Day - 31

Today I did some more sewing, I made Minna a little dress that I just adore on her. I'd love to make her some matching knickers to go over her nappy but I don't have a pattern. I'm sure I can find one on the net though.

So today is the last day of my photo challenge. Part of me is happy it's over and pert of me is sad. I know I'll look back at these in years to come and love them but it is hard work doing it each day. I will definitely be doing it again next year for January.

Day - 30

Almost finished my January challenge. Tomorrow school is back and I'm already getting visions of the photo of the day and I'm sure you can guess too.

Here is a very quick snap of the girls together.

Day - 29

I've had the urge to do some sewing lately so today was the day for it. I had planned on making Minna a little sun dress but it was a tad bit big so Abby got to wear it as a top. I'll make a smaller one tomorrow now I know what I'm doing.

Day - 28

Oh how I  L O V E this photo, I'm thinking of a large canvas.

Day - 27

Tonight: 5 photographers, good eating establishment, good company, hasselblad = good night. Thanks guys it was fun and we need to do this more often! 

Day - 26 Australia Day

Ohhh how I feel ill and so very guilty, today we ate a lot of food, it was all naughty naughty stuff. Tomorrow will be filled with good healthy food and lots of water.

Today's photo is boring but I have an excuse, all the sugar, carbs and crap had me feeling very lazy!

Day - 25

No time for small talk, I'm beat and tomorrow will be a busy day.

Day - 24

Today went something like this....... "Mum I want to make a cake" ............"Muuuuum I really really reaaaaaalllly feel like making a cake" .................. I say "okay but I'm not going to do a thing, you'll have to make it all by yourself, I'll just tell you what to do" and she did, all by herself. She even put it in the oven and iced it. Now I've got a bloody chocolate cake sitting on my kitchen bench saying "eat me eat me"

My photos are getting rather uninteresting to say the least. I need to get my creativity happening again.  Oh and please excuse the messy kitchen bench!

Day - 23 My point of view

This morning I had a family photo shoot, it was great and all went well, gorgeous family and very cute baby! when I got home I had 5 minutes before Minna woke from her morning nap, we went outside with suncream lathered and hats on, some sandpit play was in order followed by some splashy time in the clam shell. In the evening we went outside again and played some silly games, I wonder if other families are as crazy as ours? We made up a heap of games for the kids to do, it was rather funny. Minna still seems to be rather fond of her mother ship, so here is the photo of the day, her doing what she does best, finding me, clinging and demanding to be picked up. Lucky I love her back! 

Day - 22 Mirazozo

Today we headed into the city to see Mirazozo click here I had no idea it was on until a friend on facebook had gone and once I saw her photos I just HAD to go check it out with the kids.

We all thought it was great until Minna decided she had enough (I think she was hungry lol) so off we went, I could have spent a bit more time in there with my camera but what can you do?!

Taken with the trusty iPhone 

Another iPhone pic

Day - 21 Busted

Here is Minna, caught in the act of attacking the cling wrap / baking paper drawer!

Today we took the kids to a very cool park which has a water play area, the kids loved it and Minna seems to be quite the water baby, Swim lessons start next month.

Day -20

Tonight's dinner was Spinach and Ricotta Cannelloni. A messy messy meal when a certain 1 year old wants to feed herself.  So I decide to put her outside to eat and figure the birds can tidy up the mess. Once the food was eaten the child had an orange tinge thanks to the creamy tomato sauce, her hair was also lathered in a lovely ricotta and spinach spread........... There was no way this kid was allowed inside so we brought the bath outside. She thought it was a great idea!

Day - 19

Today Vienna came over for a play, so she is the subject matter for today's photo. We had to pop over to the shopping centre and instead if buying junk food as a treat I bought both the girls a matching dress, of course the deal was that it had to be on sale and within budget. I know a donut would have been cheaper but at least this way they have something to keep :)

Day - 18 Popeye would be proud

I had to laugh when I saw this on the LCD. It was taken at 24mm and I knew it would give the distortion of my forearms but I didn't expect this much.  Minna is looking at an aeroplane in the sky (yes us Australian's call them aeroplanes not airplanes lol) 

I promise that tomorrow I will not feature in a photograph, sorry but sometimes it is just easier to shoot oneself! 

Day - 17

Yawn..... I'm a bit weary. All kids in bed now and I'm trying to get an album finished for a client.

Today's photo. That self timer on the camera does come in handy. Fluke shot, somehow I managed to get this in one go.  I'm not complaining.

..............and if you are wondering what was for dinner, I can't tell you exactly as I just made it up but it had the following. Onion, garlic, cabbage, green beans, chorizo, tomato :) all good yummy stuff and no evil cabs.

Day - 16 Siblings

Today I caught a special moment between Leo and Minna.  We notice each day that Minna is growing, not only in size but she is growing into a lovely little person. She can be quite a handful at times and will certainly let everyone know that she isn't happy when she isn't.  Poor Leo sometimes cops a beating from her, she loves to grab at this glasses and can be quite rough with him, but Leo just lets her do it, only with noisy complaints of "no Minna, don't do that!" and he will never hurt her which is just the sweetest thing.  For a while Leo has been feeling every bit of the middle child that he is, but we now see that he has a lot more in common with his baby sister than Abby does.  It is so sweet to watch them play, she really does love her big brother and I know she will have his protection  forever. Sigh.....I just love my kids to bits xx

Day - 15 Last resort

Busy day today, I had my first shoot for the year, although I've enjoyed my time off I just loved getting back into things today. I got all excited driving out to the pre wedding session, I just love that feeling of excitement.

I would have shared a photo from today's shoot but it was a private client session so all I can tell you is that it was great fun and I have come lovely photos to show my clients in a few days time.

