Cordelia & the Camera: Chilliwack Photographer

Some days photo shoots are super fun and sometimes they come equipped with crabby pants. Cordelia is a little trooper and a big beam of sunshine, but this shoot she sure wasn't feeling pretty bunting and old Pentax film cameras. Look at that lip! Aw... so we made this one pretty short and sweet. I've been working on a new Sarah Sovereign Photography package that involves creating a book based on SSP sessions. Cordelia's awesome book is almost finished, and I'm still working out all the final details (visit the Facebook page to see the front and back cover of Cordelia's book!) but this shoot was part of one of the sections and if you ask me, it's still super extra cute.

Here are some snippets of Cordelia and the Camera!

Thrifty Finds No. 1 : Long Overdue Yard Sale edition

Last Saturday I went spontaneous yard sailing with my brother for the first time in a loooong time. We used to go every weekend back in Thunder Bay, scouring other people's yards for random, weird stuff to pack our tiny shared apartment. We had the most schizophrenic sibling apartment way back then, between Brad's electronics and video game stuff, and my weird figurines and awesome vintage pieces of furniture I always meant to get around to repurposing. (Speaking of, totally picked up this amazing vintage yellow chair for FREE at one yard sale last weekend... and am spray painting a found wooden chair electric turquoise this summer before the wedding.)

We found an epic yard sale though, selling so many fine and vintage goods for cheap that my brain kind of exploded with the awesomeness and I found myself stuffing the car with boxes and tins, vases, old school chairs, instagram shaped mirrors and teacups. Here are a few of my most recent thrifty finds. {And also a new journal entry, too! I've been keeping the same journal since 2004 and it's finally on it's last legs.. three more pages left, so I filled them with wedding excitement! Please note the lovely little matte stickers I made... I'm trying to find reasons to make more and plaster everything with 'em.}

Ready for Summer + Lifts

Oh, hi Internets!

Things sure have been busy over here! This week marks my final dress fitting, plus I finally picked up the sparkliest pair of wedding shoes I could find -- sparkly, ahem, and super comfortable -- today. I could do heels, but I'd prefer to be able to stand up of my own accord on my wedding day. I'm heading out for a three day foray into the States with my mom and won't have internet access until Saturday. So if you email me, I promise to respond on Saturday.

Also! Make sure you "Like" the Sarah Sovereign Photography Facebook page. I'll be announcing some fantastic Saturday specials through the month of July as well as offering a new photography package sometime this summer. Not to mention this blog is often times super neglected and all the newest shoots end up fresh on the Facebook page.

Hope everyone had a lovely Canada Day -- I ate the best pasta salad ever made, watched my nephew lose his three year old mind over the awesomeness that is a backyard equipped with a trampoline + sandbox + cookies and awkwardly practiced my first dance as husband and wife with Jamie. It was super, super not good at all. And I kept throwing him off by yelling out, "Okay, get ready for the lift!" ... he was never ready for the lift. Sigh. Happy Fourth of July to all my American peeps! I leave you with a little blurb from Nicola, Kyle and Ben's session last month.