Beds!

One of my favorite features of the home studio is ... the bed! When children come in a tiny bit shy, or sleepy from traveling in the car, it's nothing that a little jumping on the bed won't fix. Within a minute or two, they're making REAL expressions, giggling, pink-cheeked and ready to make lots of pictures. 



And there's something so intimate about the space we spend so much of our lives in-- in their real home, kids associate their beds with comfort. Mom and dad's bed is the place they crawl into in the middle of the night or in the sleepy hours of morning when they've just woken up-- to read books, hang out, or have pillow fights with their siblings.






The quilt, above, is a family heirloom I've kept and used in photos over the years, and the crib, below, was a junk jaunt find-- repainted in a minty green, perfectly gender neutral, but so cute as a contrast to pink on little girls!