I just wanted to share another picture with you from this shoot.
Look at those legs!! Can you say... JEALOUS!!!
Thursday 25 August 2011
The orange swimsuit take 2!
A few weeks ago I posted a photo from my shoot with TN Photography and Natalia Held.
I just wanted to share another picture with you from this shoot.
Look at those legs!! Can you say... JEALOUS!!!
I just wanted to share another picture with you from this shoot.
Look at those legs!! Can you say... JEALOUS!!!
Jack n Jill - Organic Toothpaste
I have always been concerned about the unnecessary additives in our hygiene products and the affects they have on our bodies as well as our children's precious bodies.
My family used a 'chemical safe' toothpaste from an American company called Neways. It was a great product but was quite expensive, and always cost a whopping $14 for postage. I thought there had to be a better Australian product on the market!
I follow a blog by a wonderful lady called Lori who had recommended an Australian made and owned natural toothpaste, called Jack n' Jill. I jumped onto the website to check it out, and after seeing the generous price of the product I purchased a few tubes to try.
I have the RASPBERRY and STRAWBERRY flavours...and they are YUM! Makes brushing your teeth a treat! It also comes in BANANA, BLUEBERRY and BLACKCURRANT.
The cost of the 50g tubes are just $5.85, and if you sign up to their newsletter you get 15% of your first order. BARGAIN!!
Ingredients:
Silica, Vegetable Glycerin, Xylitol, Certified Organic Calendula Officinalis Extract, Xanthan Gum, Certified Organic Natural Flavour (Raspberry, Banana, Blueberry, Blackcurrant, Strawberry), Purified Water.
My family used a 'chemical safe' toothpaste from an American company called Neways. It was a great product but was quite expensive, and always cost a whopping $14 for postage. I thought there had to be a better Australian product on the market!
I follow a blog by a wonderful lady called Lori who had recommended an Australian made and owned natural toothpaste, called Jack n' Jill. I jumped onto the website to check it out, and after seeing the generous price of the product I purchased a few tubes to try.
Let me tell you... I LOVE IT! And so do my children.
The cutely packaged toothpaste contains organic flavours with organic calendula.
The cost of the 50g tubes are just $5.85, and if you sign up to their newsletter you get 15% of your first order. BARGAIN!!
Ingredients:
Silica, Vegetable Glycerin, Xylitol, Certified Organic Calendula Officinalis Extract, Xanthan Gum, Certified Organic Natural Flavour (Raspberry, Banana, Blueberry, Blackcurrant, Strawberry), Purified Water.
NO FLUORIDE NO PRESERVATIVES SLS FREE NO ADDED COLOR
Thursday 11 August 2011
Tomato: Amazing natural blackhead remover
I have always struggled with blackheads. I have quite large poors which get blocked easily from wearing makeup everyday.
Yes, I could go and buy expensive products that are full of chemicals and additives with names I dont dare to try and pronounce, but I prefer to try natural products first. Why put harsh chemicals on your face when you could use something out of your fridge...and save you a pretty penny too!
This is where one of our favourite summer vegetables come in... TOMATO!
Yes, I could go and buy expensive products that are full of chemicals and additives with names I dont dare to try and pronounce, but I prefer to try natural products first. Why put harsh chemicals on your face when you could use something out of your fridge...and save you a pretty penny too!
This is where one of our favourite summer vegetables come in... TOMATO!
Tomatos are amazing at removing blackheads and oil. Its citric acid acts like a natural facial treatment.
Its simple as 1, 2, 3!
1 - Cut/peel a tomato
2 - Rub the juices on your face and leave for 15 minutes - feel the tingle!!
3 - Rinse!
Try it, what do you have to lose! Just one tomato....
She wore an itsy bitsy teeny weeny fluro orange... swimsuit!
Just wanted to quickly share a photo from a photo shoot I did a few months ago.
The theme was editorial - resort style. Hopefully I will have more pictures to show you soon as this truely was an amazing shoot. Some of the shots would easily fit in the pages of Vogue.
