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FRIENDS OF SONNIE – RUBY HOLLAND For our first instalment of Friends of Sonnie, talented and inspiring Ruby Holland, gives us a peek into her life as a photographer and a new mum plus some tips for getting those frame-worthy pics of your kids. How did you become a photographer? I became interested in photography back in my high school years but I never really believed I could make a career out of it. I treated it as a hobby for a very long time. One of my very first jobs when I moved to Auckland was working in a photography studio...

SONNIE SWIM - PROTECTING KIDS IN THE SUN Protecting our children’s skin from sun burn and over exposure to the sun can be an arduous task! Between the struggle of getting sunscreen on wiggly little ones to constantly reminding the older kids to pause for an SPF top up, we welcome any and all help to make swimming seasons safer and easier to manage for our families. So what is the difference between SPF and UPF? SPF stands for sun protection factor, a measurement of how long a sunscreen (and not clothing) will protect you from the sun before you...

ONE YEAR IN BUSINESS WITH SONNIE CO-FOUNDERS It’s hard to believe it’s been an entire year since we launched Sonnie - like having a newborn, it’s quite shocking really how quickly time flies, and how much changes in such a short space of time.  It seems like only yesterday we were enjoying a girls’ dinner out - really only friends of friends at this stage - when the conversation eventually turned to kids clothing (naturally, with a group of mums at the table). What started as a bugbear over the lack of cool, quality threads to dress our boys sparked...