Welcome to the Bella Piccolo Photography Blog

I'm Carissa Little, founder of Bella Piccolo Photography. Bella Piccolo was only born in Oct 2009, before that the world knew me as Carissa Little Photography. Bella Piccolo means "beautiful little", the Little part represents me (and my family) and the Beautiful part represents the
gorgeous images I capture for you, my clients.

This blog contains news and recent shoots I have done, so feel free to browse through the posts. You may also like to view the main website:

www.BellaPiccolo.com.au

I specialise in children, weddings and commercial. I provide a boutique style service so only offer a limited number of sessions and limit my weddings bookings to just a handful each year.

To book a session or ask about my services I can be reached on 0404055143 or carissa@BellaPiccolo.com.au


Carissa x

Beautiful Jasmine and the Sleepy Wings Dolls (Wollongong Baby and Commercial Photographer)

Little Jasmine is my favourite new model. She is just such a natural. Here are some pics from the shoot we did with the Sleepy Wings dolls.

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Sleepy Wings (Wollongong Commercial Photographer)

I’m so excited to be able to finally show you these images. Sleeping Wings is a brand new baby sleeping product. I have been working with Shae for the past few months and now the product has been launched. We did the photo shoot back in April and had a great day with 10 gorgeous babies and mums.

Congratulations Shae, your dreams are coming true.

Head over to the Sleepy Wings website and check out this fantastic new product, and of course all my gorgeous images.

www.SleepyWings.com.au

How Did Sleepy Wings Evolve?

Australian designed
Shae – mum with 2

Getting up to replace a baby’s lost dummy at night can be very tiring. Unfortunately it is not until they are eight months old when most babies learn to manage their own dummy during the night

I designed Sleepy WingsTM in the early hours of the morning when I would lie awake waiting for the next attendance cry from my 2nd baby Alannah, to replace her dummy again.

There just had to be a way to teach Alannah to find her own dummy.”

After several homemade prototypes, and endless hours of web searching, it became apparent that there was no such garment design that simply allows an infant to replace their own dummy within head turn reach, prevent scratching AND keep those wondering hands under control whilst milk feeding!

What is Sleepy Wings?

Sleepy WingsTM is an infant slumber wear jacket, designed to mimic the swaddling method of wrapping, however, without the excess layers making Sleepy WingsTM ideal for all seasons Sleepy WingsTM provides parents an alternative aid to assist their baby’s sleep, feed and scratching habits in the first 6 months when a baby has little control of their own limbs.

Slept safely on their back, a baby’s natural sleep position is to have their arms bent at the elbows, with hands up beside their face. Without restricting this position, Sleepy WingsTM allows a baby to comfort themselves with access to their mouth to self console.

The unique single opening is the arm hole for both left and right arms. This ribbed opening stretches to provide a snug and secure fit for a baby from birth up to 8kgs in weight.

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And I’m supper excited that my images are also gracing the gorgeous Sleepy Wings packaging.

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Sleepy Wings also has these gorgeous Clippie Wings

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And aren’t these Sleepy Wings dolls just adorable.

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Annika Ballerina

Well plans are well under way for Annika’s 4th birthday party. This year its an Angelina Ballerina theme. She’s been talking about her party for months now. Here are some images from the little shoot we did for her invitation and of course the invitation itself.

These are so pretty I can’t stop looking at them.

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And here’s the invitation, it a folded greeting card.

This is the front:

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This is the inside spread:

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And this is the back:

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Ethan, Mikayla, Oliver and Lachlan

What a fun session this was. These guys had me in stitches. Ethan and Mikayla and twins then there’s cheeky Oliver and gorgeous little Lachlan. What a fantastic family.

Ethan and Mikayla are twins and their mum as asked my to have a special photo day for the Multiple Births Association. How much fun is that going to be. Can’t wait.

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Ashley, Sienna and Zali (Wollongong Childrens Photographer)

How beautiful are these three sisters? They are divine and a joy to photograph. We had so much fun at the session, having a tea party and all. Kina and Tony, you have a gorgeous family, you should be very proud.

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Cheeky Chickies – Free Range Clothing (Wollongong Commercial Photographer)

Here are some fab pics from the Cheeky Chickies shoot. What a great day, 13 kids and 1 dog LOL. Congrats Deni on such a gorgeous range.

You can check out the entire Cheeky Chickies range at www.CheekyChickies.com.au

The fantastic monsters we used in the shoot are lovingly handmade, in the Illawarra, by the gorgeous Jackie at Cushy Monsters.

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My Baby Buzzy Bees (Wollongong Child Photographer)

My sister gave the girls these super cute bee outfits. Today my little buzzy bees did a little concert for me. Using the studio as a little stage. Too, too cute.

Love you gorgeous girls.

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Welcome Jett (Wollongong Newborn Photographer)

I had the pleasure of photographing 8 day old Jett. What a delight he was. He can come round any day. And big sister Lexi is just so sweet, the perfect big sister.

Jett has the most amazing blond (almost white) hair, I’ve never seen a baby with such beautiful hair.

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Cianna’s 2nd Birthday Party Part 2 (Wollongong Child Photographer)

Good Afternoon My Lovelies,

Well here is the long awaited part 2 of Cianna’s party.

I thought I should give you a run down of where I bought all the bits and pieces.

Large candy jars are from Target

Small candy jars from Brown Button Trading

Doll graphic from ClipArt Store om Etsy

Bottle and pram cookie cutters from Little Betsy Baker

The girls’ dresses (and matching doll’s dress) were made by my mum.

My mum also made the fabric bunting.

Musk sticks from Cooks Confectionery 1/8 Durgadin Dr Albion Park Rail NSW 2527 (02) 4257 9444. So glad I found this place they have lollies by the kilo, so much cheaper than buying at the supermarket.

Balloons from All Things Party at Yallah

Pink jelly beans (in large candy jars) from Wally’s Lollies

Treat bags, ribbon and musk stick bags from Packaging Direct North Wollongong

Cianna and Annika’s hair clips from Little Moos

And I made the party hats, musk stick packaging, bag tags, popcorn boxes, cupcake toppers, cupcakes, birthday cake, meringues, heart shortbreads with pink sugar.
For the drink bottles I bought pop tops from Woolies, poured the juice out (the girls drank that), washed them out then filled them with pink cordial. Then made labels, printed on paper and attached them to the pop tops with contact. I attached the labels one night while watching Schindler’s  List (its a rather tedious task LOL). So I was bawling my eyes out from the movie and trying to see where to line up the labels.

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