Giveaway: Win Professional Photos for Your Party!

Kids Party

Photographer Central is the most comprehensive directory for finding and hiring professional photographers. It’s simple to use and you can find a photographer for any event in your life including kids or adult parties! Their site is designed to make your research process as streamlined as possible using filters that allow you to sort by price, style, genre, location, as well as an option to save businesses to a favorites group for easy comparison.

To find the perfect photographer on Photographer Central:

Specify a location and your keywords.
Start scrolling through all of the high-res photos.
If you need to narrow down your search results use the secondary filters that narrow by style, price, distance and more.
Once you find a photographer that you want to learn more about, open up their profile and you will find a full snapshot of that photographer’s reputation with recommendations submitted directly to not only Photographer Central, but also from Yelp and Google Business. You will also find the photographers contact information with the ability to message them instantly.

Are you worried about how you’ll look in your party pix? Here’s how to look your best in photos, courtesy of Photographer Central Pro Hari Simons:

Standing up straight not only long elongates your body, but it also helps you exude confidence, which is always attractive. Try pulling your shoulders back, chest forward, and extend your chin forward just slightly.
Getting photographed from below can add the illusion of a double chin so make sure the camera is at least at eye-level.
When it comes down to it, one of the best things you can do is simply relax. If you’re stressed about how you look, that feeling will come through. So just smile naturally and have fun!

If you have a special event coming up, Photographer Central has generously offered to provide one lucky Craft Gossip reader with a $50 gift card to use towards purchasing photography services from their site. To enter, leave a comment telling me what type of party you have planned that you want great pictures of. I’ll choose a random winner on June 24.

UPDATE: Lucky #7 is our winner. Thank you all for entering.

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The other day I saw a post from Pinterest about trends for summer and it said one of them was “cultivating whimsy.”

Well, I don’t know where Pinterest has been all this time, but we’ve been cultivating whimsy here at Craft Gossip for a long time. I love sharing projects that are a little different, things that make you smile when you see them, and will make you smile when you knit them and wear them or use them.

Such it is with the Tutti Frutti tee knitting pattern from Bea Creative Knits.

This cute little baby tee is worked top down in the round with contiguous shoulder construction to shape the sleeve caps. There are short rows for the neckline and folded hems with picot edging at the hemline, neckline and edges of the sleeves.

All of this would be great on its own, but then there’s the addition of a super cute fruit icon, which is added with duplicate stitch. There are a lot of options, including strawberry, banana, orange, cherries, watermelon, lemon, blueberries, kiwi, peach, dragon fruit, apple and pear, so it’s likely you can add on your favorite fruit.

It is offered in eight sizes, to fit a bust measurement ranging from 28-30 inches (71-76 cm) to 56-58 inches (142-147 cm). The design is meant to be worn with around 6.3 inches/16 cm of negative ease, but you can choose the fit you prefer. There’s also optional bust and waist shaping included in the pattern if you want to make it even curvier.

This is considered an advanced beginner or intermediate project because of all the skills involved, but it’s sure to be a lot of fun even if some of these techniques are new to you.

Grab a copy of the pattern for yourself form Bea Creative Knits on Etsy.

[Photo: Bea Creative Knits]

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