£2500 Wedding Photography Competition

Very excited to see this promotion published on The Natural Wedding Company Blog today! Woohoo :) Who doesn't seeing their own name in print! lol Anyway, everything she says is true true true! So make your way over to the competition entry form and fill out a few very simple questions for your chance to win!!!

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I'm absolutely loving the stories that are being sent in. Each one brightens my day. Life is going along like usual and then bing bang boom - a love story appears on my lap(top)!!!!! Apart from the fact that I just love getting emails from people, hearing about how people have fallen and love and how they've been so thoughtful with their proposals makes me so happy. I get all smiley and can't wait until I get the chance to talk to these people in person (or at least over the telephone lol). I feel so honoured that they are sharing these most special moments of their lives with me - a 'stranger' {I'm not really that strange though if we're honest...really, I promise I'm not. My husband and brother might strongly disaggree but now I've led you down a tangent. Sorry.} To the point - I feel so blessed to be included in these wonderful people's stories. I love being a wedding photographer!!!!

Find what you love and do it because it makes life amazing :D

xoxo

Chamonix

First 10 Days!

So I've embarked on the 365 Photos project that every photographer out there seems to be doing this year. Well I stand by my claim that I thought of doing it first! :P It's been fun so far but much more difficult than I imagined. The tough part is choosing which photo I'll use since I take dozens each day and then how it should be edited, if at all. Instagram has all its fun little quirky filters and I get all sucked in scrolling between them all, indecisive. If nothing else, this project is inspiring me to lead a more interesting life because if these photos are the highlights of each day...yawn...lol. I guess my life is quite quiet at the moment. I'm spending lots and lots of time preparing for 2012 weddings; updating pricing lists, giving the website miniature facelifts, organising bridal shoots (woohoo I've got 4 this month!) and researching new fun products I can offer. 

I've also started watching Grey's Anatomy again. I'm half way through season 5. I love finding a good show! And New Girl - my husband says I'm just like Jess. I'll take that as a compliment thank you very much :) It's a good thing to sing all day and have crazy cool dance moves!

I got a call this morning from the Scottish Wedding Show. They're offering me a booth at the February show and I'm running numbers and dreaming about possibilities. I have until tomorrow morning to get back to them. Oh what to do... I'd like to book some weddings please...pretty pretty please :) If anyone wants to hire me to save me the expense of paying for a stall at the show that would be absolutely lovely - I won't say no lol.

And....so far I've received about 6 entries to the wedding collection competition that I'm running! Hooray! I absolutely love reading engagement stories and it's so sweet that people are sending them it. What a treat :) Thanks!

Have a smashing day :)

xoxoxo

Chamonix

Lots & Lots of Colour!

Feet up on the coffe table. Laptop where it belongs...on my lap. Taylor Swift is playing as loud as she goes on my computer. "Picture to Burn" is on reply - I absolutely love this music video. It's one of my all time favourites I think that just because she's wearin a sexy dress, dancing with flames, surrounded by men in suits and wearing a top hat...plus it's raining sparks. The spark are actually the coolest bit. Anyway, that's totally how I'd do my super awesome Billboard #1 music video! I'm not mad that she did it first though. Saved me the trouble and I still get to sing along!!

Now...more to the point, I've plopped myself down on the couch this evening to make up my mind on the photography products I'll be offering in 2012!!! How very exciting is that?! I've been slightly agonising over it for days, maybe weeks. I think I can be slightly obsessed or perfectionist rather when it comes to my business. I just want everything to be as right and pretty as possible - can you blame a girl for that?

I've got dilemmas swirling through my head like...Should I offer my clients a range of albums covers to choose from or should I choose a signature cover that all Loveducks Albums will have. If I choose one cover, what colour will it be? Loveducks has 5 colours (probably more than colour-experts would recommend but I can't help myself). I love colour and I couldn't possibility just choose one! That would be ridiculous!

As a child, I loved going into Bed, Bath & Beyond and staring at the massive wall of perfectly folded bath towels - every colour you could imagine. I wondered how any adult could ever just choose one for their bathroom. Even if they did manage to choose a favourite colour, as soon as it was all on its lonesome in the bathroom, it would look dull without the contrast of the other colours around it making it pop out.

And so here's my genius theory....always buy one of every colour!!

Colour works much better in teams!

So perhaps, every album size should be a different colour? Perhaps, I can offer a range of 'Loveducks Colours'. Maybe all the albums will have the same cover colour but they'll have different coloured accessories (boxes, ribbon etc...). Whatever I end up doing....I promise you colour. Lots and lots of colour!!

Live colourfully my friends!!!!

xoxo

Chamonix

New Years Eve — Kitchen Rave!!

Happy New Year 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you all had a fun evening however you chose to celebrate! I went to Edinburgh to celebrate at my in-laws. They went out for the evening leaving Migs, Carolyn (my sister-in-law) & one of our friends in the house to have a "quiet night in." Well...our quiet evening turned into a fun little rave in the kitchen. I have an app on my iPhone that's a strobe light (iLights) and we pumped up the jams and broke open a bottle of rum and ginger beer that Migs had brought home from Canada five years ago!!! At midnight we went outside to watch the Edinburgh fireworks which were so lovely! My favourites were the big golden ones at the end that got bigger and bigger! 

Carolyn painted my nails (pink with yellow spots - a combination suggested by one of the lovely gentlemen we were celebrating with). It's all chipping off now but it was a fun little combination for the evening. :)

 Me - taking really blurry photos of our rave on my iPhone. 

It was quite an eventful little evening for just the four of us. Carolyn woke up with a wee scrape on her face because she flipped over a fence when we were out firework spotting! Haha! It's been fun teasing her about it :)

We ended our night at 4am and didn't wake up until lunch time :) Ah...one of the best new years ever simply because it was spent giggling with friends and dancing to fun music! Hooray for 2012!!!!!! Not too shabby for my first New Year with my husband — I finally got to give him a smooch!!
Hope everyone else had such a good time!
xoxo
Chamonix