••••••••••••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…
Love your blog!
YAY! I want one! I’ve been meaning to buy one from her for awhile now! That’d be so awesome if I were the winner. Pick me, pick me. Hee hee! :-P
That seriously is the happiest camera strap I’ve ever seen! I’ve long admired her beautiful camera straps but sadly..a plain boring grey one stares me in the face. I am totally not plain boring grey! But bright, colorful..fun. Like that strap! That would completely make this not so fun week of two computer crashes definitely MUCH brighter! :-)
I would LOVE a camera strap! Just beautiful! Lucky you!
Katie
I gotta have it!!!
Hi Tara, Still checkin’ in from time to time to see you and kids and get inspired. Love the straps, have always wanted one maybe today is my lucky day. Just found out that we cannot come to LA for Thanksgiving, have to go to family wedding in Nebraska. BOO! Will you come to Dallas ever???????? Miss you. Kids are looking so grown up.
Ahh, this is lovely! Love your blog, love your kids, love your style and I love Em’s camera straps! :) I’ve been eyeing one for so long – as if one would just jump through the screen and around my neck!
LOVE IT!
I love those camera straps. I own one and would love another. Pick me!!
I would love to win it.
Hi! Tossing my name in the ring for a cool strap!! Thanks for the chance!! peace and blessings, Cindy
man – i think i had a dress trimmed with ribbon like that back in the 70’s! totally cool! (the ribbon, not the fact that i am SO BLOODY OLD!)
Throw my name into the hat!!!
ooooooooooooooooooh I would *LOVE* one of those bad boys!
:)
That is a sweet strap. I want one. Bad. Please?
Love the ribbon strap! Makes it so unique to one’s personality. I want bandana.
Love the strap. Count me in!
How fabulous is that strap!!!!!
Love the pictures – you look so pretty :)
Ooooh- so cute! I need me one of those – STAT!
Awww….. this just arrives at the right time where I am shopping for a funky-licious camera strap. Count me in, Tara!
Oh I LOVE my camera strap I bought from Em! I get so many compliments on it! I would love another one to switch out!
oooh ooh ooooh! me me me!! Those are the cutest!!! Would love to be a winner today!!! Awesome! thanks for the opportunity to win!!!
Awesome camera strap! If I don’t win, I think I may have to put one on my birthday list.
I just got my first SLR and I have so much to learn. I’d be the hip mama at school with that super cool camera strap! TFS:)
There are already 808 comments so I don’t stand a chance but you’ll never know unless you try!! I’ve learned that! Heres to hoping!! :)
Love the camera strap! My friend just sent me the link to your blog. I LOVE your style.
Smiles,
Marci
Tara,
I am just getting started as a photographer and I always look to your website for inspiration. You are amazing and I hope one day to be half as wonderful as you are. I love the camera strap!!! :) Bethany
oh oh oh!! I wanna be a winner. Make me a winner TODAY!!!please please please! winner winner chicken dinner over here!!!
thanks for the chance to win! :)
ohhh ,please, please pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease pick me!!!! does that sound too pathetic? i love emily’s camera straps! this one that you are modeling is a beauty…i sure would love it and give it a great home!! pick me! pick me! pick me! thanks for the chance…you two are the best! amy m.
So CUTE! I would love it. ;)
that is such cute ribbon! LOVE IT!!!!
No witty comments here… Just a request to enter my name in the giveaway. I am most definitely a big fan of Emily’s straps and would love to have one! Thanks! -:D.
Super cute strap!! Thanks for the giveaway!!
i have no strap. I am strapless. Please pick moi.
Oh my…how many people read your blog? I thought I’d never get to the end of the comments! I want a flower power strap!
so awesome…
love her style and designs
i heart that strap….
gorgeous darling…simply gorgeous!
i would love to have some of that goodness!!
I’d love a new strap for my camera!
K
would LOVE this!! i’m from gainesville, fl (home of the gators, you know, orange and blue?!) so i’d be the envy of all aound this town with these beautiful colors around my neck!! (maybe it would give me inspiration to take more pictures too?!)
Lovin’ the straps. Currently have just a boring old Nikon strap.
oh, please…it is my birthday and so far…not my favorite day this week…LOVE those colors! i have a boring old black strap…even if i don’t win it, i may have to buy one for myself for my birthday :) (was that whiney enough?)
Ohhhh, I LOVE to be match-matchy with the famous TW!!! Thanks for the chance at a cool strap!
ooooo! funnn strap! i hope i win:0).
This is so cool. I’m off to check them out now.
Sherri
OOOOOh, pretty! I would love one!
Hey Tara,
Love your blog. You are very inspiring to me. Love that camera strap!! :)
Good gracious, look at these commenters! Love seeing pics of you on the blog! Cute strap!! : )
Super cute photos and I LOVE the strap. Orange is my very favorite color and who couldn’t use a flower to brighten their day each time they grab for their camera!
i am a vintage JUNKIE. i LOVE IT and will “JUST BE” so dang happy to call one “my own”.
kerri