made of. so beautiful.
- Humm... you can also find these pictures on here... http://photographybyalisia.blogspot.com/2010/05/sneak-peak.html
- Hi Tara, I invited Alisia along with me to shoot this wedding. :)
Sweet strawberries.. I just loaded up my refrigerator with them. They disappear so quickly around here. :’)
… a favorite recipe of mine from a tea room in St. Charles.
- they don't last more than a day here either...we all just love them:) your pictures have such a beautiful cottage feel to them...they make me happy!
- Hello! I love your photos on Flickr and I was thinking, "Oh, I hope she has a blog!!!" And I was glad when I saw that you did! :) LOVE your photographs! :)
- You are the best at detail shots! I made this dressing a few days ago. It is so yummy!
- Love these pictures Mandy. those strawberries look good enough to eat! -- and I still love this recipe too, my favorite.
- Love this post, you just have a way with words, pictures, colors, patterns and how to put them all together. Wish I could clone you for myself. Ha. ha.
…yard work & lots of sunshine. : )
- Your images always make me smile!
- looks like a beautiful day :)
- I love!
- loving the pastelly colors! perfect, perfect, perfect Mandy...as usual xoxoxo
- WOW! This is so sweet!
- So pretty.
And the winner is….. Emily! her quote… “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” ~Winston Churchill
I stole away my daughter from chalk & flower picking long enough to draw a winner. I video recorded it too…
but after several hrs trying to edit the clip into a smaller file, I realized maybe this wasn’t my day to figure out something new. :}
A big THANKS to everyone that participated in the drawing for $100. to my etsy shop Skippy Designs!
I’m thrilled to discover an amazing group of readers… ladies that are talented hobbyists, brilliant photographers & the best kind of moms.
It made my day to read through your quotes and favorite color combinations. ah! .. you have fed my crazy addiction to beautiful colors!
So many of your favorite combinations included yellow… a favorite for me too.
and these too..
and a quote that I am loving today…
“Love of beauty is TASTE. The creation of beauty is ART.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I'm excited to visit your Etsy shop anyways :) and or Art.com for your awesome prints. Do you have recommendations for wedding gifts? I have a few brides and grooms to shop for this summer and think they'd love to have a Mandy Lynne grace their walls. But I can't decide! Help.
- Congrats! and such lovely quotes and beautiful colors!!
- Thanks Annie.. After several requests, I have decided to offer the Market posters in a smaller size. These would make nice wedding gifts.
- Congratulations to the winner! How exciting! I love your color combinations.
- oh so sad that I didn't win! however, I've decided that since I get so excited every time your blog pops up in my reader, that I should start leaving you a comment here & there. so, hello! have a wonderful weekend!
My heart overflows with gratitude as I sing His praises today!
Have a beautiful Easter!
- These are beautiful pictures, as always! I love your little girl's curls, dress and headband! Adorable of your three!!! Happy Easter!
- Beautiful work Mandy...what a wonderful Easter message to us all x
- I love these photos Mandy.. You captured the Easter sprit so beautifully.. I love your work.. It's amazing:) Kelly
- I don´t know how you do it...your images are just out of this world...magical...love, love, love them Miss Mandy! Happy Easter to you and your family xoxoxo
- Wow, Autumn looks so grown up!! Beautiful pics! Happy Easter..love ya!
- Adorable and beautiful images as always! Wishing you a Happy Easter! ?
- Beautiful! I hope you had a happy Easter!
- Wow! These pictures are STUNNING!!!
- I LOVE these Easter photos, especially the last two!! Autumn is growing up into a lovely little girl...
- So gorgeous, the whole scene. Love the colors, the flowers, it is all so beautiful!
- Love this :)
- just wonderful!! LOVE THEM!
Time flies and children grow too quickly. Sometimes I ask myself what I can be doing to slow it down a little?
I think taking time to create moments free of distraction..
creating. playing. listening to each other will be the time that my children will remember best.
I have decided to set aside at least an evening each week to do this.
There is plenty of inspiration for craft projects…
I am glad to put to good use many of the ideas I have pulled from my favorite magazines in the past and also so excited to find
blogs by former art directors of Martha Stewart Living! partyperfectblog & blonde-designs
(If you know of other sites dedicated to family fun & creative craft projects please let me know!)
We recently made hearts to hang in the window by melting shavings of crayolas, nest cupcakes,and pom pom easter crafts.
See these links: crayola , cupcakes and pompoms.
The crayola project was a bit difficult.. but the cupcakes & pom poms were a big hit.
happy pom poms with their proud owners. (poor baby chick wishing for a new one)
…and all together. We are ready for Easter!
