I chopped off the locks!

My hair was a third down my back.. but no more!



Also, it appears I cannot take a picture of myself anymore without looking like a total douche.

Party time

We hit up Amelia's 4th birthday party yesterday and I spent a good chunk of it snapping cute little faces on the camera.



 



The more pictures I take of kiddies, the more i want to do it as a job.

30 days of photos - Day 29: Pride

When I look at him sometimes my breathe catches in my chest. I just can't believe that I made this gorgeous creature.

30 days of photos - Day 28: Family

The other day Simon and I spent ...far too long.. trying to get Zander and Evie in the same picture so we could get a print done for his Mum.

Yeah, The only pictures we got were either screaming babies or Zander making a grab for the camera while Evie puked.

Yay!

I kinda do love this picture though!!

30 days of photos - Day 27: My favourite colour

 Good god I'm behind on posting. I have 4 days worth of the photo project to upload, a word or two about my new website layout (what do you think??) and photography pricing, pics form today's party not to mention the oodles of flower porn i took over LAST weekend AND the family get together I was at. Sheesh. I'm pretty sure there is also something else which I've since forgotten about.

Anyway here is day 27, my faovurite colour.



Seriously, i wracked my brains for hours trying to decide what colour was my favourite, but it really changes on a daily basis. I like pink ALOT (funny, i used to hate it as a little girl), and kermit green is a go to favourite colour i guess. But i really love a sunny yellow or ..i absolutely LOVE blood red...

So, I took a photo of Horatio, the rainbow sock monster that guards Evie's cot at night.

♥ list

I seriously cannot get over this image by Heather Evans Smith.

Go fan her on facebook, like right now!

 OMG what awesomely pretty pumpkins! Good old Martha.

Love this image too! Beautiful Lucy being a water nymph.

Curious about this Absinthe lip balm
from ForStrangeWomen on Etsy.

Need something to protect our ipod touch,
like this pretty cool ipod/phone/wallet case yoke from Kapomcrafts.

 Love this 'Sadie avocado green headband' by Paisleelane.

Like the idea of this Wrap Dress that you can do multiple ways.
Awesome for summer!

 ♥ this shirt! 'Reach for the stars' on Threadless.com.
Incidentally it is inspired by the same quote that is tattooed down my spine.

30 days of photos - Day 26: Something forever

Motherhood is forever. No matter whether your babes are small or grown, you are forever altered.

Celtic knot for motherhood.
Oh.. and its not a real tattoo... yet?

30 days of photos - Day 25: A goal for the future

Not exactly money, but having our debt paid off and feeling financially secure. It would mean a lot to me.

30 days of photos - Day 23: Patterns & Day 24: Envious

Holy crap I have a backload of photos from the weekend! It was a really nice one with lots of family and warm weather.

So without further ado...
Day 23 was patterns and I broke out the skirt!
Yay for warm weather and double yay for warm weather being on a long weekend!!!



Day 24 was all about Envy. Honestly I was going to put one of the pictures of Simon and his brothers here as I love how close his family is...but then I caught this picture of Zander playing and running around after the most hideous night of sleep for us all and I was struck with envy. Totally and utterly envious of his energy!

30 days of photos - Day 22: Something on your body

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via

30 days of photos - Day 21: A memory

30 days of photos - Day 20: Friendship

Its probably safe to say these are two of my oldest friends - Zoe and Daniel - on their wedding day.

We all met in the internet, I met Zoe first and we started talking to a bunch of geeky guys in Auckland that I could also safely say changed both of our lives dramatically. They were the reason i moved up here to begin with. Zoe and I met Daniel through them, Daniel and Zoe fell in love and Daniel introduced me to Aaron who would later become my husband [...and soon to be ex husband, but still a great friend].

Like Simon and I it took YEARS for Zoe and Daniel to finally get together, but once they did, that was it. They just a beautiful baby girl and their futures are looking bright.

