Welcome to my little spot in the blogging community, or as my teenager once told me “my little dirt road trying to be a highway”.
This is my family.
photograph by Ryan Willis Photography
Before I share a little about us, I am frequently asked what camera equipment I use:
Canon EOS Rebel T2i - these are my lenses:
Kodak EasyShare M580 (the camera I use on-the-go or when the battery goes flat in my big camera)
Professional Bio:
Tonya Staab is a freelance writer and the creative mind behind the blog Create-Celebrate-Explore where she shares craft tutorials, recipes, party planning and travel tips. She aims to inspire parents to share their love of the kitchen, travel, and all things creative with their children. Her ideas have been featured on websites such as iVillage, Lifetime Moms, Canadian Family and The Daily Meal. She is a meal planning writer for Blissfully Domestic, craft blogger for Kidzui and Creativity for Kids, kids lifestyle blogger for MotherKnows, and blogger at Rusty and Rosy. She has spoken on a Creative Blogging Panel at Etsy’s headquarters, and has been published in the Triumphant Child, Guide To Raising Newborns. Tonya is also an Australian born military wife who currently resides in California with her husband and three children; twin kindergarteners and a teenager. Mud puddles and glitter don't scare her.
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Fluff and Bubble:
Me (Tonya): Aussie; champagne sipper; list maker; photographer; crafter; cake decorator; party planner; explorer; hiker; chick flick and chick lit lover; foodie; thrift and craft store addict; crime show watcher; boo boo kisser; social media junkie.
The hubby (Randy): Officer in the USMC; helicopter pilot; only child; rugby player; cigar smoker; scotch drinker; coffee addict; listener of NPR and Podcasts; big word user; post graduate school student; bike rider; hiker; grill master.
The teenager (Jayden): video game addict; text-a-holic; football player; hat and shoe collector; artist; music and YouTube junkie; lover of reality shows, scary movies, and girls.
Twin A (Marisol): she who runs the house; kindergartener; art and craft protege; tea party hostess; ballerina; lover of accessories, lip gloss, painted toe nails and pink; queen of the phrase “I can’t like that” and "that will take too long"; collector of all things girlie; cake addict.
Twin B (Flynn): kindergartener; daredevil; foodie; book reader; bike rider, train junkie; water lover; builder of tall towers; avid watcher of Phineas & Ferb; Tball player; the world is his bathroom; coined the phrase "I did it, myself".
The dog (Sparky): ankle biter; chewer of children's toys and underwear; prairie dog hunter; collector of balls; hole digger; lover of plastic buckets; escape artist; turkeys are not afraid of him.
CONTACT ME: blogbytonya AT gmail DOT com
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