Well, I just realized at 4 pm on Wednesday that I actually forgot to post yesterday! I had a very busy day and I totally forgot! So here is a picture I just finished editing from a session I had about a week ago. I will have a post about that very soon! I love this picture!
This post is dedicated to my Mom-in-law. I had asked her this summer if she would be willing to make a couple of hats for me for baby sessions. She was unsure about it but was willing to try. Well, it wasn’t long and she was addicted! She made a couple and then a couple more and a couple more. Over all she has made over twenty hats for me! I had to tell her to stop for a while because I couldn’t afford anymore! So, I decided to post pics of a bunch of the hats she has made for me.
Thank you so much Mom! I appreciate all your hard work and I love the fact that I have totally original props!!!
I was going through some of the family pictures I have on the computer that I haven’t gotten to yet, since June, and I came across these ones. Just random pictures of my kids having fun. These first ones are of Brooklyn and her cousin Carley who I watch every day for my sister while she works. The girls thought it was hilarious to stick all these barrettes in her hair, and theirs too. The next day my sister told me that she found barrettes in Carley’s diaper!
And this is what my kids did one day in JULY!!!!
Slippers, socks on their hands, approximately 3 layers of pj’s, shirts and sweaters and a soccer jersey, tights, a dress around the ankles, crazy barrettes in their hair, bags hanging from their necks, a bag on Brooke’s head with a hat on top?!?!?! Crazy kids? Oh yeah!
These past couple of days have been really nice. The sun has come out and warmed things up a bit so I went outside on Friday and played in the leaves with the kids. They love raking them and then jumping in and throwing them at each other. After this leaf fight even I was covered in leaves and we were all pulling them out of our clothes all night. At least they had fun!
Poor Carley, she has a bad cold and the kids threw some leaves on her, she wasn’t too happy!
Rebekah found a bird’s nest on the driveway, I guess it fell out of out tree?!
Well, I have decided to take the plunge.
For the past year I have heard of different photographers doing this and had considered doing this in the new year, but I decided why wait? The challenge? To post a blog post a day for a year, hence the 365- day 1. I have to admit that I was nervous about doing this, I had lots of excuses ( what if I go away, what if I run out of stuff to say, does a woman ever?, what if I don’t have enough pics….. hahaha!) I was full of them but I realized that the truth is that I’m scared of failing. I hate starting things I can’t finish and I hate failing. But honestly where would I be right now if I was too scared to do things? I wouldn’t be a Mom or a wife. And I certainly wouldn’t be doing photography! So here it goes.
I have to give my cousin Kathy credit for bringing this up again as it had slipped to the back of my mind. She has decided to try it but in a slightly different way, and she’s doing great at it. Here is her blog- http://kathy-thejourney.blogspot.com/. She is doing posts just on her family on top of the posts she does regularly. I am going to do it with my regular posts combined in it. So, somedays it will be shoots I have done, somedays it will be about my family and somedays it might even be about me. I hope through this process I can have fun and feel challenged, and you can learn more about me and my family, who we are and why I do what I do.
Please feel free to comment on my posts as I love to hear from you and find out who’s actually reading it!
Well, I’m gong to start off today with a post of Halloween. I took some time out to focus on some of our family pics and decided to do these first. I took most of these from a close up perspective as I wanted something a little different this year!
My girls are getting older now and picking a costume from the dressup box just doesn’t work anymore so I tried to take them shopping. Who can afford to buy three costumes every year? I was shocked that it would cost me at least $90 to buy costumes for them. What happened to those plastic costumes we used to have as kids with the plastic mask and plastic bag costume? Well, I told them that we couldn’t buy a new one for each of them this year and we decided that we would make their costumes. Now, I am not a seamstress by any stretch of the imagination, I have very basic skills, so it had to be super simple. So I bought a shimmery fabric for each of them (Aprox $10), a black shirt ($5 each, and they can be worn again!) headbands ($3) a package of styrofoam balls ($4.50) and some glitter glue ($4 and only used half). So for the total price of $36.50 we had 3 butterflies! They were happy, they were shiny and Mom was happy I didn’t spend a fortune. I think it worked out well and we may do the same thing next year.
OH! And here is how those pumpkins turned out, excuse the awful picture, I almost forgot to take the picture!
Until tomorrow!
I am amazed that this little guy is three months old already! I have taken pics of this couple through their engagement, wedding, pregnancy, newborn and now three month old pics. Time sure flies! Now, Charley is an interesting baby. I don’t think he likes me much. For his newborn shoot he would not settle and we didn’t get many pictures of him. This time we were hoping for a bit more. I think we did awesome! He was hesitant to smile and would not look at me, but I still think we did good.
I was very excited to try out my new christmas props that I just got from the states! Love the basket and that blanket is sooooo soft! My girls keep stealing it from my prop closet!
Haha, he so didn’t want to look at me! Even Mom and Dad are laughing about it!
Now normally I have a couple favorites from a shoot and can’t choose a favorite, but this time I have an absolute favorite, hands down! We tried this at the beginning of the shoot and it was a no go, he cried right away but at the end we tried and it couldn’t have worked out more perfect! When I saw that I got it, I got giddy, and if I actually danced, I would have. I LOVE it!!!
And here is the half second later!
This little guy likes to be naked and I took a bunch of him just laying on a blanket and decided to do a storyboard of them.
Can’t wait for the six month shoot!!!
