Design*Sponge + The Hottest Color for Spring 2010

Happy Friday!! I've had to put the blog on the back burner for a bit, because I am completely up to my knees with the weddings coming on this spring. We've been geeking-out on lots of goodies {wedding stuff} @ our nightly craft bashes on Commercial Street. It's been so much fun!

I'm grateful this week, for some little rants on the blogosphere! Design*Sponge and 417 Mag. {You can see the story here and a little rave here.}

Love this image by Convey Studios. Note: Katie, our brilliant model, {and artist} spray-painted her own shoes for the shoot. LOVE that color!! And you want to know something else?...According to Elle Decor, turquoise is the hottest color for 2010, and is not going away any time soon.

Have a lovely weekend, everyone!!

xo

sharon

Sneak Peak of Mod Gypsy Blitz

This just in: Deeply. in love. with Sesha's painterly photography as seen here. I have more gypsy jewels from this shoot to share with all of you, but am keeping them in their jewel box for a special segment that will appear very soon...{to be announced}

This photo shoot was a huge amount of work for Sesha and me. Several mini meetings {in between our normal work days}, scouting drives, phone calls, prop and fashion sourcing, all day set-up, light testing, night shooting, breakdown, and drop-offs, and for sesha all the editing that goes with this as well.

...SO well worth all the effort! And with the large crew of people, I'm still amazed that we all somehow managed to dodge the masses of heavy walnuts that were dropping all around us due to heavy winds.

A huge thank you to Cyndy and John Platz and family for most graciously sharing their home, beautiful property, their handmade 15th Century Reproduction German tent, and one of the most gorgeous trees you'll ever see in your life. The branches must span 75 feet outwardly and parallel to the ground.

Also, thank you to the amazingly beautiful group of Sesha's friends who volunteered their time and fun! Great people!!

Thank you to my family for all their help at the shoot as well. Will, Charlie and Eleanor. And baby Sylvie too.

Thanks Sesha!!

I'll post a bit later about a give away.

Ruin: Vanishing America

I'm glad Brian Vanden Brink is giving some permanence to these lost beauties with his book Ruin: Photographs of Vanishing America.

My friend, Sesha, called me yesterday to tell me that she's making a trip to Marshfield today to capture a one room school house before it is to be torn down today.

This house is just four blocks away from my house and when I called to inquire about the property, the landlord who owns a long strip of houses much like this one, told me that it was slated to be torn down very soon.

I'm hoping to at least recover the clothesline that was ripped up out of the back yard. Those are vanishing pieces too.

xo to you vanishing beauties!

sharon