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For anyone one out there with kids, you've come to the right place because I'm specializing in children's photography. If you are looking for someone with a knack for working with kids, a special "child-whisperer" type aura, and the ability to ALWAYS make a kid smile... I'm the one for you!! Just take a peek at my work:

Just imagine your child in this beautiful shot.

capturing the love between siblings...


These memories are FOR LIFE... so you've found the right person for your next shoot!

But really I did manage to capture a few nice ones today:








ps: Jen, we should have gone with "conflict"...

Letter to Santa

I thought it would be fun for Abby to write a letter to Santa this year. So I created this:


I'm just not sure if she will get it, but hey worth a try eh?

Mommy, I want a Gingerbread House...

Uh, oh! Abby uttered those terrifying words to me yesterday. My heart stopped, I started to panic, breaking out into a cold sweat. "Maddie (her friend at daycare) has one... I want one like her..". I had flashes of my "gingerbread house" a la Martha last year - burnt, overdone rock like figures that sort of resembled gingerbread men; Gingerbread house parts, three walls and only one roof piece (of course I didn't make the right parts to actually put the house together); Lots of sticky royal icing, which hardened into granite before I even got it on the house. I could go on and on.... And I wasn't even working at the time, so presumably I had more time to do this! Now I'm officially on a mission to find a Gingerbread House Kit. Please if any of you out there, living in Ottawa, see a Gingerbread House Kit, let me know. I need it! Or, Mom, if you want to make one and bring it over, I'll pay you!! :) We could all decorate it together, just imagine the fun we would have.... please!! (can you tell I'm begging now?)

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Pioneer Woman had a short tutorial on how to quickly fame a photo, and I liked it! this will probably be my new frame for photos now:

Is it Wed?

It's my Mom's Birthday today! Happy Birthday MOM!!! Here she is with Abby looking at photos.



It's been a busy week... taught/took 5 spinning classes, working all week and we have Eric's Christmas party tomorrow night.. wow will I ever be tired on Saturday. 3 of us are sick also, started with me, coughing, went to Gillian, now Abby came down with it today... I hope she doesn't break out into a fever. I guess it's the start of cold and flu season.

I took this photo last week, but never posted it.

Off to bed.. blog more on Friday, since tomorrow we are out.

"Studio" Set up

I'm off to bed so I'll save the weekend recap for later... but I just wanted to share these from the weekend. The short of it is, that I set up my make shift "studio" in my living room.. basically a black bed sheet and dark brown curtains (which the girls though was a tent/stage and proceeded to play in it instead of sitting down quietly like any toddler model would... I mean really who raised these kids????) Anyway, it was about 2:30 Sunday by the time I got everything set up to my liking and of course had to get Eric to model for me first: (yes that is a smirk...)

Eric gives me his best "Blue Steel" look

I love how this turned out!! The catch lights were perfect!
Now if I could just get her to smile...

This was the best of the 3 I got of Abby
before she proceeded to chase, Gillian
around the backdrop! I love it!

Can't wait to set it up next weekend and try to bribe them into sitting for me... should be fun! Maybe I need to take photos of other people's kids... Anyone game to sit for me??

Organizing and Backing Up

I have been falling behind on organizing my digi supplies and backing up my photos, so I'm going to spend this evening doing that... fun! Knowing me, I'll probably get distracted by the photos and end up posting some or scrapping some, but hey it's all part of the process isn't it! I'm not even sure where I am on my DVD backups. I have a feeling I haven't done any since the beginning of the year! Yikes. Luckily I back up to my EHD and to Carbonite, so I hope that is good enough for now. But it's on my to do list to back up to DVD and give copies to my parents for safe keeping! Yes, I'm rather paranoid....

Off to burn!

Some photos to share.

I'm too tired to write about the weekend, so I'll just share a few nice photos I took with my new camera (which I love soooo much!!)

Uncle Art was up for a visit
I just love the expressions on everyone's face in this one.

We tried to get the two of them together, unfortunately
the cheering crowd was not standing beside me! So they
are looking the wrong way!

Gillian

Almost looks like a mug shot??...but I thought it was a neat one.

Employing the "Close your eyes, then OPEN" technique.
you would have thought it was the "close your mouth, then OPEN" technique!
Cute none the less!

I have more, but I'm going to bed...