Lovely Lighting

We love creative lighting.  Here's a few pictures of our favourite ideas:

Cafe lights are stylish and look fantastic in pictures.

Mini lights still look great if done properly.

Chandeliers are beautiful and work perfectly in rustic, garden or formal weddings.

Paper lanterns are fun, especially mixed with mini lights above and candles on the tables.

And candles will never go out of style.

Happy Thursday!

Tea Party

One snowy day in May, Adrienne and I had a cheerful little photo shoot.  We really needed updated pictures of ourselves for the website, and we'd been talking about a photo shoot for a very long time.  Adrienne put together this wonderful little tea party and we had a great time getting prettied up and having our pictures taken.

The photos were taken by our sister-in-law, Nicole (Adrienne and I are sisters-in-law, in case you didn't know)...I have a third talented sister-in-law who you'll meet sometime soon.  By the way, what's the shorthand for sister-in-law, because oh dear it's a long phrase to write over and over? SIL?

Anyway, Nicole is a talented graphic designer, writer, photographer, and basically anything else creative, and she very kindly took our pictures.  She has a website coming soon, but if you are looking for anything please contact me and I'll put you through to her.  I have to say that as we are, ahem, amatuer models, Nicole did a great job of staging each shot and knowing what would look best on camera, which we really appreciate!  Sometimes the most natural poses in person look weird on camera, and the poses that feel a bit awkward and posed look more natural on camera.  It was wonderful to have Nicole stage each picture perfectly.

In case you wonder what Adrienne and I do in our free time together, drinking tea and chatting is pretty much our thing (but usually in jeans), so the tea party was really appropriate :) 

Here's my favourite shot:



Of course there was some laughter...should the flowers be here or 5mm to the left? The life of a designer:



The lovely Adrienne:



And me (Jess):



Happy Thursday!

Settling into Summer

 

Tracey Kiansky Photography

Yes...It's been a while.  I know.  For once, though, I actually have a good excuse as to why I haven't blogged lately.  Remember back in winter, I wrote about moving to Bolivia for a year?  Well, I did.  My family has been in Bolivia since May, and we're having a wonderful time.  We're working at a centre that teaches practical skills to people who want to come off the streets, provide for their family in an honest manner and change their lives and their children's lives.

With a Flourish is in the hands of the very competent and creative Adrienne.  Adrienne has some spectacular weddings planned that will show up on the blog.  She also has great ideas for photo shoots and blog posts, and between us we'll resume a decent blog-posting schedule.  On Thursday, we'll be posting a photo shoot featuring...us.

Thanks for reading!  I hope everyone is having a wonderful Summer!