- Oh, these are the sweetest! I used to love Martha Stewart Kids, so sad they discontinued it. I'll have to look up the links you posted. We LOVE crafts around here! xo
- What a wonderful momma you are! Your children are so blessed. I love these pictures! The one of Clay squeezing his chick cracks me up:)
- Cute pics and great Easter ideas! Thanks for the links :)
- What a wonderful mother you are! Love the art projects and the pic of Clay holdin' his poor chic!
Celebrate! have a cupcake with me! My blog is 1 yrs old.
Thank you lovely readers for the views, sweet comments, encouraging emails, and supporting my etsy shop..
All very much appreciated by little ole me. Did I say ole? I meant old… a year older today. my birthday 
I plan on pampering myself today.. but I want to invite you along.
Answer one of the questions below and a week from now.. Mon. April 5,
I will draw a name for a winner for $100.00 credit towards anything you choose from my etsy shop {Skippy Designs}
Thanks everyone!
- happy bday gal! Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime "let out all the length of all the reins." ~Mary Cholomondeley
- Quote: "Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go. ~ Louise Driscoll Color combination: "Brown + Green + Orange". Great giveaway. My fingers are crossed. :)
- favorite quote- "The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner’s humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step." ~Julia Cameron, “the Artist’s Way” congrats on one year!!!!
- What you think you create. What you feel you attract. What you imagine you become. -Adele Basheer Happy "Celebrate YOU" Day!
- Right now the color combo [white + gray + yellow] makes me happy. I enjoy your art & your lovely blog. Thanks for sharing!
- One quote Im looking at right now that I have taped to my computer at work.... "Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything." Also, the color combo is so very hard I love so many different color combos! But my little girl had a yellow, gray, and white dress on yesterday and it was so sweet. Im thinking of painting our new nursery those colors. happy one year!
- YAY! Happy birthday xxx Lovely tones
- These cottagey colors that make me feel really happy and comfortable - whether I'm in a kitchen accented w these colors or wearing it ... something so comfortable and irresistible to me about: summer red - that red that hints at having the slightest twinge of watermelon in it; crisp and juicy red. refreshing, light, airy mint green - good enough to eat, like ice cream. and, true pale, warm petal pink. and with lots of white, too. perfect. HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
- I saw this on a blog awhile back and have no idea who said it, but I just loved the quote..."Love life and it will love you back." Simple but true. Hope you have a great B-Day!
- Oooh, such a great question, but so hard to answer! Do I pick only ONE favorite color combination? . . . Well, I love greens, so I would say sea green, pale blue, and cream. . . . Happy Birthday!
- Happy Birthday!! My favorite inspirational quote is Ghandi's "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- My happy colors combo is - a fresh springy green, soft lemon yellow, and a pure white like linen on the line in summer!
- Your art and photography is so beautiful!! Thank you for all the beauty and inspiration you provide. Here's to many more blogging years from you!! A favorite quote of mine is: People will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg. — Anon.
- Happy Birthday!! I've been a follower of yours on flickr for a long time, I just love the colors in your work so I am going to pick colors: pale pink, leafy green, and sky blue...because they remind me of cherry blossoms against a bright sky on a sunny day.
- my current favorite color combo is slate, white and pale buttery yellow. happy blog birthday!
- Hurrah!! Happy Birthday! I would have to say my favorite color combo (there's so many!) is: tangerine orange, apple red, and sunshine yellow. Those were my wedding colors -- so fun and bright!
- Happy birthday! My favorite quote is: You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind." ~Herbert Prochnow And my favorite color combination is: Cream Soft Aqua Raspberry Pink Thank you for the chance to win!
- Happy Birthday, beautiful girl:) I can't believe your blog is already a year old! It's been such a wonderful source of inspiration for me...thank you!xo I love this quote~ "The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest." ~Thomas Moore I'm lovong the colors of the interior just posted on Design Sponge...pink/raspberry,aqua and yellow.
- happy birthday! my fave quote is "today i will be happier than a bird with a french fry"
- My favorite quote is "If life gives you lemons stuff your bra"
- Well done and good luck for the future. You are truly inspirational but most of all your work gives me a warm smile. xx
- lovely lovely! I enjoy red white and blue in nontradtional ways. "What do you call beautiful? A tree! You'll look like a tree!" Funny Face
- "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." ~Winston Churchill Happy Birthday...love your work!
- Happy Birthday! My fave quote is: Be the change you wish to see in the world. ~Ghandi Fave color combo: robin's egg blue, downy duckling yellow and sage green
- Well happy birthday blog. My favorite quote is:Peace begins with a smile-Mother Theresa. Oh and favorite color combo is steel blue,light pink and cream.
