I’m sure many of you have seen images of a sleeping baby dressed up, with beautiful and whimsical scenes created around her.

These beautiful pictures have been made into a book, called When My Baby Dreams by Adele Enersen (Harper Collins, R160). The book, now available at Exclusive Books and Kalahari, features scores of amazing pics that Adele set up and shot, initially to share with friends and family, and then post to her blog, MilasDayDreams

I love how creative Adele got, and I love what a gorgeous testament she has to show her daughter one day. I’m also quite fascinated how she had the time and energy to create these pics, and found this interview on Etsy

“I’m pleased to say that I never bought any props for the pictures; it was much more fun and economical (and eco-friendly!) to rediscover household items that I’d been looking at and using for so many years. I noticed that my old bed sheets were the same color as the ocean, and that’s when I built the set for this ‘precious pearl’ photo. The sand was really a blanket that usually hangs over our sofa, and the oyster was a combination of cloth nappies and a sarong I’d picked up during a trip to Goa. I made the octopus from an old purple bed sheet (which I was going to make rags out of, anyway). Last but not least, the octopus’s eyes were perfumed rose candles I received as a gift from my mother. Finally, I’d found a use for them!

I enjoyed my little creative outbursts so much that I decided to start a blog for my family and friends, so they could see my funny baby pictures and how much fun I was having in my new life. Little did I know what would happen after I uploaded the first few pictures. Literally overnight my blog had received almost a million visitors, and my inbox was filled to the brim with comments from other parents and soon-to-be parents and aspiring parents (and people who didn’t even like kids!) who enjoyed my baby photos. At first, I totally panicked — what had I done to my private little life?! But because of my work in advertising (where the Internet plays an increasingly important role), I knew that I wouldn’t be able to stop the phenomenon. My pictures were already out there, so all I could do was own them and keep going.”