••••••••••••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…
ohhhh! awesome…this is too awesome. I have been drooling over her shop but can’t decide which one I want to order!
I love the camera strap! You LUCKY! And the LUCKY that wins!
Paula
its so cute and happy
Lovin’ the strap…and lovin’ the blog!
so freaking adorable! i want it!
i would LOVE one!
that one is particularly COOL!
awesome t!
tara
How adorable! If I don’t win I will definitely be picking one up from her Etsy shop.
Ooh, Tara, I’m liking your shirt. Very pretty with the rouching at the bustline! :)
I love these straps and have been eyeing them since last Christmas. Love to have one!!! Thanks for the opportunity! And thanks Em for making them.
Amy
Ooooh I’d love win one :)
I think I ordered my first funky camera strap from her when she first opened her shop! Not sure where I heard of her…It might have been from you/your blog (longtime lurker/fan here).
Fun giveaway – I never win anything, but I figured it was worth a try! :)
I would love to win this!
LOVE the new camera strap! I’ve been eyeing them in Emily’s shop for ages and really, I should just buy one – but I keep talking myself out of it…
This one is so sun-shiney perfect thought… so it would certainly be adored up here in the bleak winters of the pacific northwest.
Christall
ooooo awesome! pick me!
OMG!! I have been wanting one of these FOREVER!! I hope my name is picked!!!! :) Shelley
i so want one. if i don’t win it, i’ll have to buy one!!!
I will throw my name in the running as the straps are GORGEOUS!!!! LOVE THEM!
I want it! I want it! pick me! pick me! :) :)
Ohhhhh if I don’t win, I will NEED one of those for my birthday! And those 2 extra models? Beautiful!
i love ems straps and have been eyeballing them for awhile now!! i hope i win!!
Ooooh, pretty!
I want to be all matchy-matchy with Em’s favourite photographer!
LOVE it!! I want one!
ok I have no chance in hell to win with 333 comments already. BUT if you don’t play you can’t win, right. :-)
Hi Tara!
I LOVE your new camera strap and I would LOVE to win one just like it!
Fingers crossed.
Suzi
I want to thank you for the inspiration you give us; not just photography inspiration but life inspiration. I love that you share your life with us. You show us what it is to be a caring, spontaneous creative being.
Have a great day. Donnelly
What a lovely strap! I can see it would look perfect with my camera!
Thanks for a chance at a beautiful give-away!
Beautiful! I hope I win :)
I have drooled over her camera straps for at least a year, but have yet to buy one!!
Very cool.
Hi Tara! I love yours and Emily’s blog. I read them everyday. I have bee a huge fan of yours since I first saw you in Creating Keepsakes years ago!! Would love the chance to win! Star
I’d like to get me some kitschy strap! :)
I love your blog and I love that camera strap!
I have wanted one of her straps forever! I was getting ready to buy one this weekend when I lost my wallet! How perfect would it be if I end up getting one this weekend.
pick me… ooooohhhh ohhhhhhhhh pick me please!!!!!!!!!!!
Oooh me me me.. I wanna play :)
O.M.Gosh. What a totally cool camera strap!
Love it. Love Em for making it for you. Love
you both for offering one up to your faithful readers!
Me me me….please pick me I have wanted one for soooo long =)
I love those funky straps! She does an outstanding job!
What a super cute strap …. that would sure get the kid’s attention ;-)
seriously? seriously.
dude. that strap. how are you AND your friend so talented?
Oh that is beautiful!! I’m thinking it would look lovely on my camera:)
I’ve been wanting one of those!
Those camera straps are great. I would love one.
Yes please!! That would be AWESOME!
OK, I love it! Beats that black strap I’ve got now!!
oh my goodness…i so love em’s camera straps! and that new one of yours is adorable!! I would adore a new strap…that orange is awesome!! What a cool giveaway!
Just checked out her Etsy site and I love them – especially the pink one, oh and the blue one, oh and the green one, oh, and I love them all :)
Wow … 350 comments, it must make you proud to know that you have such a large following … Love the strap, sooooo cool!!!
That strap is so happy! Em, you have such wonderful talent! Thanks for the chance to win.