To Play More

New Year's Resolutions -- that's what started this whole crazy shoot.  In the soul-searching that I always do at the end of December, reflecting back as well as looking ahead to another year, evaluating what to keep doing, stop doing or start doing again, one thing I resolved to do was to use more of the energy and creativity I pour into home decor, photography props and costumes, on my own children.  The goal was to not simply use my creativity to dress them up in scratchy costumes, have them sit on vintage props and bribe them to smile at the camera -- that I have mastered.  The goal was to let them play, and simply capture their fabulous imaginings as they unfolded. So, in an endeavour of this scale, I needed to call on my fabulously talented friends, Angie of Button Up Boutique, and Julianna, of Red Rubber Studios, who just so happen to have children as delightful and creative as themselves.  I gathered all kinds of things I thought our children would love to play with, and then we stood back and giggled as we watched them imagine and create.   It was such fun to watch as a basket became a hat, a girl's top ended up as armour on a boy, a skirt became a veil.  And Julianna captured it all so beautifully as it happened.  It was amazing just to watch them play, to watch them build stories and forts and slip into their very real imaginary world.