My darling S . . . she is quite the girl. She has so much determination that it is a daunting task raising her at times!! The wonderful thing is that I know it is what makes here strong- it will be hard for me now, but great later when she will not fold to peer pressure. She is going somewhere, and there will be no stopping her!
Another digital layout with a new line of my digi stuff (apple rake garden) overlay and brushes. Enjoy!!
Here’s my sweet A. plus a digital scrapbook design by me. I am creating some fun stuff for our digital scrapbooking website (to be launched in the near future). I am lovin Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator CS3. Perfect for making some fun new brushes. Here she is!
{When her daddy saw this photo from last weekend, he said this is one he would like to draw a charcoal portrait of. I couldn’t wait to play with it either . . . looks like I got first dibs!}
{ Should I stay or should I go?}
{One for the money . . .}
{A little sweet bribery on a stick-lollipop anyone?}
{Dad + Mom + 2 leg huggers = beautiful family}
This shoot was so fun . . . it is actually part of a large family group session. I will be posting more of those just as soon as I have a chance!
Here are some photos of just us. We’re enjoying the summer and trying to keep cool in this record heat (mostly by staying inside and running the A/C!). M. is 8 months now and just sprouted his first tooth and started crawling (really it is more of a breast-stroke) two weeks ago. He keeps on amazing us with his expert baby skills.
{He loves sucking that lower lip in- it is his trademark look}
{A. gets in little bed bouncing exercise on mom & dad’s bed, because her own bed is a bottom bunk.}
{Our little exploradora- S. keeps cool at an outdoor family concert we went to on Saturday. The girls were well stocked with capri suns & nerd candies. We’ve decided now that one box per child constitutes an overdosage on sugar.}
{A fun candid from a neighborhood block party on the fourth of july, hence the patriotic colors.}
Three sunkissed girls. A photo session during the hottest part of the day and luckily we found some nice shade and fun places to explore. These darling girls have some genuine smiles and were so fun to photograph. Mom & Dad were great too!
{Here’s a little storyboard sized to 8×10. I loved these giant dandelion (of sorts) that we found along the path. J. did too!}
{three sisters nestled in the tall grass}
{Li’l sis was a bit cautious about being photographed. I think she wanted to be on “my” side of the camera. }
{I just love it when the forced smiles disappear and that true grin shines through!}
{I love the casual, comfortable feel that bare feet add to any photo- especially a family shot!}
A quick post of my sweet A. who recently celebrated turning three. We went to the zoo on her birthday and it was her first ever time to see this lovely creature:
{I vividly remember these same tall giraffe doors from MY first trip to the zoo as a child.}
{Our little biker chick–she picked out her main gift this year: a scooter with a helmet & knee/ elbow pads. Other favorites included a set of horses, a tea set, and $$ from some special loved ones.}
{Most of the flower giving that happens around our place is when our biggest rose bush is in full bloom. Mom gets flowers. Dad gets flowers. The girls receive and give flowers. Isn’t summer great?!?}
{A rosy captures: on of the last picts of the day before sundown. The girls were stylin’ in polka dots & shades. M. didn’t have dots & shades to wear to the party.}
Any of you out there who may be following this blog may have noticed my lack of blogging over the past month. I noticed too . . . but life has been beyond full so the blog has been neglected. But, I’d rather neglect the blog than my kids.
I have plenty of photo stuff to share, and mural stuff, and life stuff. Here are a handful of smiles from a session last week:
{C. in his patriotic colors, and as alert as ever. He’s the star of one of my most recent newborn sessions in an earlier post}
{big sis has a huge grin and her giggles are contagious!}
{I love this carefree capture of a young family. This is my kind of family photo- real. life in motion. happy.}
{I will admit. This one actually gave me goosebumps when I was going through the photos following the shoot. To me the connection between dad & daughter is so genuine- I just love this one!}
Okay- I had to throw one more layout up here. This is my little cutie (posted the photo a few months back on this blog) and a new digital scrapbook design. All accents & backgrounds are made by me and will soon be available on our new website. What d’ya think? Thanks for looking!
{“She knows how ot make an easy transition from season to season.”}
So in case you are wondering if I am a scrapbooker . . . the answer is yes. I have been a scrapbooker for the past 17 years (“well” over half my life!) and my personal style/ technique has made the journey from sticky pages and cute sticker decor, to brightly colored 8.5×11 cardstock, to 12×12 ultra-textured & 3-D embellished pages and then . . .
I became a mother of two. I did keep up with all of the scrapping through college and the first few years of marriage and motherhood, but keeping up with the paper scrappin’ is downright impossible when you shoot as many pictures as I do. What to do? Will my first child have bragging rights about her beautiful scrapbooks and the other two will have to search for “the missing years” of their life histories?
Hopefully not, as their photographed & journaled memories do exist somewhere (on my computer). I am a huge photoshop fan (I own 3 versions and am anxiously awaiting the delivery of my CS3 Creative Suite from the UPS guy!!) and I’m a completely digital photographer nowadays. What could be a better solution than
I could officially be the next spokesperson for digital scrapbooking. This is the direction that scrapbooking is going, thanks to a revolution in digital photography, online printing and awesome digital scrapbooking product designers. We are currently working on launching our digital scrapbooking products on a sister site to studiocharm.com and I can hardly wait.
So here is M. and a real (digital) page from an outing last week. Enjoy the sneak peak of some fun digi products to be featured on our digital scrapbooking site.
{BTW, I LOVE this baby!}
These little ones start out so tiny . . . and photographing little C. made it seem as if my own DS instantly grew 8 inches and put on 10 pounds. I have been so anxious to share some photos of C. at one and a half weeks. Meet this precious newborn!
{I love his sweet dangly feet!}
{I call this one “itty bitty.” }
{More snoozin. He kept on sleeping through the WHOLE session. I wish I could get in a nap like that once in a while!}
{She’s got the whole world in her hands. This is one of my top picks from the session- it just does something for me being so sweet and simple.}
“It is not so slight a thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.” ~ Charles Dickens
