Showing posts with label instax mini. Show all posts
Showing posts with label instax mini. Show all posts

Friday, February 25, 2011

My New Love- And It Has Nothing To Do With Hot Guys or Dogs.

Back in January, I noticed that my fellow scrapbooker/blogger AllyCakes was doing this super cool project called 52 Weeks of Instax started by The Dainty Squid... and I was instantly smitten. I needed to be a part of this. The problem was that I just got a new point and shoot camera for Christmas from my hubs and kids... how was I going to ask for the Fuji Instax Mini Camera less than a month later without sounding like a giant jerk!? Well I could ask for it from Valentine's Day... The problem with this was going to be that I would be way behind on my 52 week project... Oh well... I had to have this camera... It is basically a poloroid camera that prints out credit card size photos... As a scrapbooker, this is my favorite size photo to scrapbook! You can fit so many on a page!!!!! What is also super cool about these... you have a ledge of white on the bottom where you can write notes... so I can journal a little bit of info on there.




So I sent my hubby an email with a link to the camera telling him that this is what I would really like for Valentine's Day. Since the film gets kind of expensive, you can find a package deal on Amazon with the camera, case, and film for a very reasonable price. I thought I was giving the hubs more than enough time (over a month) to order my gift and get it here... I was also doing him a favor by letting him know exactly what I wanted so he didn't have to sit and wonder what to get me like a lot of husbands have to do.

About a week before, I brought up the camera... He said he hadn't ordered it... "You know I am a procrastinator" he said. To which I replied, "well you have a week, so get on it please!"

Valentine's Day came and went... No camera. I kept thinking, I would find it in a strange place like on my pillow, or in the bathroom because he was trying to surprise me... nope... he hadn't ordered it. After 13 years together, he still hadn't learned... He stopped at the grocery store on the way home from work and filled out my card in the driveway... The seal was still damp when he put my card on the counter. I was hurt! I was so disappointed that I actually skipped my favorite TV shows AND left the sink full of dishes (if you know me, you know that I don't do that!), went upstairs, read my book and went to sleep.

He must of known how disappointed I was and seen the sink full of dirty dishes and realized he was in big trouble because I woke up to an email confirmation from Amazon that my camera had been ordered.

Now of course I am still hurt that he doesn't know me better after 13 years but I am happy that my camera is finally here!!!!

I love it soooo much!

Since I am so behind on the 52 week project... I think I will just do a Weeks of Summer Project with the kids and make a book for each of them.

Anyway, here are the first pictures that I took in the car when I opened up the camera... Here is an example of the size photos that the camera takes.

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