Jul
4
2008
4
2008
Emily Falconbridge Giveaway!
Filed under: Giveaways
I have been an admirer of Emily Falconbridge’s camera straps for quite some time now…and when we stayed with her family in San Diego, I became the proud owner of one! Thanks Emily! 
Her straps are just too cool to pass up…whether you just started taking photos or you’ve been shooting your entire life, you need one of her straps. Why have a boring factory strap around your neck when you can look fabulous with one of Em’s?!
Here is what they look like around the necks some amazing women
Tara Whitney | Ali Edwards | Cathy Zielske
Emily generously donated the red and orange strap that you see above for a giveaway on this blog. Yay yay yay! So…all you have to do is come out of lurkerdom and leave me a comment. Any comment. Tell me what you are doing this weekend. Tell me how you found my blog. Tell me your favorite thing about summer…or something that no one would ever guess about you. It’s a free for all
I will choose the winner at random on July 11. Of course, it would be great if you would tell all the photographers you know about her site as well. Or, buy some extra straps for the photographers in your life. She is constantly updating and posting new and different designs, so be sure to check back often.
Let the giveaway begin…
Posted by Sara @ 2:33 pm | Leave a Comment
8
2008
I love your blogs and hpoe you come back through Wisconsin when you hit up the midwest again.
8
2008
Hi Sara, I have been lurking for quite sometime but first came across you on the Mothering Board as you delightfully inspired us all to declutter and organize. I can’t wait for the second leg of the tour!Starr
8
2008
Aww yay! I have seen her straps before and have absolutely adored them. They are much better than the strap you get with your camera
Fabulous!
I hope you have a splendid day!
8
2008
Love your blogs!
8
2008
I just stopped by today — and I wanted to thank you for being so inspiring. Your life, work, and family are a beacon to all of us.
Thanks for sending us in Emily’s direction too! She does great work!
8
2008
By far one of my fav artists….she brings me so much inspriation!
8
2008
LOVE both you and Emily’s blogs!! I think I found you when we were researching cloth wiping (which we now do – YEA!! and CD our lil’ babe)…Love your green Christian perspective as it’s something we’re always trying to get fellow Christians to see! My husband and I are HUGE fans of your happy foody blog – LOVE the recipes so much!!! Such yummy things for vegans!!
Thank you for sharing bits of your fam’s green life with us all!!!
I KNOW that my camera would benefit greatly from that beautiful red/orange camera strap of Emily’s!!
8
2008
I was just planning on making a stap for my camera, but I’d love to have one of Emily’s! So beautiful!
8
2008
Sara, I have been following your journey ever since Tara Whitney posted a link to your little apartment about a year and a half ago I think, maybe closer to two years. I followed you and voted for you through the contest because I thought your space was just the greatest ever. I was so inspired and could not get enough of the pictures of your little abode. We ended up buying our first little home (condo) shortly thereafter and I (embarrassing) totally copied your yellow paint and happened to find the same rainbow stripe rug online at the Crate and Barrel outlet. So I basically copied you! I could say more about how you inspire me, but I don’t want to freak you out! Thanks for your inspiring walk outside the box!
Megan
8
2008
Hi Sara,
I wanted to be a photographer for a long time. Unfortunately, being one entails a lot of money(in the country i live in, anyways)
But i splurged! And now, i own a digital camera! One step towards my dream! Straps would be a great motivation!
Cheers!
8
2008
I found my way here via Emily’s blog. I have here bookmarked. And now I’ll bookmark your blog too.
8
2008
i’ve been eyeing these straps for such a long time. love the photos too of em + her family. i hope i win!!
8
2008
Commenting. Put my name in!
(Enjoyed today!)
8
2008
My favorite thing about Summer is all the fresh produce and how we spend more time in the great outdoors. I enjoy following your family’s journeys through your websites! You are a wonderful photographer!!!
8
2008
I’ve just found your blog! Someone posted a link to your cloth tp entry at a forum I’m on. After reading, I quickly bookmarked it! Can’t wait to read more
8
2008
I have been following your trip since you stayed with my friend’s sister in Ann Arbor (Kristin and Jeff O)… I wish we could have met up in SD while you were here. I have also been following Emily’s blog too. It would be great to win a new camera strap (I take a Photo a Day, if you have a minute, check them out… http://everydaypicture.blogspot.com/). Thanks!!
