WELCOME TO THE NEW BLOG

Whew! That feels better! I've been due for a blog makeover for a while now and I am LOVING this clean, new design. And the blog design isn't the only thing getting updated; I have so many exciting ideas bubbling up in my head for some new posts and features so get ready, because it's about to be Awesome Time.

I will now be posting at rosemarywatsonblog.blogspot.com. You can see all my past posts from the past year and a half here- I'm keeping it live as an archive!

Scottsdale Civic Center Engagement: Stephanie + Paul

Stephanie and Paul are just the most gorgeous couple. They booked me to shoot their wedding this September up in the Verde Valley, which holds a special place in my heart. We met up in Scottsdale and took their engagement portraits at the Civic Center which is one of my favorite local locations. They are HUGE Ohio State fans, so of course we had to incorporate some of that fun!

I have my first weddings of the year coming up and I can't wait to share my experiences with my fantastic clients.

Nichole's Glam Shoot & sneak of something exciting!

I met Nichole after finding the most adorable girls clothing line, Matilda Jane, on pinterest. I researched the company, and discovered that she was the "trunk keeper" for Arizona. She became the winner of the Style Me A Lady giveaway and we did her glam shoot featuring Matilda Jane's women's line of clothes.

I fell madly in love with everything she wore, and decided I MUST hold my own trunk show. Their new line, Anchors Away just launched and we came up with the brilliant idea of having a mini session along with a truck show featuring the new line! Come back tomorrow for the big announcement and all the details of the trunk show and miniGLAM session!

Mothers Are Beautiful: Amanda Maternity Glam Portraits

I'm currently watching the Newborn Posing class on creativeLIVE and it is unreal how incredibly beautiful these newborn babies are and how proud all their mothers are when they see the images that Kelly Brown creates for them. Absolutely stunning work.

The thing that is so poignant about having a baby is how exhausting it is to bring a child into the world. No matter how many times you've done it, just remembering to brush your teeth and hair when you're pregnant or have just birthed a baby is a major accomplishment. Forget about putting on makeup or wearing something that makes you feel good. You're just trying to function not seeing anything under your belly or not sleeping.

That's why Maternity Glam shoots are one of my favorite things. You get to take a woman who's last priority is herself, and spoil her for a few hours and make it all about her and take the most beautiful images of her pregnant self she's ever seen.

Amanda was unreal to work with. Her and Dan were the nicest couple and so thrilled to meet their little Graham. The images perfectly reflected their personalities and the love they have for each other.

Mothers Are Beautiful: More of My Beauty Squad

I've known Emily since high school (do you see a pattern? I've been shooting a lot of girls from high school!) and she's always be so nice and absolutely gorgeous. She's the proud momma of two adorable boys and looks EXACTLY the same as she did in high school (just with chic-er hair)

She's Leah's partner in crime, sharing a chair at their salon, Molto Bella- and I am so lucky to have found such talented ladies to work with. Emily has been sending her clients over to me and has done some incredible work on hair and makeup. All the girls at Molto Bella are just the most fun and I'm so so happy to be working with them on some upcoming projects!

Mothers Are Beautiful: Marci's Glam Family

Marci is another photographer who was looking for some glammed up portraits of herself for her own business identity and a few fabulous ones of her husband and her together. Trust me when I say, as a photographer, photos of yourself with your family are hard to come by so I was thrilled to be able to capture those for her and even sneak in a couple with her darling boy Brig too.

Mothers Are Beautiful: Madisen's Maternity Glam

Madisen is my cousin and is over the moon with her new baby girl, Lucy Lennon. At her maternity portraits, she was absolutely glowing with excitement to meet her sweet new girl.

I will be photographing Madisen's wedding in July, and I can't wait to get my hands on that new baby. She's sure to be as gorgeous as her mother.

Mothers Are Beautiful: Momma To Be Maternity Glam

Mother's Day is just around the corner friends! I'll be featuring the most glamourous moms around this week on my blog with a special feature on Sunday, so be sure to check 

Meg is another fellow photographer and one of the funniest girls around. We went to high school together and she's just as insanely hilarious and sweet as she was ten years ago. The girl is lucky enough to live in sunny San Diego, so when we came back to AZ for a visit, I was so thrilled to take her maternity glam portraits.

