Barney's Bookshop Mini-Session

We had a blast running round after energetic Barney at the first mini session. He was sporting a tie made by Lucy Hesketh who is creating little accessories for the mini-sessions. We're working on lace crowns, pom pom frilled skirts, headbands and bow ties.

It was amazing how many lovely pictures we got of him in the session, especially with all his running around. It was with the help of a bit of bribery and his mum telling him story's that we got him to sit still for some of them which was lovely for me to be a part of (the story telling rather than the bribery). 

Barney really enjoyed seeing himself on the back of the camera and liked thinking of who was going to get to see the pictures (his Brother, his Grandad and his Aunties and Uncle). All in all it was a lot of fun and they got to spend some time looking at the lovely selection of children's books at Ebb & Flo and also relaxing in the den.

Here are some of my favourite pictures from the session.

Songs Sung About Books In Bookshops. Heaven.

I've recently had the absolute delight of visiting the new Bookshop in Chorley Ebb & Flo Bookshop. It is basically exactly what our little town needs. It's full of the kind of books I'd heartily recommend and has lovely events like Baby Tunies and artist events with a woman called Kate Bufton who uses book pages to create paper sculptures. And today it had The Bookshop Band come and play. They are a band who only perform in bookshop and only sing about books. Pretty Heavenly. They were absolutely brilliant. 

I had the lovely job of taking some photos of them for Ebb & Flo's owner, Diane, who I had been talking to on my visits. I had noticed her website didn't have any event pictures so I volunteered myself to photograph the band. So here, have a peek at the photos I took. I hopefully will get to help them out a bit more as I seriously endorse this amazing bookshop. 

Enjoy.