The first shots are rolling in from this shoot with Atlanta Wedding Photographers LeahandMark.com Many thanks to Lindsay for modeling!


squee!
January 28, 2012
The first shots are rolling in from this shoot with Atlanta Wedding Photographers LeahandMark.com Many thanks to Lindsay for modeling!


squee!
January 28, 2012
I shouldn’t even really post this, I should have the patience to wait for the people with the actual cameras. But who are we kidding… me? patient?
I got the opportunity to work with extraordinary Atlanta Wedding Photographers Leah and Mark tonight, at our former loft residence, now known as The Goat Farm. The ever-lovely Lindsay conspired with me to create the character, and luck dropped the most perfect prop into my lap. I will post more about it all soon, but here is a very bad photo from my dying phone, which shall have to suffice, because this stylist is impatient.
January 27, 2012
Recently, a fellow Etsy-an contacted me about custom making one of my Snow Queen capelets in child’s size for a photoshoot. After a postal snafu of epic proportions, the capelet arrived, and the photoshoot was staged. Yesterday, I saw the results, and they are so gorgeous I just have to share.
The images were shot by Julie of This Little Piggy photography out of Chicago.

But wait, there’s more! She also made those adorable crowns, and sells them in her own Etsy shop

ANyway, many many thanks to Julie and This Little Piggy. I’ll be making a few more of these capelets next week and listing them in my shop, if anyone is interested in one of their own.
January 26, 2012
this might be one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen: playing tree rings like grooves in vinyl
YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.
January 24, 2012
January 23, 2012
It’s another rainy, messy day here, after a weekend of 70 degree temps and tornado watches. So, what else is there to do but post kitten pictures?
Triscuit, temporarily stuck in a tree during a break in the rain. I think he chased a squirrel up there.

Here’s Nibbler, doing what she does best, being a roly poly:

Monkey, doing a little studio supervising:

now back to your regularly scheduled Monday…
January 20, 2012
Spooky writer edition. (Happy Birthday Mr Poe)

image via bmezine

Amarantha Reading by *MirrorCradle


via SprinkleBakes

Dore

Dore.

via maisonboheme
By SARAH BRUMFIELD | Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP) — Edgar Allan Poe fans waited long past a midnight dreary, but it appears annual visits to the writer’s grave in Baltimore by a mysterious figure called the “Poe Toaster” shall occur nevermore.Poe House and Museum Curator Jeff Jerome said early Thursday that die-hard fans waited hours past when the tribute bearer normally arrives. But the “Poe Toaster” was a no-show for a third year in a row, leaving another unanswered question in a mystery worthy of the writer’s legacy. Poe fans had said they would hold one last vigil this year before calling an end to the tradition.
“It’s over with,” Jerome said wearily. “It will probably hit me later, but I’m too tired now to feel anything else.”
It is thought that the tributes of an anonymous man wearing black clothes with a white scarf and a wide-brimmed hat, who leaves three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac at Poe’s original grave on the writer’s birthday, date to at least the 1940s. Late Wednesday, a crowd gathered outside the gates of the burial ground surrounding Westminster Hall to watch for the mysterious visitor, yet only three impersonators appeared, Jerome said.
The gothic master’s tales of the macabre still connect with readers more than 200 years after his birth, including his most famous poem, “ The Raven,” and short stories such as “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Pit and the Pendulum.” Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is considered the first modern detective story.
rest here
January 18, 2012
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January 16, 2012
Now that I have your attention… Do you know Leah and Mark? Well if you don’t yet, you should.
Why? Well, aside from the fact that they are just awesome people and extremely creative photographers, (there’s an example right up there, photos of my Kimono Wedding Dress) they’re giving it right back to the community that made them successful by giving away a Free Wedding. Yes, you heard me correctly- A totally free wedding.
These last few years have passed at light speed and we’re very grateful to everyone who’s helped us grow our Photography Business. We photograph a lot of weddings all over the country. From Maine, to California, to Michigan, to Florida, back to California and then all over the East coast – our clients take a chance on us – and we do our best to deliver the best.
We know how precious life is; we know how precious love is – and we know that there are many people out there who are unable to have a wedding for many varied reasons. Now although we can’t possibly help everyone – we can help someone – and a few months ago we decided that we would give two people in love a Full Wedding.
While you might be thinking it doesn’t get any better than that, here’s how it does, and this is why they rule. The wedding is open to anyone. To quote them again:
“Straight. Gay. Awesome. Whatever. Let’s do this.”
(Disclosure: We live in a state that still discriminates, but these guys sure aren’t letting that stop them. Get with it Georgia.)
Anyway, head on over to their contest page and check it out for yourself. Then spread the love. This is pretty much the ultimate pay it forward, and it’s going to be really exciting to see the results.