Mommas-to-be are always just beaming with beauty (even if they're on their 2nd, 3rd, 4th or whatever number baby this is). Meg has a darling little man already and this new baby is going to have the best time with it's high energy, high style family.

Mothers are Beautiful: Cheyenne's Glamour Portraits

It's May! I'm spending this month celebrating Mothers, and featuring my beautiful clients who also happen to be moms.

Meet Cheyenne- she runs an incubator kitchen in Mesa and is an all around free spirit and creative entrepreneur. I was lucky enough to meet Cheyenne right before I had Clementine, and she contacted me recently to update her professional portfolio, as well as take a few fun photos of herself.

Cheyenne's inner beauty and fun personality just explodes out of her and is contagious. My team and I had a blast at her shoot.

More Glam Mommas & Family Portraits

I've recently shot a few families in their own homes, and I love the feel it gives the images. It's a very comfortable, relaxed environment for my clients to be themselves and it's fun to see how people live their lives day to day and finding the small pockets of beauty in their homes.

I photographed the Buxbaum Family a few weeks ago and swooned over their gorgeous home in the Historic Encanto District in Phoenix. Then I swooned again over their adorable son, Evan who became my fast friend when he showed me all his toys and his special Star Wars pop-up book. I can't wait to hang out with him again ;)

Family Glam- The Dewitt Family

Something that I decided was important to my brand and business is including hair & makeup with my family portrait sessions. Nothing is more stressful to a mom than preparing for family portraits, so I love that we get to alleviate some of the stress by taking care of the women.

Stacey is a mom to two of the CUTEST kids around, and we had a blast rolling around photographing her sweet little family. And their co-ordinating outfits were to die for!

Modern Glam Maternity

My friend Lindsee is an artist, an entrepreneur, and a pregnant momma of two cute little twinners.

She is teeny tiny and the most glam pregnant girl ever. I love her boldness with her coral lipstick and the gorgeous lace backgrounds were totally her idea! My favorite thing is collaborating with clients to create the most perfect shoot they've dreamed of. Lindsey also has a new Art & Hand Lettering Shoppe and Blog,  Glad Heart, she's developing and I can't wait to see what she creates!

More Smokin Hot Mommas

I am super lucky because I happen to be SURROUNDED by the most beautiful women in my family. My cousin Fawn has been one of the prettiest girls I have ever seen, and I was so stinkin excited when she wanted to do a glam shoot.

Her baby Kora is only a few months older than Clementine, and Fawn has two other kiddos Kali & Kai that my kids just love to hang out with. Having a fun day of hair, makeup, and a photoshoot without all our crazies was so fun, I can't wait to have another girls day out with her!

Gorgeous Mommas Month

Now until Mother's Day I'm going to be featuring all the beautiful Moms I get to photograph every week. There is nothing more gratifying than taking a woman who is too tired to brush her hair most days, and turning into a sassy lady behind the camera.

First up, is Krissi- this lady has the three most adorable boys and is married to the most fun Baseball Coach of a husband. These two coach their youngest son's team together, and Ben coaches the other boys' teams too! We spent the day at the park & baseball field to create some family photos to perfectly reflect them. We snuck in some gorgeous shots of Krissi too- a shoot with me wouldn't be complete without a touch of Glamour.

The Most Amazing 28 Days

Today is the final day of 28 Days With Sue Bryce- the most extensive and comprehensive Photography Class I've ever seen and am thrilled to have gone through and purchased. I have looked forward to every day's new video and learned so. stinking. much that I am going to have to rewatch the videos ten more times to fully absorb everything that was taught.




Every day was a different challege, with an hour long video showing things from creating a natural light studio, posing couples, marketing the corporate headshot, and creating information PDFs. The final day of the class is today, and am so sad it's all over, but so excited to go forth and conquer all of Sue Bryce's wisdom and plans for everyone. Watch the live class conclusion today to see what it's all about and purchase the class on the creativeLIVE course page!

