I'm excited to introduce new (old) work today. I took this photo, Red paintbrush with mountain view, two years ago at Vail Pass overlooking Colorado's Tenmile Range. It's now available here as a print, framed art, stretched canvas, stationery, pillow or iPhone/iPod/iPad/laptop case or skin. As always, please contact me for custom sizing.
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Last week I announced the opening of my new photo shop on Society6. I've been steadily adding photos and will be featuring some of the new additions here. This gorgeous blue morpho butterfly is one of the stars of my Counting at the Museum board book. Can you guess which number it represents? That's right: seven.
I took this photo several months ago at the Museum of Life + Science in Durham, NC, but I've got butterflies on my mind again this week; we just attended an incredible fundraiser for the museum's butterfly house. How lucky we felt to stroll around and observe such a fascinating place while it was empty of other people and we weren't chasing kiddos around. This blue morpho photo is available here as a print, framed art, stretched canvas, stationery, pillow or iPhone/iPod/iPad/laptop case or skin. As always, please contact me for custom sizing. I'm thrilled to announce that Calm Cradle Photo & Design has just opened a shop on Society6. Now you can purchase not only prints but framed art; stretched canvas; stationery; pillows; and cases and skins for iPhone, iPod, iPad and laptop. Society6 does all the production work, which translates to lower pricing for you. Yippee!
I've been busy filling the shop with older work as well as new photos, but it will take some time to post my entire collection and rework this website. I hope to keep the shop dynamic by continuously adding new work, so check back often. As always, please contact me if you are interested in custom-sized prints or stationery or would like to purchase one of my photos that has not yet appeared in the shop. From now through 7/14/13 you'll get free shipping on most products in the Calm Cradle Photo & Design Shop. Click on any shop link in this post to receive the discount. (You must order through one of these links to activate the discount. This offer excludes framed art prints, stretched canvases and throw pillows with insert.) Scrambling to finish your holiday shopping? Here's a roundup of gift ideas for you, whether you prefer to buy or make your gifts. To buy Want to give the gift of nature photography but aren't sure which images and sizes your friends and family would like? There's still plenty of time to put Calm Cradle Photo & Design gift cards under the tree. (You can print them yourself.) And for each gift card purchase of $50 or more, you'll receive a free 8x10 print of your choice from my portfolio (a $41 value). I'll ship the print for free to you or a friend. Here's how it works: Between now and December 25, 2012, purchase a gift card of $50 or more. As soon as I receive your payment, I'll email you asking which 8x10 print you'd like and where to send it. (I can no longer guarantee prints will arrive before Christmas, but they will ship directly from the printer.) To make Have a little time to get crafty this week? Here are a few simple things I've made and written about this year that could be nice gifts. Above: No-sew tutu. Below left: Christmas stocking embellished with bells and blanket stitching. Below right: Personalized yarn wreath ornament with felt flowers. Below: Stamped gift tags. Below left: Heirloom display. Below right: Photo plaque. Happy Holidays!
Cricket searched high and low for the perfect Christmas tree. Now that it's standing in our living room, I'm decking the halls and feeling jolly. So I'm offering another holiday freebie and more discounts. FREE 8x10 print of your choice with a gift card purchase of $50 or more. Are you thinking of giving the gift of artwork but not sure which prints to select? Consider purchasing gift cards to Calm Cradle Photo & Design for your friends and family. For each gift card purchase of $50 or more, you'll receive one free 8x10 print of your choice from my portfolio (a $41 value). I'll ship the print for free to you or a friend. (Gift cards are electronic, so you don't have to worry about whether they’ll make it under the tree in time.) Here's how it works: Between now and December 25, 2012, purchase a gift card of $50 or more. As soon as I receive your payment, I'll email you asking which 8x10 print you'd like and where to send it. Two new featured photo discounts + four ongoing discounts: 25% OFF Now through December 15, 2012, receive 25% off the print price of any size of the following six photos. If you are interested in purchasing a canvas print, please contact me for pricing. Vibrant trail is one of my most popular photos, taken in Summit County, CO. You can see a canvas print of it hanging in my toddler bedroom tour. Baby giant tortoises acting tough 2 is another popular photo, taken in the Galapagos Islands. (You can find the entire baby giant tortoise series here). Need more gift ideas? Check out these simple DIY projects: personalized wreath ornament, no-sew tutu, photo plaque, heirloom display and gift tags.
I'm excited to offer several more holiday discounts today, so you can cross some shopping off your list! FREE 8x10 print of your choice with a gift card purchase of $75 or more. Are you thinking of giving the gift of artwork but not sure which prints to select? Consider purchasing gift cards to Calm Cradle Photo & Design for your friends and family. For each gift card purchase of $75 or more, you'll receive one free 8x10 print of your choice from my portfolio (a $41 value). I'll ship the print for free to you or a friend. Here's how it works: Between now and December 25, 2012, purchase a gift card of $75 or more. As soon as I receive your payment, I'll email you asking which 8x10 print you'd like and where to send it. Two new featured photo discounts: 25% OFF From now through December 15, 2012, receive 25% off the print price of any size of two new photos: "Japanese magnolia in orange and yellow" (above) or "Yellow leaf against blue" (below). I took these photos on our recent trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains. If you are interested in purchasing a canvas print, please contact me for pricing. Don't forget the two ongoing featured photo discounts below. Now through December 10, 2012, receive 25% off the print price of any size of "Dragonfly silhouette" (below top) and "Red dragonfly" (below bottom).
