Tuesday 23 October 2012

The Shaduka Family - Outdoor Photo Session


Late one Tuesday afternoon I got an sms from the lovely Doreen asking if I could do a photo session with her family. When I called her up she broke the news to me that she wanted to do the photo session the very next day and her family consisted of 7! I was due to go on holiday that Friday so I was rushing to get everything done before I left but she said that it was the last day that her family would be all together. The boys were due to leave for far flung places to continue their studies. I managed to squeeze in one hour for them and boy am I glad that I did. It was just so much fun.

Doreen chose the 'Let's Get Creative' Package which includes a 1 hour photo shoot and a disc with all the edited images including resized ones ready for posting on Facebook and other social media. Plus 20 jumbo sized (10x15cm) prints, this personal blog post and all their images posted in a private online gallery. Available add-ons include their own slideshow of all the images set to music and a variety of prints and canvas prints.

We headed to the Parliament Gardens that has lovely big open spaces and beautiful gardens open to the public. Here are just a few of the many fun shots I got.

The hour I spent with them was fast paced and full of laughs.
Little princess.

A little levitating practice...



Thank you Shaduka Family for letting me capture your wonderful, vibrant, fun family!

Friday 5 October 2012

{simple happiness}



One photo; every Friday; no words ... just simple happiness.
  

If you decide to do the same please link your photo in a comment below.

Tuesday 2 October 2012

Adorable at 5 Months Old


I just love my job. It is so much fun photographing babies. The older they get the more exciting and fun it gets. It's fast paced and so rewarding.


I made this precious little hat for my new niece and I put it on Jessica it check the sizing and she just looked so adorable I had to take some photos.


Seeing as I had her naked and in a delightful mood I whipped out some props and got these cuties.
Irresistibly delicious big toe!

What girl can resist pearls?


Monday 1 October 2012

Ultimate White Chocolate Chunk Cookie 'n Choc-kit Fudge Whitie


Most of you loved my post about the Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie 'n Oreo Fudge Brownie Bar and I promised to try making a breastfeeding friendly version with white chocolate. I made them last weekend but just never got around to posting about it last week.

So I started off with the idea that I would just replace all the milk and dark chocolate with white chocolate and replace the Oreo's with a white chocolate biscuit. I had bought some white chocolate wafers but my husband vetoed those in an instant. He said I had to use white chocolate Choc-kits. Now I looooooove Choc-kits. I managed to find some but much to my disappointment I couldn't find white chocolate chips for the cookie base. So I bought some good quality white chocolate and made my own. They turned out more like white chocolate chunks rather than chips.



White chocolate chunk cookie base.


My little 3 year old was my big helper and she laid out the biscuits for me. 

When it came to making the Sticky Toffee Brownies, I used a little more white chocolate than dark chocolate just to get the flavour right. I also had to make more than I did for the brownies, the mixture was thicker and didn't cover the biscuits completely. I must add that I cooked the toffee mix a little longer to add extra fudgey toffeeness.

This was the final product. It doesn't look as decadent and mouth watering without the chocolate sauce drizzling over it but I had to leave that out. I guess I could have come up with a white chocolate version but I had used up all my white chocolate in the recipe itself. It was generally accepted that these were even better than the brown version.

These have been dubbed Whities despite not being at all white!



 
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