more birthday fun

More birthday surprises! Thank you, Mr. Pearls for such an awesome surprise and the best gifts! Also thank you to my dear family and friends for being there and helping out. I had the best birthday ever! Love you all!

hey, hey, it's my birthday!

I had to work a night shift on the eve of my birthday. Boo!!! Oh well, but who knew...Mr. Pearls was a romantic after all! haha :) Love you, baby! You are the bestest! 

Came home to breakfast, flowers and a gift. I have to give him much credit for effort. I used to complain about how he would always cook the eggs well done when I only wanted them over easy. And of course, today, he didn't disappoint. Can you see the curl of the ribbon on the wrapped gift?? I taught him how to do that. Hahaha! So.... can I open my present now???? Can't wait till dinner!

Happy Birthday to me :)

hello, birthday month!

 Wow! No entry since June 1st! We had such a busy month. From photo shoots to celebrating our 4th year anniversary...to our momentous return to the beautiful city of Chicago.

[a] My ceremonial anniversary card for Mr. Pearls [b] our wedding picture 4 years go last june 8 [c] our very first picture together. we still look the same, don't we? hehe [d] found a love quote i really loved :)

"the bean" at the Millenium Park in Chicago

...and this, my friends is how you take a self-portrait. hahaha!

Beautiful Chicago landmarks!

We celebrated one of our closest friends engagement! Love these two!!

Congratulations, Meng and K!

We've been having so much fun doing family shoots over the last few weeks. Here are some of our favourites. 

Love this picture of Alex and Benjamin!

Tamara and her beautiful kids. Love it!

 And of course, finishing up engagement shoots with fun light tricks like this one. I looked like a crazy person running around with a flashlight, but what the heck. hehe.

or still water pictures with a lovely couple like these two...

So, how's your summer so far?? I hope you're all enjoying the super hot weather and drinking lots! Updates soon.

Sneak Peek of Baby Lily's Dreamscape Themed Photoshoot

We had so much fun meeting and shooting Baby Lily. Our dear friend Kate had this awesome idea to attempt Adele Enersen's creative photography with her baby. It was amazing and here are some photos to prove how much fun we had. I think Baby Lily was pretty tired after posing for almost three hours!

 "Carried Away"

"It's a Rainy Day!"

 "Hanging Out"

 "Spell B-A-B-Y"

"Outer Space Baby"

Thanks again, Kate for all your help! And thank you Baby Lily for posing so patiently :)

Sneak Peek!

A wedding done, and a baby shoot! I've been off for almost 11 days, but they were busy nevertheless. We had a wedding shoot last week and managed to go away for a short holiday/camping with friends and a really cute baby shoot I can't wait to share with all of you. For now, here's a sneak peek of Krystal and Cliff's wedding last Friday =)

and here's some instagramized photos from our super fun camping weekend in Tobermory =)

 

Sneak Peek: Daniela and Anthony Lifestyle Session

We had an idea to shoot a maternity session outdoors for a change and it was amazing to see what we eventually came up with. Isn't Daniela the cutest pregnant lady you've ever seen??? Love the turnout of this shoot.

 We shot these photos last weekend (after being kicked out of Adamson Estate haha, I have a funny story to share with you all later. Moral lesson: make sure you obtain a park permit!) and so far this is my favourite of them all. Port Credit is not to shabby either. In fact, it was one of our favourite parks for photo shoots for its picturesque qualities. Daniela looked even prettier up close =)

 What a sweet moment!

 So amazed at these two for being so willing to do what we've asked even if it meant lying down on the boardwalk! It was worth it though, wasn't it? =)

More pictures to come! Thanks, Anthony and Daniela. Can't wait to meet your little munchkin!

so much for a change....

So I went to work yesterday, checked how this "new look" would apply on an old browser and was mortified to find none of the changes I have spent hours working on were visible. Not only that the gadgets were finicky, they were also missing. I also realized, that "pink loves chocolate" has been linked to so many sites as reblogged by other bloggers (as well as through previous posts I have uploaded through social networking sites which would make all those connections now dead, or broken without changing every single one of them). In short, it would have been as if I moved and forgot to leave a forwarding address. 

I've been dying for a change I guess, and have been getting frustrated with the limits of this blog which made me feel that it wasn't meeting what I want to achieve as a blogger. At the same time, I was torn about starting anew, learning a new blogging interface, and leaving all the wonderful things I have done over the years through this blog. Anyway, so much for sentimentality because I have decided to revert to the classic look of my blog. And also, revert to my old name, although I won't be here for long. 

I still want the do-over. So in the next few days, I'll be hunting new blog sites and will eventually move there. But this time I will give much notice. 

So thanks. For now, I'm here to stay. 

New Look! (and name!)

Testing our new looks for the blog as per Blogger's new dynamic look templates. Love that our readers will get to choose how to view our blog with the click of a tab from the header bar. Try it. It's pretty cool =) Although, I gotta be honest and say it's gonna take me awhile to get used to the new look and the fact that a few of my gadgets are not visible with this template. Let me know if it bothers you too much and I just might revert back to our original look. Or better yet, get a new blog somewhere else....

ideas, ideas, IDEAS!

Hope you all went out to celebrate the beauty of your mothers today. I wanna share with you a photo of my mom =) 

Wedding Trend: Pinwheel Madness for Weddings!

Pinwheels are so easy to make and yet make a huge impact when added to your wedding details! Love all these creative ideas!

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Beautiful pinwheel themed engagement session!

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Featured Blog: August Empress

I have a new favourite blog. Found August Empress through How About Orange and really fell in love with her watercolour designs and illustrations. She also has tons of freebies available for download at her site. Check out some of the cool stuff from her blog. 

 Love this heart tree!

All images from August Empress. No copyright infringement intended. Please don't use without owner's permission.

More teasers! Melissa & Andy

There are so many beautiful pictures from this set! Here are some of our favourites. The University of Toronto campus couldn't have been a more perfect location for this shoot. 

 Not only did the weather cooperated with us, but the sun was beautiful to capture Melissa and Andy's sweet moments.

We had originally planned a school themed shoot and I couldn't be happier we could squeeze in my cute prop. Love this!

 This is one of my favourite shots. What a beautiful moment!

 Candid shots are the best! What a beautiful smile, Andy! :)

Thanks, Melissa and Andy! We had a great time shooting!