Blog Blast - Microsoft’s “Portraits of Mom”
Perhaps you’ve envisioned yourself as a mother ever since you dressed and cuddled your dolls. Or maybe you never really pictured motherhood until you got that positive test result or received word that your baby would finally be coming home to you. Even if you’re not a mother yet, or you never will be, you’ve had a mother of your own or a motherly figure in your life. Paint for us your portrait of a mother.
Microsoft is celebrating motherhood and Mother’s Day with a “Portraits of Mom” campaign that runs from April 19-May 11, 2008, and we’re helping them spread the word.
Not only can you visit a neighborhood Windows Live Portrait Studio in San Francisco or Brooklyn where you’ll be treated to a free professional family photo that you can edit and share with your friends and family, there are lots of fun activities for moms and children happening live in the studios throughout the promotion. Stop by the photo studio or send an email to learn more details - sfstudio@portraitsofmom.com or nystudio@portraitsofmom.com
If you can’t make it to the studio in person, you can still honor your mom by submitting a photo from your Windows Live Space and invite your friends to vote for it and win prizes that every mom will enjoy! It’s simple and fun way to show your mom some love and appreciation.
For more info you can check out all the details at www.portraitsofmom.com.
Here’s how to participate:
Write a post on your blog describing your portrait of a mother. Post anytime this weekend - Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27 and include links to http://www.portraitsofmom.com and http://blog.parentbloggers.com.
Make sure to send your blog post link to parentbloggers@gmail.com and we’ll round them up right here all weekend long - so give your post a creative title!
What can you win?
A $250 gift certificate to your local photography studio of choice! Just tell us where you want to go, and we’ll get you set up.
And of course we encourage you to enter “Portraits of Mom” yourself!
Check out all of these Portraits of Mom!
A Portrait of a Mother as Hero
Crackberry Portrait of a Mother
I Want to Be a Mommy When I Grow Up
Lesson from Mom: Don’t Like Your Portrait? Re-paint It!
Meeting My Mother in the Middle
Motherhood Paints a Messy Picture
My Mother, Your Mother, His Mother, Hers
Oceans Apart - For the Sake of the Call
Portrait of a Mother…Specifically, My Mother
Three Little Letters, So Much Meaning M-O-M
Worry Is the Misuse of Imagination
I have entered the “Portraits of Mom. My blog address is http://www.theoppositeofjune.blogspot.com
[...] first blog-blast participation! Got a blog? Paint a portrait of your mother or motherhood. Go here for more [...]
[...] « Blog Blast - Microsoft’s “Portraits of Mom” [...]
[...] part of the blog blast featuring Microsoft’s Portrait of Mom I reviewed some of my favorite pictures over the years [...]
[...] again to everyone who participated in our “Portraits of Mom” Blog Blast, sponsored by Microsoft. So many beautiful and poignant [...]