Oh and that includes...... holding dresses, fixing dresses, holding lenses, finding lost things (she has to do that a lot, since she's with me), holding children, doing monkey impressions (for children, and occasionally a needy adult), holding lights, testing the light, standing infront of things to see what they look like with a person infront of them, holding babies, throwing veils, testing the light again, getting me food, reassuring me that everything is okay, driving, taking photographs, sorting memory cards, carrying bags, telling people how amazing they look, arranging things so they look pretty, consoling crying babies, fixing hair, fixing veils, fixing buttonholes, location scouting, holding branches out of the way, finding lost guests, arranging people for group shots, TESTING the food, and putting up with me.
Quite a lot really.
Thanks Liana.
Well done Liana! I trust the pay matches the job description?? M x
(12.24.11 @ 12:09 PM)thanks Monica! Not wanting to sound ungrateful after that fantastically well posted rave about me but I must say since you asked that payment doesn't always match..that would be the lollies payment. Sometimes there is either none or they are covered in gravel. I have considered taking this matter to the employment courts but have decided that when driving I will just stop outside a shop and order her to go buy some. Though being the great assistant I will probably just take her purse and buy them myself. Sour snakes are the best, they make us pull funny faces. PS thanks 'Nead' you're the best :)
(12.24.11 @ 05:53 PM)Listen, "lollies" are still lollies if they are covered in gravel. Be grateful you get any at all. I might go on a diet next wedding season.
bring the lollies or the monkey impression gets it...and I know how much that monkey means to you. Its your 2nd most popular catch phrase just behind 'Lush'...'do the monkey Liana'...lollies are are an important part of a staple diet, right up there with your well made sandwiches :) ♪♫do the monkey ooh ooh ah ah, do the monkey ♪♫
(12.24.11 @ 11:02 PM)Enjoyed recent photos of the gorgeous Elmer
(01.05.12 @ 05:53 AM)Anyway, the glass arrived yesterday for the windows in the house. That means that the flooring, the windows, the walls and the ceiling are all sat here waiting to go in. If we had another 50 Stevens around I'd say the house would be finished next week.
He obtained the head bruise whilst shopping for my Christmas present.
Ooh, it's just like on Grand Designs, init? X
Yeah, except it only takes an hour on Grand Designs. Less if you take out the ad breaks.
(12.22.11 @ 09:25 PM)Poor Elmer...what on earth has he got you for Christmas to sustain a bruise like that?? The windows look good! M x
(12.24.11 @ 12:14 PM)Often when photographing families I can divide kids into two different types. There's the kind who are shy, and take about half an hour to warm up before they become your best friend (Elmer). Then there's the kind who are best friends with you straight away, no effort required. Sam and Monty (I love the name Monty!) are the latter variety and utterly gorgeous. One of the beauties of being small is that you can dispense with boring small talk, like "Hello", and get straight into the important stuff, "Look how BIG the plants are!"
Since the garden is being dug up for drainage, there were two proper, full size diggers left at the side of the lawn for the weekend. Boy heaven. I think we spent about 80% of the photoshoot in the diggers.
What a gorgeous family. I quite like having a boy (who is into all the traditional boy stuff) because it gives me an intro into the world of little boys. Dinosaurs and diggers. I never knew how many different types of vehicle it takes to make a road for example, or who Lightning McQueen was. Just....um..... fascinating....
I have a wedding tomorrow, and then a wedding on Saturday, and then it's Christmas, and then it's 2012!!!!! And in the first nine days of 2012 I have... FIVE weddings!! I'm off to bed!
Cute, don't you think? I'm so excited about Christmas for him, he still has no idea what it's all about really. If you explain things to Elmer he looks vaguely interested and then goes back to racing his cars around. Unless you say "Do you want to talk to Grandma and Grandad on the computer?" In which case he perks up immediately and says "Deh! Deh! Deh!". Aww.
The boy's got his priorities right. Well done Elmer! M x
(12.11.11 @ 12:47 PM)
Where are the reindeer Ummy??
(12.25.11 @ 01:13 AM)Happy Christmas Elmer!
Elmer: Maybe if I just ignore him he'll go away.......... There is no scary, bearded, bright red man... there is no scary..... hold it together Elmer, deep breaths.....
(12.27.11 @ 10:57 PM)