Archive for May 20, 2010

Click Click Work, Click Click Kids

Before I share anything let me warn you, this will be a photo heavy post. It needs to be in order to achieve what I’m aiming at in this post. I want to show you how I take many of the photos of my creations. The best way to tell you is to show you using the photos themselves so here goes;


Kids happy and playing, time to take some shots of my work…..


Click Click


Check: yes kids still playing nicely, different game but still nicely


Click………uh oh, door has opened and closed while I’m clicking…….


Ah yes, (as per previous blog post) thought so, she’s gone inside (retrieves toddler)…


Click, Click………


Time to pack up my stuff, she’s found a capsicum with a worm in it…….click click clicks capsicum (post later)……

Meanwhile, the following morning I tried again, this time with only Little L.


Ok, she’s happy and safe playing with the pegs and a seedling tray……….time to click…..


Click, click, click, click…..where’s she gone?


Oh, bored with the pegs she’s retrieved the buckets and wants to get into the sandpit (puts down camera and lifts child into sandpit)


Click, click, click…..time to check……


Ok, good still happily in the sandpit and safe………back to clicking…..


Click, uh oh, she’s……………..


Climbing out of the sandpit all on her own…….puts camera down…..


Click, click, click…..hang on whats all the commotion about?


Oh, hubby is chasing a chicken away from the lettuce……


Click, click, click…..’huh, what was that little L, you said ‘wook Mummy, ding ding’……


Ah I see, so cute, on your sister’s bike…….right back to it then………..



Not so fast…….toddler wants in on the action…….’ohhhh, pretty wollies Mummy’…….hmmm exactly why I don’t let her near them usually but under supervision a great memory is created.

All photographing ended at that point……..not a bad place to end (for today anyway).

Photo of the Day – May 20

Can you tell what this photo of the day is showing. Let me explain. This is my setup for taking some photos of my work for my Etsy shop. Sometimes, if the weather is right and the girls are happy I go out the front or back with them (and shut the gates if out the front) and they play while I take photos. This is the only way I can get shots of my listings during the day when the sun is in the right spot. I usually get a dozen or so items photographed before one of them gets bored or into mischief and I have to stop.

That’s what happened here. Miss L let herself back into the house and climbed up onto our lounge to look through the window. My photographing stopped at this point. Theres no point trying to continue when they need me for either entertainment or supervision or cuddles. Here’s what I mean about it being my setup, this is one of the shots:

Today I did much the same thing out the back with Miss L wandering around. Hubby was home today so she was wandering between us outside. I’ll be doing a blog post showing the in-between shots as I took pictures of my work. I want to share how I attempt to balance making and selling my work while having a toddler all day. I really feel that during this ‘season’ of my life I’m ok at making things, I get there with photographing them and I can even get to listing but when it comes to promoting and marketing…I fail. I think this is why I have so few sales at the moment. Things will improve eventually but for now I don’t mind, I think its worth it.