Brothers

Meet Sam and Jesse, the sons of a wonderful friend of mine. They came allt he way down to see me when I was in Sydney for a family session and I think we gossiped more than I took photos!

Sam was a deight to photograph, he was easy to direct and trick! He is the same age as my second girl, and so cute. His gappy teeth are just adorable! Jesse, at 10 weeks, is just a delicious ball of gorgeousness!! What a tubber! Im so glad he fell asleep, sleepy baby shots are just beautiful. I of course picked him up for a snuggle...and nearly kidnapped him. He makes me clucky.

Jo and... Gio

Jo and I have the same best friend. But this was only the 2nd or 3rd time we have ever met! In all these years, our paths just havent crossed so it was so wonderful to spend some decent time with Jo to see her interact with MY best friend. Just the same as me really, although I secretly know our best friend loves me more than Jo. She is hysterically funny and SO inspirational. She has just run a marathon in the Blue Mountains - 52kms. Amazing!

We spent some time at her place first with her husband Gio the seal puppy, he's so cute. I wanted to rub his furry seal head and smell it (Im a smeller). They met while Jo was living in Italy and got married. I'd just like to go to Italy let alone meet and fall in love with a cute Italian Stallion! We then headed into the city for a glorious time in beautiful Sydney. Jo was up for anything, and even let me call her Sheeba when lots of people were watching us. I got some amazing shots, it is so good to shoot adults once in a while...

Home again home again, jggity jig!

What a week, jammed packed full of photos and meeting new people and rushing and shopping and eating and laughing. I had such a good time away. Everyday was fun. Apart from our mamoth trip home today, we are absolutely buggered.

Of course I had fun, look at just two of the sweet girls I got to photograph. The first is Elena (Lenny) who is 5 weeks old, little dolly. She is just beautiful. And the second is 'Luci-nahnah' (Luciana), the most gorgeous girl. We went on a fairy hunt and she was not falling for it, she even said "There's no fairies here, I'm going back upstairs" at one stage!

Will be updating daily, have so much work to do but owe some sneak peeks to heaps more people!

Things I have done while away Part II

Fun day today, I met the most glorious little bubby girl, Elena (Lenny). Little dolly, I cannot wait to get home to proof!

Other things I have done:

Bought the nearly 2 year old a pair of GREEN and YELLOW asics trainers. They are the coolest shoes I have ever seen. And far more money than I would spend on myself.

Had a tick picked out from the side of my face. Started stinging, we didnt know what it was and when it came out (finally) the splinter had legs! Eeeeek, glad we got it out, imagine if I just left it!

Had my best friend and her best friend (second best friend) picked at my blackheads and pimples like apes.

Ate the BEST fish and chips in Manly at 10.30 this morning. Maybe it was my post fish and chip high that made me buy the very expensive toddler shoes. I hope he doesn't get mugged at daycare for them...

Have been away since Friday and have been very busy!! I have photographed some lovely people and some ultra gorgeous kids. I am absolutely buggered!! Trying to have an early night tonight.

Am meeting another wonderful photographer on Tuesday, her blog is HERE. We're going to swap kids and photograph eachothers which will be great. She is an amazng photographer with beautiful children so am looking forward to that!

Things I have done while I have been here...

- reconnected with 2 old friends from school. One who I havent seen since I was 15, one since I was 16

- eaten a very expensive chicken buger that has far too much chilli sauce on it, so not worh the $10!!

- Gotten slight whiplash in the car when The Husband slammed on the breaks as I was turning around to tend to one of the children

- Gotten lost on the way to a clients house

- Bought lots of fabric to learn to sew with. But I am a very basic sewer, and the machine I have access to is just CRAP. Nice fabric though.

- Met with a group of friend for a girls day, and again spent too much money on an average meal.

- Walked to the beach, saw 3 chairs in council clean-up that I would have used for absolute certainty as props, but have nowhere to put them to bring them home.

