Hi! I'm SarahKate, welcome to my Blog!

My Speciality is honoring motherhood with Henna Tattoos, but I adorn women and their daughters for all kinds of reasons - birthday parties, rites of passage, even weddings. I love to adorn pregnant and breastfeeding women with henna then make beautiful photos for them. I live in Lafayette, CO and travel the front range from Colorado Springs, Denver and as far North as Fort Collins to find my living works or art. I am also the creative director of Artfull Mother magazine - a local magazine devoted to the interests of mothers and the art that empowers them!

Mermaid & mer-sons henna design

01 Aug 15 SarahKate 0 Comments

I adorned this mama for her blessingway in Denver while her friends gathered around, felting sea creatures for a mobile for her baby. A watery request, with a henna design of a mermaid and her two boys represented as mer-sons, with flowing water and shells ~ I love how this came together.

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Mercedes

24 Jul 15 SarahKate 0 Comments

I first met Mercedes last summer to honor her 2nd pregnancy. We were about a week away from her due date, but she felt her baby would come late. The day of her photo session she texted me that she'd gone into labor, and I told her not to worry about coming in (of course!) but that if she wanted me to come after her birth and take phtos in her home that I would be happy to. The photo below was taken at her home in Arvada, Colorado with her 1 day old baby boy and her 2 year old daughter.

About a year later Mercedes was still tandem nursing and wanted to celebrate this fact! When I asked her about henna design requests, she said "a dragon and a fairy," and here's what came through! I especially love the mushrooms in this design.

She returned just a few days later when the henna was peaking in color, and we took a few photos in the studio and then headed outside. Just beautiful! I love doing this kind of work.

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Julia {henna belly with turtles & a tree}

13 Jul 15 SarahKate 0 Comments

Julia requested 4 turtles, one for each member of her family (including this unborn baby). I often paint sea turtles, but she wanted land turtles near a tree. I really enjoyed creating this henna belly design for her, because we have turtles like this in Boulder, Colorado, and it's really neat to paint local wildlife. In fact the day after I painted her belly, we saw this turtle on our hiking trail - it's shell is over 1 foot in length.

Julia returned a few days later for photos while the henna was peaking, and brought her dear little boy.... he was adorable! Reminded me so much of cupid with his gorgeous curly blond hair.

This last photo shows Julia with her family members that came that day, including her son, mom, sister, neice and nephews.

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Sarah's breastfeeding body art

01 Jul 15 SarahKate 0 Comments

~ Breastfeeding body art ~

I am passionate about honoring the bond between the mother and her child with art! This sweet mama drove all the way from Golden to be adorned with henna (in photo below), and requested a blooming lotus henna design. We waited a few days until the henna was peaking in color to take all the nursing photos. We even went outside by the lakes, but dear baby was quite distracted by the dragonflies! I love these!

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Art*full Mother Magazine

27 Jun 15 SarahKate 0 Comments

I am really excited to release the summer issue of Art*full Mother ~ the LOCAL magazine devoted to the interests of mothers and the art that empowers them.

Download the eMag for FREE at Artfullmother.com

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Monique

19 Jun 15 SarahKate 0 Comments

Monique chose a tree theme, and this is the art that came out of my henna tip. I love it! We took photos right afterwards in my studio.

A few days later we met for photos and Monique brought along her sweet daughter ~ how I love these mother-daughter dress up sessions!

This photo (above) taken my amazing husband and photo assitant Rob, showing behind the scenes. Below is my photo. What a loving bond between these two....

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Jeanmarie

12 Jun 15 SarahKate 0 Comments

I first met Jeanmarie in 2013 and we celebrated her pregnancy with a gorgeous henna tattoo. In 2014 she returned with her 3 daughters for postaprtum henna with flowers and hummingbirds.

And last week we did an amazing breastfeeding session, with a theme of lotus flowers, dragonflies and a frog. I love how it came out!

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