I just wanted to share with you a little slideshow of all our contestants from this years 2011 Babies in Beanies Competition.
And by the way we raised $11,096.00 in total for the Newborn Intensive Care Foundation! A fantastic effort from all of our contestants. Thank you all so much for your support – a little bit from everyone can go a long way and I’m sure many gorgeous little bubs have already benefited from the warming bed we purchased.
Love of a Laminex Table - Cook Book
WIN A COPY OF THIS BOOK !
This year I was involved in the production of a Book – Love of a Laminex Table – It was my first time photographing food and I absolutely loved it! It was quite a challenge at first but after a bit of research and phone calls to amazing food photographer Alan Benson – I managed to get the shots. I have a whole new respect for food photographers – its quite challenging to make food look fresh and delicious! Kate Shelton – owner of Benedict House in Queanbeyan wrote the book and did an amazing job – seeing as it was her first time writing/publishing a book. I’m just so glad Kate trusted me with the job of taking the photos.
We recently had the book launch at Benedict House with guest speakers, Playright, Tommy Murphy and ABC Radio personlity Genevieve Jacobs. It was a fantastic day with a full house. Congratulations to Kate for her fantastic book.
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Here are a few of the shots I took for the book. Don’t get too hungry!
BOOK GIVEAWAY – ENTER NOW!
To celebrate the launch of Kate’s book we will be giving away a signed copy to one lucky reader. To enter all you have to do is EMAIL us your own family favourite recipe. The entrant who submits the tastiest sounding recipe will receive a signed book by Kate – and we will share your fabulous recipe in our next newsletter! Competition ends 5pm EST Friday 16th December.
TO ORDER YOUR COPY OF “LOVE OF A LAMINEX TABLE” CLICK HERE
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I would like to purchase this book but am not sure how I go about purchasing On-Line.
Could you asist me?
Many thanks – Jo
To purchase the book go to http://www.benedicthouse.com.au or you can follow the link on this blog entry. Let me know if you’re having problems
Just thought I’d share a few images for a gorgeous wedding I did. Julie looked amazing in her gown – you would never think she’s had three children! They were married at the Greek Orthodox Church, Kingston (one of my favourite churches to work in). Despite battling with the weather we had a great shoot – lots of fun and the party ran on into the night at the Hellenic Club.
Congrats Julie and Alex – wishing you both a long and amazing future together.
xo Leonie
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I have been working with this family since 2006 and have watched it grow. It has been a pleasure to be a small part of their lives and here are a few shots from their recent maternity and newborn sessions.
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Congratulations to all of our contestants who entered the Babies in Beanies competition this year. We’ve had a fabulous competition and have been able to purchase the warming bed for the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at the Hospital – Yay! If you weren’t able to make it on Sunday we had one of the two beds ordered on display.
The competition culminated in the awards ceremony on Sunday at the hospital with special guests attending, including Dr. Chris Bourke, the newly elected member for Ginninderra within the ACT Legislative Assembly, Associate Professor Zsuzsoka Kecskes, Clinical Directory, Department of Neonatology, Peter Cursley, Chairman of the newborn Intensive Care foundation and Julie Samaras, Editory of the Canberra Weekly Magazine. We had Captain Sunshine entertaining the kids, face painting and balloon making - it was a great afternoon for all.
Congratulations to gorgeous 21 month old Elliott Owen who took out this year’s Cutest Baby in a Beanie Competition. Elliott charmed us with her beaming smile and cute little beanie and was not afraid of the limelight at the presentation. A story about the event and a photo of Elliott was in yesterday’s Canberra Times on Page 4.
Finn Goodchild was our Runner Up in the competition with his amazing long eyelashes.
This year was the first year we asked parents to try and help with the fundraising by getting sponsorship for their children. The response was amazing and we have reached our $10,000 target with still more funds to come in. We had two joint winners for our fundraising prize this year – Ethan Wassell and family and Sean Byrne and family – both raising an amazing $800 each. There were also many other families who raised substantial amounts of sponsorship so thank you to all of you – you have all contributed to this wonderful cause.
Ethan Wassell
Sean Byrne
Sean Byrne
Our other winners on the day were:-
Cutest Beanie – boy - Harvey Burdette
Cutest Beanie – girl – Kara Hurley
Cutest Smile – Imogen Kennedy
Cutest Frown/Pout – Charly Watson
and last but not least our Mum of the Year – Haidee Hudson. Haidee and her gorgeous little daughter Harper have been involved in the competition for the past three years and even before sponsorship was introduced this year has always raised extra funds for the foundation – thanks Haidee!
Harper Hudson
Again thanks to all our contestants and all of the sponsors and helpers that contributed to the event. We’re looking forward to an even bigger and better Babies in Beanies next year. We hope you can all be part of this event again.
xo
Leonie
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