'Untitled' by Meryl CA

Untitled, a photo by Meryl CA on Flickr.

My awesome hubby bought me new Converse today to cheer me up as I've not had a great week. Job done, a new pair of Chucks is an instant mood lifter! I really need to get a photo of all my Converse trainers as I am sure it'd actually make for a rather cool image. I think the last time I did a group shot there were five pairs and I have seven pairs now! And before you ask, yes I do actually wear all of them regularly. You can tell by how bashed up they're all starting to look.

This fantastic photograph has help me make a decision. I am so buying my son a pair of red ones when he's able to walk! I'm not sure I actually fancy red for myself but they look so cool on kids!

Hope you all had a great weekend and have a fab week ahead to look forward to.

'Little hands and feet' by Me

Little hands and feet, a photo by PhotoPuddle on Flickr.

I couldn't resist showing you this cute photo I took of my baby's hands and feet. I've got to take as many pictures like this as I can before he gets too big! Plus he's obsessed by his feet at the moment and nibbles on his toes at every opportunity. I wonder whether that's a sign of teething!

Happy weekend everyone. Hope you all have a lovely couple of days.

'Instagram Little feet' by Me

Instagram Little feet, a photo by PhotoPuddle on Flickr.

When I had my son I was really looking forward to taking lots of adorable little hands and feet photos. Turns out it's not as easy as it looks to get the perfect cute shot. Funnily enough my favourite pictures have been taken on my mobile phone. I love this one of his bare little feet. Don't you just want to give them a tickle?

'Feet and flower' by Me

Feet and flower, a photo by PhotoPuddle on Flickr.

I promised you some of my flower photography the other day so here is picture number one. This isn't my favourite photo from that day but I do love the colours here so wanted to share. Whilst pointing my camera down to take a snap of this flower I noticed that I actually matched. I therefore decided to put me in the photo too. I love these bright blue jeans so it's great I could show them off a bit!

'My feet taken by my two year old' by my beautiful daughter

My feet taken by my two year old, a photo by PhotoPuddle on Flickr.

I'm dedicating this post to my daughter who's not even three yet but is already turning out to be a bit of a photographer herself. She's constantly stealing the camera from me so she can take some photos of her own. I know most toddlers probably do this but as I watch her I see she's so careful with the camera and you can also tell that she's thinking about every shot she takes not just clicking away randomly. For example today she was interested in trees and was looking up to take photos. She also saw a broken fence and wanted to take pictures through the gap it had left.

This photo is one of my favourites. Mainly because I'm jealous. Not that I love my feet or anything but I'm often pointing the camera at them as I reckon it'd make an intersting shot. They never quite turn out right though. However, this picture by my little girl is exactly the kind of thing I'm trying to achieve. This was totally taken by her with no involvement by me. I've just tweeked the colour a little bit to make it even nicer.

Now she's either rather artistic OR she's just taking the camera away so I stop pointing the bloomin' thing at her! I suspect it's a bit of both.

'In the sand' by Me

In the sand, originally uploaded by PhotoPuddle.

I love looking back through my files of photos to see what I took but never did anything with. This was taken on a trip to West Wittering last summer. I have featured photos from that particular day on this blog already here and here and here but I was obviously so over excited about the beautiful beach huts that I never gave the other photos I took a second glance.

So here is a photo I took while burying my feet in the sand. I love it because I can just feel the warm sand between my toes and it makes me really excited about spring and summer being on their way (soon please). I'm also rather pleased with my choice of nail varnish that day. I love to use summer as an excuse to make my feet all bright and happy!

'My daughter the photographer' by Me (well it's my camera but it was actually taken by my little girl)

My daughter the photographer, originally uploaded by PhotoPuddle.

This morning while my daughter and I were still in our PJs I decided I wanted to photograph the shoes I wore out on Friday night simply because I love them. Yes, I know it's Wednesday and I should have put them away by now. But anyway, I didn't get a lot of photographs taken as my two-year-old decided she rather be wearing them herself. She loves shoes - I've trained her well.

She also really wanted a go with my nice camera which I don't usually let her touch but today I decide to let her. It's quite a heavy camera for her obviously but she managed a couple of shots of me and some of her feet when she was sitting on my lap. When looking through the photos later this one really caught my eye. I think it's lovely. I haven't edited in any way either. This is exactly how it came out of the camera.

A toddler's eye view of her feet whilst sitting on mummy's lap learning about photography. It couldn't be more perfect!