Ask and you shall recieve

In the beginning of the year, I decided to launch a little genre of photography into my business. And now, most of my time is spent planning, shooting, and marketing my Glam Portraits.

This is my absolute favorite thing to shoot. Don't get me wrong, I love me some gorgeous weddings and adorable kids; but there's nothing quite like the reliability of a studio shoot where external factors rarely throw a wrench into your plans (like weather or a 3 year old in a bad bad mood). Working with other women that have such unique but similar stories about their lives is so incredible as well.  I also love that I get to reconnect with old friends; many of which I haven't seen since high school.

Amanda has been my friend since my sophomore year of high school. We danced together in Euporea Dance Company at Mesa High School, and she was the girl I most looked up to in school. She was always so kind and helpful (even though she was a senior and I was a silly little sophomore) and she is the freaking funniest person around. She's loud and crazy and she has a knack for getting people that just met her to fall in love with her. She's just so much fun to be around. I would photograph her and her family every week if I could- they are that beautiful and sweet.

Girly Glam

Emily's mom contacted me a few months ago about giving her daughter a photo shoot with her two best friends for her birthday. We glammed those girls up, and had the most fun shoot I've had to date.

Emily is a track star and absolutely stunning.

Johanna & Cristina are cheerleaders and are drop. dead. gorgeous. I love how Cristina's hair is short and Jo's is long. They are so different but are so connected like all twins are. It kind of made my heart a little sad to think about how fast I know my own twins are going to grow up. Sniffle. 

Anyway, the shoot was amazing and I was pleased as punch with the images that came out of the shoot. The hair & makeup done by Eryn was incredible, and I especially loved the flowers we put in the girls hair at the end of the shoot. I hope I get more fun groups of girls in to get glammed up, it's always more fun with friends.

Team Tuesday: A Happy April Iphone Background

Rhonna has come up with so many awesome Instafonts to use for your instagrams in the Phonto app, and today I wanted to share a little iphone background I created using her Instapattern font all on my iphone.

Tutorial Time:

1) I started with my PhotoForge2 App and opened an old frame image I designed that was saved in my Camera Roll on my phone.

2) I added another blank layer and filled in with the Electric Lilac background color.

3) I saved the Electric Lilac background into my Camera Roll.

4) Next I opened the Electric Lilac background in my Phonto App and added the Instapattern Chevron white and sized it to fil.

5) Then, I added the "April" in navy using Carolyna Pro Font that I've loaded into Phonto.

6) I saved the image into my Camera Roll, then selected the image and set as Wall Paper.

And that's it! Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy! Now you can go forth and create endless Iphone Wallpapers using just your phone, some easy little apps, and the Rhonna Designs Insta Fonts!

Happy Happy Spring from all the Watsons!

We had a wonderful Easter weekend! We spent most of the time outside in the beautiful Arizona springtime eating delicious food, playing yard games, and finding Easter eggs. I hope everyone's Easter was just as wonderful as ours.

And don't all these girls look absolutely FABULOUS in their dresses my mom sewed for them? Of course doing a small little photoshoot is so crazy hard with your own kids, but I managed to snap some sweet little photos of all my crazies before they were covered in chocolate and bubble soap. 

The Best Best Friend

This is Stacy.

My Partner in Crime, my other half, the blonde to my black, the macaroni to my cheese, my soul mate and my most bestest best friend in the whole wide world.

She lives in Brooklyn, I live in Mesa. She's traveled the world far and wide; I've never left Arizona and had baby after baby after baby. She's a little bit hipster, I'm a little bit glam. Put us together and it's like we've never been apart. It's just like junior high when I'd walk from my house, she'd walk from hers and we'd meet in the middle to spend every day together, eating popsicles. We could be on a wild trip in Mexico or Paris, or just floating in her pool or laying on my bed talking. It's all the same to us.

When we're old and fabulous you can find us on a big plantation with a wrap-around porch in Savannah, Georgia swinging on our porch swing, painting each other's toenails and sipping on Arnold Palmers (she'll have champagne, thanks). Until then, we'll keep living our very different, but parallel lives that only meet together every so often, but when it does, it's always magic.