Portrait Pails are clear plastic paint pail-shaped gift items for newborn babies, children’s first birthdays, children of all ages and pets. “My ambition was to create a line of meaningful, memorable gift items that will be cherished for many years, long after the toys have broken or a child’s clothes have been outgrown,” explained Ms. Norris.
Positioned on a turquoise ladder display in the store, the display features the four different Portrait Pails.
The Bebe Bucket was designed to celebrate the birth of a baby; Cake Smash Can was created for a child’s first birthday celebration; Kiddo Can is designed for portraits of children of all ages; and Pooch Pail is offered to hold cherished photos of a family’s pet.
Each Portrait Pail contains a gift card for the recipient to schedule a portraiture session with Heather Norris Photography at her barn studio.
The pails also contain a hand-made wooden frame to hold the photograph of the baby, child or pet, plus one print to be placed in the frame. The cost for each pail is $99.
“A photo session usually costs $150,” stated Ms. Norris. “These Portrait Pail gifts provide the same high level of photography services of a regular portraiture session.”
A mother of three, Ms. Norris commented that she created these gift items because, “I understand how quickly moments pass in our lives and how very important it is to capture special moments. Once a moment occurs, it is gone forever.
At least on the bright side, I was finally able to confirm something I’ve wondered every season as I admire the adorable combo of pairing a mini dress with cowboy booties all these years. Yes, the contestants’ wardrobes on this show are styled for them. Seeing those boys lined up in a row on the couch like they’re at an American Apparel hoodie launch party or the sneak peak at the fall/winter 2014 collection of men’s coats from Canada Goose on the group date, not to mention Ben’s and Michael’s coordinated purple and grey ensembles on the two-on-one pretty much proved that beyond the shadow of a doubt. Sadly, due to budget cuts or something even more unfortunate, like Dez wanting to prove herself as a designer (to, oh I don’t know, further her own career whilst on the show?) Dez’s wardrobe is not. It’s just getting worse and worse. And worse.
The way this episode was teased to us at the beginning, I thought (hoped!) we were going to be so devastated by the end we would have confirmed that at least eight guys were serial rapists or something. But no, that action is actually going to be torturously spread out for us at a snail’s pace, all season long. Great.
The first one on one date went to Chris, who busted out his best German accent for the moment (which by the way, is not hot) and there wasn’t even a flutter of excitement stirring within me. Yes Chris is a really nice guy, and I like his confidence, he’s not bad looking, etc. But he’s so plain. So Matzah (the Jewish equivalent to calling someone vanilla and yes I am purposely busting out the Jewish terms because this episode is taking place in Germany – booyah!)
Do I need my man to open doors for me? Yes, that would be nice, thank you. Do I need him to be concerned about my stress level and do everything he can to ease any burden or pain I may be feeling? Yes. But do I need him to frolic and skip for me in a town square? No. There are really no secret ‘deal-breaker’ lists of the perfect man in my possession, where skipping in a must.
Chris handled the Bryden situation like a true gentleman – you could tell in that moment where Bryden (creepily watched and) interrupted their date, that Chris’s first reaction was totally, sincerely just nice. Personally, though Bryden is a swell guy and all that, I couldn’t have cared less that he was leaving. In fact, it was right up there with Brian having a girlfriend (who, by the way, he is apparently back together with – another giant leap forward for womankind…sigh).
Bryden took about 14 hours of screen time to come to the conclusion that it was time for him to go and after a few sniffles, a lovely dinner (though it would have been nice for someone to take Dez’s coat, no?) yet another private concert (haven’t we seen this guy before???), a brutal poem (honestly, any poem crafted and read under these circumstances is brutal – even if it’s good) and some awkward kissing which involved neither party tilting their head whatsoever, all was right in the world again. Have you guys noticed though, how desperate Dez is to kiss every guy? She is always making the first move and often it seems like she is leaping towards their faces, like she can’t kiss them fast enough. Interesting.
The next day it’s group date time and we head into the German Alps, which are unreal. I would LOVE to get onto one of those sleds and motor down that mountain, though I was pretty convinced that someone would end up with a severed head or at the very least, another broken finger (we still don’t know what happened to Michael’s thumb, right?). It seems like every guy there is convinced he and Dez share something unique and special. You’ve got James, telling anyone who will listen about how deep their connection is and then there’s Mikey, who tells us he really wants to work things out with Dez. Truthfully, I’m not sure if he’s referring to their relationship, or if this meathead just wants her to spot him while he benches, but whatever.
I was hoping we could just get right into the fun part, but of course, what’s a group date without some form of embarrassment right? Nothing like forcing a group of men to yodel against their will to prove their love to you, right? Sadly, I think that moment was the only time Juan Pablo has opened his moith in the last three episodes.
Other than crashing into each other at breakneck speeds, the fun and frolicking seemed to go off without a hitch and that hidden snow-tel (though it TOTALLY freaked me out – what if it collapses???) was amazing. It was like a hand job blanket wonderland in there! And there are many points in time on the date where either the guys were shivering under those blankets or having the first ever Bachelorette circle jerk. I guess we’ll never know.
Obviously my favourite part of the date was anything to do with Brooks – because I do heart him just a little bit and I am PRAYING he is the one she picks in the end. It hurt my heart that he witnessed James maneuvering his brick wall of a body to get cozy with Dez and I was so happy he got the rose from her in the end. Clearly though, James was pretty distraught by this fact – between his scarf, chapped lips and side flip, he looked like he’d been wandering in the Arabian desert for years.
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