Busy busy!! Very tired so better head to bed...

It's not hard when the kids are so cute

Had a fun afternoon with my favourite kids. Mine and my friends' 4. The Autum sun was amazing, so soft and beautiful. I was once told by a photography teacher that in Italy the sun is so much less harsh than in Australia, the shaddows are so soft you could shoot in full sun and it would be fine. The sun this afternoon was brilliant, caught the girls' hair just perfectly.

We've always got a tribe around us, they all get along quite well so it's fun. It seems to be a regular Wednesday afternoon thing, kids are home all day and I need to get them out of the house before I rip my hair out! My eldest exclaimed one day that thier 'entire place is like a massive playground!!'.

Slacker!

I have a good excuse. I'm busy! I am trying to organise my house, so that it actually isn't just organised chaos. I need to make things easier to maintain. So Vinnies has 4 new bags of clothes that we do not need, I had endless bags of crap from the kids rooms. Next is our room - scary!!! It took all of Friday, so in between that and proofing I have been flat out. Those of you waiting for proof discs, it won't be too far off.

Am heading to Sydney this Friday and I still have 2 sessions available for last minute bookings!

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I had a lovely session this morn, grotty weather though. It was so cold, it looked like it was about to snow.

Eliza is a client I have photographed 3 times before as part of a package. I photographed her at newborn, 3, 6 and now 12 months. Her sister is just as gorgeous, they are absolutely beautiful girls. Lizey is a wild woman, and Macey is such a sweetie. She told me a wonderful, inspiring story this morning about "a crow that was eating a dead kangaroos guts out". Lovely!

Layne

(Hope I spelt his name right!)

Oh, what a time waster this little guy was. Absolutely beautiful baby, I could have stayed and stared at him all afternoon. He even made me a wee bit clucky, not enough though! Although not sleepy at all, he was nearly 5 weeks old and so content and very happy to take in the world around him. I have never, ever encountered a baby so happy being nude, he was fine and didn't make a peep.

Gorgeous boy, and very loved. This session was a gift voucher and includes the new Cupcakes 2 session deal. He will have another session with me included in the one session price, up until he is 6 months old. I can't wait to go back and stare at him some more...

WINTER OFFER!!

The people of Forbes have really embraced Cupcakes Photography and I never hear anythng but wonderful things from people. It really is a great feeling knowing people love the work that I put in such huge efforts to produce. It is so much more than taking a few snapshots and printed them out!

As a thankyou I would like to offer a Winter Special to the people of Forbes and surrounding areas (within 30km of Forbes). Many people think winter is too cold for family portraits but clear skies and beautiful days make it ideal! Esepcially with gorgeous winter scarves, beanies and jackets as props.

Starting today May 5th, until the end of July (July 31st) I am offereing $50 off all Maternity, Newborn, Children and Family of 4 portrait session prices and 10% off ALL prints, canvases and products. This is a huge saving for those wanting lots of prints! Contact me though the website - link located to the right ------------------------------>>>

Maternity sessions now INCLUDE a newborn session. If booking just a newborn session, this now includes a free session up until the baby is 6 months old.

In preparation for the winter special, I happened to bump into a past newborn client and her paretns. Callie blew me away, her soft skin, her amazing eyes, her chubba cheeks and those lips!!! I begged her Mum to let me dress her in a glorious winter hat and let me snap away. She is absolutely beautiful and such a happy girl and a total poser. She's a pro at 7 months! Thanks Em xx

Maceys Special Day

Macey was Baptized yesterday, so what better excuse is there for photos when you are all dressed up already??

Her brother Jake and I went on a secret mission, to eat Smarties where Mum couldn't see us. He was a Smartie kind of guy, I knew we'd need serious bribes to get him to co-operate and my, it worked. I got some beautiful portraits of him.

Macey - 7 months old and already such a character. She was a riot! So much personality, I laughed and laughed last night while selecting images for edit. I just HAD to include an outtake in this post, she was a classic!