Julie, my sister, and I have been very close despite the difference of eight years in age.  She has been my mentor, and I’ve been imittating her since I was one.  She is a great business woman and owner of Cosmo Cricket Scrapbook Products.  For years we have talked like best friends.   And inevitably, like any two girls, we discus how we are going to make our very voluptuous Rubenisc bodies into the more modern petite Degasisc ballet dancer bodies.  Julie is always telling me the latest diet she is trying.  I take very good notes that I decide to eat with chocolate later.  As we both struggle with this war that has plagued women for decades, I mentioned to Julie there are a few tricks to deceive a photo into making you look like you have lost ten pounds.  This is a much better trick than the gaining ten pounds that the camera usually adds!  And since I know that as women; we are always struggling to lose that extra ten pounds that we gained in college, after we had that baby, we need to lose before summer…you get the idea.  These are handy to have up your sleeve.

Julie was a great sport to pose for these photos.  We hurried and snapped them in the five minute interval that we overlapped down at my mom’s house.  Seriously, I got there late and she was already asleep and then she left bright and early in the morning.  I was literally running around convincing her we could squeeze it in somewhere between Jack crying to take home his rock collection and Kate and Abby’s pigtails.

PS. I’ve been thinking of doing other tips in future blogs.  Maybe something along the lines of how to use natural light beautifully, how to take good photos with a point and shoot, how to pose couples, how to make your own photo back drops, different tips in Photoshop.  If you have any suggestion let me know.