Complete Upheaval
Thursday, November 08, 2007
The program of works has begun and at the moment I'm sitting on the only free chair in the house, everything is covered in dust sheets, my kitchen units are in the middle of my kitchen, the bummer of it all is that I didn't ask for this to be done, I just want them to leave us alone. No one could live in this situation never mind run a business!!
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
I took this last night using only the ambient light and after a little lightroom magic here she is, bless her, she's cheering me up today, it's just been stress with a capital S today as the house renovations have begun. Today was asbestos removal day and I'm now the proud owner of several large holes in my walls!!
Tommorrow is the removal of the ducted air and the installation of the gas central heating, total nightmare and then Friday is the total rewire which promises to be like something from a horror movie! The house won't be complete until December 16th and already I'm having moments of utter madness. Today a big parcel of Christmas presents arrived and I have no storage for them, arGHHHHHHHHHHHH!
It's going to be bumpy!!!
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Because it's the first day in ages that I've taken literally loads of photos just for fun, now then, much as I would like to include them all on my blogette, I fear dear reader, you would be bored in 5 seconds flat so feel free to click on one of the featured photos and you'll be transported to flickr where you can see the whole collection of yesterdays offerings!!
So faves from yesterday
Looby having a 5 minute photoshoot in the garden, cute even with a bumpy chin!
Looby actually eating cous cous in the kitchen for tea, guess I'm holding this one as evidence!!
Iain in very very very low light demonstrating that my new lens is awesome!!
Couldn't end the post without some fireworks now could I?
Now I don't claim to be a fireworks photographer so forgive me but I quite like them and once again my new lens did an awesome job with only the fireworks for light, ooh and I shot at 400iso so virtually no noise which I think is pretty impressive!
So faves from yesterday
Looby having a 5 minute photoshoot in the garden, cute even with a bumpy chin!
Looby actually eating cous cous in the kitchen for tea, guess I'm holding this one as evidence!!
Iain in very very very low light demonstrating that my new lens is awesome!!
Couldn't end the post without some fireworks now could I?
Now I don't claim to be a fireworks photographer so forgive me but I quite like them and once again my new lens did an awesome job with only the fireworks for light, ooh and I shot at 400iso so virtually no noise which I think is pretty impressive!
Monday, November 05, 2007
as the UPS van pulled up to deliver my new lens, winter brides should take comfort in the fact that this lens is astonishing in low light situations and it's also fabulous for discreet photo-journalism.
I shot these as soon as I had unwrapped it and taken it out the box. Poor Looby, look at her poor chin!
We're off to the local fireworks display this evening, happy bonfire night to you all.
I shot these as soon as I had unwrapped it and taken it out the box. Poor Looby, look at her poor chin!
We're off to the local fireworks display this evening, happy bonfire night to you all.
Monday Morning....
And life goes on....
Yesterday unfortunately didn't get any better, first we had to break the news to our children about Kate and there were many tears from all of them, lots of hugs and a huge ice-cream sunday helped. Then just when we were settling down and I was baking cup-cakes we heard a huge scream, Looby had tripped and fallen and as bad luck would have it she split her chin open and Paul had to take her to the hospital to have her chin stuck back together. Today I'm being slightly overprotective and have kept her off nursery, she's on 4 hourly calpol doses to help with the hurties and we've just baked 30 cupcakes which we iced with Vanilla buttercream icing, I think that might just get us through the day!!
I've not really been thinking about work too much but Clients if you're reading there's not very much time left at all to order any canvases you may want for Christmas so get those orders in quicksmart! Also if you could have print orders in as quick as humanly possible that would also be great, then I can relax safe in the knowledge that everyone is happy and will get their products in time for Christmas.
Oh and maybe you just want to buy 1 file to go make some Christmas cards with, well this weeks special is that you can buy 1 hi-res file for only £9.99, if you're interested just go to Mandy Charlton Designs and click on the contact us page or you can email me using the link from my blog!
One last piece of positive news is that our eldest cat Poppy is due to give birth to kittens very very soon, we're keeping 2 and rehoming the rest, clients and friends if you would like a kitten email me, we're not selling them as we want them to go to homes where we know they'll be truly loved so speak up and you might just have a wee kitten by the end of the year.
Yesterday unfortunately didn't get any better, first we had to break the news to our children about Kate and there were many tears from all of them, lots of hugs and a huge ice-cream sunday helped. Then just when we were settling down and I was baking cup-cakes we heard a huge scream, Looby had tripped and fallen and as bad luck would have it she split her chin open and Paul had to take her to the hospital to have her chin stuck back together. Today I'm being slightly overprotective and have kept her off nursery, she's on 4 hourly calpol doses to help with the hurties and we've just baked 30 cupcakes which we iced with Vanilla buttercream icing, I think that might just get us through the day!!
I've not really been thinking about work too much but Clients if you're reading there's not very much time left at all to order any canvases you may want for Christmas so get those orders in quicksmart! Also if you could have print orders in as quick as humanly possible that would also be great, then I can relax safe in the knowledge that everyone is happy and will get their products in time for Christmas.
Oh and maybe you just want to buy 1 file to go make some Christmas cards with, well this weeks special is that you can buy 1 hi-res file for only £9.99, if you're interested just go to Mandy Charlton Designs and click on the contact us page or you can email me using the link from my blog!
One last piece of positive news is that our eldest cat Poppy is due to give birth to kittens very very soon, we're keeping 2 and rehoming the rest, clients and friends if you would like a kitten email me, we're not selling them as we want them to go to homes where we know they'll be truly loved so speak up and you might just have a wee kitten by the end of the year.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
This morning Paul called me downstairs on his way out to a clients, I thought it was strange that he sounded so serious and then I saw our poor kitten, Kate Bush, dead, someone ran her over, she never even got to be a cat and just right now my heart is breaking in two.
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Yes I finally managed to get a shorter version of the slideshow embedded to my blog however I do have to warn you that whatever compression You-Tube uses, it's a huge pile of pants so should you wish to see these photos in all their splendiforous glory then you'll have to email me for the password to David and Elizabeths gallery on my website www.mandycharltondesigns.com oh and lurking brides, if you're booking a consultation you can experience this slideshow in full widescreen in the comfort of your own home. Don't forget that dates are now starting to go extremely fast with only a couple of the prime summer dates left so don't hang about!!