Let me explain. Okay, so rewind to over a decade ago. I’m a teenager, reading about the seasonal color system for the first time on pinterest blogs. I have green veins instead of blue, tan in the sun instead of burn, and have dark skin, dark hair, and dark eyes, so I quickly surmised that […]

I don’t claim to be an Instagram guru. I haven’t cracked the algorithm. But, a growing number of people keep telling me that I’m good at Instagram. So I’m sharing all my “secrets.” 1. Don’t post on Instagram, don’t even get a business Instagram, until you’re ready to launch! I wish I had waited a […]

What’s a creative pursuit without a fiasco? As you may know, my photography style is light and airy. A big dark green mass taking over my creamy neutral images was something I wanted to avoid. A lot of photographers use flocked trees to solve this “problem” and so this year, I decided to dust my […]

For this maternity session, we did half of the session in my home studio and then walked five minutes to Erasmuspark to the Miracle Garden. I have a light and airy style of photography and I love to use florals and soft fabrics in my images! Then we went outside to the garden, and even […]

I enjoyed life on my high horse, I really did. “Oh, I just let my first son run around naked and he basically had it figured out by that night.” Sure, it was a lot of work. And I was eight months pregnant with my second. And life with a newborn and a toddler who-absolutely-had-to-pee-right-this-second […]

I had too much fun building my website, and I’d love to share what I know with other local Amsterdam ladies.

Ruth is the owner of Mama Ruth Lactation Consulting and was a nurse in the US for 10 years in the Neonatal ICU and High Risk Obstetrics Clinic. She also has a certification in NICU Nursing and a Masters degree in Nursing Education. I met Ruth at a MamaSocial brunch in my first two weeks […]

This three year old’s birthday party was GORGEOUS! See how Nori Picnics styled this Teddy Bear Tea Party in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam is the ultimate city for fall photography. The canal houses framed by the fall leaves make for the coziest of backgrounds!

This is not going to be a fun blog post. My anxiety did not magically cure itself. Instead, it’s something I keep at bay with a thousand redirections and intentional thought patterns and occasionally therapy. And while I’m so much better now than I was when my son was born five years ago, I still […]