Did you know that I’m happy to zoom up 476 from Wayne to be your Allentown family photographer? That was the case with this shoot! The fabulous Shoshana Gosselin of Designs by Shoshana has been working with Haunani and I to spiff up the loft this winter. (Painting, shelf-installing, and rearranging our wall portraits for maximum impact have been weighing on our to-do lists for the past month.) The loft is looking spiffier than ever before, thanks to her fab ideas!
Knowing how fun and stylish Shoshana is, I was super-excited to see her home and meet her family for this shoot in the Lehigh Valley. The miserable temperatures kept us inside, but Shoshana’s style and Sydney’s giggle kept the images fresh. (The gorgeous window light didn’t hurt, either.)
That super-awesome wall has been featured on Shoshana’s blog, and was created using a pizza box stencil. Seriously. Check it out. If only I could convince Matt to get pizza tonight…and then to help me paint!
Sydney and I played games, sang songs, and had a tickle battle. She shyly admitted to being proposed to last week, but the poor guy got turned down. Such is the life of a popular Kindergartner…
Oh, and I totally should have taken a few pictures of the bedroom! Shoshana uses crown molding and beachy textures to bring her master bedroom alive. It’s stunning!
I’ll end with a darling little series of father-daughter portraits. Dads are often shy about being included in our portrait shoot, but with some good old teasing, heckling, and piggyback-riding, all works out for the best.
And my favorite from the session…what’s a six-month-old got to be so sad about? Those lips kill me!
Ultimately, our family portraits succeed when the ‘pillow-fighting is allowed’ rule goes into effect. When you’re given the chance to beat the stuffing out of your sibling, you take it. Sames goes for wrestling, jumping on furniture, tickling like mad, and having your parents swing you upside down while dangling from your toes.
