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 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.

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

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.

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!!)

Catchup of days

Yeah so, I got behind. I'm gonna go ahead and blame the monstrous toothache I have as the culprit. I just barely want to be alive right now its so bad. Considering blowing some money on a dentist visit but i would feel so guilty about it. Its like food and power or my teeth??

Anyway, I present to you, Day thirteen - Sadness.



Yeah. Self explanatory. I'm not sure these make me sad.. or at least only sad. There are so many emotions mixed up with my wedding rings like utter joy, nostalgia and heartache. But the one thing that does make me sad I don't have a recent picture of. He would be 23 now. I wonder what he would be doing and where he would be.

Also Day Fourteen - A present


A present I keep meaning to send off to my new honorary niece Abbigail :)


And... Day Thirteen - On my fridge.


A picture of Zeej just learning to walk, my ultrasound pic with Evie - shes about 9 weeks in utero there.... And a shit ton of magnets.

30 days of photos - Day 12: Passed down

This was my great grandmother's ring and now I wear it as my engagement ring. I don't know how it came into my father's possession, I assume my grandmother got it first and gave it to my father. Perhaps he got it when his grandmother died - I'm not sure, I should probably ask at some point. It was given to my mother many years ago and I have always loved it. Again I'm not sure why as its not really something I would usually like - I'm more of a silver and small stone girl than gold and ornate. A few months before Simon and I got engaged I had this weird dream about it, someone was telling me it was important and that I had to find it and that eventually I would wear it on m ring finger and that Simon was involved somehow. It had been lost for some time, I always knew it was in a 'safe place' I just wasn't sure where that safe place even was.. but this dream made me look for it with a sense of urgency. I looked EVERYWHERE and couldn't find it and it really bugged me - I thought about it for days/weeks. The next time I dreamed about it I saw it tucked in somewhere small and surrounded by a light blue green colour... Yay for my subconscious! It was in a tiny pocket of a little green/blue clutch handbag I had stuffed in the wardrobe!

On my birthday last year Simon proposed with it and now its worn on my ring finger.

30 days of photos - Day 11: A ritual or habit

I guess really that this is neither a ritual or habit. Its the water i washed the baby bottles in. The reason i felt it fit was becuase our mornings feel like such a routined habit and this is a part of it.

Plus, I noticed how surprisingly pretty the lacy tendrils of soap bubbles on the surface were.

30 days of photos - Day 10: Textured

Warm baby blanket textures...

30 days of photos - Day 9: Someone I love

I'm lucky because this one was an easy one. The last few years I have been lucky enough to be surrounded by people I love. Instead of going the real easy route and snapping Simon, Zander or Evie, I thought I would share an older picture of another love - My best friend Zoe.



Unfortunately we live at opposite ends of the country but it is a very odd day if went don't speak at least once via gmail.

Zoe is just awesomeness incarnate, shes fun, shes incredibly smart and once another friend of mine said that when he takes over the world he would put Zoe in charge of 'Getting Shit Done'.

This week, she added to her achievements by becoming a mama and in typical Zoe fashion managed to make it sound pretty easy in the process as well. I'm so proud of her and I'm so so excited for her and Daniel and the journey they have just embarked on. I know she will be an excellent mother... it breaks my heart not being close to her to see her in action.

30 days of photos - Day 8: Scarred

An old one. no point reinventing the wheel here.
Having babies destroyed by body, but made me.

30 days of photos - Day 7: Capture the season

Spring!!

30 days of photos - Day 6: Inspired by a poem

I cheated today... its not really a poem. Allt he poems i know are kinda sad or deep and I'm not particularly feeling in a sad or deep mood.

I love this story by Dr Suess and I think about it every time i put ZJ's shoes on. I wanted to get a pic of him in his shoes but he left early today to go adventuring at the zoo (Thanks Jody!) and is finishing off his trip by staying over at his aunt and uncles tonight (Thanks again guys!) so it was a no go for today.

Anyway, without further ado..

Oh! The Places You’ll Go!

by the incomparable Dr. Seuss

Congratulations!

Today is your day.

You’re off to Great Places!

You’re off and away!

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

You’ll look up and down streets. Look’em over with care. About some you will say, “I don’t choose to go there.” With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down a not-so-good street.

And you may not find any you’ll want to go down. In that case, of course, you’ll head straight out of town. It’s opener there in the wide open air.

Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you.

And when things start to happen, don’t worry. Don’t stew. Just go right along. You’ll start happening too.