Hello again Dear Reader, why it's been less than 24 hours, with these blog posts I'm really spoiling you, quick, call the ambassador and get some Ferrero Rochet on the go immediately!

So I shared about 25 images yesterday and I have another batch for you today you lucky, lovely people.

without further ado lets bring on some wedding and portrait images from my work around the wonderful north east of England over the last month or so....

and there you go, you lovely lot, we are right bang back up back to to date, it's amazing what you can achieve when you put your mind to rest.  So lets all go off and have a lovely weekend, I'm going down to the Bannatyne Hotel in Darlington to shoot a lovely ladys wedding I haven't met yet, exciting.

and all you lovely lot, have a great weekend and if you are interested in me shooting your wedding or portrait please do get in touch via email, my website or for the latest up to date news my Facebook Business Page

catching up again, weddings, portraits, a whole lot of goings on...

First of all, after some time in the wilderness no thanks to Google, the lovely people who work for them got me up and running and back to my old URL, it's just a shame they caused the problem for me and many others in the first place.  Selling URL's through blogger but not letting anyone actually have any access to their domain control panels wasn't the most sensible move by one of the worlds biggest tech companies.

Ah well, it's good to be back and I have a ton of photos to share today, actually there's probably about 10 blog posts worth so lets do some today and maybe lets all meet here again tomorrow dear reader and we'll do the same again shall we?  Choccy biccies all round I think unless like me you're all doing the wonderful world of Slimming World, I'm disappearing very very very very slowly, it is working through.

How's that then dear reader, is that enough for the day, some portraits, some recent weddings and boy am I busy with those at the moment, and there's even a Looby in there!!

If you would like to speak to me about shooting your family or childrens portraits or maybe you want some more details about me being your wedding photographer?  Well if that is the case you can either email me at mandy@mandycharltonphotography.com or you can keep up to date on a day to day basis with me on my Facebook Business Page or you might want to click through to my website and fill out the contact form.  Whatever way you do it I can't wait to hear from you.

Half Term Holidays, more play and a little less work, my week in Instagrams

It's half term dear reader and I couldn't be happier, I'm spending a few days off work with the kids and are we having all manner of fun and games, well we are in between the times when I want to put them in the cupboards for arguing, fighting and bickering with each other!!

So, what have we been up to -

lets go back a week and my last scrapbooking adventures, I haven't had time since, so this one has handpainted flowers, the ones in the background and it's me at 39, well it was me at 39 but since Slimmingworld began I am definitely improving, more of that in a moment.

keeping it simple for a photo from last year when we went to a wedding as guests, that does not happen very often.

Friday night, date night with hubby at Six Baltic and look, I'm definitely improving, I don't mind this photo of me nearly as much as I usually do.

Saturday, glorious day in Newcastle, I had a lovely day with my family and then a shoot in the evening when the light was much kinder

add aforementioned photo shoot with Looby who was acting as my trusty assistant.

no Sunday Instagramming, 10 photo shoots in Saltwell Park and the favourites from those are coming soon to my blog but mostly you'll find them on my Facebook business page

Monday and we went to the County show, lots of fabulous things to see and do

Tuesday I worked all day editing and doing admin, glamorous life I lead.

yesterday, I worked in the morning and then the Metrocentre beckoned, cue fighting children

and today it was a rainy old day so hubby and I took Abigail and Looby to the Great North Museum, my all time favourite museums which I have been visiting since I was tiny when my granny used to take me, it's also a splendid wedding venue.

and that was my week in Instagrams, back again soon with some photos from my working week.

Work, life, photography, scrapbooking

I Actually could just post that as my blog post, that pretty much sums up everything that has been going on since I blogged last although not as much work as I'd have liked because of the awful weather at weekends, this week I suggest the weather has it's worst days on Thursday, even Friday but definitely, absolutely not on Saturday or Sunday!

so here's a few Instagrams to fill you in on my latest and greatest goings on...

Almost 11, she looks 22, she is 11 now actually but this was just before when she got her new grown up haircut.  I've been going a bit painty and inky mad this week, I'm sure you'll get the picture...

portraits all day on the beach, erm...maybe not!

Caught hubby on his way out on Saturday night looking rather too dashing for his own good, it's just a shame we were both going out separately!

while he was out doing drinking things we all went to one of my best friends on the whole planet to watch Eurovision, it was a cheesefest!

I've been eating a lot of these lately, I will be thinner, I will, I will!

went to Jesmond Dene on Monday afternoon for a photo shoot, yep, the 51st shade of Grey, British Summer Grey.

hubby said this page looks like a mess but clearly it's because he's got no taste or design skills, I love the splashy inky background, it took me ages to get that right.

another inky background and a photograph from 2007 and a trip to Blackpool, it was when I was going through old photographs yesterday that I realised how truly cute my children were when they were little dots of things, I shall try and focus on that when they're having their tween tantrums.

and so a few highlights of the worky things I actually have done will follow this blog, probably tomorrow oh and if you remember me telling you about Google losing my official mandycharltonphotographyblog.com address, well the news is that there is no news, Google engineers are on the case and they still can't fix it, crazy when you think they're one of the most powerful companies in the whole world.