Cynthia's Cake Smash

Little Cynthia had great fun during her cake smash session to celebrate her first birthday! With encouragement from Mum and Dad there were plenty of smiles and giggles as she used a combination of a spoon and her fingers to pile the cake into her mouth! The session lasted for 40 minutes and was carried out in my usual informal, fun, friendly way.

I hope you like the pictures. If you would like to book something similar then I'd love to hear from you! Get in touch using my contact page or give me a call on 07983 465414. Thanks!

Layla's Cake Smash

The adorable Layla popped into my photography studio earlier this month for one of my fun filled cake smashes! 

As with many of my cake smashes, we began with a few clean shots before moving onto the messy part! Layla wolfed down the cake as if her life depended on it and within about twenty minutes she was looking for something else to do! After a quick clean up we got out a few toys for her to play with and this seemed to settle her back down. 

I hope you like the pictures. If you would like to book something similar then I'd love to hear from you! Get in touch using my contact page or give me a call on 07983 465414. Thanks!

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Amara's Cake Smash

Little Amara is a girl after my own heart when it comes to cake! Fair to say she loved the colourful icing and made light work of the delicious looking sponge! It was giggles and laughs all the way as she gobbled down the cake!

If you would like to book something similar then please get in touch using my contact page or give me a call on 07983 465414. I'd love to hear from you! Thanks.

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Jasmine's Cake Smash

Last Sunday I welcomed Jasmine and her family to my photography studio. I know Jasmine's Mum, Nicky, well having done a few photo shoots for her fitness business. For more on those go to my commercial pages. 

Today though was all about celebrating little Jasmine's 1st birthday and what a blast she had! There was no holding her back from the cake as she plunged her fists straight into it! None stop action from start to finish, there was hardly any cake left by the end! 

If you would like to book something similar then please get in touch using my contact page or give me a call on 07983 465414. I'd love to hear from you! Thanks.

Holly's Cake Smash

I welcomed Holly into my photography studio recently for her first ever cake smash! She had lots of fun and although was a bit nervous to begin with and unsure what to make of the cake, she eventually worked up the courage to poke a finger into the wonderful deep pink icing! 

She also loved the balloon that I supply as part of the package. It's always big, bright and colourful and little ones absolutely adore tugging on the string and seeing it bounce up and down!

If you have a little one who is about to turn one or has just turned one and would like to book in a cake smash with me then please get in touch using my contact page or give me a call on 07983 465414. I'd love to hear from you! 

Oliver's Cake Smash

Little Oliver was brilliant fun and like most of the gorgeous children that I photograph, he was far more interested in the balloons than the cake! The highlight was when his Mummy pulled out a rather large and oversized dino outfit, which he looked fab in and like many of the cake smash shoots I do, there was even time at the end for a bit of a play with some of The Mousehole's cool, vintage props!


Aziz's Cake Smash

Less cake smash and more play with this photo shoot! An ever so lovely couple, who brought my own children gifts each and gave me the cake as a further thank you, (it was delicious!) 

I hope you like the pictures. If you would like to book something similar please get in touch using my contact page or give me a call on 07983 465414. Thanks!

Paige's Cake Smash

The adorable Paige popped into my Cheltenham photography studio a few days ago for one of my fun filled cake smashes! 

We incorporated two different themes into the shoot, which fitted with the outfit changes that her Mum had brought along. The first part of the session was girly pink, (which fitted well with Paige's fantastic pastel pink tu tu!) and the second half of the shoot was a mix of more vibrant colours to match her colourful pants! Paige wasn't particularly interested in eating the cake, preferring instead to try and eat the balloons and over sized spoon!

I hope you like the pictures. If you would like to book something similar then I'd love to hear from you! Get in touch using my contact page or give me a call on 07983 465414. Thanks!

Reuben's Cake Smash

A few weeks ago I welcomed 1 year old Reuben into my photography studio for a cake smash photo shoot. He was joined by his best bud - Walter the dog! This was my first ever cake smash with a child, a dog and a cake!! It was entertaining to say the least; Walter was far more interested in the cake than Reuben, who was far more interested in playing with all my quirky, vintage props! 

Mouse About Town's 4th Birthday

The third instalment of pictures are from the second day of cake smashes that took place on Thursday 26th March, Mouse About Town's actual birthday!

If you would like to book something similar, a normal cake smash session is 60 minutes. It includes all of the high resolution digital files. No copyright restrictions. I'd love to hear from you, so please do get in touch via my contact page or give me a call on 07983 465414.

Thanks!

Mouse About Town's 4th Birthday

Here's the next instalment. My first shoot on the Sunday morning was a great group of NCT Mum's who thought it might be fun to team up and do a mega cake smash with all their girls! And boy was it fun, heaps of chaos and heaps of cake!!

We started the photo shoot off with some simple shots of the girls looking pretty, both indivual photos and group ones too, before moving onto the mess! See pics below.


Mouse About Town's 4th Birthday

Mouse About Town celebrated her 4th birthday last week! I've an established wedding photography business that I run called www.gillthomas.co.uk, but Mouse About Town began, (like all good ideas) over a glass of wine, (or two!) towards the end of 2013. My son's wooden ride on mouse was parked up in the corner of our snug lounge and it got me thinking about names. Seeing him on it whizzing along the pavements of Cheltenham town inspired the name Mouse About Town. 

One of the real highlights was opening The Mousehole, my new photography studio. It's small but perfectly formed and ever so cosy and quirky. It's bursting at the seams with vintage props and brilliant car boot finds. My children often find toys of theirs that I've quietly snuck out of the house while they were watching Peppa Pig!  

The studio has opened up a whole new avenue of creativity for me and was the perfect venue to host my birthday party! We celebrated in style with two FREE cake smash marathon events. It was brilliant to share my birthday with all the little ones, who all had enormous fun smashing their cakes, bashing balloons and generally making a complete mess! I even had a cake waiting for me when I got home, made by my fabulous Mr Mouse!

Looking ahead, one of the highlights of this year is the new collaboration that's in the pipeline with Winston's Wish. It's a charity very close to my heart and I'm excited to see how things develop. 

For now though, here are two photo shoots from Saturday...

Happy Birthday to me x

Amelia's Cake Smash

It was great to meet Amelia the other week. I photographed her Mum and Dad's wedding back in 2011 and they had been so pleased with the photographs that I was their first choice for their little girls' cake smash!

It would be fair to say that Amelia wasn't having the best day! She was teething and hadn't slept well and yet despite that we still managed to get some lovely happy shots of her, in between the tears! Her poor Mum's cake didn't go down well. The icing clearly aggravated her gums. Luckily she loved the balloon that I supply as part of my cake smash packages and had great fun playing with it! Little ones are very welcome to take the balloon home with them at the end of the shoot.

If you would like to book something similar then I'd love to hear from you. Just get in touch using my contact page or give me a call on 07983 465414. I'd love to hear from you!