Blue Skies.   Happy girl.   Lucky Mama.  Beautiful day.

Thankyou, Jen, love the song :)

I am not a finger-painting, cookie-baking mother.
I forget to plan holiday activities and I certainly don’t rotate the toys every three months.
I’ve never owned a nappy bag or, come to think of it, used a cloth nappy.
I’m not one for bringing the oranges to soccer nor serving at tuckshop.
I’ve never done too well at mothers meets or play dates or Gymbaroo.
Tupperware makes me nervous.

I am, however, a Mum who plays chasey through the house and catches butterflies in the garden.
One who lets her kids jump in puddles and roll in  mud.
And then, when they’re all cleaned up, lets them do it over again.
A Mum who lies in the bed of her every child at night to hear their hopes and their woes.
And who still calls them darling at 3am.
A Mum who encourages free thinking and wild dreaming and self believing.
A grateful, hopeful, flawed, adoring Mum, with an endless supply of silly dances and smothering cuddles and I Love You’s.
(Lord, How I Love You.)

Happy Mothers Day.

Love Sheye xx

I’m so excited to announce that firstly, I’m in Orange County, California in June this year and secondly,  I’ll be opening my shooting calendar for a limited number of sessions while there!  I’m extra thrilled to be shooting with Krysta Manthe for these sessions so I can promise lots of creativity and some degree of frivolity :)  Please email Fran for more information!

Love Sheye xx

What better reason to discount something Beauty Full?  In honor of Mothers Day, the full set of Eye Candy Actions will be on sale for 20% less than full price.  Valid thru midnight Tuesday 4th May (AU time). Due to lost of requests this morning, EXTENDED UNTIL MIDNIGHT, SATURDAY 08 MAY (Au Time).  Enter promo code mumma on checkout :)
Love Sheye xx

Sherrie.  Shree.  Ree.
We met at high-school.  She was totally crazy and I was totally not.  We bonded one day because I was polite enough to listen to her boy-woes after she’d bored all her other friends to death.  (Oh wait, that pretty much sums up much of our lifetime of friendship, actually.) We left school, got jobs, lost jobs, moved to the Gold Coast, shared flats, laughs, hopes and secrets.   She was the friend you’d lose at parties, who’d say the very wrong thing to your boss and who stayed living the single girl life long after many of us were no longer single. When not traveling the World, she’d hang out at mine on weekends and as my babies arrived,  became their instant playmate while she gleefully put them up to all sorts of no good.  She’d watch in horror as I breast-fed and double over laughing at my post-baby jelly belly.  Great for a Friday wine, awful as a baby-sitter.. my much loved sister-friend, Sherrie.

In her global travels, she fell in love with South America.  A little later, she fell in love with Mario.  And on Good Friday this year, against everything I might have predicted, Sherrie birthed and fell completely head over heels in love with baby Valentina.

I may have struggled to imagine Sherrie as a mother but seeing her this week..relaxed, happy, adoring her precious girl..I now can’t imagine it being any other way.

Valentina, darling child, you chose well.  I can’t wait to know you and  I can’t wait to put you up to all sorts of no good.   (Diga Momia que ha llamado venganza!)

Love, Sheye x