It’s become a real tradition — Maud Fontein photographing my children for her Happy Holidays shoot. They all look forward to it — they just love Maud! She is such a fun and easy-going person, and she makes people feel relaxed and at home so quickly.

This year, taking the photos involved throwing little white felt balls in the air, which by itself is super fun but also gives an air of movement and spontaneity to the photos. I love that the photos are black and white again too, with simple white ‘snowflakes’ as a background for even more snowflake depth.

Before I go into sharing too many photos (because I think they are all so cute and I can’t seem to choose the best ones!), I just want to let all of our UK followers know that Maud will be at our ShopUp event again this Sunday and Monday. Like previous years, she will set up her little room above the stairs of the Chelsea Old Town Hall, and make magical photos with the same fun snowball backdrop as she used for mine. So fun!

Aren’t these photos just the cutest? We did give Bram a dummy after he got confused (he was mainly frustrated that we didn’t let him eat the before mentioned felt balls), but I think that only adds to the ‘realness’ of these photos.

I’m really so happy with these photos. I just love those little faces so much!! How fun to have them. (Here are some more — I told you I’m oversharing!)

Thank you Maud, for another fun shoot. Sign up for the ShopUp (by email).

And thanks Maud for feeding us all delicious soup! (Tip, everyone: Jamie Oliver’s Mexican tomato soup!)

Here are some photos of the previous years. It’s becoming a nice series!

xxx Esther

All photos by Maud Fontein