Everyday Beauties

I've always been a huge fan of the peach blossoms that seem to appear almost overnight as winter prepares to turn to spring. One day the trees are nothing but bare skeletons and then the next a few blossoms appear and within days the entire tree covered in pale pink blossoms with a dark pink centre that are impossibly beautiful to look at. I can't stop wandering over to the window to peer out at them. There is something entrancing about a tree with no leaves but covered in flowers. On the way to Kingaroy from Nanango the sides of the road are pitted with tons of these types of blossoms on leaf-bare trees - I'm not sure what type of tree they are or if they're actually a nuisance to the natural landscape but they're insanely beautiful to look at. It's times like that that I just love this part of the country and think there is no way I could ever return to suburbia.

We have a few stone fruit trees in our backyard that have been dreadfully neglected as while I was pregnant I couldn't bear the thought of yard work with my dodgy pelvis much less actually do it. So while I doubt I'll get as many beautiful blossoms as I usually do it was still a pleasure to see them start arriving. Before you know it it will be Jacaranda-Go-Purple day in September.

STUNNING Mumma-to-be { Nanango & Kingaroy Maternity Photographer }

A huge thank you to M & M and their beautiful little boy H who drove out from Brisbane to visit us today in Nanango and have their maternity photos taken. M is 36 weeks pregnant with their second child and looks amazing. And she certainly had more energy than I've ever had by that stage!

I hope you enjoy your sneak peek guys - I'll have the gallery up shortly for you!

Little Miss M - { Nanango Newborn Photographer }

I know, I know. I'm the world's worst blogger and I'm terribly behind on sessions. This is little Miss M who's mummy I took photos of way back here. Miss M made the two hour trip out to Nanango from Brisbane when she wasn't even 2 weeks old. I'm assured she slept the whole way - even babies like outings to the country!

Evie's Room - { The Nursery }

I've had a LOT of people comment on Evie's Room and ask where I got certain things so I thought I would do up a blog post and give you all the links. :)

The colours in Evie's room are Dulux paints - Antique White USA and the pink trim is Marshmallow Magic.

Her furniture is from the Amani Babyhood Range and from Bubs and Grubs. It's delivered very promptly and they had wonderful customer service. The furniture was easily put together. My husband put together the cot but I put together the change table and her drawers. :) We got the 7 piece package down the bottom. We have also used Bubs and Grubs for Evie's Mamas & Papas Dream Swing , her Oricom Secure 200 baby monitor and her Twilight Turtle nightlight.

We get soooo many comments about her wall decal from My Friend Matilda. It is stunning in her room, adding a beautiful splash of colour and it was simple to put up by my mother and myself. You could easily put it up mostly by yourself although it was handy to have an extra set of hands on the curly branches.

Her bunting was bought from the madeit website through the seller Chester and Lolly.

Her cot has a handmade quilt sewed by my Nanna (Evie's great Nanna) with owl fabric bought from funkyfabrix. They have a great range of fun fabrics and are reasonably priced with quick postage. The remainder of the owl fabric got cut out and attached to the bottom of her curtains with vliesofix. Her curtains are sewn by me with fabrics from Spotlight. You can pick vliesofix up from most craft stores and I believe Spotlight sells it also.

She also has a hand crocheted granny square blanket made by myself with 100% machine washable merino yarn from Bendigo Woollen Mills in Wild Orchid and Wild Apple.

Evie's little cot friend in the top image is her stuffed owl from Plushka on madeit. There were a few other sellers on madeit selling similar owls but the Plushka ones seem to look like they are made much better.

Above Evie's cot hangs her Tiger Tribe Owl mobile which was a gift from one of my beautiful friends bought from UrbanBaby.

Her canvas is created with photography by me using my favourite canvas supplier.

Another of my friends made her name wall hanging which is gorgeous on her wall and everyone loves it.

On her dresser is a photo frame from Big W with a handmade letterpress owl print from letterpress on etsy who are based all the way over in Austin Texas. The owl print arrived quickly and was packaged beautifully. It's on heavy card that feels and looks divine. I've used letterpress a couple of times now and love them.

Her tiny owl in the bottom image is from an Australia Post store.

Her tree is from Alysa Grace Designs who are based local to me in Kingaroy. Their prices are awesome on lots of their stuff. I was almost ready to move in to the shop when I picked up her tree. The trees come in three different sizes...this one is the medium. :)

Lastly her little silver frame is another Big W one with little cards inside from the Daisy Lane swapcards pack 1 available at Lark which is one of my favourite online shops. I first stumbled across Lark when I was shopping for a cupcake stand for my baby shower while I was pregnant with Evie and found this gorgeous one - Regency Mis-matched China Cake stand.

I hope you've enjoyed the sneak peek into Evie's nursery!

Mine - { Personal Post }

Well my littlest girl is 12 weeks old today. I can barely believe that much time has gone by since we welcomed her into our lives. Evie will be our last baby and I was anxious to capture every detail of her, to savour it and remember it. Barely a day has gone by where I haven't photographed her and she is a typical photographer's child - HATES the camera. If she's not avoiding it completely she instead becomes completely enthralled by the lens and stares totally deadpan into it even if she was smiling and chortling to me only seconds before. These are some of my favourite photos of my little bean.

Gorgeous Baby R and her lovely locks - Nanango Newborn Photographer

I had the pleasure of photographing baby R's mumma when she was pregnant so I was quite excited to meet this little one. R and my baby Evie were only born a couple of weeks apart and May babies are super cute :-P. As you can see she has been blessed with AMAZING hair! It was so lovely, long and thick, she was totally adorable.

26 weeks - Personal Post {Nanango & Brisbane Maternity Photographer}

As per a certain request I thought I would post up my most recent belly pics taken last week when I was 26 weeks. I've been chugging along with this pregnancy thinking, "I have oodles of time" and when 27 weeks rolled around this week I started to feel a little.....disorganised. March is solidly booked with shoots, I have two newborns set to arrive in April and then my little bundle in May so I know once March rolls around I'm going to be very very busy indeed and perhaps I should get slightly more organised then a shopping bag in the corner of my closet housing a handful of outfits and some bunny rugs! I have a LOT of painting and organising to get finished in the next few weeks.

So just as a general notice with my maternity leave looming in April (only photographing those two newborns for that month) I am now only taking bookings from SEPTEMBER 2011 onwards. Please make sure if you are wanting to book in that you do so asap as my return to work will coincide with wedding season and I intend to only do a few shoots a month for the first few months back.

I do have two lovely ladies to visit next month for their maternity shoots and hopefully I may get to share some of those images with you - as well as my own burgeoning bump and wrinkly little newborn when she arrives so please continue to stop by and I'll try to keep updated with photos even during my leave.

Quiet Afternoon - Priceless! { Nanango Child Photographer }

One $2 wooden whistle and my little 2 year old has been kept happy and amused all afternoon. Amazing!

Birthday Girl { Nanango Child Photographer }

Yesterday was my second daughters birthday and she turned 11. It's flown by really, it seems like only yesterday she was a tiny little thing with fuzzy blonde hair (and hardly any of it) who loved pink and dresses and cats. And now here she is still with blonde hair but wouldn't wear pink if it was the last thing in her wardrobe. She still loves cats though. :)

Here are some of my favourite shots of her from yesterday. Happy Birthday Bella.