••••••••••••WINNER IS HEIDI DEAN, #129!•••••••••••••••••••
heidi, email me and get me your address. you have a rad new camera strap headed your way from emily and i! wish i could give 831 straps away, i always hate the let down after all the build up of excitement…
yesterday, em came over after school as a surprise for the little girls (we have been hearing moan-y sad complaints like “when will we EVER SEE HER AGAaaaaaaaaaaIN?” with much flopping and hand to forehead sighing) (an hour spent on video chat sunday evening did nothing to satisy them) (where did they ever learn that? certainly not from their overly dramatic and emotional mummas!), to watch our tivo’d project runway, and get indian for dinner. and so that i could eat my weekly allotment of yindi’s neck.
our routine has become ritual at this point. sacred. and awesome.
she also sewed a new (vintage!) ribbon onto my camera strap. i’ve been eyeballing it for weeks in her shop, and lucky me, i get it for free. and guess what? SO DO YOU! (well, one of you!) we decided it would be totally fun to do a camera strap giveaway on my blog. for anyone that doesn’t know, em started making her “funky camera straps” in april 2007. no one else was doing it at the time, she is the original gangsta! when we met, she had the coolest strap on her camera, and i begged her for ages to start making them and selling them. i knew firsthand how hard it was to find a cool strap. i had looked high and low for years for a camera strap that wasnt just utilitarian. and im the google queen, and i could never find anything that wasnt intended for an older male photog and his khaki pocketed vest. she set up shop on etsy, and has sold over 800 of them since.
and now its your turn to get one. if you already have one, awesome, enter to win anyway and have two to switch out!
just comment on this post by 1:30pm PST Sep 18. i will draw a winner soon after that. winner gets the same strap as me. this wonderful, adorable, kitschy vintage goodness.
two someones wanted to model camera straps too…
What a cool giveaway! I would love to have that attached to my camera!
I certainly do not want to steal a chance from someone else to win this cool strap, but just had to say that I bought one of her beautiful straps last summer and it not only has had a LOT of use, but is still in perfect condition. The winner will have themselves ONE awesome fashionable piece!!! ;)
Great giveaway!
Would love to get one of these for my canon :)
love the strap! love you and your talents too!
count me in, please..a semi-lurker with a canon strap :) thank you!!
I’ve been looking at those over and over on etsy also. a fun strap might make the kids on the opposing sports teams stop asking me if i’m with the newspaper.
Wow! That’s gorgeous, and I’d love a chance to win it! If not, I might just go buy one for myself anyway! Whee!!
I LOVE these straps but it’s not something I can get right now. So a free one would be awesome. Hope I win!!
Isn’t Em great? You are so lucky to have such a talented friend as she is of you.
oh, yay!!
i would love to win that gorgeous strap!!
ooooooohhhhhh i’ve been looking for a camera strap too!!!! pick me pretty please!
you two are my absolute favorite blogging chicas… and i’m not just saying that cause you’re giving away cool camera straps! here’s hopin’!!!!
cool!!.. I’ve been looking at her straps for a while!!.. I want one!!!
ooohhh …. aaaahhhh …. I’d totally love to win one of those, so much so that I’ll actually leave a comment – which I’m finally braving to do on your blog, even though I’ve read it for years (maybe I’ve commented a couple times?) So fun, can’t wait to find out the winner!
ooo i’ve been eyeing her straps for months! i would love to win this for my own dslr!!
Oh my camera would thank you so much if it got that awesome strap so it wouldn’t have to wear that boring one that says Canon, LOL!!!
Kea
I would love a chance at this funky giveaway!! Thanks :)))))) I love the daily or close to daily blogging again. You are SUCH an inspiration!!
Love the “sunshine on a stem” flowers!
well, duh…who wouldn’t want a em strap…they are incredible! kristen in nor cal
uuuuuu…meeeeeee…..i’m raising my hand! how about a cool funky strap for this cool funky mama;-) yep, i’m preggo again;-)
i’ll put it on my shower list!…lol!
I’d love to win one! This is on my Christmas list!
My Rebel saw that strap and started begging me for one of her own ;) Thanks for the chance!!
And um, where’s *our* allotment of Yindi’s neck? At least in photographic form
Oh, I just love this camera strap. I would love to have some of that yummy, amazing, vintageness around my neck. I hope I win, I hope I win!!! And beautiful models all around!
I love Emily’s camera straps & will buy one for my new camera if I don’t win one! So cute!
I love the strap, have been eyeing them forever. Love little girl play dates and love over emotional mums.
oooh yes please, that is a fine looking strap :)
I really enjoy your blog tara–so inspiring. Fun contest and awesome strap! Thanks for sharing.
Love it!! So much better than the boring camera strap.
awesome strap!!
Love it!! So much better than the boring camera strap.
I would love to win one. I already have one of Emily’s awesome camera straps. It is hot pink with white polka-dots. I get comments on it all the time and I always tell them where they can get their own. Thanks for the chance to win
very cool, orange is my color!
I have seen her website before. I wanted one for my birthday- but how cool to get one FREE…….
wowwee looksie at all of those comments..LoL
I would love to win a matchy one with you Tara..
SARAH M
Australia
pick me!
Love, love, love your blog!
Add me to the list…
Oooohhh I’ve been wanting one of these for some time now! Go whatever number this post is!!
yay! that is the cutest ribbon! would love to win!!
after a bummer of a day, nothing crazy, i came to check you out. your photos always brighten my day. a give-a-way now that really makes me smile. kristy
cool strap…i love the colors!
oh, em’s traps are wonderful. and i am hoping that having one would make me a better photographer. yep.
Winning would totally make my day. More importantly though, since I’m actually posting a comment, thanks so much for your blog. You are doing a huge amount to make me think about how I am photographing and there’s a definite improvement. Someone over at the digital photography school posted a link to your blog forever ago (okay, a year or more) and I’m so glad they did. You take totally awesome photographs and I totally wish I was closer so that I could get you to take our photos or gain the benefit of your teaching!
Love it. Would love one too.
Love the camera strap. Would love to win it. Thanks Tara!
i have also had my eye on that strap, but i bought one in may and couldn’t justify buying another so soon…but just perhaps i could win one… :)
beautiful! I would love a funky camera strap! also touched by the special bond that you and emily have. I read your blogs and I can feel it. wonderful!
That camera strap is amazing!! Ive been eyeing them for the longest time..but alas, the life of a student has won my bank account over! But thats where having a good camera and having awesome friends willing to model for me comes in …free fun! Awesome relationship you two have too…love it! aka. Swedie the blogstalker now commenter!
I. Want. One. please? ;)
a funky flower camera strap!?! shut up! :) count me in.