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Love Stories

So as you may know, or not, I photographed houses for YEARS! I still do, but now maybe 2 a month and not 50! In that time I encountered empty haunted houses, million pound houses and disgusting run down dumps. (let me know if you want the gross stories because they are GRIM!) I have also met the most amazing humans! These beautiful people, selling their homes, would tell me their life stories.…

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Stay At Home Routine

This seems to be going around a lot. Advice on how to keep a routine at home. I have read so many of these articles, and to be honest, they are 50/50. I think most of them have not been written by real stay at home work humans. I’ve been asked by a lot of friends “How do you do this? Work from home? Be home all the time?” So here is a list of things I do to keep my brain in work mode.

I guess…

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If You Want Art, F**king Pay For It!

Look. If you want art, fucking pay for it. It’s really god dam simple.

At what time in this world did someone say – “Don’t pay for good quality stuff when you can get a shit version for a lot cheaper!”

Art isn’t just painting and drawing. It’s photography, videography, sewing, crafts, ceramics, freaking anything that someone has spent years perfecting a talent and has decided to sell. This is…

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I cried when I bought my new swimsuit

No, this isn’t a body confidence post. Well not in the way you think it is. This is a ‘I have finally found a combination of drugs, chemicals and hormones to stop my body from rejecting all its blood’ post.

Let’s take a step back. I have had issues with my periods since I started having them at 14. Really fucking painful periods and irregular bleeding. I had abnormal cells (results from a smear –…

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My Haunted House Experience

Let me tell you a story. One that I love to tell some people when the subject arises. One that I have freaked out a few friends with. One that I will never forget.

Disclaimer: The events that I will tell you, though I tell it as a story, actually happened. This is exactly the actions I took and what I felt at the time. I’m not saying haunted houses are real, this is a story of events that…

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I'm not mummy, I'm Kitty.

I’m not mummy, I’m Kitty.

Before I got pregnant, I was Kitty. I knew myself as just Kitty. Possibly Kitty, wife, photographer, lover of cheese. When I became pregnant, I was Kitty – due to explode a human from her vajaja. When I gave birth, I became mummy. Just mummy. People wouldn’t call me by my name (other names I’m known by are Katie & my full name, Katherine), I was just mummy.

“How’s mummy doing”? The doctor/midwife…

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No sugar make Kitty something something

First full week without a pinch of sugar. How did I do? Really f**king brilliant!!

There were so many opportunities for me to fail – a birthday party (there’s sugar in mini sausages and sausage rolls? Why? Why is there even sugar in them?), two meals out without ketchup and being the one person who has to ask for water…and saying no to dessert was THE HARDEST THING IN MY LIFE.

There was a moment…

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First day. The horror.

Today is 1st February. We all woke up to find snow laying on the ground and my month long refrain of sugar had begun.

I started the day completely fine. Cup of tea – with no sugar. Took Max to nursery in the snow and returned. Breakfast was the first hurdle. Straight away a massive issue.

*deep breaths* I hate to break it to you all – but Cheerios has sugar in it. 1 gram per recommend bowl…

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I’m giving up sugar - Fundraiser

I’m giving up sugar – Fundraiser

It’s happening. As February creeps closer I get increasingly more nervous. I’m giving up sugar for February to raise money for Cancer Research. I’ve eaten all the sugar in the house in preparation….what? I mean yeah I could have just given it away, but…sugar…

Here’s the link – https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/katie-takes-on-sugar-free-february-81

You’re probably wondering, why give up…

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I’ve gone resolution mad!

I decided, on New Years Eve, as I was sitting at a wedding I was photographing, taking a break whilst the guests ate their food, that I was going to make New Years resolutions.

Now I don’t make them. At all. Perhaps in the past I’ve tried to tell myself I’ll stop eating so much junk food and exercise more but I never do it.

But I was sitting there, reading people’s posts and blogs on reflecting…

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How Minecraft helped my husbands anxiety & depression. (Wait, what?)

Not joking. Not messing you around. Not having a laugh. It’s a real thing. You will probably think I’m completely nuts, but wait until you hear why I think it helped!

James is a creative person. He writes and creates music. He can teach himself any instrument. He can draw. He can create anything when he puts his mind to it. So there’s the snag. When he fell to his pit of pain, anxiety &…

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Don’t delete it mummy, Keep it!

The photo that most mums would probably delete off their phone & out of their life’s, let alone post online! The one where you’re knackered and it shows. Where those dark circles are clearly visible, and oh my god i didn’t realise they had gotten that bad! Where your eyes are swollen from rubbing your eyes from exhaustion. Where your child is chewing on anything he gets his hands on cause he’s…

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Portrait Sessions Project - Laura Flora

Portrait Sessions Project – Laura Flora

Starting a new project to get my arty farty photography juices flowing!

Introducing the portrait sessions. A handful of images from walking around for an hour. I am lucky enough to have a stunning friend, Laura, at hand to start this project off! Also had the chance to grab a portrait of her 5 month old girl Autumn. *Those eyes*

Enjoy!

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How birth has changed my hormones

Midwifes, Doctors and family tell you how your body changes after giving birth. Yes you expect the ‘mum tum’ and the ‘not being able to sit properly for months’ and yes I was going to expect my periods routine to get a bit messed up and change. But the way my body reacts to my hormones was something no one really warned me about.

You are of course sat down and told about postnatal depression.…

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I'm up for two awards!

I’m up for two awards!

First of all, thank you to everyone who nominated me! Yippee!

The first one is the Best of Welsh Awards for my wedding and family photography work – KEM Radford Photography! I’ve never been nominated or won anything for this side of the business, so very exciting!

Find the link to vote for me here – http://www.bestofwelshawards.co.uk/voting-2018

The second is The Elite Awards for Freelancer of…

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Doing admin & diary organising whilst sunning my toes! Is this spring? Has Spring arrived? #selfemployed #freelance #freelancer #freelancephotographer #photographer #workingfromhome #camera #cathkidston #cupoftea #admin #work #sundayfunday #sunshine #tea #teatime #toes #sun #sunshine (at Cardiff)

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Diaries of a working mum

I’m sure every working Mum feels guilt for leaving their babies with someone else so they can go off to work. But I was leaving mine with, my husband and father of said child, James. I thought, no better person to look after him than his own daddy! We couldn’t afford a nursery everyday anyway, so we figured out our own arrangement so I could get back to work. Being self employed I didn’t have…