psst

i don't really get pictures of....

• babies in fruit bowls
• families in jeans and white shirts and flip flops at the beach
• couches sitting in the middle of fields for no apparent reason
• slightly unstraight horizons
• dull greyish random body part collages especially belly buttons and ears that look like police evidence photos
• people with their heads chopped off on purpose
• fake mustaches (ok mustaches in general - Dr Phil sans mustache... sooo much better!!)times 100 for finger mustaches - how i hate them with a ketchup frowny face on top
• babies looking about as comfortable as a pound of bruised apples in a net shopping bag
• newborn babies propping themselves up with their hands while sitting on their feet (because don't all newborns do that naturally :)
• the backs of families when they aren't even turning to glance back
• babies on bookshelves.... (whyyyyyyyyy?????)
• kids with airbrushed vinyl-looking faces and over brightened eyes

but i do really love pictures of...

• shiny beaches (with absolutely straight horizons)
• parent and child love
• kids with bare shoulders
• nose wrinkles and gap-toothed smiles
• anything that spells anything sweet except twee things like hope/faith/live/laugh
• comfy babies snuggled in awesome snuggly blankets in snuggly beanbags with curled up toes
• children and their pets
• baby toes
• kids sitting in big oak trees with magnificent swirly bokeh
• contrasty kids against white backgrounds
• kids being very animated against brightly colored brick walls
• kids reading their favorite books
• pretty much anyone/anything sleeping - but especially kids :)
• insane close-ups of raindrops on roses

ok back later... off to joanns for fabric. for real this time - i am not not going!!!