Lulubelle's Couture

You probably know that I"m in looooove with LuluBelle's Couture - custom handmade clothing for little girls. Sarah has several of their handmade peasant tops, long-sleeve and short-sleeve. She also has this fab-u-lous girly pantsuit with a halter top that I will shoot her in soon.

The clothing has these really neat little custom tags sewn in - am I the only one who's been fascinated by them?? They're that extra little touch.

Now thru April 8th, LuluBelle's has a 20% sale going on in their Etsy shop - check it out now!!

'Re"-Wedding Portraits

Your wedding is one of the biggest days of your life - you wait for it, hope for it, plan for it, prepare every last detail. You return from your blissful honeymoon, anxiously awaiting to see your beautiful wedding pictures. And then you do.....and, well, they don't live up to the dreams of that day.

Now, I still do not photograph actual weddings (I leave that to talented wedding photographers). But this 're'-wedding session was so much fun! They went all out - suit, dress flowers, hair, the works!

Tey were married 5 years ago, and were not pleased with their wedding pictures. She told me that they didn't even have any of their wedding pictures up at the house! So when I asked her what she was desiring from our session, she said "sweet pictures of us" so that she can 'display them proudly in her home'. I think we accomplished that....

My Little Monkey

To this point, I have kept my blog all business - session images, business updates, specials, new products, etc. But I have decided to begin sharing more about myself - my life, my family, what inspires me, and so on. It's important for clients to know more about the person behind the camera, to whom they're trusting their family memories.

so I will begin by sharing a little about Sarah, my 20-month-old (yes, 20 months today - eek!). I captured her playing with one of her favorite toys, her Fisher Price Zoo. It made me giggle too that she was wearing her little monkey pajamas. I'm amazed at how much she's learned about these animals - she knows certain animals, makes some sounds, puts them in the right spot. She's even learned to say 'seal' (and sometime she makes the sound too). And of course, ev-ery-thing must ride on the swing!

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Little baby did what?

Newborn sessions are sweet and precious, and sometimes they can afford us a good bit of laughter. Mom and dad said I could tell this story, so of course I will....

we were about halfway into the session, trying to get little S. to sleep. Dad was rocking, holding, swaying, shooshing, and luckily he was holding her with her head in towards his body and her, er, bottom end pointed away from him. Because suddenly, there was this ominous sound, and before we knew it, there is a fountain of baby poo shooting into the air from little Miss S. we all sort of looked around like "where is something we can use to catch it??...."

Then the fountain stopped. But just for a second. Then it started up again, a fabulous brown arc into the air onto their wood floor. At this point, mom is laughing too hard to even look for a towel, I just stared, and dad was afraid to move. When we all stopped laughing, we marveled that it missed dad's clothing, the carpet and my photography equipment! The little one has good aim, I"ll give her that.

Eventually we got cleaned up, calmed down, and proceeded to catch some sweet images....thanks again for the laughs, mom and dad!