- Hope this is your happiest birthday ever, Mandy! Favorite quote: "Life is not about discovering yourself, it's about creating yourself." – George Bernard Shaw. Favorite color combo (one of them!): Mint, mauve and magenta. Congratulations!
- Happy Birthday! My favorite quote has always been: “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” ~Maria Robinson
- I love the quote "The sun is always shining above the clouds." I'm thinking of using the fab color combo from your "adventure" bicycle painting in our new home!
- What a wonderful day for you! I have loved reading your blog from (nearly) the very beginning. I have actually gotten tears in my eyes from your beautiful photographs. (yes, I am a sap!) You have a lovely family, a lovely shop, & a lovely talent. Happy birthday to both you & your blog!
- I cannot believe I forgot my favorite quote...so sorry! "Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ohhhh, I love your Etsy site, and I adore your blog. Happy Bday to you:) "life is not getting what you want, but wanting what you have"....love your turq., red, and cream combo...gorgeous!
- Happy birthday day. My favorite quote that I got from an interview of one of ETSY's featured sellers. I loved so well that I put it on my vision board and I say it each and everyday it came to me at a time that I really needed it the most right after my son passed this past September. It goes like this. "We can never know what will happen next but we choose to enjoy what we are doing right now and live happily". It's my daily mantra
- OK here it goes... I believe and say often... 'what you believe becomes your reality'. And my color trio I am drawn to of late is...soft aqua blue sea glass (with that muted surface), stone grey, and cloud white (picture linen). The colors are strong and soft, but what I love about this is they are earthy colors, just not the usual browns and greys (which I will always be drawn to). That was fun - thanks ;)
- I am a huge fan and am so inspired by your work. I get so excited when I see that you have a new post, and today I was even more excited to maybe (fingers crossed) win something from your store. My saying is "It's a beautiful day, don't let it get away!" And I love the color combo of the new art you created - turquoise, red and cream. MMMHHHHMM!
- My favorite color combinations are anything springy/eastery. Soft greens, aqua, pink. I'm smitten with swarovski crystals in Pacific opal, turquoise, white opal and mint alabaster.
- Mandy, I absolutely adore your work! :) SO much beauty! "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Howard Thurman p.s. those cupcakes are adorable!
- Fave color combo (right now) a perfect teal-y blue, sunny yellow, and barn red... so pretty... And one of the quotes I've heard from my parents my whole life... "Don't let what you don't know, rob you of what you do know... " Moreorless, it's Murphy's law. Thanks for the lovely giveaway, and Happy Birthday!
- Favorite Quote- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
- "To be a mother is the greatest gift. To be a great gift is to be a mother." - Marissa
- Love these pics!! So cute! My fav quote is by my Dad :"Attitude makes all the difference, You can be stuck in a mud puddle and laugh or be stuck in a mud puddle and feel sorry for yourself."
- Woo hoo congrats! :) I loooove color and am pretty geeky about it! So my favorite color combination is warm charcoal gray paired with sun-kissed chartreuse green and wrapped up with a pale bubbling shimmer of champagne :)
- My favorite color combo {at the moment} is gray, white & _____. I'm a little obsessed with gray, which I know sounds depressing and I really love it. And I know white isn't really a color but i LOVE it in the home. And my third color, well...I think almost anything goes with white and gray but I'm especially partial to navy & yellow. Happy Birthday!
- Oh me, me, meeeeeeeee...I neeeeeed some of your beautiful images on my walls, Miss Mandy :) So yeah, my favourite color combo is white, a pastelly sunny yellow and pink...love, love, love it and could decorate my whole home in those 3 colors alone ;) Happy Easter lovely xoxoxo
- "What goes around, comes around." My favorite color combo reminds me of porcelain berries (ampelopsis): pale watery blue, light leafy green, and varying shades of soft aqua. Love, love, love your images!
- I recently found your blog. Truly admire your wonderful work! So inspirational! Happy anniversary! I do love turquoise and together with pale yellow and white it's a wonderful but yet different colour combination. Look forward to seeing more of your beautiful work!
- I love your pictures.....
- So sweet! Happy Birthday! Don't know if I am late but my fav quote right now is "You are you. Now isn't that pleasant?" Dr. Seuss
- I have just discovered you and what a joy!!! I shall surely be back. My favourite colour combo is hard to choose as I just adore and live by colour. I suppose it'd have to be turquoise, fuschia and red. And as for a saying ...the buddhist saying 'live in the moment'has struck me as so true since becoming a mother.
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