Summer Update + Vacation 2011!

I'm writing this in between preparing for the history exam I'll be writing later today, so my brain is currently a mish mash of pre-14th century history and the two recent photo shoots I did.

Last Sunday I shot The Secret Garden with Emily and Liz and it was SO FUN. We hunted down a few spots in Yarrow and did an editorial take on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I asked Jamie's mom if we could have some the flowers from her garden and she generously gave me an entire rubbermaid tub FULL of roses, crazy daisies, hydrangea and little yellow wild-like-flowers. My mom and I had gone to the Wellington Emporium the day before the shoot and I found some of the most awesome stuff ever. I have a real soft spot in my heart for the Wellington Emporium ... they have so many great things. I went in there about a month ago and made a comment about looking for a taxidermist who might have some songbirds and they had the  number of someone I could contact ready to go because they just have stuff like that on hand.

Anyways, my mom and I found this lovely all lace white dress for Liz to wear and the creepiest, most haunted doll ever and got both for a steal. The doll looks about a hundred years old, but the previous owner had dressed it up for a child, so it had this horrific velvet dress with feathers on and a bizarre headband glued on with ancient sticky tack and extra unnerving fishnet stockings. After a little bit of work she was fixed up and ready to photograph... and you know, she may be extra haunted and might possibly come alive at night, but she looked awesome enough in the shoot that I've decided I don't care. ... Although Jamie did pointedly throw on Child's Play the night I brought the doll home.

The next day I did a morning shoot with my friend Georgia for The Book Nook, reversible fun-patterned bags just big enough for a book or two. We set up some suitcases and teacups in a field and photographed each purse. They are going to be available in a week or two at The Book Man.

I'm in the process right now of switching over domain hosts as well, so the actual www.sarahsovereign.com domain may go down for a few days. In such a case, the blog will remain available as well as the facebook page. You can always reach me at sarah@sarahsovereign.com as well.

I'm also going on vacation this Saturday! You can still get a hold of me, but responses may take a little longer than usual. I'll be gone from the 13 - 30, and traveling around Northwestern Ontario and flying out of there to New York City! I can't wait to finally meet my best friend Melissa's two kids, my cousin Melissa's daughter Lillia, rock it like a hurricane with my cousin Keri and generally have one long summer BBQ in my old hometown. When I come back I'll have a handful of new shoots as well as a new semester and a new site recoding from Burgoyne Online and Computer Services so stay tuned!

Happy Summer!