So just realising that I haven't taken a personal PAD today I better think of something quick. I played with the idea of using the toaster as a reflection but that didn't turn out so...... I pulled out the ol' take photo of sleeping child trick lol.

Here is Abby sleeping, I've given it a lighten effect to make the image seem more dreamy and also her pink bed lamp didn't help matters.

Day - 14

Oh So tired and I would really like to be n bed right now so guess where I'm going after I hit the "publish post" button?! yep off to nigh nighs lol.

Today I got to catch up with my lovely friend Sam and her Mum Christine, I've known them since I was 8 years old! now I feel old and tired.  Oh and I should make mention that I love DFO got some great bargains :)

Here is today's photo, rather lazy, I think I took 3 and this is it. If all else fails just take a photo of the littlest kid regardless of being clean or not.

Day - 13 Giggles

Today the 2 bigger kids went to play at a friends place so it was just Minna and I at home. I wanted to get a few photos of her without her trying to attack my camera, there are lots of interesting buttons that she always wants to press and play with. Perhaps a sign that she may just take it up when she is older?. So we sat on the floor and had some fun, she is just so smiley it is infections.

Here is today's PAD with an additional story board because I just had to share her smiles :)

Day - 12 this chip is dedicated to Scott

So I was a bit stumped for today's photo and was going to take another water drop, Scott said nah it's been done try something new, here's an idea put your camera in the oven and take a photo. lol so I did.  I might actually run with this theme and do some home duties/photos, I can clean and click at the same time!

No chips were harmed in the making of this photo, they were placed carefully back in the freezer.

As for our day, Abby had one of her friends from School over for a play date, it was filled with glitter, cupcakes and lots of Barbie play. Oh to be a child again.

Day - 11 Sand art and sadness

Today we woke to the shocking news about QLD floods, it is so surreal to see the images on TV. I wish everyone in QLD strength to get through this natural disaster. Be safe and don't underestimate the strength of water, however I don't think anyone does now after seeing the footage on the news. Scary stuff.

I watched a lot of news about the floods today and Abby was very bored, so we went and bought some craft supplies for her play date who is coming tomorrow, in the afternoon we decided to  do some sand art, tomorrow it will be glitter art!  

Day 10 my little photographer

Today is the first day back at work for Scott and Leo is back at Pre School. So it's just the girls at home. I asked Abby if she wanted to have a play with one of my cameras, she jumped at the chance and wanted me to teach her how to use it.

Abby is my PAD and here are some more that we both took.

I shot this to explain to Abby about shutter speed, I asked her to move around while I took it. She moved a lot lol. 

She took these photos of Leo's favourite toys, it was good to see her rearrange things and make the shot look good. She hasn't yet learnt about horizon lines and crooked images! 

I love that she took this photo all on her own with the concept in her head before hand. She said she wanted to find some nice leaves and circle them around a strawberry. I think she did well :) 

She had this idea in her head of how this photo should look but found the macro lens too tricky to hold, so she set it up by carefully placing the flowers in the right position then told me how she wanted me to take the photo. 

She wanted to take a photo of me, she did ok. 

She said she wanted to take a photo of herself like I did the other day, here I am trying to show her how to do it which is really quite tricky to do. 

Another practice shot

Bang! she got and I LOVE IT hehe, she even does the head tilt like me :) 

Her in full concentration mode :) 

Day 9 wine time

Today we had our lovely friends come and visit, as usual Adair brought some of his wines. So this is the photo of the day.

I promise to get more creative tomorrow but today all you get is this wine bottle shot.

Day - 8

This afternoon we went to the local park, the kids really needed to get out of the house run around a bit.

I tried unsuccessfully to get some business work done. I'm behind on a couple of things so that's what I'll be working on tonight. I'd much rather watch Bear Grylls on fox but it he will have to wait for me. Oh how I do like Bear hehe.

So here is today's photo, no kids, just a water bottle some pens and camera :)

Day 7

Busy day for the kids, I dare say that had a lot of fun!
In the morning Leo and I went to the shops to buy him some textas, he wasn't impressed that Abby had bought some and didn't want to share so we went to get some of his own. After Lunch we took the kids plus our friend Gordon with us to Wizzy World (kids play centre) It is the perfect place to take kids on rainy days and they all had a blast including Minna, she had been there before but that was back in the day when she was more interested in milk and sleep. She just loved it! I'll have to take her back for more fun and adventure.  She even found a boy the same age as her and I think they fell in love, it was the cutest thing, they looked at each other and then embraced, hehe so cute.

After Wizzy World we dropped Gordon home and relaxed (well I tried to with Minna getting into mischief) When we returned home I needed to keep Minna up until bedtime so I put her in a wash basket with water, she had a lovely time until it started raining about 2 minutes after she got in.

Here is the photo of the day.

Day - 6

Today was just lovely. Sigh, I got to have some me time which doesn't happen very often. I went into the city and caught up with Johnno and his new girlfriend Einat to go see the Annie Leibovitz exhibition. It was fantastic! I enjoyed looking at each image and trying to figure out the lighting, admired the compositions and just enjoyed seeing this fantastic photographers work.

In the morning I laid a big kiss on each of the kids and had to get a quick snap of them, Leo doesn't like messy things on him so there was no time to catch a photo of his kissed cheek.

Love Minna's expressions here :) 

Day - 5

I'm not going to feel like doing this tonight so I'm posting this now, just a quick pic of me.

Day 4 - January 2011

Today we finally got the kids out of the house, well the 2 big ones anyhow. It was suggested that we go play putt putt golf and we decided that was a great idea so off we went. For those interested Scott was first followed by me then Abby and Leo.

In the afternoon Minna and myself had a little play outside :)