Every little girl can be a princess for a day.

Every little girl dreams of being a princess.

And, it’s amazing how similar such dreams

are, no matter who the child is or where she

lives. The princess dream always includes Prince

Charming, beautiful fairies, a palace of

enchantment, and otherworldly magic. My niece Tiffani adores being a princess. Once I remember her talking in her sleep and she literally said ''I am a beautiful princess'' What a wonderful blessing

it would be to relive that

dream, to regain the

sparkle of happiness, to

believe again that

you are a lovely

princess, even if

it’s just for a while. A child should be able to dream, because dreams are beautiful and not harmless.

So I hearby give you Princess Tiffani. My annoying, but loving sweetheart.

My precious niece to the rescue.

My niece Tiffani is the most important things in the world to me! And I just thought I should let everyone know why my 6 year old niece is so special. She has an incredible heart. Her beautiful face and kind words always cheer me up when I am feeling sad or if I am ill. Today I was feeling very sick! I could harldy get out of bed. My niece comes to me and brightens my day. I love her so much. She just touches my heart every single time. I try to hug her for a long time and breath her in. She does not mind at all, she always hugs me back saying ''I love you more'' =]

Through my illness I managed to take this beautiful picture.

I made friends with a little creature at the bookstore.

I went hunting for a particular book at the bookstore. I found the book I was looking for, which had a very special surprise on top. A cat was laying on the books including the book I needed. I fell in love with the beautiful cat straight away. I coudn't resist taking photos. The shopkeeper kindly allowed me to do a small photoshoot. I found out the cat is called Bindi. So here are the photos of beautiful Bindi.

Testing my new Cannon450d camera on my niece Oliwia.

So I only have gone and done a crazy thing. I bought a new Cannon camera after falling in love with Sheye Rosemeyer's Cannon 5d mark. I could afford the 5d mark one, but I decided to start with a basic Cannon camera since I am just learning how to be a professional photographer. For many days I have been staring at Sheye's photo's and admiring the beauty of them and for many nights I have been dreaming about Cannon. I nearly got tricked into buying Sony, which I must admit is also a good brand, but thankfully Sheye's wonderful advice to buy Cannon stopped me from buying something else. I may sound wierd, but my favourite shots are taking them at night or when it is completely dark. Just look at these photos so clear right? Well they are taken in the dark.

It does not look dark that is what amazes me. I guess the flash is excellent. Not many cameras take good photos in the dark. Recently my uncle complained about his Sony camera taking bad photos in the dark. He is jelous of my camera. Awww bless him. Maybe I should give him my Nikon as a christmas present. It also takes wonderful photos in the dark.

My desire to dress up a little girl in pretty clothes....

A baby girl is a treasure rare;

A sweet pink angel, a little doll,

Nothing else can quite compare.

Her smiles and coos will bring you joy;

She'll fill your hearts with love and pleasure;

So cherish these special infant times,

With your little girl, your precious treasure.

Today I snooped around in H&M looking at baby clothes and accessories. I could not help wonder what would happen if I just bought all these beautiful clothes and save them for when I actually have a child. Would that be wrong? Ok maybe it is just my crazy obsession with pretty things. I coudn't help, but at least take two photo's of what I thought was absolutlely gorgous and cute! The bow headband and the little bow shoes would look so pretty on a baby girl! How I would love to buy those two items. My mother always tells me never to buy clothes really early because you never know what gender your child would be. How about buy clothes for a boy and girl. Ok maybe I have gone a little crazy there, but no seriously a girl can dream right?

A touching true story.

This story was so touching I ended up having tears in my eyes.

A young man was getting ready to graduate college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's
showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told
him that was all he wanted.
As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited
signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the
morning of his graduation his father called him into his private
study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine
son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son
a beautiful wrapped gift box.
Curious, but somewhat disappointed the young man
opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible. Angrily,
he raised his voice at his father and said, "With all your money you
give me a Bible?" and stormed out of the house, leaving the holy
book.
Many years passed and the young man was very successful in
business.
He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his
father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him. He
had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make
arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had
passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care things.
When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and
regret filled his heart.
He began to search his father's important papers and
saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With
tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he
read those words, a car key dropped from an envelope
taped behind the Bible.
It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the
sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation,
and the words...PAID IN FULL.

How many times do we miss God's blessings because they are not
packaged as we expected?
Ok so now I am of to University and in all honesty I hope my first exam will go well. I am dreading the fact that I could mess up. Must keep my chin up high and just do my best.

I nearly missed the moment to capture the perfect picture of my niece's.

A photographer's life is never that simple. At some point you will end up facing a challenge taking pictures with children or toddlers, as I did. Trust me nothing can truly prepare you for the experience - it's both liberating and terrifying at the same time. The combination of a child's boundless energy and a complete disregard for instruction makes them the most mentally,technically and physically challenging family member to snap. You can't tell them where to sit, you can't tell them where to look and asking for a smile will give you little more than a contorted grimance. A helpful assistent above all else, when taking photos of children is lots of toys. So as you see below I took photo's of my darling niece's. My niece Oliwia the blonde sweet girl kept pulling sad faces. I was waiting to capture the moment and I managed to get it. Once the moment is gone, it's gone. There are no replays. My trick is to take hundreds of photo's untill I am satisfied with the result.

Oliwia, this was my 25 shot of a photo.

I see beauty in this picture.

Tiffani has the most blue stunning eyes.

Black & white effect produced in photoshop.

Looks like Sheye Rosemeyer got me addicted to photoshop. Photoshop does amazing wonderful things. If my photo is not up to it's standards - photoshop is like a repair tool that makes the photo look beautiful anyway.

My special Ava Rosemeyer creations

I wanted to make something so perfect to honour our Super Princess Ava. So I did what I do best create. To top it off I haven't been feeling real good lately so when I finished the creations it really, really made my day. This is one of the reasons I create things to share on blogs for special people that we women, who mostly never meet face to face, can forge such true friendships simply by sharing our lives and other things on our blogs. I cried today upon opening an email from Sheye Rosemeyer, for many reasons, not the least of them being that someone I have never met went through that kind of trouble just to reply back, just for me. And all because I said in the passing :


''I made these Ava creations especially for you, the perfect loving mother with a big heart''
''I wish every mother was just like you, who puts children before themselves''
''Don't you just wish Ava was everywhere, seen shaped as a cloud in the sky?''
''Woudn't that be magical''
''Well I like to dream so''


This is the reply I got from the wounderful Sheye herself:
Wow Jessica



That is amazing..and strange because I think it's what's in my head..the seeing her everywhere. Thank you so much for doing this, I am very touched. It's quite incredible. And thank you for your kind loving words. You made me smile and I needed to smile, since I was a little not myself today.


With love


Sheye xx

I am really touched and happy that I can touch someone's soul and make them a little tad happy, especially when they are a little down.

Sheye Rosemeyer is an amazing mother and person, her true heart shine's brightly upon us all. Through her pain of loosing Ava she still writes and blogs. God bless her bravery. She is a hero!!!

Something special, pretty and perfect.

I was recently touched by Sarah Jane's hand made illustrations. They are so magical and so amazing, it's everything I love, just perfect it is. I am planning to order some of these beautiful illustrations to hang on my wall. I can't seem to resist buying them. http://www.etsy.com/shop/sarahjanestudios