I’ve had a particularly busy last quarter – so busy in fact that I simply did not have the time to devote attention to things I wanted so dearly to. Particularly, to my Friday’s Favourite project and also to my blog in general. However, January is fast approaching! It is my favourite time of the year for personal endeavours. It’s the month I partake in my Photo of the Day project and will be the third year I have undertaken it. So stay tuned for that.

Today though, I put things aside to snap some pictures of my Willow and her best friend Tilly (who has featured a little on my blog). In addition I made sure I got around to editing said images and hallelujah they’ve made it to my blog.

So here you have two beautiful fairies, all excited and merry, which brings me to why I’ve really blogged tonight. I wanted to extend a thank you to my wonderful clients in 2011. Thank you for allowing me to share in the beauty that is your life. May the magic of love twinkle in your lives throughout the Christmas season and for the upcoming new year.

I read this fitting quote about Christmas just recently, and I love it:

A lovely thing about Christmas
Is that it’s compulsory,
Like a thunderstorm,
And we all go through it together.

So please, enjoy the thunderstorm and I will see you in 2012!

I’m an avid blogger and always try my best to keep up to date but it seems I have failed dismally these past few weeks *cough* months. I do have a good excuse I promise. See, this time of year is normally busy to say the least, but add on to that, lots and lots of newborn babes arriving left right and centre and it becomes chaotic. Which, is case in point here.

That’s ok, it just means I have so much more to share soon and I will – lots of newborns and beautiful families. In the meantime, enjoy a Beloved session I had the pleasure of experiencing back in September. How lucky am I to have captured this family for the second time…the first when little Will was just 9 months old. He’s now a beautiful, energetic toddler.

Another beautiful family I saw dance on the stage of life. A witness, through the eyes of my camera.

Enjoy their beautiful song.

Her name is Leisa and we’ve been friends for 20 years.

She makes me laugh, now more than ever. We can talk for hours, but unfortunately as time and life would have it, we don’t do that enough. I fondly remember her wedding and the birth of her first-born and all the others that have followed; five beautiful babies. She is an amazing mother. One I can only aspire to be like. Her family is beautiful. Full of laughter, a great deal of love,  and so much more. They are truly together.

Meet my friend and her beautiful family.

You’ve got to laugh a little.
Cry a little.
Until the clouds roll by a little.
That’s the story of; that’s the glory of love.

As long as there’s the four of us,
We’ve got the world and all it’s charms.
And when the world is through with us.
We have got each others arms.

You’ve got to win a little.
Loose a little.
Yes and always have the blues a little.
That’s the story of; that’s the glory of love.

It was very exciting to spend an afternoon with them once again. See, it’s exciting because they live all the way in London…you couldn’t really get further away from little ol’ me if you tried. So, I’m rather fortunate to have had the opportunity to capture them not once, but twice.

Now they’re back in old London town, and I bet they’re missing our beautiful sunny Queensland weather already…how could you not?!