Sarah & Danny ~ Engaged

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Early in the fall I met up with Sarah and Danny at Tanyard Creek. We had

the date scheduled weeks out and it turned out to be below freezing that

morning. What I didn't think about was that there would be frost... and it

was the most beautiful frost that morning! Could not have asked for a

more lovely landscape with even lovelier light that Morning!

Sarah, who is uber creative, had a lot of ideas for their session. This in

turn makes my job so much fun! And that frost.... Gorgeous!

Jensen ~ Newborn

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It's always hard to pick out my favorites from a newborn session

but this one was extra hard... especially when Jensen's mom has

all these awesome hats when I get to their home! I've made it clear

to her that whenever she is ready to let go of these hats - that I'm

her buyer!

Jensen is such a beautiful little girl - I'm honored that I will get to

watch her grow {from behind my lens} over this next year!

Megan & Luke ~ Engaged

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It was a little windy and a little chilly in the shady spots, but that

didn't affect Megan and Luke last Saturday during their engagement

session. Megan and Luke are so full of life and love, it's practically

oozing. They were up for anything and full of ideas.

After roaming around the UofA campus they took us to the spot

where Luke asked Megan to be his girlfriend and later to be his wife!

I know - love it.

Adam and I left the session going on and on about how cute Megan

and Luke were and how much fun their wedding is going to be!

Can't wait guys!

There is a little stop motion surprise at the end so be sure to go all

the way down to the bottom of the post.

I'm totally in love with this shot Adam got while I was woking on a ring

shot!

Ok, so I don't think I've posted one of these before... Adam has this thing

where he takes pictures of animals during our engagement sessions and

weddings. Sometimes I know he's doing it but I almost never know what

he is taking a picture of. It's like a little surprise while I'm editing.

Here it is! That special place. <3

Here is a great example of how fast Adam is at hitting that shutter button!

Bib ~ DIY

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Here is my first DIY project for February. It came about when I realized

that I didn't have enough bibs and couldn't find any I really liked out

shopping. I had some left over fabric remnants from making burp cloths

for Owen and all I had to buy was the plush cloth for the backing and

some velcro.

Sorry for not documenting this, I finished them before realizing I could

blog the process. I copied the pattern from a bib I already had. So, these

are all after shots and they have even been washed and warn several times

already.

I recommend getting fabric with lots of pattern and colors to hide all the

stains they will surely get. I'm finding that carrot stains pretty bad, next

to banana which is the absolute worst! I got the dot plush at Hobby

Lobby on sale, I think I spent $3 and got 1/3 yard of each white and

brown.

I overlocked the edges because I couldn't be bothered to stitch, then top-

stitch the edges. I knew this way would be the fastest and easiest. Then

I just topstitched the velcro or hook and loop tape to back of the bib.

Next time I'll get the flat version. The regular velcro/hook and loop gets

caught on the overlock stitching, so I have to be sure an connect them

before the go into the wash.

Hope you like!

Bachelorette Sash ~ DIY

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So, my best friend is getting Married! I'm extremely excited for her, but

due to my new station in life (breastfeeding momma) I'm wasn't able to

attend the festivities in Vegas last weekend!

When Aimee (the festivity coordinator) asked me if there was any way I

wanted to contribute to the weekend even tho I could not attend I asked

if it would be okay if I could make the sash. She said "Sure".

So, here you have it. I contacted my friend Regan at Sewing~a~Seed to

do the embroidery for me, she did a fab job and got it back to me

super fast which was great because I'm a horrible procrastinator.

I picked up this feather hair piece, pin thing in Hoppy Lobby's wedding

section and added some beads to it and pinned it to the shoulder of the

sash. I sewed the beads onto the feathers, but I'm pretty sure a glue gun

would have done a better and faster job. I was a bit of a pain. I'm not sure

what the trick is to doing this part.

I had Regan add the wedding date to the back of the sash. One of my better

ideas.....

Love you Jaya! Can't wait for your wedding!