8
2008
Hi Sarah!!!
I just realized you were in my old stomping grounds!!! Portland, OR. Was it raining????
Thanks for this blog – it’s one of my happy spaces!! I appreciate the research and ideas you publish and I’m looking at both your other sites for travel dreams and recipes…can’t find most of the ingredients here but it does make me more adventurous with what I CAN find. If you ever want to head south of the border – we’ll find you a place to ‘hookup’! que Dios les bendiga
8
2008
Makes me wish I needed a camera strap. Does she do guitar straps too? : )
8
2008
I’m sure she would…
Just email her and ask for some custom work! That would look great.
8
2008
Hi Sara,
I’ve been following your journey for some time now – and almost had the opportunity to meet your family on your way through Oregon, but the stars were not aligned that day. Just got back from our own family vacation in which I lost our camera somewhere in the Denver Airport. Hoping the nice folks at DIA return it to me. A strap is on my list of things to get as soon as the lost camera is returned or I get tired of waiting and go out and get a new one. There are many things I can do without- but photo documenting this amazing thing called motherhood is not one of them.
8
2008
Sara, I have been following your site for the past 4 months or so and you really inspire me. I have also been reading Emily Falconbridge’s blog (thanks to you of course) and have learned so much in the past few months. I am currently working on flushing my closet out of unnecessary items, I’m eating locally and organically and I can’t tell you how much better my life is becoming. I have become involved in a group where we are trying to promote more organic and local buying in the area and I’m working on my very own etsy shop! (also thanks to you!!!) so KUDOS and keep it up. You’re fabulous…and the best part is that you’re you!
M
9
2008
Hi Sara! My friend Chels introduced me to Emily’s blog and thats where I came across yours. Love the camera straps! and love the blogs!
9
2008
It’s been about a year since I’ve starting reading your blog. It’s amazing.
9
2008
Everyone loves a giveaway! Thank you for this opportunity, the camera straps are lovely, as is your blog!!! You are a true inspiration! Thanks! ~
9
2008
I found your blog last year (I think) through another blogger. I can’t recall which one because I read so many! I think it was the simple family.
9
2008
Hi! I found your blog from your Live Lightly Tour blog. It’s been fascinating watching your journey. This weekend, my hubby and I have a ‘couples’ only date with some friends from church. We’re going out for dinner and then off to see a free showing of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Thanks for chance to win the giveaway!
9
2008
Hello Sara. This is my first time in your blog. I found your blog through Emily’s blog and I must say that I will be bookmarking your blog. Very inspiring. I will definitely be visiting your blog again. Thanks for your inspirations.
9
2008
Hi Sarah and fam-
I noticed the vibrant camera strap and then began reading…holy smokes a give-away contest!! How cool is that…a chance to win. Well, here’s my email to ya. Hope things are going good and the weather is holding up. We’ve actually had rain here in Austin…we needed it badly.
take care,
Myra
9
2008
I found you through Emily’s blog, which i found through my sister. Great things get passed around
. You are both an inspiration to find art in the world or go and make it! thanks!
9
2008
Hello there,
i found your blog through rondonia.blogspot a few months ago, now commenting for the 1st time. nooooo, the camerastrap has nothing to do with it
)
your blog is inspiring indeed, a huge thanks for doing it! i agree in alot & have been happy that you can say that what im still thinking – we seem to have similar values.
reading about your (& others) life helped me to do a big decision: i just resign my work (nurse) & will stay another 0,5-1yrs at home with 3 kids. hmmm… money or consumption is not a priority but family is. i would rather be a “poor” stay-at-home mum than a poor + stressed working mum. nurses here in n-eu do not earn much and quitting the job makes us just slightly poorer economically – but richer in love with family. surely God looks after us!
this weekend… hopefully we are having fun with kids (+hubby) – enjoying each others company. im just missing their presence after a hard work week. the biggest ones are on holiday. in case they go bed early (??!!) i could do alot of sewing.
keep sharing!
blessings,
-sr-
9
2008
Thanks for the sweet giveaway! Love your blogs!