<3

♥ list

So the man, kids and I are chilling in the Rotovegus this weekend. Its Simon's mum's birthday this weekend so we thought we would break all our well established routines and travel 3 hours so we can leave the kids having cuddles with family and down a few drinks

;)

Anyway the point of the story is that im behind with posting my 30 days of photos and I cant do it from down here. Instead I bring you a very purle inspired ♥ list to drool over :)

Happy weekend everyone!

Love this super hero wedding party. Found on Being a Geek on Facebook.

Illumination by Olde_Scratch.

 Deep purple canvas bag by Tippythai on Etsy.

This would make an awesome print on the wall.

 A zomg awesome camera strap!

 This 'NOM! Take out cup cozy' is just so cute!

 Cute kids hat found here on Etsy.

The Eclair, 10 weeks old

Sometimes my heart gets so full of love looking at my kids that I feel like I'm about to explode. Seriously, all cheesiness aside - full on exploding brains and body matter across the walls.







So freaking cute!

30 days of photos - Day 19: Light

I'm a morning person. I usually wake up and my brain is firing and ready to go. One of my most favourtie things to do is walk through the house as its quite, opening up curtains and letting the sunrise come through the windows. I love sunny mornings and the way it peeks through the trees around the deck.



I'm loving that its getting warmer and although the mornings are still quite crisp, you can feel the warmth of the sun as its coming up.

30 days of photos - Day 18: An object I love

Any guesses as to what that is? :)

30 days of photos - Day 17: Darkness or shadows

I love the light peeking in throw my curtains each morning.

Today...

ZJ and I killed some time in the garden.

30 days of photos - Day 16: Lyrics

I was going to do a new self portrait for this but I decided against it. Why? Because every song I have been listening too lately and have stuck in my head are mellow kinda depressing ones. Mostly because I find crooning songs better to edit photos too (seriously, do you edit photos to a certain flavour of music?? I cant do really upbeat stuff while post processing).

I can honestly say that nearly every single self portrait i have done in the past has been either named with lyrics or inspired by lyrics so i decided to pick an old one.. but it was hard to do!

I was trolling through them all tonight searching for one for this project and got stuck instead strolling down memory lane.  Then I came across this one, and laughed my ass off.

Back story to this? Aaron and I had only just broken up. I was home alone as Dave was out shagging his then psychopathic girlfriend (not the lovely one hes managed to snag now) and I was in a slump. Dude I was so freaking depressed and I just needed to have some fun so I created the series of pictures (where this one is from) called 'When the flatmate is away..' and went a bit nuts with the music up loud and rocking my fishnets.



The music i was listening to? Seven by Vagiant. I was introduced the song by Jade in New Orleans and whenever I hear it i always end up jumping about and imagine us playing Rockband in our jammies drinking rum and being dorks. I remember the way she sang it. It was one of the first times I had actually heard her sing and she, seriously, can SING. Te song reminds me of how close Dave and I used to be, and how i thought I would seriously have to beat up his psychopathic girlfriend.

The song makes me happy and this picture makes me laugh my arse off. I really am a dick.

(oh and i miss my body! I thought i was hideously fat, waaah!!)

♥ list

There is a house in New Orleans which captured my heart. Its broken and scarred deeply by a fire but when I see it, I see it in all its glory.
There is one room especially which just took my breath away. The walls were completely black from the fire but the light and ...atmosphere just captured me.

This love list is inspired by that room and that house.

Love the black walls in these two bedrooms.

I would love to have a black feature wall in ym bedroom.

Images via Alkemie.

Ornate Oval Vintage Frame found on etsy.

 Oh, and some more :) Black frames on a white wall?

 Want want want want this 'French Quarter Boho
Jute Market Messenger Bag' by Bayousalvage,
but kinda digging the door its hanging on too!

Love this Garden Gate pillow by Nestahome. You know, for a bit of colour :)

Back chandelier, found here.

Pretty screen. Photo by Colemama.

 

Wood shelf hooks by OldNewAgain