Gralyn J. Photography

This recipe is better than salt dough! I’ve been looking for something for the last few years and this year I finally found one.  1/2 cup corn starch 1 cup baking soda 3/4 cup water Put it all in a pot over medium-high heat. Mix continuously until a dough forms. When all of the water is absorbed, put it onto a cutting board and use a spatula to squish it into dough.  Wrap it in Saran Wrap and let it sit about 10 minutes to cool.  Then you can roll it out on parchment paper and make your ornaments! Don’t forget a straw to make a hole if you want to hang them.  Put on parchment lined baking sheet and bake at 170° for an hour to an hour and a half.  Flip and repeat to get rid of moisture.  When they’re done and cooled you can paint them or leave them as is. I painted this one and sealed it with Mod Podge.  You can use this for babies, pets or just use cookie cutters to have some new ornaments to paint!

 Parents! It could be your first Christmas or your third with your little one- But photos are always so cute with them and they make a lovely lasting memory.  It’s our first Christmas with our little man and of course I wanted to do some Christmas themed photos with him (Usually I only have the dogs, cats and horses to bug for these).  The best part about these photos is they’re SO easy and if you want to do them yourself you don’t even need anything fancy.  I started at the dollar store. They have Christmas stockings, hats, boxes, bows, little ornaments- Anything you might want to make your vision happen. All I did was grab a handful of stuff I had from photoshoots past, set up a white sheet backdrop, and scatter some ornaments. This first photo was particularly tough because our little guy is sensitive to everything right now and took a long time to sleep soundly enough to get this shot.  You can play with coloured backgrounds, or just keep it solid. Remember,...

Photo by Krystina Lynn Photography  When Caleb and I got engaged the first question that many people asked was “Are you pregnant?”. Let’s backtrack a ways… Caleb has been my best friend since we were in grade 7. We met in middle school and became quickly inseparable. He moved away for about a year and it was one of the dullest years of my life. We went through high school together, branding pens, nights out, double dates (he with his girlfriend and me with my boyfriend). He was my short friend and I was his chubby friend (my words, not his).   After we graduated I stayed around the Okanagan and applied to schools there. He moved to Alberta. We talked daily, like we always had and the days we didn’t chat we always made sure to catch up later in the week. He came back to the Okanagan to visit his family and seeing him again made me realize that I didn’t want to be without him ever again. Life fell into place when he went back to Alberta and quickly realized the same thing about ...