Picture it - its winter in Canberra, about 5 degrees, its FREEZING. The city is empty on the grey Sunday afternoon. Standing infront of an amazing architectural building is a stunning model...longest legs I have ever seen, freezing in a tiny little fluro orange swim suit and massive pump heels...absolutley smashing it infront of an amazing up and coming photographer!
I always have a great time shooting with Tina from TN Photography - she is uber creative and thinks outside the box - she is one to watch!
TN Photography
Model: Natalia Held
Makeup: Aimee Benge
The theme was editorial - resort style. Hopefully I will have more pictures to show you soon as this truely was an amazing shoot. Some of the shots would easily fit in the pages of Vogue.
Picture it - its winter in Canberra, about 5 degrees, its FREEZING. The city is empty on the grey Sunday afternoon. Standing infront of an amazing architectural building is a stunning model...longest legs I have ever seen, freezing in a tiny little fluro orange swim suit and massive pump heels...absolutley smashing it infront of an amazing up and coming photographer!
I always have a great time shooting with Tina from TN Photography - she is uber creative and thinks outside the box - she is one to watch!
TN Photography
Model: Natalia Held
Makeup: Aimee Benge
Wednesday 3 August 2011
The trials and tribulations of breastfeeding.
I read an amazing blog post by Mooshinindy just recently called: The one about me not being able to breastfeed. Some of the things written really hit the nail on the head for me and my experiences with breastfeeding...well, my attempt to anyway!
"Many bodies out there don’t produce what comes naturally to so many others. Some bodies don’t produce enough tears, some bodies don’t produce enough insulin, some bodies don’t produce enough estrogen, some bodies don’t produce sweat, some bodies don’t produce sperm and some bodies don’t produce babies.
Just because someone has all the parts doesn’t mean they all work in harmony (or at all.)
But a body that doesn’t produce breastmilk is the only one that is judged both openly and silently on a fairly regular basis."
I attempted to breastfeed with both of my children.
With Tyler, I was very young (19). When I first held him in the hospital, it was the first time I had ever held a baby in my entire life - so needless to say I was crapping myself with fear. It was like trying to drive a manual truck in a forgein country, when you have never even driven a car!
I wanted to breastfeed, so I tried. He did not latch for the first few days as he was full of mucus and was so out of it. I spent those days trying to at least express but nothing seemed to be happening. On about day 4, T was latching...for about 2 seconds!! Then when no milk was coming through instantly, so he would scream and refuse to go back on. He was not eating. So we had to suppliment with formula.
The next day my milk came through quickly - so quickly I ended up with mastitis - but I had no idea. T finally started chomping (thats right, not sucking, chomping) and it was so painful, my nipples were a mess and they were bleeding. I started waking with chills and fevers when T was about 7 days old, but being so young I had just assumed it was probably normal after birth. But I was wrong. The next day I couldnt move, my body seized. My partner was at work and I couldnt get ahold of him. My little sister (16 at the time) had to come and look after a newborn, while my other sister took me to the hospital.
After painkillers and lots of pumping the mastitis started to reduce. I was so shaken by the whole thing. I had terrible baby blues and just cried and cried. I felt like a failure. I decided I wanted to try and keep feeding, but everytime T latched, my nipples would just bleed and I would sob in pain. It certainly wasnt the beautiful bonding experience I thought it would be!
I tried to pump, feed that to him, and then pump again for his next feed. He was an awful reflux baby who would take a good hour to burp - so by the time that was done, and I had gotten him to sleep, and then expressed, I had about an hours sleep before he was back up.
I couldnt maintain this. Oh how badly I wanted to, but I couldnt. My mum tried to encourage me to keep going but I was done. Drained...and very SORE.
But I finally had freedom! S was able to help me more, I was able to sleep more. We were all happy, full, and no longer crying in pain!
With Brody, I had a more successful experience, and we were exclusively breastfeeding for the first 3 weeks. I did come up againt mastitis again but we got through it. The thing that brought this to an abrupt unexpected end was the death of the most important person in my life, my mother. I will blog about this in my next post.
