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 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 […]
If you are looking for a multilingual babysitter in the Netherlands, you are in the right place! I have a background in linguistics as part of my degree, and I know how important it is for a child’s caregivers to be able to communicate with them in a language they are comfortable in. The Netherlands […]