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On Rain, Hair and lack of blogging

It was noted today by a couple of people that I haven't been blogging as much as I used to, Sorry :D I really should blog more but time is constantly against me it seems, even now I have a million things which need doing but it's Friday night and I can't be bothered so I'm blogging whilst the children watch classic Rainbow on Nick Jnr!

So this week has been manic as ever, full of work, organisation and planning, for instance todays pics are my leaflets, well one of them will be, both designs are with the printer and he's choosing which one looks best, atleast I hope he does, I've so far asked two business advisors and neither of them could make their minds up!!



I would be interested to see what you think dear reader, even my hubby doesn't know which one he likes best, so which would make you grab that phone and book a photoshoot?

As for hair, well I went and had a radical change yesterday but I'll bring more news on that one when it's light enough for a decent photo!

On the subject of dark and exceedinly dingy, can't beleive it but it's rained and rained and rained for 4 solid days now and if you are a photographer or a gardener that is not good news, Paul is working the entire weekend if it ever stops raining!!

Have a good weekend and I promise to try and blog again before the weekend is out!!

The Fwoar Factor!

As you all know my husband is a bit of a hottie, I'm pretty lucky and it also means that I can get great photos of him without too much persuasion. Yesterday afternoon we happened to be out and about, first we went up to Berwick to a garden centre and then afterwards we popped up to Wooler to a deserted picnic spot in the middle of the national park to give the dog some exercise. I decided to take photos as per usual and I captured this one standing on a picnic bench whilst Paul sat so pretty much it's a great position to be in to capture those gorgeous blue eyes. You should see this one really big, it's awesome. I also took a great photo of Iain as he was lying on the grass, you can see that one on my Photoblog. I really am so lucky that we still get to escape on a weekend, our lives have become so busy during the week that we're just dying to escape the noise of the city by a Saturday lunchtime. We usually do that on Sundays too but this Sunday we have to stay home as Abigail has a birthday party to go to this afternoon.

Have you visited my website lately? There have been lots of changes over there and I think it's looking quite swish, I'm actually getting some leaflets printed this week which I need to design before I take them in to my business advisor on Tuesday, it's very exciting but also quite scary at the same time, thats the thing about having your own business though, it's certainly not for the faint of heart!!

The Good, The Bad and the Downright Ugly

The Good - Spent the afternoon at school doing the Sepia Victoria portraits, what fun I had and I'm so pleased with how they all turned out, so glad my family are lots of fun and joined in just so I could share some of the photos at long last. I'm having this one and the one on my Photoblog mounted and framed and then they're being donated to the Shipley Art Gallery (who most kindly donated the use of the costumes for the event) where they'll be hung for posterity and yes they will be signed and dated by the photographer, awesome or what?!

The Bad - I only did around 10 portraits so I didn't make half as much money for the school as I would have liked to and I only managed to hand out around 10 of my business cards.

The Downright Ugly - My Mother chose to write to me and as usual the letter was full of her vitriolic poison, she wished pain and illness on me which I thought was nice and remarked that my children make off the cuff comments about me when they're at her house. I discussed the issues of the letter with the children and was as open and honest as I could be (as per usual) and apart from them saying that she's a liar I also found out that a couple of weeks ago she called me a Fat Evil Cow, what a nice thing to say in front of your grandchildren about their mother. Luckily Iain said that he stuck up for me and said I wasn't even near to being that, I'm so glad that I'm blessed with such wonderful children who clearly love me enormously.

On a final note, it's the weekend, Hurray! Both sets of the childrens grandparents are on holidays at the moment so for the next few weeks we're lucky enough to get them all to ourselves, let the fun and family frivolity begin :D

Play

This layout is packed with vintage loveliness, I took this photograph of my children when we were at Kielder at the weekend and after turning it sepia I printed it on textured cardstock and embellished the layout with lots of cut and ripped Jenni Bowlin papers and other various goodies in that vintage style. I remember when I first started scrapping, I never could master the vintage or distressed style and craved to be as wonderful at it as Snipper, well 3 or 4 years later and I think I might be getting there, I'm certainly happier when I create layouts in this style than I used to be :)

Catch up Day

Yes it's Wednesday and atlast I have a day which is a little quieter, hopefully this means I can get my creativity out and scrapbook this afternoon :D

I'm having so much fun with photography at the moment, I went into School on Monday and did some Victorian Sepia portraits with the Year 4's, what a wonderful bunch of children and the photos turned out superbly, I even managed to get a couple framed and mounted for their exhibition, the kids should actually get to see them today so I'm hoping they're as pleased with them as their teacher was when I delivered them at the end of school yesterday.

Friday is a really special day for me as it's the exhibition and I'm in charge of a victorian photo booth for the afternoon, I'll be doing my sepia portraits but this time using outfits from the local museum as a fundraiser for the school, what could be cooler than authentic costumes.

In other news Meandering Gardens, hubbys fledgling gardening company is doing amazingly, I'm so proud of him and what he's achieving, he's had so many delighted customers and repeat work that it can't be long before he's able to do it full time.

Ooh also on the subject of photography, I must mention that I'm now able to sell prints of some of the many photographs in my collection. For only £8 including postage and packing you can own an A4 print which would look splendid adorning most walls. I've only 8 for sale at the moment but as time goes on the collection of available prints should grow, to get yours click HERE

You Rock My World

Because he does! I don't think I need to say much more!

Loads of Elsie Flannigans debut line for Ki Memories used here and I think her product really suits my style, I wonder if she would like me on her design team, Elsie if you're reading I'm open to offers LOL!!