LOVE & LIGHT
"Many bodies out there don’t produce what comes naturally to so many others. Some bodies don’t produce enough tears, some bodies don’t produce enough insulin, some bodies don’t produce enough estrogen, some bodies don’t produce sweat, some bodies don’t produce sperm and some bodies don’t produce babies.
Just because someone has all the parts doesn’t mean they all work in harmony (or at all.)
But a body that doesn’t produce breastmilk is the only one that is judged both openly and silently on a fairly regular basis."
I attempted to breastfeed with both of my children.
With Tyler, I was very young (19). When I first held him in the hospital, it was the first time I had ever held a baby in my entire life - so needless to say I was crapping myself with fear. It was like trying to drive a manual truck in a forgein country, when you have never even driven a car!
I wanted to breastfeed, so I tried. He did not latch for the first few days as he was full of mucus and was so out of it. I spent those days trying to at least express but nothing seemed to be happening. On about day 4, T was latching...for about 2 seconds!! Then when no milk was coming through instantly, so he would scream and refuse to go back on. He was not eating. So we had to suppliment with formula.
The next day my milk came through quickly - so quickly I ended up with mastitis - but I had no idea. T finally started chomping (thats right, not sucking, chomping) and it was so painful, my nipples were a mess and they were bleeding. I started waking with chills and fevers when T was about 7 days old, but being so young I had just assumed it was probably normal after birth. But I was wrong. The next day I couldnt move, my body seized. My partner was at work and I couldnt get ahold of him. My little sister (16 at the time) had to come and look after a newborn, while my other sister took me to the hospital.
After painkillers and lots of pumping the mastitis started to reduce. I was so shaken by the whole thing. I had terrible baby blues and just cried and cried. I felt like a failure. I decided I wanted to try and keep feeding, but everytime T latched, my nipples would just bleed and I would sob in pain. It certainly wasnt the beautiful bonding experience I thought it would be!
I tried to pump, feed that to him, and then pump again for his next feed. He was an awful reflux baby who would take a good hour to burp - so by the time that was done, and I had gotten him to sleep, and then expressed, I had about an hours sleep before he was back up.
I couldnt maintain this. Oh how badly I wanted to, but I couldnt. My mum tried to encourage me to keep going but I was done. Drained...and very SORE.
But I finally had freedom! S was able to help me more, I was able to sleep more. We were all happy, full, and no longer crying in pain!
With Brody, I had a more successful experience, and we were exclusively breastfeeding for the first 3 weeks. I did come up againt mastitis again but we got through it. The thing that brought this to an abrupt unexpected end was the death of the most important person in my life, my mother. I will blog about this in my next post.
LOVE & LIGHT
Feeling girly!! MEOW!
I decided to try the new Sally Hansen Salon Effects.
To be honest I had little faith in this product. Little faith that it would; a) be simple to use as the box states, and b) last up to 10 days...yeah right!
But hey, I'll try anything once!
After pulling everything out of the box I was a tad intimidated, but read the instructions and followed them to a tee. After about 20 minutes of finishing the application...WOW! They worked! And dont they look awesome!
Go on guess...
IT'S BEEN 7 DAYS! And only small chips!
I am now hooked and cant wait to try the fish net sstocking ones next!!
To be honest I had little faith in this product. Little faith that it would; a) be simple to use as the box states, and b) last up to 10 days...yeah right!
But hey, I'll try anything once!
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It did take me a little while to massage the corners of the polish down as they kept lifting, but eventually they stayed down.
Now, being a mother of two boys and being a hockey player, even the best nail polish chips after just a few days, and I thought there was no way a non wet applied nail polish would last the lashings may hands get and I was certain they would simply peel off by the end of the day...
But guess what...
Go on guess...
IT'S BEEN 7 DAYS! And only small chips!
I am now hooked and cant wait to try the fish net sstocking ones next!!
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