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Always wanted to capture a gorgeous image of your baby bump, or would love a “first” family photo?

Celebrate the pending arrival of your precious little one with a gentle, artistic and captivatingly beautiful Lifeworks Portrait.

Simply enclose a FREE personalised gift registry card in with your baby shower invitations, to make your photography dream more AFFORDABLE.

Gift registries are a great idea for families and friends to purchase a combined gift for Baby Showers, 1st Birthdays or a Christening / Baptism.

Phone us NOW to register your interest 03 9482 2006

http://www.lifeworksphotography.com.au/gift_registry.html

Have you seen the new “Australian Baby Guide” out on the shelves?

It’s the new name for The Nappy Bag Book, and is now on sale through book retailers nationally including Target, Big W, Borders, Collins,
A & R, National Pharmacies and independent bookstores.

It probably would have grabbed your attention as it did for one of our customers who phoned us from the checkout at Big W to say they had seen it, and wow what a beautiful pic on the cover…it must be our work!

Yes, a Lifeworks Photography image was selected for the front Cover. One of our gorgeous baby stars, Joshua.

We also have a “guitar hero” Wes on page514, and Julie’s very own cute as a button, Amelia the “Party girl” cake eater on pg556.

The Australian Baby Guide is a one-stop book and website brimming with expert advice, reassuring parent-to-parent tips and tales and featuring the most comprehensive Resources section of products and services published in Australia. Kaz Cooke has described it as a “mumburger with the lot”.

Check it out on;

www.australianbabyguide.com.au

On Easter Saturday Susie Latham from Lifeworks Photography was married to her beau Wayne Roberts.

A gorgeous bride, a handsome groom, beautiful sunshine, a picturesque setting…..and where are the guests…..oops, a wrong address, a small delay of the ceremony but still we all managed to get there in time to see a radiant and very beautiful bride walk up the leafy garden aisle.

A fabulously gourmet reception followed at Glen Harrow Guest House, Belgrave.

Susie and Wayne are currently soaking up the tropical sun, but I am sure she cannot wait to be back at Lifeworks next week!

(Beautiful photos of the Lifeworks Team, the stunning bride and the happy couple kindly supplied by wedding photographer supremo..Chris Clinnick.)

Melissa’s Boiled Chocolate Cake - “Easter Muffin Recipe”

• 1 cup water
• 1½ cups caster sugar
• 125gms butter
• 2 tbsp cocoa (good quality produces a nicer cake)
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 ½ cups SR flour - sifted
• 2 eggs

I am too impatient to wait for it to cool by itself and so I sit the saucepan in the kitchen sink filled with cold water to speed up the process.

When cool – with handheld electric beaters mix in the sifted flour till well combined – then beat in the eggs one at a time.

This mix can be made into a large cake in either a round or square tin lined with baking apper – cook at 170 degrees (160 degrees fan forced) for approx 40 minutes (depending on your oven) – check with a skewer and adjust cooking time accordingly. 

I also use it to make cupcakes – Cup cakes are cooked for approx 13 minutes (check after this time-should spring to the touch) – only 2/3 fill the cupcake paper.

This is a moist almost fudgy cake that is just so easy to make.  My mum always made this cake for all our birthdays and is a treasured family favourite.  The best thing is that it can all be prepared in one saucepan which saves on washing up – what’s not to love!

Melisa was is again today & of course the theme was “Easter”. These muffins are mouth watering & the decorations speak for themselves!

Recipe not yet received … however the picture is enough to inspire.

On Saturday 4^th April, Susie, one of the Lifeworks girls celebrated her Hens Night with a “Life Drawing Class” and Cocktails with her friends in Prahran. As you can see all the Lifeworks team had a great night and we greatly look forward to her Wedding on Easter Saturday….stay tuned.

On 1st April, Lisa (a big fan of music) attended a slideshow by World Famous Rock’n'Roll photographer “Tony Mott”.

It was a thoroughly enjoyable night full on inspiration, backstage stories and exciting location shoots.

All in all, a great night out. Tony’s book “Every picture tells a story” can be purchased through www.tonymott.com.

Any budding Rock Stars out there, contact Lisa @ lifeworks.

On Monday 9^th of March, Lifeworks Julie Ewing attended a Gala event at the Park Hyatt Melbourne.

The event organised by The Australian Institute Of Professional Photography in conjunction with International Woman’s Day was to celebrate Legendary Female Australian Photographers and raise much needed funds to support patients their families and carers as they go through their cancer journey, proceeds going to the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre Appeal.

Although I was not one of the 6 “legends” honoured, I was acknowledged as one of Australia’s celebrated award-winning female photographers and invited to provide 4 images for a collection especially curated for the evening.

The Park Hyatt Melbourne was a gorgeous location for this inaugural event and a great opportunity catch up with friends and colleges from all over Australia to celebrate a fabulous occasion whilst raising funds for a very worthy cause. Amongst items auctioned on the night, was an autographed limited addition Kylie Minogue book, which had the room a buzz.

Lifeworks Photography’s Julie Ewing and Lisa Tootell recently rode 40km to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis. This is the 3^rd year they have taken part in this worthy cause, an 8am start at Carlton, heading to Port Melbourne, across the Westgate bridge to Williamstown and through Footscray and back to Carlton for a timely finish within 2 hours. (We could do it a little faster however the other 4998 cyclists got in our way!)

MS had hoped to raise $350 000, however so far have exceeded this with $437 500 and still hoping to continue.

If you would like to make a donation to this cause please follow these link

http://register.melbournesummercycle.org.au/index.html?kw=piece+of+cake&SearchFor=All

Our regular client “Melissa” brought this fabulous cake in for morning tea to share with the Lifeworks Girls.

We all indulged ourselves, following Melissa viewing a slideshow of the recent studio photoshoot of her 3 gorgeous children.
She was delighted with her new WatchMeGrow album pages! 

Pure Indulgence Choc Raspberry Cake
Serving Size: 10-12

You need to start this recipe the day before required -  

• 225g good-quality dark chocolate, chopped finely
• 5 eggs (at room temperature)
• 180g caster sugar 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 
• 150g almond meal 
• 1 teaspoon instant coffee 
• 150g fresh or frozen raspberries (at room temperature)
• Thin or thick cream, to serve
• Icing sugar to dust

Method: 

• Preheat oven to 170°C. Butter a 20cm spring-form pan and line the base with baking paper.

• Place the chocolate in a heat-proof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water (bowl should not touch water) until the chocolate melts.  Or in a microwave proof bowl in short bursts on med-low – 1 min 20 seconds to begin with, stir and then for 20 second bursts -stirring in between blasts 

• Remove the bowl from heat and rest on a tea towel on the bench.

• Separate eggs (reserve yolks) and use a stand or hand-held mixer to whisk egg whites until soft peaks form. 

• Add caster sugar in two lots, beating well between each addition until the mixture is glossy.

• Stir almond meal, coffee, vanilla and egg yolks into chocolate mixture. 

• Fold in a spoonful of eggwhites to lighten the chocolate mixture, and then fold in remaining egg whites.

• Add the raspberries and fold in very carefully. 

• Pour mixture into prepared cake pan and bake for 45 minutes.

• Turn the oven off and leave cake in oven for another 15 minutes until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. 

• Remove cake from oven and allow to cool, leave cake in the pan, wrap in a tea towel and refrigerate overnight.

• Remove from tin, dust with icing sugar and serve slices with a dollop of cream on the side.