dad's day out : win a $650 photo session

if you're not a subscriber of our newsletter, you may not know that we have a fab competition happening with our new resident photographer, naomi v photography. with father's day just around the corner, we thought it would be nice to focus on and pay appreciation to the dad's, grand dad's and great grand dad's out there. so to celebrate the joining of forces between yummy mummies and naomi v, we are giving you the opportunity to win a dad's day out photography session with naomi, valued at $650! the ultimate father's day gift, don't you think?!

the winner will receive a free photo session sitting, along with a 16 x 24" art mount print, plus 5, 5 x 7" prints! holy dooly, i know!! so to clarify, you are winning a prize for you and your dad. or if you are a dad, for you and your child/ren. if you're a mum, feel free to enter for your hubby and kids, if not for yourself and your dad. as long as there is a dad in the winning photo, this is what we're aiming for!

how to enter : find the only male 'grown up' product we have available on our shopping site {i'll give you a clue : it's in the maternity section}. you then need to email the name of the item along with telling us why you would like to win a photo shoot, to naomi using the contact us page on her blogsite. you've got until the end of august to get your entries in, and you can only enter the once.

the fine print : each entrant will be assigned a number as their email is received. you will receive notification that your entry has been noted. a winner will be selected using an online random number generator on 1/9/10 and will be notified by email. the winning photo session must take place between brisbane city and the gold coast, and must be used on a tuesday, wednesday or thursday afternoon. the session can be at your home or out on location, you decide, and must have a dad in the photo! please only enter this competition if you can make it to the gold coast/brisbane area for the photo session. if you are not local but are planning a holiday over this way soon, then do feel free to enter, we can arrange a time for you to use it. this prize is not transferable for cash and cannot be exchanged for other products or services. only one entry per person will be counted and entries must be received by midnight 31/8/10. the prize must be used within 3 months of the date the winner is drawn.

if you want further clarification, please email or phone either naomi or myself. you can find our contact details on our webistes. goodluck!!

new resident photographer : naomi v photography

in our crazy july we were working hard with a few of my favourite ladies, to bring you some lovely eye candy on our shopping site. i've been busting at the seems to share this with you, and today i can! we have joined forces with the gorgeous and talented woman behind naomi v photography. naomi is our new resident photographer, and let me tell you, this lady knows how to work a camera! we have updated our home page images and filled the gallery with naomi's gorgeous work. go on, go over and have a look at our shopping site, and then come back here and let me know what you think!

so... a little more about naomi v, for those who don't know her... naomi is based in brisbane and specialises in wedding photography and portrait photography for babies, children and families. she is a mum of 3 and has such a fun and fresh personality, which is what you want from the person who is capturing your precious moments. naomi has a gorgeous blogsite, so please do visit it and have a look at her work. i'm sure she'd love for you to leave a comment on her blog posts if you like them.

i like to keep an image of my mini me, miss summer, on my home page. as you do. so my super lovely friend, candice from momie et enfant, helped to style a little photo shoot for the children home page image. summer is wearing a momie et enfant dress and bloomers, lots of pearl necklaces and bracelets, and mummy's most prettiest shoes (although mummy doesn't get to wear them much these days). i was hoping to use the image that's in my new blog header for the home page of the site, but it didn't sit in right, and it looks fab on the blog now anyway!

i cannot thank naomi and candice enough for all of your help with this. you girls are wonderful women and i am blessed to have crossed paths with you both and to now be able to call you both friends (thank you). here are a few images from our morning together.

i also want to say a massive thanks to 3 lovely photographers who have let me display their images prior to this mini makeover. kathy and grant from ashford studio, skye from skye rocket studio, and the lovely bree from breeze designs. you guys are the bomb!

the dato & the fridge

what happens when you give a mechanic a camera!

it's finally arrived!

our new website that is. just sneaked it in before christmas! what do you think? i love it! i am super happy with everything, especially my colours. lucky, because i have to look at it every day!

wow, what a mission. now, i'm not going to lie to you, it's been an interesting journey for me, rebuilding yummy mummies into a place that not only has fun and funky stock, but also reflects me and my family. i took over the yummy mummies empire early this year and it's pretty much taken me all year to learn the ropes of the industry and finally have a super hot finished product! i have so many lovely people that have been by my side with my venture. sarah from style me gorgeous is an absolute dream to work with. she completely captured the feel i wanted with my site, and i recommend her to anyone and everyone that needs a graphic designer. clayton and the team at vividpink put this gorgeous creation into reality for me. i had fun working with clayton, there's something nice about working with cool people who just get it. so if you're thinking of starting up a website, you should definately jump onto vividpink's site and get a quote. and how bout those gorgeous suppliers of mine, each and every one of you are beautiful and i thank you for your patience with me in getting this site relaunched! i also want to mention a couple of beautiful photographers too. kathy & grant from ashford studio on the gold coast (and soon a studio in sydney) have supplied the gorgeous photography in the gallery and the pregnancy shot on the home page. skye from skye rocket studio in wagga owns rights to the middle photo of miss indi grace. indi is modelling an indi g hair clip, which are of course available from our shop. and last but not least, naomi v photography from brisbane owns rights to the photo of summer in the third box. i of course had to put my own little daughter on my home page!

there are so many friendly and talented people in this industry. i am so glad to be amongst them all. so off you go... pop on over to the site and check it out for yourself =) xx

mika belle

meet mika. isn't she adorable! i loved her entire outfit for these photo's, especially that headband! mika's mum wanted some photo's to give out for christmas pressies, so we (my bff 18 month old daughter and i) popped over with the camera and had a little photo shoot play date.

mika smiled the whole time we were there, i'm sure she would've had sore cheeks by the time we left!

shelley's belly

you may remember, quite a few weeks back, that we had the pleasure of photographing shelley in our own wonderful maternity label, lady bump. that day, we also had a bit of fun and dressed up shelley's gorgeous pregnant belly for a few shots too.

i'm probably a little bit naughty for posting up this pic with the pink booties, as shelley & dave didn't find out they're baby's gender. but you know how sometimes you just have a feeling, for no calculated reason what so ever? i have that feeling with shelley, that there might be a little pink baby in that tummy of hers... we'll know if that feeling is right or wrong soon enough, shelley is due on thursday xx

on location with shelley :: lady bump photoshoot

a fortnight ago we hit the streets of brisbane with a couple of camera's and a pregnant woman and her dog, in the search of something different for the back drop for our lady bump photo shoot. lady bump is yummy mummies' own maternity label. shelley was the perfect model; 33 weeks pregnant, willing to try my idea's, not afraid to do a quick clothes change behind a towel, and just plain fun!

i have a thing for graffiti walls. i love the rawness of the art and the bold colours. the brisbane powerhouse was our location for this photo shoot. what was once an old power station has over the past decade been converted into a creative arts centre. it worked perfectly for what i had in mind!

we all know how handy a pair of black pants can be when pregnant, especially for work. but i don't think they should be strictly limited for that. i wanted to put a bit of a street wear twist to my label, incorporate that black pant into a new style; just add a pair of converse's, a 2 chix maternity tee, sunnies, and viola, one super stylin mumma ready to go! you can find the lady bump shorts and pants on our website.