Temptation!

Well some of you might remember a couple of months ago I shot a short fashion video with a wonderful videographer called Ian Gamester from from Cheshire..

Well here it is -

Click here for video!!

and here is a picture of me in my new dress by Rory :D

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A little day out..

With Nige NW!

I have worked with Nige a couple of times in the past - Once last year in Glencoe and again a short shoot while I was in Stockport. Its always a pleasure working with him and I love his laid back approach to shooting :D We had no real planning of locations, the evening before the shoot we just decided which direction we would be heading off in and this is the spots we found on our travels.

We headed North/West this time, previously we went West. The morning of the shoot the sun was shining in the window and I had high hopes the weather was going to stay warm (although a bit less sun would have been better for photography purposes). I guess we can't have it all our own way all the time can we.

We started off at this location which was by the side of the road, after 5 minutes of shooting I heard a noise coming from behind me.. We had watchers standing on the bridge which is behind me in this picture, I wasn't sure how long they had been there for until Nige and I reviewed the pictures.. Never mind we got some pictures and headed off to somewhere else!

We then headed off and spotted a little bridge, So got some very minimal "chrissies" on the bridge. So minimal that unless its a massive print you might not see me in them so I wont bother posting them.. I also don't have a clear favourite from that set. Then we done some more "minimal" sort of stuff further down the road.

 Nige said "Should we stop here" while looking up a hill to our right hand side.. I was looking to the left and spotted this scene which was just begging for a model to be stood in. I thought it would work  a shot with my skirt on too.. but you can't keep a nude model clothed for long!

We then came across the most wonderful dam in the middle of nowhere and that was such a great way to end the day. It was an awesome location and I could have posted most of the pictures from that set as there was so many I loved!

Thanks Nige for such a lovely day!

Chrissie x

Christ.. I talk a lot of Shite!

Is what I just said to Rory after having a quick browse of my recent blog updates.

Anyhow - house hunting side of things went tits up. We put in an offer for the property which was going to auction on the morning of the auction.. It was rejected and 10 minutes after our rejection someone else has trumped us and it was sold a short while later. I guess if we had viewed that property weeks ago we might have had more time to secure a better mortgage and not rush about. We only got a solicitor 30 minutes before putting in our offer. Now we just have to wait for something with character - 2 bedrooms and loads of space which costs the same as a shed to come up on the market again (what it might happen). Until then we are just staying put. We do love where we live, just wish it was less expensive and not so restrictive on what we can do. I want to paint a wall black or something mad like that but we are not allowed to do crazy things like that..


Heres some pictures to accompany my random chatter, first one is by Andy Haworth from last weekend :D

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Part 3 Britalicus!!

 I have been totally spoiled by Britalicus - Seriously, I don't think I have ever had so many shots back from a half day shoot before. I guess we used our time very wisely :D

Shoot with Kate Bradley :D :D

 Well last week I had a lovely shoot with Kate, Just done some stuff at my place. So here I am in my communal hallway and theres one of me in front of one of my livingroom windows!

 This week has been pretty chilled out, we have actually started house hunting.
Rory is trusting me to go visit a property next week along with his mum, then the auction..
He said "I trust you".. My reply was "your bloody nuts, I would have put an offer in for the first place we seen that I thought was nice if they had accepted a little under what was advertised".

House hunting is so difficult though, what do we want? ideally..

One part of us want - A house /garden to chill in / room for pets to run about... Plenty of scope for changing things about.. more space.. prob cheaper heating that our other option which is an old property - a flat with nice features.

Rorys job went tits up a few months ago so we can't get as high a mortgage as we would have last year which is a bummer but my little income has boosted the loan amount we can get together and our budgets not that bad really. Just means we either get a shitty 1 bedroomed flat in the centre or a 2/3 bedroomed house out in the country. I love living in the city centre at the moment but I won't miss the noise at the weekend and I do really like country living.

Anyhow..

Heres some pictures yesss
:-)

Self portraits aye?

 I have to admit I hate editing pictures.. like seriously so half of these are maybe half arsed - badly edited or just not edited very much at all..

But it doesn't matter, im still chuffed!

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Weekend in Aberdeen - By Shep

 I know I could possibly work on a better layout for these shots but i wouldn't know how to do it!

These are the shots Shepy took when we all went up to Aberdeen for some camping fun recently :D

I couldn't really pick my favourites so here are a selection of them!

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