A while since I managed to find the time to do an update. I must find the time to report more often. I must try harder!

Three weeks ago we covered our 400th Photobooth. That is very good going as we covered our very first for Rachel & Ian in December 2007 which makes us the busiest Photobooth company in the UK by a long, long way.

Quite a few important milestones in the first two and a half years of Rentabooth. Our first canine Rentabooth subject. Our first Photobooth that featured a live chicken complete with feather boa! Our first circus based Photobooth. The list goes on…

Here are a few from Lucie’s circus themed party. The guests outfits were fab

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Surprisingly the chicken was more of a poser than the dog. Archie the Scottie never really got into the Photobooth groove.

Quite a few weeks ago we had a call from an Israeli based charity about a summer camp in the UK for Israeli youngsters with cancer. They bring them over to the UK for a holiday to remember every two years. If you have read some of my ramblings from earlier this year, you will know that Rentabooth now chooses a single charity event every year where we donate our services and accept donations from the users of the Photobooth that go to the charity.

Last weekend was fully booked Saturday and very unusually for us we had a free Sunday. What I didn’t realise was that we would miss the World Cup Final but on Sunday it didn’t really matter as England weren’t in it any way. Ho hum.

Having taken a look at the Zichron Menachem website. (www.zichronuk.org)

I decided that we would donate our services to them too as it such a worthwhile cause and on Sunday at the Holiday Inn in Brentwood the Photobooth went down an absolute storm.

When I tell you that these 135 youngsters, 40 helpers, the medical staff, the entertainment crew etc, despite their illnesses, live life to the absolute max. It may surprise you but they queued until they had used the Photobooth and then ran back around and rejoined the end of the queue! They were brilliant and we also made over 350 keyrings to hand out and as the last keyring was put together we looked around and realised that we were left there, in the dark and everybody else had gone! That’s how busy the Photobooth was and we ran it almost no stop from 6.00 pm to 10.00 pm. I would like to thank Stephen, my long suffering mate who donated his time too. When we got back we were absolutely cream crackered. The M25 was down to one lane on the way home so we missed the pub too.

Many, many thanks to all of the staff and helpers from Zichron Menachem. They were superb and if you feel the urge to give them a donation you can do that through their website too.

St Patrick’s day is always great for a laugh and last Wednesday was no exception. I found myself in Bakers Street setting up a Photobooth and all of the hats on this were supplied. The company had boxes of them! I think most people at the party were able to take one home.

I love playing with themes and more and more clients are asking us to theme their prints. No charge for doing it and it adds yet another dimension to the prints that go to your friends and guests.

Here are a couple of the shots. First as a normal individual shot and then in the way that we print and handed out the prints to the guests.

Yep. A relatively quiet weekend has been followed by our busiest month ever with Christmas almost upon us. We have travelled from the South Coast all the way up to the North West over the last couple of weeks and our new set up in the Manchester area will be up and running in the new year. By New Years Eve we will have covered 27 bookings in December alone! Half of them corporate parties and the other half, weddings.

We have worked for the Nationwide, Wella, Chiltern Railways, the NHS and quite a few other along the way and we have another busy weekend coming up starting today.

We have some very tasty new products for the new year in the shape of some gorgeous mini albums that we make up on the spot and also Flipbooks…

Take a look at the Rentabooth website early in January to see the new goodies.

I probably won’t have time to blog between now and Christmas itself so have a fab time. don’t eat too much and hope to see you in 2010.

Here are some shots from the Photobooths from last weekend…

It’s been a while since I last found the time to blog as the article about Kitty Dimbleby in the Daily Mail produced a lot of enquiries and we have covered over 30 Photobooths since then…

The week following Kitty & Ed’s wedding in Bath we covered Emma’s Birthday party on Halloween. We covered two fab parties that night and the decoration was superb. Emma’s party was fancy dress and the outfits were superb.

Stavros Flatley have appeared at two events since I last blogged doing their thing to rapturous applause in both cases. First at the Emirates Stadium on the 25th October at Sara’s Batmitzvah and then on the 8th November at Jake’s Barmitzvah at Claridges.

I was shooting the function the Batmitzvah at the Emirates rather than the Photobooth and here are a few fun shots.

Here they are again in the Photobooth a couple of weeks later at Jake’s Barmitzvah.

On the 5th November we found ourselves in Leeds at Chili White (one of its trendiest venues) covering Naomi’s 21st Birthday Party and apart from the staff there was barely a single northern accent between them. All from Harrow and Eton, apparently.

Many, many thanks to Lucy and the staff. Great fun. There was a real buzz about the place. Here they are getting into the spirit of things.

Megan’s mum made me laugh at Quaglinos that same weekend insisting that the Photobooth was mainly for the kids and not to expect many of the adults to be using it. We couldn’t keep the adults out!

Dena and Mark’s wedding reception in Hendon a couple of Sundays ago was a site to behold and the bunnies ears went down rather well…