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Walk with me, Talk with me – Fitness Journals

I’m so excited to announce that I’m starting a new blog series called “Walk with me, Talk with me.” It’s going to be a place where I’m just going to be completely me, talking to my friends about whatever pops into my mind. It could be about business, feelings, fitness, food, struggle, triumph…Who knows! Sometimes I’ll write, sometimes we’ll do video…Who knows! 😛

This week I’m going to be talking about something that I’ve created that is near and dear to my heart – our Food and Fitness Journals. I am so passionate about this particular product. It is something that I use every single day and put my entire heart and soul into. Draft after draft, millimeter and millimeters of adjustments, test after test, I wanted it to be 3 main things: well designed, easy to use/customize, and functional.

With that being said, I’ve created a little walk through of my journals. Talk a peek  🙂

CO Fitness Journals from Carissa Ortega on Vimeo.

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2015 Holiday Release is Here!

Preparations for Holiday 2015 has been a big struggle. Between transitioning to working more on CO and having Charlie working at Ninong’s full time it’s been quite the ride. Things keep coming up, personal life gets in the way, huge tree branches threaten our home…you know, the usual.

We have some totes, cases, and art prints ready for gift giving. Purchase them early so you don’t have to stress out about shipping deadlines! We’ll be posting our holiday shipping deadlines next week.

Though I wanted to produce more cards this year I feel like we put out some really fun holiday cards. Quality over quantity right? Click on the image below to see the fun holiday cards we have available now in our shop! They are also available in boxes of 8.

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Video Prep

This week I’ve been prepping to do some short informational videos of our CO Fitness Journals. Some people have been asking how I personally use them so I thought I’d share my journey with them for the past 3 months. Truth be told I am SO awkward in front of the camera! Whether it be photo or video it’s the same. Probably because I’m extremely self conscious about my physical appearance. I’ve done a few Youtube videos for CO in the past but they weren’t serious and I am NOT happy with them at all. They were filmed on my iSight camera on my laptop and the quality was meh.

Because of this, Charlie is going to help his lil’ ol’ wifey out and make me a tripod. I found this tutorial by DIY Blog Stalker on how to make an overhead camera mount. This way I could stay out of the camera. 🙂 This was the simplest tutorial ever and it cost us less than $6! A tripod arm/extender could range anywhere from $50-$160 and my hubby made mine for $6. What a steal!

We had this piece already from our octopus tripod. You could buy this piece for less than $5.

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It took us less than 30 minutes to cut everything and piece together. So easy guys!

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