holding a picture of you

I love going to my parents' house and looking through their boxes and boxes of photos, Polaroids and slides. I recently found this slide of my mom, by my dad - nice hey? They used to use slide film for printing in magazines etc back in the day as it was better quality than negative film. 

You can also cross-process your slide film which gives all the photos a blue-y/green-y tinge like this. My dad went through a phase where he did this to all our family photos. At the time I was like 'dad stop, I wanna be a normal kid with normal photos' but now we have the coolest childhood pictures ever; thanks, dad :)

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my mom ♡

It's my mother's birthday today! My mom is one of the loveliest women you'll ever meet; her happiness and enthusiasm is totally contagious, as is her insane + loud laughter, and her ridiculous catch-phrases. We share a deep love and appreciation of clothes, our favourite lunch is popcorn + jelly tots, and together we are an extremely excitable pair and can often be seen shaking our fists about in excitement.

As well as being fun, kind and able to get along with just about anyone, she is also cursed with the burden of being terribly beautiful. She was scouted just after she left high school and spent many years travelling the world as a model. One time she hung out with Guns 'n Roses, so she's pretty cool.

(taken by my dad)

Often my parents would let me take the days off school to be my mom's child in shoots (clearly they had their priorities in order). Here are just a few of us in action :

Happy birthday Mama, you are so beautiful inside and out and I love you a lot!