Style me up

I wasn't feeling so great yesterday, this head cold finally got the better of me. So in between packing orders, and following up on new stock due to arrive I finished reading this fantastic book that arrived last Friday. It is well written, informative and oh so inspirational! Hélene's blog, Tartlette is one of those uber-food blogs that never ceases to amaze me, and is always top of my reading list.

So feeling inspired, I figured there was no time like the present, hey I had an open jar of Brandied Cherries that I made a couple of months ago....and even some chocolate ice-cream at the ready. No fresh cherries unfortunately to help my styling, but that didn't stop me.

I have to say this food photography/styling thing is really hard, so much to think of - props, telling a story, lighting, depth of field...and the list goes on. I still have a lot to learn. But it is fun, fun, fun - and complements perfectly a little project that I've been working on.

Have a great day,
suzy xoxo

Behind the scenes at suzy hausfrau

It's a busy Saturday behind the scenes here at suzy hausfrau! We loaded the NEW Danish stock into the store yesterday, but weren't really happy with the images provided. So we have spent a goodly portion of today re-shooting the yarn so that the colours on the site are more indicative of how they appear in real life....gawgeous of course. We are in the middle of uploading the new images now.

Lucky we had Mr Hausfrau's light box at the ready. Here is a behind the scenes look at our humble set up, which yields big results! Stay tuned for next week - when I'll do a yarn a day and show you how beautiful they really are!

Lights, camera....but no action

As you know for the last couple of months I've been a busy bee preparing to launch my own yarn store, suzy hausfrau. One of the jobs on our list was to build a light box so that we could take the best possible shots of the yarn to make it easy for our customers to make their colour choices. Mr Hausfrau rose to the challenge and made a cracking light box out of MDF which I will post about soon....so here we are ready to go. Lights, camera, but most of our stock is still not here!

Fingers and toes crossed that it is picked up today and will be here by the end of the week - the waiting is sooooo exhausting! In the meantime, here are some of the test shots that we took with Mr Hausfrau's magic light box...