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February 7, 2009

Out and About with my Son on a Sunday Afternoon

Filed under: Children,Life,Out & About — Holly @ 7:18 pm

Noah and I headed downtown last Sunday for an event, and I actually took my DSLR along for the ride, with my fav lens (85 1.2) attached.

Rather then walking through the slush we decided to try waiting for the Avenue Road bus…fortunately it wasn’t too far behind schedule:

It was dark, but caught this shot of Noah in Museum Subway stop:

I’m sure kids of photographers get a bit tired of “just look this way for a sec…”:

I was LOVING the wet sidewalks, they look so cool with all the reflections and bokeh:

My handsome young man!:

Couldn’t resist capturing the wet pavement and Queen St. West crowd:

One last backlit shot of Noah as we made our way home:

Hoping to have another blog post up tomorrow!! Off to make a yummy Red Grapefruit and Avocado Salad for dinner (see the blog post below) now.

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January 25, 2009

January 2009 EatSavvy: Commercial Shoot

Filed under: Children,Commercial,Food — Holly @ 4:36 pm

Another delicious EatSavvy shoot, with a bit of a (very pleasant!) surprise for me!

I have always wanted to like grapefruit, as I have always heard/read how nutritious it is for you. But I have always found it to be too bitter, and with an over powering taste (especially in a fruit salad). So I was very pleasantly surprised to find how much I enjoyed it in this month’s Red Grapefruit and Avocado Salad, I even went out grocery shopping the next day so I could prepare it at home for myself!

It turns out that the part I don’t like is the pith (membrane) part of the grapefruit. That is the part that is especially bitter/sour. The red grapefuit flesh itself is not bitter at all! So the trick is to cut away the flesh of the grapefruit from the bitter/sour pith, as shown in the following two images:

At the end of the shoot we all enjoyed the Dinner Party main course, Roasted Tomato and Sausage Linguini, it was delicious!

The sausage in the frying pan:

Our ingredient shot this month:

The Family Meal this month was Baked Cheesy Pasta with Sausage:

You may remember this cute little guy from my first EatSavvy shoot way back in July, he sure has grown!

What a cutie! And such a good eater too!

Dessert this month was Tropical Fruit Parfait, yum!

As always I’m looking forward to the yummy food at next month’s shoot already! 🙂

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January 4, 2009

Christmas 2008

Filed under: Blog,Children,Life — Holly @ 4:48 pm

I have to admit I actually took a break this holiday season, staying away from the computer as much as possible. But now that my holiday is coming to a close I thought I should post some shots from the holiday season.

Here’s a shot of the holiday baking I did this season:

A shot of the presents and filled stockings under the tree:

Noah waits patiently for his sister to wake up, while keeping an eye on the presents:

Rebecca checks out the contents of her stocking:

Rebecca LOVES her new winter hat, wears it while trying out a new game for the wii:

Noah plays with a new gift while keeping an eye on the wii action:

Hope all my clients and those who follow my blog had a wonderful holiday season!

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December 15, 2008

SavvyMom Christmas Party

Filed under: Children,Headshots,Life,Out & About — Holly @ 6:20 pm

The kids and I had a great time at the recent SavvyMom Holiday party held at the Granite Club.

Air hockey was a popular choice!

Noah is gleeful with victory over his sister! lol

Five pin bowling was also fun!

The following are shots of the other SavvyMom kids in attendance. (You may recognize the first two if you’ve been following my blog for a while…)

At the end of the party we went in search of some natural light for a couple of head shots for the ‘About Us’ section of SavvyMom.ca.

Denise is the Food Editor for EatSavvy, and you may also remember how from this shoot back in October 2007:

Andrea is the Director, Sales and New Business Development at SavvyMom Media:

All and all a great time was had by all, and we all received gift bags of extremely yummy cookies to take home with us as well!

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December 9, 2008

Out & About & Haircuts

Filed under: Animals,Children,Life,Out & About — Holly @ 11:37 am

Catch up time again! Kids and I went out the other week, hoping to get haircuts for both of them…unfortunately our haircut place was closed (due to construction on the street and no hot water!), so we ended up just running some errands.

Noah, on Yonge Street:

I can only catch fleeting glances of my daughter at times!

Had Noah pause for a moment, as I knew the out-of-focus ties in the background would offer an interesting colour backdrop:

At the dollar store a fellow asked if we could watch his dog while he ran in for a few minutes. Love how dogs just watch and wait patiently for their owners, you can tell that their owners are their lives, too cute!

Noah, in front of a Christmas light filled tree:

Rebecca, giving me the ‘look’:

In one of my son’s FAVOURITE stores, “Kidding Awound”, Rebecca checks out the merchandise:

Noah enjoys the garden/park in Yorkville:

Colourful holiday shop windows make for a very good background:

Finally, we return for hair cuts!

Don’t you just love it when your children discover the love of reading? Noah works on finishing his book while we wait for his sister to be finished with her haircut:

Rebecca, with her new hairdo. (Unfortunately she hates it now! lol)

That’s all for the moment, but will be posting more in a day or two!

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