9
2008
Hi Sara,
Come during sailing season this time.
Well what I really, desperately need and want is a new camera. But perhaps if I get my hands on a new strap first, the camera will follow. Positive thinking right? I was asked to do a shoot for a sailing magazine and was thrilled about the assignment but embarrassed about my camera
Good to hear you all are staying on the road… you know where to dock your new wheels if you head east again
Cheers
Cindy
9
2008
I love your blog, your life style, your philosophy about life in general. I found your blog through Tara’s, then Emily’s blog.
Thank you for continuing to inspire me!
9
2008
I love your blog!! The strap is awesome!
9
2008
Hmmmm something most people wouldn’t know about me….. I’m in my teens and about to start studying to be a family herbalist. My 14 year old sister is a budding photographer and would love that strap.
9
2008
I found you too, due to Emily. What a neat giveaway! Thanks. Come for a visit – I’m having a month-long round of giveaways too.
9
2008
Hi Sara! I’ve been reading your blog for almost two years now. You know I love ya! This giveaway is receiving A LOT of comments! Cool. My favorite thing about summer is the “lazy summer vibe” that our neighborhood takes on.
So I’m throwing my name in the proverbial hat. If I win, I’m sending the camera strap to a photographer friend that just moved away. (I already bought one for myself) If I don’t win, I’ll buy her a strap anyway!
9
2008
What cool camera straps! I found you through the Our Little Apartment Blog. She mentioned you today in her post about decluttering.
9
2008
I’ve really enjoyed your blog, so much food for thought and you have introduced me to many other great blogs. What a cool camera strap! Now I just need a great camera to go with it!
10
2008
ah blinking heck – no ways i can win this – live too far away – gorgeous south africa – been following the embers girl since for ages – and followed her link to you – how lucky to go play with her for a while. i’ll add you to my list. stay well.
10
2008
me again – i found you, i found you – i actually lost the link to your blog – i initially found you via Tara’s link to your flicker – she loved your house… thank you Mrs Falconbridge for the re-link…
10
2008
I haven’t got a clue how I ended up here – the daily blogroll seems to wander off in various directions every time. I loooove these camerastraps and would die for one of my own! Thanks for giving one away!
10
2008
I used to read now and again. I saw the mention in the NYT article re: Utopian living (and getting there).
For our family, this weekend means: a farmers market trip (for maple syrup and blueberries) and cleaning out another couple of basement boxes, followed by a run to Salvation Army to rid ourselves of the unnecessary stuff! The basement clear-out is easy to do when the heat and humidity force us to the basement’s coolness. And we listen to some 70′s records while we’re down there while my 2 and 4 year olds play the drums!
10
2008
Love Emily’s straps and reading her blog and now through her yours as well. I am a scrapbooking Grandma and you young women inspire me!!!
10
2008
Sara…….adore your adventures. In fact I am waiting for my hair to grow out just a wee bit more, and I am dreading!! This weekend/ well, the 4th weekend…went to a cool spot in Indy to do some indoor rock climbing with the Poppets, and off to a friends to battle the bugs at 10:30pm to watch the fireworks. This weekend: destroying our bathroom ceiling to put a fan in!! Oh Joy!!
Blessed Be!!
10
2008
and p.s. Emily’s straps are SCRUMPTIOUS!!
10
2008
Hi Sara,
My horoscope said something wonderful was going to happen tomorrow… is this it???
Love following all your wonderful blogs!
Love,
Sam @ Loving Green
10
2008
I’ve been lurking for awhile…leaving the occasional comment. Your family has definitely inspired us and gotten us thinking. Thank you!
10
2008
Hi Sarah, I found your blog through Emily’s. I’ve been looking at her camera straps for a long time but I had to decide to spend my hard earned money on gas and groceries or a camera strap and the strap didn’t win. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Regina
10
2008
Eek! Hope I am not too late to be in the running for the camera strap;) Still loving your blog, and now Emily’s blog!
So, this week…we went to a youth rally at our church, today the Dallas World Aquarium, and tomorrow a picnic party for a friend’s birthday. Hope you are having a lovely week.
Love the beeeeuuuuteeeful colors in the camera strap!