Fashun Chronicles

So excited to share with you all my first cross promo! If you recall from my blog post last week, no worries if you can’t think back that far, I can barely even remember if I put my left contact in this morning. Yes I agree, that’s pretty bad.  Flash forward to today and I want to introduce you to an amazing photographer, Meagan Skinner, owner of M Hope Photography!  Meagan is a natural light photographer that specializes in family, children, newborn, & seniors based in Crown Point, IN. She is also is what I like to call a “Multitaskin’ Mama.” Mother of an infant, wife, real estate agent, and owner of M Hope Photography on the side…phew, I think I just got a sidecramp from just thinking about all that!  I definitely think this girl should get a “You go Glenn CoCo!” shout out (I sense a confused face, reference is from Mean Girls).

Since Meagan and I are about 700 miles away from each other, unfortunately we could not have a day of her snapping photos of me for my blog so to show off her amazing skills I gave her a photo fashion challenge of summer sandal looks for less! After presenting this challenge to Megan, she had photos to me in less than a day of an adorable pair of patent leather straped sandals from Target for under $30! Here is a look at her amazing photos:

Like what you see?  Book her for your next family photo, newborn baby shoot, or if you are a blogger that needs top notch photos taken, contact Meagan at mhopephotography@gmail.com and check out her website and Facebook page!

As I have ventured into the exciting world of blogging (I feel like I need a Crocodile Dundee kind of accent when saying that) I have not only learned so much about myself, but also the community of individuals that inspire me everyday!

It warms my heart, yes the kind of warm heart feeling when you see a puppy dog and a baby playing, which I do not recommend youtubing unless you want to waste at least 3 hours of your life and possibly a handful of tissues since tears will be rolling down your face from the impecable cuteness.  Ok, so getting back on track…I wanted to present an opportunity to friends, family, and fellow bloggers out there for cross promoting on my blog! Cross promoting you ask, welllllll what is that all about lady?

Well, even if you were not wondering…I will tell you anyway!  In the past couple of months I have seen on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and the other 8,000 social media platforms that I am on that you all are becoming mini or mega entrepeneurs in many differnent ways and I want to help promote you as well!  For example, if you have started your own blog, opened your own etsy store selling jewelry, diving into the world of makeup and hairstyling, and the list goes on!

If you feel these examples relate to you and you are looking for an opportunity to expand your outreach to build more followers and who doesn’t benefit from a bit of networking, let’s connect!  For more info on what I am babbling about you can leave a comment or e-mail me at dreamyrealistfashion@yahoo.com. If you have a friend that may be interested, please pass on!

Cyber jumping high five…your awesome and have a great week everyone!

Maybe it was the intense scrolling through DIY ideas on Pinterest or the group facetime that happened with all of my best girls in Chi-town, either way…this girl got crafty!

Of course at my usual stop at Target to pick up “toothpaste”  I found myself in the stationery section immersed in the amazing colors, patterns, all glitter everything in cards, ribbon, boxes, you name it, Target had it!  Yes, there may have been a bit of drool that I wiped from my mouth in the trance that I was in in aisle C11, but wanted to share with you all my finished product!

Since living 8 million miles away from my best fraaaaands a little hand written note with witty puns is always a great go-to and what is complete without puns than pizza charms.  Long story short, my girls and I had quite a pizza obsession in college which made me giggle when I found these adorbs pizza charms on Amazon.

See below for my little sneak peek photo story into my craft day I had writing, wrapping, and sealing without getting any grease stains on the envelope…