Earlier this week I mentioned I have a bit of a soft spot for floral wallpaper – putting it down to family trips to France when I was little. Well, I just came across a treasured photograph of me as a baby in my room. Looks like my mum liked flowers too! So maybe my love affair with flowers started a lot earlier than I thought.
As I’m hopelessly nostalgic about my childhood, I love looking back through old family albums. I was reminded of the emotional connection to family photos, and the memories that they represent, when I went to have a look at my friend Anna Nowinska-Boardman’s new website recently.
Anna is a bumps & babies photographer and she’s pioneering birth reportage photography in the UK. One of her first blog posts was about her favourite childhood photograph. Take a minute to visit Anna’s blog to read her story, and tell me if that doesn’t bring tears to your eyes.
On a completely different note, tell me also if you’ve spotted and recognised the crazy cute fox Anna is holding in her favourite childhood photo – did anyone else have this fox when they were little? Do you think it was Anna’s or a photographer’s prop?
So I’ve been wondering – do you have any photographs of your old room as a child? I’d really love to see them and hear the stories that are connected to them, and perhaps share some here on the blog. Wouldn’t it be great to reminisce together? Drop me a line if you would like to share yours here and I’ll get right on it.
(image: room to bloom)
Ursula! What an amazing photograph! What a cute baby you were! To answer your question the toy belonged to the photographer, but I am pretty sure it was a cat… bright yellow.. I vividly remember I desperately wanted to take it home with me after the session and being bribed with blueberry ice cream to let it go:-)
Hi Anna – thanks for clarifying! I thought it might be a cat but wasn’t sure, and thought you’d put me right if I got it wrong : ) How amazing you remember it so well – right down to the ice cream flavour they had to bribe you with! I love little stories and details like that. x
Yes, it seems clear now where your soft spot for floral wallpaper comes from! lol. I’m amazed when I look at babies and think, “gosh, I can’t believe we were all that small once!”. And there you are, all small in that picture. How wonderful!
Anna’s website is really nice. Her pictures are beautiful! Thanks for sharing 🙂
I’d love to see your room too Holly, when you were little. Being an interior designer now, were you really into ‘making your room beautiful’ as a child?
What a gorgeous photo of you! I can see the floral connection. I have baby photos and when you come to visit me remind me to show you. No florals though:)
I’m pleased the prop/cat dilemma has been solved. I was racking my brain!
Can’t wait to see your pics – any room shots for the blog?
Oh how cute Ursula! I wish I did have a photo of my childhood room-now that you remind me it was rather fabulous. Tangerine orange walls and a 70’s floral print, multi coloured with a chocolate brown background!! Cx
Oh Caroline, I can almost picture your room! Wouldn’t it be fab to have photos of it now…
What a lovely photo of you as a baby! And yes the floral connection very apparent! What also interests me about the photo is, that because of the vintage trend it kind of feels contemporary too, if that makes any sense?
That makes perfect sense to me – it’s interesting isn’t it, how that works?