Snapshot Chronicles

Susan Getgood's personal blog

Hannah Montana Wrap-up

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Well, I was crazy enough to take three kids to the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus concert just before Christmas. With all the holiday to and fro, plus work, I just finished making souvenir HP Photo Books for the two young ladies who joined Douglas and me at the concert.

HP is one of the sponsors of the tour, which is how I got the tickets in the first place.As a result, unlike most concerts, bringing a camera was actively encouraged. Kids can create an HP Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus Memory Book at www.disney.com/hannah, and purchase a book online, or print it out at home.

Since the pages were designed for the larger HP Photo Book format, it was very easy to add our own pictures and create the books. I think it would make a nice souvenir for any Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus fan, whether they attended the concert or not.

My favorite pictures? This one, of the keyboard player snapping a pic of Miley at the end of the concert:

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And this one, of poor Douglas, who wasn’t feeling so well and fell asleep toward the end of the concert. Hard to do when you are sitting in row six but he managed it.

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WhyMommy & give Peas a chance

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cross posted to Marketing Roadmaps

Over the past week or so, a movement took shape on Twitter to support a fellow blogger Susan Reynolds recently diagnosed with a difficult-to-treat form of breast cancer. As a result of a comment she made about using frozen peas to relieve pain in the affected breast, folks started adding images of peas to their Twitter avatars in a show of support. I don’t know Susan, but many friends and acquaintances do, and I truly admire bloggers facing life-threatening diseases who write about their battle in an effort to help others.

So, I decided I would put up a new Twitter avatar. A decision made easier when the Queen of Spain’s talented husband offered to make pea avatars for people, meaning you wouldn’t be subjected to my sketchy graphics skills.

However, I decided I didn’t just want peas. I’ve written before about a courageous woman fighting inflammatory breast cancer, Susan Niebur, also known as WhyMommy, who used her blog and the community of mommy bloggers to spread the word about this rare form of cancer.

I wanted my avatar to honor both Susans.

So today, in their honor and also in memory of friends and family lost to cancer, my Twitter avatar is a pink Y, for WhyMommy, wearing a pea necklace, for Susan Reynolds.

Tags: Susan Reynolds, WhyMommy