Two Cute Shoots -- Delaware Child Photographer

When I bought my house years ago, the very FIRST thing I did was choose some wallpaper for the kitchen and main entry. I absolutely fell in love with a Waverly cottage rose pattern. Now normally, I tire of all things decor within a year. But I never got tired of that wallpaper. I painted my dining room to match. Bought furniture in the living room with very a very similar pattern. I even found two rugs with the same pattern. So, when I grew tired of my lavendar bedroom a few years back, it was hardly a surprise that I wanted to bring my no-fail pattern upstairs, too. But, I fought the urge. I mean, who does their entire house in the same pattern?! Instead, I painted the room beige and did a chocolate stripe wall on one end of the room. Taped off by my mother because I just couldn't get the lines straight. It was a lot of work ... and I hated the result. After a year, I couldn't take it anymore, so I decided to throw wallpaper over the striped wall. I saw a ton of gorgeous vintage cottage rose papers ... but once again, I fought the urge. Instead, I bought this textured cream-colored stuff that I thought would look like a cool old vintage wall. My Mom put up the wallpaper for me (yeah, I can't do that either) and it was ... ugly. Oh, so ugly. It looked like a cheap stick-on floor had crawled it's way up the wall. As I lay there looking at the ugliness night after night, it became apparent what I needed to do. I ripped it down and my kind mother put up even more wallpaper for me. And this time I got it right. A vintage cottage rose paper. Not the same as the one below, but pretty close. And then I found a Waverly bedspread that IS the same pattern as the one below. So, of course, I got it. And all was well. Finally.

Then one day, as I was shopping in Once Upon a Child, I came across the pattern once again! A 3T Gap outfit made out of that gorgeous cottage vintage rose pattern. All I could see was a little girl bouncing on the bed. I told Tanna about it and we decided that we'd add that shoot to our list (yes, we have a list of shoots we want to do). Well, yesterday we crossed two shoots off our list, starting with "the bedroom" shoot.

And then we traveled over to the William's house for "the tub shoot." We've actually been planning this one for a looooong time. Originally I was thinking we'd do it out in a field in the middle of no-where. But then, one day, as I was sitting with Debbie on her porch, I couldn't help but notice the lovely old clothes line that hangs across their backyard. And that was it. I HAD to do this shoot in their yard. Tanna found the most perfect little bathing suit, and I made a little bathing cap to match. I picked out exactly the right clothes for the clothes line, we filled up the tub with Dora bubbles, and got to work. 

How do you get the kind of reaction from a child that you'll see in the next picture? It's easy. Fill a tub with water from a hose. That water is coooooold. 

We did have a two-year-old melt down not long after we began. But Debbie saved the day. All it took was one orange popsicle.

Thanks, girls! That was so much fun!!!!!

Happy Friday!

Kate

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