Apologies for my blog absence! It has been a manic but completely awesome week!

I shall be sharing my ace experience at BritMums Live later this week but first, if you are looking for tips to improve your blog photography then you have come to the right place, and if you didn't get to attend the blogging conference Blognix, then fear not, all the slides are right here for you.

It was a pleasure to speak at Blognix, a conference that celebrates all that is positive within the blogging community. A day to inspire, share and connect with fellow bloggers in Birmingham at The Custard Factory.

There is a complete mix of bloggers from all communities who attend Blognix. It's a great way to share your blog with a different part of the blogging community. I spoke to craft bloggers, beauty bloggers, fashion bloggers and it was a pleasure to see some familiar encouraging faces from the parenting community.

Deciding what to say was the tricky bit because there is so much to say! It was an honour to be one of the speakers amongst individuals with amazing stories and achievements.

Photo credit Rosalilium

The podcast this week is my session, as if you were in the audience. It's a long one so grab and pot of tea and a cake... there's 42 minutes or so of it!

I was so grateful for all the lovely feedback from the bloggers who mentioned my session in their round up posts and for all the tweets and messages. If you want to read any of the posts linked up click HERE. 

What is it that you would most like to improve? Mastering your camera? Composing your blog photos? Let me know - let's all help each other.

Linking up with #Whatsthestory and #SharewithMe

I adore green. And as it's Thursday I am going to go for a #throwbackthursday amongst my post with the #capturingcolour bloggers too! It's hashtag central today!

I always thought my boys would inherit my dark brown eyes but no, Ollie is almost a carbon copy of Rich and his side of the family.

This is one of my favourite photos of Ollie. My gorgeous green boy. Where did that baby go?!!!

I had baby pink as our wedding theme and a few years later at our best friend's wedding I had serious colour envy! I absolutely loved the mint green throughout the wedding and if ever I get a chance to wear that beautiful dress again (if I can fit into it!) I will jump for joy. 

So I was very at home the week for the Instagram #capturingcolour week of green.

If you haven't joined Instagram you are missing out of a world of endless creativity and inspiration! Come and find us all and see what we are snapping using #capturingcolour.

You can find me here... if you like peonies you will like my feed ;)

There is something so calming about stopping to appreciate a scene or your meal. I have seen a lot of green this week as we are all slimming down for the Summer. We are off to Spain with my sister and her family and my brother and sister in law from America. I am doing ok so far, 7lbs down, 16 to go! But I haven't been able to get anywhere near to zipping my favourite green dress up in a couple of years, so all the plates of green will be worth it! A few more pounds off and it will fit like a treat.

I am staying with my sister tonight ahead of her helping me at the BritMums Live conference tomorrow where I am hosting the blog design session - wish me luck! 

This week you will be flooded with violet, indigo, mauve, lilac, lavender and every other colour way of purple you can imagine! 

Come and join in the fun and see what the other colour loving bloggers have captured this week.

My Two Mums
Real Housewife of Suffolk County
Sorry About The Mess
Maybush Studio and
my fellow BiBs Photo Finalist Shutterflies

It's an amazing thing watching people joining in and getting excited about capturing their colourful adventures.

Good luck to all the BiBs Finalists for the awards tomorrow evening! Sending a virtual 4 leaf clover to everyone! 

I live a colourful life and one of the most handy things I have ever made was a printable colour wheel.

I have a dog eared copy in my purse that I carry around and pull out when I am styling photos and planning blog posts. It's amazing how following the simplest rules of colour can make a huge difference to your photographs.

Of course there will always be exceptions to the rule but once you understand the basic principles you will suddenly realise how much you notice colour and which colours work together to make your photos pop.

It's a pleasure to join the #capturingcolour group of bloggers. #capturingcolour is a weekly Instagram tag, with each week a different colour taking centre stage. Last week was red.

It's strange isn't it, when you are pregnant all you can see is other pregnant people and when you have a colour in mind all I could see was red! In fact, I even created Ollie a red theme packed lunch as I realised I had subconsciously bought lots of red food in the weekly shop!

This week it's all about gorgeous greens. Green is actually my favourite colour. Mint green to be precise. I always feel confident in green and it 's my absolute favourite ice cream. Mint choc chip. Yum. 

Make sure you check in with the other colour loving bloggers:

My Two Mums
Real Housewife of Suffolk 
Maybush Studio
Shutterflies and
Sorry About The Mess.

We want to get everyone excited about colour. So here is a brand new colour wheel for you to download! Click on the image.

The Floral Colour Wheel is full of beautiful petals, buds and stems. They all look so beautiful but the opposites on the wheel are even more striking together.

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When planning your blog photos think about using opposite colours on the wheels. So when I photographed Ollie's lunchbox in the pictures above I popped it on a green piece of paper. The touch of green in the ice pop photo makes the red in the ice lolly pop a little more than if it was just on the ice. 

Print off your own copy and have it around next time you are photographing a recipe, or a product you are reviewing on your blog.

I even think about the boys clothes when I am photographing them for a blog post! So if I was going to take a photo of them in a park amongst the green grass and trees I'd put them in red. 

Have a go and see what a huge difference it makes to your photos.

Now get snapping green and tag your photos on Instagram #capturingcolour You can find my Instagram account here! 

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