House of Bennetts

As you all know, we wrapped up our Not Your Momma's Gratitude Challenge in November. Since last week was our money week, I decided to make this week a photography week! Get ready for an image overload. I asked the two other participants in the photo challenge to share their four favorite photos from the challenge a little about themselves.

Stacey:

It almost isn't fair that Stacey participated in this challenge because she has two of the cutest kiddos of life and some serious photography skills to boot. Here's what she said about her favorites...

"I love the movement one because I was really able to capture everything in flight."

Movement

"Smile was a fave because of all the colors I was able to capture. And the scene was pretty as well."

Smile

"Something New was so fun because the editing I did made it look like a classic picture."

Something New

"Technology - loved this because it was such a crisp and clean B/W picture. The funny thing about both of these pics is that they are the opposite of what you would expect. New is faded and Technology is B/W."

Technology

Debbie:

Debbie is a friend of Stacey's who also has some great camera skills. She says...

"I'm a mom of 2 girls, ages 6 and 15 months old. I absolutely love family and kid/infant photography. When my husband purchased me my first DSLR camera 3 years ago, I couldn't get enough of taking photos of my girls. To my surprise, I had many people asking me if I used a professional photographer for all of my photos. To their surprise, it was ME! Throughout this last year I have really committed to using the manual setting on my camera and have started to have a better understanding on lighting. I would like to improve on landscape photography and to achieve more crisp and sharp photos on my portraits."

Her favorites are leaves, favorite color, movement, and smile!

Leaf 1 Favorite Color-Chihuly Movement-2 Laughter

Treana:

Treana is me and I just love taking pictures and trying to get better at it. I am currently teaching myself Photoshop and trying to improve everyday.

This is my favorite room! It represents so much work that we've put into this house.

This is my picture for Gratitude and I took it of Sam and Avery.

Leaves. Clearly the winner.

Hands... my husband's. Love him.

You can see all of our gratitude challenge pictures on our Facebook page! Which ones are your favorites?

WOOT WOOT! We are back with the best of because my whole statistics thing has successfully migrated over from the old blog! WOOT! Let's nerd out y'all.

In the month of July we had 5,553 unique views on this little blog of ours. We also have a new most viewed post ever: Painting a Metal Front Door... lots of lovely folks out there have had a lot of metal painting questions lately, so keep em coming! The painting a metal front door post has now overtaken the previous champ: Rustoleum Countertops. You had a good run countertop post. You really did.

Aside from getting your paint on, you all were super interested in what jams I have been road tripping to (number 5) and the perfume I am digging (number 4).

Perfume

The third most viewed post was the DIY Onesies tutorial and I hope that you'll share the crazily cute baby goodness getting made as a result! Remember: baby onesies, adorable, kryptonite.

onesies

The runner up spot goes to the Throwback Thursday of all Throwback Thursdays: the Chore Chart for Adults. Get your clean on!

You super fans also reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally wanted to win some of Anna Moor's awesomeness, because taking the top prize for most views in July was her giveaway!

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