the oscars - a birthday celebration

After a funfilled day at the beauty salon {All About Me Kids Salon}, we began our preparations for the Oscar Party...a red carpet welcomed our guests into the "celebrity zone".  We adorned our guest with homemade cupcakes, chocolate covered strawberries, an assortment of gourmet popcorn, pizza, meyer lemon drops, and fizzies {for the kids}...FUN!!!

Resources I used:

~ red carpet - red material from JoAnn's Fabrics {currently going out of business in Dublin, but relocating!!}

~ cupcake decorating - ideas inspired by my cupcake making class, Let'em Eat Cake in Livermore

~ meyer lemons - my tree in the backyard!!!

~ Oscar decor - idea from Hostess with the Mostess; btw, I did try the White Lady Martini, and it is GOOD!!!

~ Oscar bingo - How About Orange blogsite

~ Oscar ballet - The Academy of Motion Pictures Website

~ party supplies - Party City in Dublin

~ on-line invites - My Punchbowl

home devine - "stepchild"

An idea on what to wear for your walls!!

celebrating family...

click to play session premiere.... enjoy!

the liang family...

Back in May for the Pleasanton Mom's Club Brunch, I provided a huge basket of goodies and session prize for a lucky raffle winner.  Our lucky mom, Heather, and her family won my wonderful basket of goodies....{pottery barn photo frame, lemon drop ingredients, mini accordian calendar, sprinkles cupcakes...just to name a few; but the grande prize was a complimentary photo session and a 16x20!!!}  Congratulations, Heather, on winning my prize!!!

And what a loving adorable family....I loved LOVED the colors, the little moments, the exploring, the smiles and joy...

enjoy your little peek!!!!  {and of course I always have to sneak in a photo of my new Epiphanie camera bag!!!  LOVE IT!}

happy birthday little boy!!!

Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday to a special little guy..... born on August 17, 2006 premature weighing just over 3lbs....

This is Matthew at 1 years old

Matthew now!!!  What a big boy he is!!!  Promise mommy that you will not grow up anymore....



Happy Birthday!!!

Playdate anyone???

With the warm weather approaching, and for some us its already here, our little ones are begging to go to parks, the zoo, or just in our backyards to play, play, and play!! Playdates, and other spontaneous fun-filled adventures are a fun way to gain social interaction for our children. But have you ever been to the park, and your child makes friends with the other children... the other moms realize that you all get together more often, and you go to your purses rummaging through old receipts to use as paper to write down your contact information...only to realize that you don't have a pen either. Business people have business cards, high school seniors have 411 or rep cards....adults have calling cards...well, kids should have "mommy cards" {daddies too!!}...
These fun little cards are totally custom made....the inspiration is to create adorable little mommy cards, with matching cute greeting cards to announce the beginning of spring!!! Contact me for some playdate fun!!

This is what I got a week ago.....

The most cutest, thoughtful gift from one of my fav designers!!!

2009 Christmas Ornaments!!!

Thank you Luxecetera with my designing needs....totally looking forward to a creative year!!!

xoxo
-denise:)

oh, why is being 2 so hard??? {families}

I had another family holiday session a week ago with friends, and lit'l E wanted nothing to do with the lady holding the camera (me!!)...lollipops, bribes, throwing rocks....nothing made lit'l E happy. I even offered him my camera...no way. Even Curious George wasn't going to save the day...until mom offered him a brand new red matchbox car...however, the toystore was not in the woods. So we packed up our stuff and hurried to downtown to get the toy. We had about 15-20minutes of sun before it would it go down behind the ridge. So time was ticking...could I do it? Heck yeah, at 6 frames per second, we were going to get the shots. So near downtown, we stopped at one of E's favorite parks and voila....smiles everyone SMILES...that's all it takes is putting a child in their comfort zone (I guess the dirt path with deer, wild turkeys and rabbits was just not cutting it that day). So mom, dad, here is your peek. enjoy!!!

Before the little red car:





After the little red car:

it is all about Max (for now:) )...{expecting}

I had the wonderful opportunity to photograph our friends, Mary, Nana and their lit'l dog, Max at Point Isabelle last weekend. Congrats to Mary and Nana, who will be expecting the end of January. I cannot wait to see this little bundle of joy!!! and I think Max is a little excited too!! hugs and kisses to both of you and Max.....:)

M&M's....the kind that melts your heart ... {kids}

These boys are the sweetest things next to a one pound bag of M&M's.....both of their names start with M, so I just had to go with the M&M theme....but the moment that I walked into their front door to get ready for our shoot, Lit'l "M" runs up to me and gives me this big hug!! My heart melted...so so sweet. Lit'l "M" just adores his big brother....he calls him, "Bubba". So Lit'l "M" and Bubba wanted to go down by my "infamous creek" to play in the water and take photos. Little did they know that I would be making them truck up grassy hills just to get the perfect shot....was it worth it??? I think there may be tears of joy at Christmas...enjoy Aunt Shelly and Uncle Matt.....can't wait to go through the rest of the photos!!


The album spread below is a sneak peek of an album that I designed inspired by one of my favorite childrens clothing mags, "Olive Juice". I'll be releasing it soon...stay tuned....








These boys are the sweetest things next to a one pound bag of M&M's.....both of their names start with M, so I just had to go with the M&M theme....but the moment that I walked into their front door to get ready for our shoot, Lit'l "M" runs up to me and gives me this big hug!! My heart melted...so so sweet. Lit'l "M" just adores his big brother....he calls him, "Bubba". So Lit'l "M" and Bubba wanted to go down by my "infamous creek" to play in the water and take photos. Little did they know that I would be making them truck up grassy hills just to get the perfect shot....was it worth it??? I think there may be tears of joy at Christmas...enjoy Aunt Shelly and Uncle Matt.....can't wait to go through the rest of the photos!!


This album is a sneak peak of the album that I designed inspired by one of my favorite childrens clothing mags, "Olive Juice". I'll be releasing it soon...stay tuned....

One more weekend left to book Holiday Photo Sessions... {clients}

I have three more openings left for November (the week of November 12th). Contact me for details. Due to my son's senior football season, recruiting, and holiday family obligations, this week in November will be my last week for photo sessions this year. I'm accepting new photo sessions for the first of the year in full swing. Contact me for details and all the new goodies in store!!!

'tis the season...{families}

I've known this lit'l girl way before she was born as a bump in her mother's tummy....now, she is blossoming into this lit'l girl full of curiosity and joy. A family so full of life and always on the go.........:) enjoy your sneak peek!!!