• hows about a funky giveaway? •

Posted byTara 883 Comments on • hows about a funky giveaway? •

••••••••••••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…

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  7. I just bought my first DSLR three weeks ago and I’ve been busily seeking the perfect bag for it. In my search I stumbled across Em’s camera straps on etsy—so gorgeous!—but haven’t bought one yet. I’d appreciate winning one.

  8. must…………have…………….uber……………..cool……………..strap………….

    hey tara – it’s been almost a year since you were out here in jersey land…….still lovin’ my pics,
    i think even more as time marches forward…thanks for the chance and glad you got some girly time!

  9. Oh my…..I have seen those straps sooooo many times already…..they are just absolutely darling. I definitely need to get my hands on those!!!! Thanks for sharing the site with us, of course a free one would be even nicer :)

  26. Hey Tara,
    Dannii from Aussie here, a serial stalker of your blog for a long time now! LOL! Seriously I love reading about your family and your adventures, you seem like such an awesome chick!
    I have had my eye on Em’s camera straps for a long time, I am planning on getting one in the new year when I upgrade my camera, but could not resist joining in on the fun in this giveaway. Fingers crossed!
    Dannii xx

  29. Been loving sharing (from a distance) in your lovely, sweet, best friends relationship with Em for a little while now. Thank you for reminding me how important my own best girls are in my life! p.s. my current camera strap works to hold my camera around my neck but does nothing for my image…boo. :)

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