Don't you love how children are in constant awe of nature, always drawn to smelling pretty flowers or inspecting interesting insects? My toddler is forever reminding me to soak in the intricate details of the life surrounding us. This holiday season, consider giving the gift of a bit of nature that doesn't make a mess or require feeding. How about one of these new dragonfly images? (You can read about where I snapped these photos here.) From now through December 10, 2012, receive 25% off the print price of any size of "Red dragonfly" (above) or "Dragonfly silhouette" (below). If you are interested in purchasing a canvas print, please contact me for pricing. This featured photo discount is the first of several large discounts I'll be offering this holiday season. Keep an eye out for the next one, which I'll post November 5.
Dear lovely readers,
This post is for you. It is a thank you note for visiting Calm Cradle. Whether you're a regular, occasional or first-time reader, you inspire me! Thank you! Nine months after launching my blog and shop—don’t forget my little shop, which I’ll be updating soon—I’m happy to report that my readership has grown, and continues to grow, well beyond my expectations. I'm also happy to report that life with two babies is beginning to fall into more dependable patterns, allowing me to carve out a bit more time for regular blogging. (So what if I've pulled together 90 percent of these posts while feeding the baby?) It's always a little surprising to see which posts receive the most hits. Sometimes they are the ones closest to my heart (people love photos of my girls, which makes me smile) and other times they are things I pulled together quickly just to keep some momentum going. Oh, and it seems readers can't get enough of DIY posts. Regardless of which posts are most popular, I'm thrilled to have a venue for sharing some photos and ideas that would otherwise remain tucked away on a hard drive or in a notebook. As the end of the year draws closer, I'd like to share some goals I'm formulating for the upcoming holidays and 2013. (The crisp fall air is giving me a kick in the pants to get organized for exciting holiday-related posts!) So here goes: 1) Be more deliberate in selecting subjects for posting. Until now I've given myself license to write posts on whatever sounds interesting and manageable given my primary job as a full-time mom. I'm still going to do that but am also going to try to be more mindful in varying the posts between portraits, DIY, nature photography, home projects, travel and random motherhood musings. In doing so, I hope to keep you reading regardless of which types of posts are your favorites. I even created an editorial calendar (I know, I know—so professional.) 2) Focus on writing "my love letter to my family." In my post last Valentine's Day, I wrote: "Despite the specific reasoning for each home improvement task we take on, I now consider all of them words or phrases that make up the ongoing love letter my husband and I are writing to our family. That thought makes it all worthwhile, because it’s our hope that the home we create will be our kids’ safest, happiest and most restful place on earth." Sometimes I feel like my blog is all over the place with no common theme tying it together. But after reviewing nine months of posts, I realized that if I consider my blog a documentation of this "love letter," and this love letter includes not only the creation of our physical home but also the activities, surroundings and emotional support we offer our children as the broader perch from which they view the world, then this blog does indeed have a theme. Moving forward, I'll ask myself whether each post contributes to my broadened love letter—and whether it might inspire yours. 3) Post once or twice each week. I hope to post Mondays and either Wednesdays or Thursdays, so you'll have something to read during the week when you're procrastinating at your desk or need a breather from attending to kids. I'll take breaks during vacations, holidays and when my family is experiencing another plague, which seems to be every other day this time of year. 4) Spur comments, conversation and community. In my original welcome post, I wrote: "I’d love to start a dialogue on this blog about the process of creating nurseries and homes that serve as peaceful, thought-provoking refuges for our families." But in truth, I've been shy to try to strike up conversations with you; I'm afraid no one will participate. Now that I know—in an anonymous, statistical way—I have readers out there, I want to encourage you to speak up. Be the first to comment on a post to make others comfortable! Let's create a dialogue together. Thank you, thank you for visiting Calm Cradle! Above: Painter at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. (Captured with iPhone.) Below: Hawk over pasture on Sunday morning. (Captured with iPhone.) We're sponsoring a September giveaway, but you only have three more days to enter! You could win a free 8x10 print of your choice from our entire selection. To participate, first "like" the Calm Cradle Facebook page. Then enter the giveaway at Smock-A-Palooza.
Our forecast is calling for triple digits this weekend, and my mind is on water. It will be too hot (104 degrees!) to take the kids to the beach, so I suppose we'll have to settle for splashing in Cricket's wading pool on the back deck early each morning.
For those of you craving some time in the surf, enjoy 15% off any size of this photo, Silhouetted pier, taken at Wrightsville Beach, NC, now through July 15. |
My new book is out! Click to learn more about it.Hello thereI'm Julia Soplop, writer and photographer. I believe there is something profound in bearing witness to moments of joy and pain in others’ lives. My husband, three girls and I live outside of Chapel Hill, NC. You can read more about me here.
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