In this era of digital cameras, Josh and I print out less and less photos and end up just storing them on the computer or in an online album. We have a huge number of digital photos of Pooky but only a handful of them actually printed and displayed on our walls and tables. It’s definitely something we need to get better at doing since seeing an image digitally can’t ever really replace seeing one hung up and nicely framed.

Lisa Golightly is the artist behind the portrait art offered through Kiki & Polly, and she takes this one step further by weaving digital photos of children’s faces into acrylic paintings. Each piece is hand-painted onto canvas with your choice of fun and whimsical scenes which includes individual portrait scenes as well as sibling and family portrait scenes. You can also have her create a truly custom portrait painting.

Her work is really quite lovely and unique. She also offers gift certificates which would make a wonderful baby shower gift. Price: $115-305 depending on canvas size.

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