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The two things I love most in the world merged last week and I almost popped with excitement. Fashion + photography = a mind bogglingly ecstatic Janine. My first ever fashion shoot!
Vanilla is an utterly fabulous clothes shop in Lisburn. When I got the chance to do a fashion shoot to showcase their summer range for them I was delighted and immediately started putting together thoughts and ideas. Ciara (the proprietor) met with me and we worked together to combine our ideas on the look and style we wanted to achieve. Cathy Webb did an amazing job with the makeup. Justine was a beautiful, lovely, sweet and fun girl to work with. Claire was an excellent assistant (as always), and Ciara is an absolute gem. She is such a brilliant stylist - she put all of these looks together and better yet, if you have a special occasion and need help putting an outfit together you just need to pop into Vanilla and she will have you sorted in no time.
I am delighted with the results, it was a massive team effort and we all worked so well together and had so much fun. Can't wait for the winter stock to arrive now! If you've never been to Vanilla you should check it out at Market Place in Lisburn. All of the outfits, bags and accessories shown here are currently in stock, and there's loads more...I just ran out of blogging room :) |
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Last week I photographed Chris and Laura's wedding at St. Marks in Portadown and on to Galgorm Manor. Would you believe this is just my second wedding in my home town, and my first wedding in St. Marks? How could I not have discovered those amazing yellow doors before?!
Anyway, Laura and Chris are great and as I discovered during their engagement session, they are so into each other that they seem to forget the camera is pointed at them. It was a case of "Ok, you can stop kissing now. Um...you can stop now...any time now would be great...OK STOP!". Not that I am against kissing you understand, it's just that the manager of Galgorm would be tapping me on the shoulder and saying my time is up before I have taken one picture! They made my job very easy and it was hard for me to just pick a handful for the blog because I love so many of them - they just look so happy and totally in love :) |
| Laura rocked her Jenny Packham dress, she looked amazing. |
| Gotta get the cute little munchkins in somewhere! |
| I totally love the way those dresses move so delicately, especially when you are walking or have them all bunched up in your hand. I am thinking of buying one and just wearing it round the house. |
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Oh my goodness I have a trabillion things to blog! I truly think once I get started my blog (and my mind) will implode!
So I shall start with lovely Raymond, who agreed to help me on my journey to improve my skillz. :) The very first time I met Raymond I told him I HAD to take his picture. And thankfully he did not think that was too weird.
Some things Raymond had to endure during his session:
• Me getting lost trying to find Helen's Bay. That's right - Helen's Bay. How absurd is that? In my defense, Raymond wasn't too hot on the old navigational skills himself...
• Walking through very very smelly seaweed.
• Some unpleasant ASBO wielding teens who may or may not have verbally abused us and thrown stones at us. It's possible that I have exaggerated that.
• Trying to decipher my very poor directions: "Walk walk walk, now turn, walk, turn, walk, turn...look up, down, out, in, out, up and out, at me, out, at me...hold your hand out, more out, in a bit, out a touch, a wee bit to the left...no, more right...now open your fingers a bit more, a bit less, hmmmm, close them and open them again..." Good job he is very patient :)
And finally, congratulations to Raymond as he found out on the day of our shoot that he had passed his exams and gotten a 2:1 in his degree. Whoop! |
| Further proof that I am indeed hilarious. Probably. |
On a bleak Monday morning, when you can't decide if you have been burgled or your office really is that untidy and the to-do list requires two lined A4 pages, there's only one thing that can bring cheer:
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/
Funniest website I have ever seen. Never fails to make me laugh out loud. |
Miss Olivia is just 10 days old and she is an amazingly cute bundle of loveliness. She slept for the first 5 minutes of her photoshoot and then decided she was missing out on too much and after a big yawn and a stretch she woke up and joined the party! She is such a sweet little girl with her head full of jet black hair and her adorable chin dimple.
And as well as the excitement of Olivia's arrival there was also some drama involving the family dog...Ruby...keep reading :) |
Ruby is the 'furst' born child of the family. When Louise was in her last of week of pregnancy Ruby started looking really fat. Assuming she was having a typical phantom pregnancy she was sent to the vet just to make sure everything was ok and sure enough a scan revealed that this was no phantom pregnancy, Ruby had 4 little pups inside her! Just a week after Olivia's arrival into the world Ruby also became a mum for the first time. And there were a heck of a lot more pups than 4!! These were taken when they were just a day old. Soooo cute. And they all have a little patch of white on them...taking after their daddy :)
Louise and Merv now have a LOT on their hands! |
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Got up this morning and saw two sights that made me chuckle. You can't half tell my ma and da are here. Irwins Nutty Crust Bread (an Northern Irish specialty) and chocolate digestive biscuits, neither of which you can get in America. These will be part of my parent's staple diet while they are here. Combined with black, stewed-for-an-hour tea and real butter, this is all a person could possibly want in a meal.
Secondly, the dogs are absolutely exhausted with the excitement of 'granny and granda's' arrival. They sat at the bottom of the stairs for 2 hours yesterday sacrificing their afternoon snooze, waiting on mum and dad to wake up from their post flight nap. This morning they were not moving, infact, Buddy is properly grumpy and gave me a filthy look for daring to take his picture. What a diva! |
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