He’s three!

Our two-year-old has just had a birthday and is now a big boy of three. We just had a small family gathering this year. He’s recently started day care, so maybe next year he’ll have a list of friends he’d like to invite to a party, and we could go all out with a themed party like you see many examples of here. This year when I asked him what he’d like to do to celebrate he said, “A party with Mummy and Daddy and H (his sister) and me!”. We invited a few of his cousins, too.

Here’s the image I’m using for his thank you cards. Captures his busy-ness, I reckon!

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Da Goddess - Oooh! This is great! Yes, birthday treats and that giddy child within = perfect combination.

I heart faces photo collage competition


Here’s my entry for this week’s I heart faces photo challenge. This collage is actually front and back of a template I designed for a concertina album. Fun to play around in photoshop like that. Hope you like it! (For some reason my images are looking pretty yuck on this blog at the moment.  🙁 It looks better if you click on the image and view it bigger.)

I found the I ? faces site through the MCP actions blog. I’ve never entered one of these challenges before, but it looks like fun! So here goes! Head on over and be inspired by all the images you find there. Enjoy!

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Mel - Love seeing bigger “kids” instead of all the little tots all the time. Great work and beautiful black and white collage!

Donna - Quite the handsome big kids. Nice collage!

vividity - Yeah. It was a hard day at the office!

vividity - Thanks Mel. Yes, I usually shoot little ones, so it is nice to work with some big kids from time to time.

Jennifer Juniper - What handsome guys! I’ll just look at them for awhile while I’m appreciating your collage 🙂

Fellow photographers, you could win!

Here’s a great opportunity to win yourself a lovely design template from Design by Jenn. You can check out their work on their blog here, and enter the competition on their facebook fan page, here. Good luck! No, I don’t really mean that, cos I’M going to win! Haha!

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vividity - You know that throw away ‘I’m gonna win! Haha!’ in the post above? Well I did win!!!! Yeehaa! Can’t wait to start playing around with the album!

Need to be inspired?

Hi all,

If you’re looking for a little bit of inspiration, you can’t do much better than Yoga Suits Her, Eve Grzybowski’s yoga blog. Eve is my teacher, though she now lives a little too far away for me to go to classes with her 🙁 and her writing is inspirational. Just like having her in your room, chatting away with you. And always full of wit and wisdom, just like her yoga teaching. So check it out! I have added a link in my  blog roll, too, in case you need to find it again later. The image below is a photo of Eve from her blog.

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Is a picture worth a thousand words? Or some cold hard cash?

About a year and a half ago I was sleeping every night with my mobile phone switched on and beside my bed. My camera packed and ready to go. Phone and camera were my constant companions. Why? I was expecting a phone call. A most important call. A dear friend of mine was pregnant with her second baby and said she would call me to take photos as soon as the baby arrived.

That call never came, thank God.

A year and a half ago her baby might not have survived, as he would have been very premature. Conceiving this baby was very nearly impossible*, and staying pregnant involved months of bed rest (not as much fun as it sounds!), much of it in hospital.

As it turned out, he was born prematurely, but gladly his arrival was not as early as we all thought it might be. With expert help from the doctors and nurses at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital, and a lot of patient love and care from his parents, he survived. You might remember him from and earlier post:

Well… that baby has just turned ONE! And to celebrate his first year of life, his mum and I are running a little fundraiser to buy much needed equipment for Royal North Shore Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and other similar places. Here’s how it works:

The first ten people to book in for a portrait session with me between 1st March and 30th June 2010 will receive:

  • half price sitting (only $50)
  • a free mini concertina album with 8 of your favourite images from the shoot
  • a free 5 x 7 inch print

That’s $185 value for just $50!

I will donate ALL of your sitting fee and 5% of what you order at your initial proofing session to Kids like Brett.

Who’s that?

Kids like Brett. They are a registered charity who donate 100% of all the money that passes through their books to purchase life-saving medical equipment for sick kids. They buy EXACTLY what the hospitals need to do their work, and they negotiate the best prices they can on some very specialised equipment.

Oh, and those of you who have received a half-price voucher for becoming fans of vividity on facebook can take part in this, too.

So book in for a photo session now, and turn your pictures into some cold hard cash for some very sick kids.

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*You can read my friend’s story about IVF here. It’s worth a read. She’s a great writer!

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Rosalind - Lovely photos Jen 🙂

jennifer - Thanks Ros. Looking forward to seeing some photos of your new little one soon!

Here are the girls (another collage…and another challenge!) « vividity - […] again, not many of just the girls together.  So when their mother booked in for one of my special fund raiser shoots,* she said the focus was on getting one good shot of the girls together. […]

Woops! I forgot! | vividity - […] know that fundraiser I had earlier in the year? […]

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