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I have a night free from any commitments what so ever so I could scrap.

And I've done 2. This one and a double which I'll photography tomorrow. {Keep ya in suspense ;o) }

Just LOVIN the Prima blooms atm. I have had a small spend up with some (blush) but aren't they divine.

My men are back home tomorrow night. They've been away for a week and I missed them sooo much. I was a bit of a dribbly mess last Wednesday morning. Not having my little shadow called Sean around has been awful on one hand and fantastic on the other. I've looked at this past week apart as a trial for me to see how I go when Sean starts Kindy first term next year. Guaranteed I'll be one the Mums bawling out in the car.

Until then he's my right hand man.

:o)

t

Sand, surf and the F's

I loved this photo shoot. My first one on a beach with a good friend who knew what she was after. I asked her to make a list of ideas for me to capture and I add libbed from there.

Thanks A and enjoy your sneak peek

A bit of a story of this one with A in the water. The sun was all but gone from the beach when she asked me to get one of her with the water coming up from behind and surrounding her, and with the reflection of the sand. There was a small patch of sunlight left on the far end of the beach some 100m away. So we ran. Literally. And snapped it just as the sun disappeared totally for the day. Pheww.

In the far distance in this shot is a pod of whales frolicking out there. There is a flipper out of the water. ( I doubt you can see it in this pic) These guys see whales all the time out there so its kind of cool that a whale should be in one of their photos.

Lots more over at Tiff Firth Photography on FaceBook

recap

Pheww. What a week. Busy as a bee. 3 photo shoots, processing those shoots, Father's day, family leaving for a week, funeral, sick DD, DD Birthday party, Horse Ride, Sports windup. ( I think I've got it all)

My Internet was on snail pace for this last week too, so that makes thinks soooo much slower and wasting my precious time. It'll be back to normal later tonight. Thank goodness.

So to recap.
Fathers Day.
Sean stamped his hand with red paint on his card to Dad. awww.



Helping himself to Dad's annual snake stash. And there was licorice too.


Annie made Dad blue jelly for breakfast. So not Kym's favourite thing but he got it all down.


And amazingly I got a wild poppy from Kym for Father's Day. Now that just blew me away.

Annie's Birthday.

She was whispering in my ear at 6.10am on her day letting me know that she's now 7 years old. she was told veerrryyyy noicely to go back to bed until 7.15a seeing it was a school morning.

so she waited quietly until I had the camera ready for her and out she bounced.

She had a Birthday party at the Bakery with 10 of her friends after school. I would love to have a group shot here but I haven't asked Mum's permission so I wont.

Annie loved her tiara for the party.

Annie had a sleep over at a friend's home and I had to go to a dinner. Its a rare thing to see me in a dress and with full war paint on, so I thought a pic of us girls wouldn't go amiss.

Rambler windup. Junior presentations today. Annie was presented with her medallion, and she spoke on the mike on behalf of the team to give thanks to their coaches. And gave them their gifts. (proud Mum moment) Again I would like to show a pic of this but there are others in the photo that I haven't asked.

This week is a little bit more sedate and I hope to get on top of it all by tomorrow arvo.

7

Happy Birthday Annie. My goodness. You're 7 already. Where did that time go. Love you as big as the world and I am so very proud of you.

xXx Mum xXx


Pics and 'report' later.

;oD

rRr

These three happy ladies came and saw me yesterday. What a great shoot we had. Miss G is such a good girl and Miss J is just happy by nature. Lots of gurgling when she had her skin shots done. I think she may be a free spirit lol.

Enjoy your sneak peek and thank you very much.

cheers T

party boxes

pheww. busy busy week. lots of photo sessions, associated processing, the shocking loss of a very popular young man in our community and getting organised for Annie's Birthday.

In between everything I have managed to make these ready for her party on Friday.

And the poor poppet was not well during the night last night (started chucking after midnight and was still at it this morning). So she is home with me today. I think she's over the worst of it now. Better being crook today, than on Friday being her special day.

The P Family

We had the most magnificent rural backgrounds and gorgeous evening light on this family's farm. A sure fire recipe for success.






Rest assured there are individual pics of the kids. You can go to Tiff Firth Photography to see them and more. Become a FAN (on left hand side of the FaceBook page.)

Thanks to this family. Enjoy your sneak peek.

7 S's

We had the most beautiful light on Saturday evening for photos.


I must give you the story of the old weathered door. Not very far from where this family lives was a cricket oval and tennis courts, long ago abandoned. The area is all cropped now but the original long drop dunny is still there and this is the door on that great Aussie icon. Isn't is perfect as a backdrop.


I asked each person to give me 'attitude' when I took their photo in front of this door, and boy did I get it in spades. It was really hard not to laugh out loud.


Thanks guys. I had a blast and I hope you had a great dinner after. You see, as they were all dressed up, they decided to head on out for tea. Top idea.


There are only a few here. Head over to Tiff Firth Photography for more.

the B's - 3 generations

Taking photos isn't supposed to be this much fun.

And I do giggle with the memories of it all when I process each photo shoot. (Ask Lindy from Sheoak Craft Cottage). I was in there last night working on this session and I had to smother a fair bit of giggling.

Thank you to this family and enjoy your sneak peek.

Miss H showing me her 'cross' face. lol

Miss A showing me her 'grumpy' face. She is such a character.

introducing the D's

this shoot very nearly didn't happen. It was a windy day and didn't look all that promising. But K and I thought we'd give it a shot.



AND I am so glad we did. By 4.30p the wind had dropped out, it was pleasantly warm and the light was perfect.


Thanks guys. You have a lot of photos to go thru when you get the disc.

;OD


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say hi, become a FAN!! (link on left side of FB wall)

;0D

help please

Hiya.
If anyone is going to Lincoln in the next few days, I am after a small favour. I need a wooden letter C from Cheap as Chips.

I am in the throes of making the 'favour bags' for Annie's birthday party, but they are actually not bags lol.

Anyway I got all the letters except for C. I've got one, but I need two.

Drop me a comment or email me if you an help a Mum in distress.

Thanks
tiff

***edited to add*** within 1 minute of putting this post on my Facebook wall I had a reply and I'll have my letter C here in my hot little hand tonight. (Thanks Sarah B and Amy F) The marvels of technology hey!!

invites

made a few of these late last night. Printed them out this morning.

darling

Its amazing what you can reuse for scrapping.

Annie finally went thru the knees of her old pyjamas. I took off all the buttons for my stash and tossed the pj's in a bag for Kym to take down the shed for rags.

During the night a thought must have made its way into my mind while I was asleep. I retrieved the bag before it left the backdoor and saved some pieces of the material.

Annie's birthday's coming up and I wanted to make a photo frame with her pjs. I found the frame last week and made this last night.


Coincidentally it happens to fit with the current E2C colour challenge of pink and red. Annie has a red jacket in the photo of which you can see the collar. I have never minded pink and red together even tho its a fashion no no. Not that I take any notice of fashion at all. LOL.

So with the red collar and the pink material it fits. I used a red towel for a backdrop to take the pics.

Viola. One of Annie's pressies done and a colour challenge done. How cool is that.

spring

Its here.
The birds are gathering nesting materials, the bees are buzzing, the butterflies are flying in paired formation and my boy peacock is becoming a man. He's very nearly 2 and is growing his first round of tail feathers.

Flowers everywhere.

sigh.

a little patch of heaven.