••••••••••••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…
I love Em’s straps and have already bought 2 from her! One for me and one for a photog friend. Would love to be able to give one to another friend so pleazzze pick me pick me :)
Yes yes yes! I already have one, but I would LOVE another one as I love it. I get compliments on it all the time….
Ohh that is sooo cute! I have a plain, ordinary BORING black one. I’d so like to sashay around with one of these beauties!
Here’s hoping…
Jane
These straps are gorgeous as are the maker and the model. Your friendship is so inspiring and you are both blessed to have each other.
Love that camera strap! Perfect for my camera! :)
I’m so jealous for a few reasons…you are so lucky to have found such an amazing friendship with em and to also have such a cool camera strap! love it!
Just got my sis a new camera and would love to give her this too! How kind of you!
Oh, how I would love one of those fab camera straps. I just ordered a new lens this morning and the addition of the strap would make everything just perfect. Your work is amazing! Thanks for inspiring all of us.
Love it, Love it, Love it…. thanks
OOHH!! I would love to win the camera strap!! So beautiful.
Such a beautiful strap. Thanks for the chance. Fun.
Well, it seems like you have alot of people to choose from, but I may as well add my name to the list!!!
Love the camera straps and as a budding photographer I would love to own one!!
Thanks, Annie B
It’s really lovely this camera strap! Love the idea of doing this kind of thing!!
Oooh….I LOVE it. Please pick me.
WOW!! I love it… It’s so darn cute…
Carla
I am always the slow one. But I would still love to win that beautiful thing for my canon 40d! Maybe you will pick #446 :)
Since I AM vintage, it would be great if I were picked for this very, very cool camera strap!
Pick me! Pick me! Pick meeeeee! I have been coveting these straps for ages!!! Banish the boring black straps I say! Let the sun shine in! Yeah!
oh my gosh you have 445 comments!! I love her straps and will order one for sure if i don’t win!!
me, me, me! pick me! I love that strap in all it’s yumminess!
Very cool!
Oooo, I have been wanting one of her camera straps for a while now and can just never decide! This is a great giveaway!
Ohhhh…that is a good one!
Awesome! Thanks for doing this and creating fabulous work!
my nikon was just telling me the other day that it needed a little somethin’-somethin’ to perk it up! I think this is just the thing!!! plz, pick me dear tara!
Love these! I have been looking for something fun and comfy, this may just be it!
what fun!…would love a new strap for what I refer to as my “third child”
I realize my chances are slim..but here’s my try. Pick me please!! :)
That strap is so cool, I would love to have one for my camera!
Oh how fun! Please pick me…I am lacking in the cool camera strap department :)
Hi Tara, this is my first comment on your blog. My beautifully talented photographer here in central ny (www.bengaquick.blogspot.com) posted a link to your website on her blog about a year ago and I was immediately hooked. I actually went back and read all previous posts. And from your blog I am now hooked on e and Chronicles of me :-) I am of course in love with Emily’s amazing camera straps and put one on my Christmas wish list this year! What a great give away!
what a gorgeous strap, and what a very nice friend you have!
Oh, that’s so cute! Love it. Emily is awesome and so talented. Hoping to win…
I love these straps too. My dad had the coolest strap on his “old” camera from the 70s and I was so sad that it would not fit on my digital camera. I too looked and looked high and low for some original straps. Here they are!
her straps are so cute and I just love looking at your pictures!
What a cool strap. I’ve been eyeing one of those on em’s etsy shop.
I love ‘poking my head in’ to see your art and photo goodness.You have a real gift for capturing the esscence of people – their unique selves. Maybe with one of those straps some of it could rub off on me too!!! Thanks Tara!
I have been dying to get my hands on one of these but have yet to purchase one, PICK ME!
Kim M – NY
Please pick me!!!!!!
I’ve been wanting one of her straps forever. Thanks for the fun giveaway!
pick me – i read your blog everday!! :)
oh what fun!!
i love those…you lucky girlie
omg. the love. i had no idea these existed and in orange!!
I have always wanted one of those straps. I go to her etsy shop often and window shop once or twice weekly. Also, I haunt your site as well, getting lots of tips on taking photographs. I recently acquired a Crumpler at your suggestion! Thank you so much. xoxo, Puanani
Raising hand and waving wildly! ;)
I love your strap!! That is so awesome! I have been wanting one for awhile but can never decide what I want!!! Love your blog too!!
Ohhh it’s so pretty!! :)
First time commentor, long time visitor. Love your work!
Love your blog. Love your pictures. I come from a family of five kids and I can relate to the fun chaos of a life in a full house. P.S. Your kids are lovely!
Very cool straps. Love your work and writing.
-Michelle