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Showing posts with label somewhere in time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label somewhere in time. Show all posts

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Tomorrow never knows





Hello again! Remember me? I know, it's been ages since I did a proper post. Not to bore you with excuses, but for a while there, I was taking six classes. Whew! I've also been in my new house almost two months and we still don't have internet. Luckily, that's getting remedied this week. In the meantime, I've been utterly dependent on coffee shops and my school's wireless.

You may notice that things look a little different around here - I gave the blog a little facelift a few weeks ago, but never announced it officially. So if you're just seeing it for the first time, I hope you like it!



Some other changes are in the air. In January, the owner of Coat of Many Colors (the vintage shop a few minutes away from my house) is leaving for South Africa, where he will be for two months. While he's gone, my friend Rose and I will be running the shop! I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am. I'm going to work there on and off between now and then, and we're going to be getting the basement all cleaned up, which is a huge job. In the basement, we're going to set up a little photo studio so we can start selling things on Etsy. I'm not sure, but it will possibly be linked up with Owl Eyes Boutique. Exciting stuff! I'll be sure to keep you updated.

I'm also in the process of finding a solution to the problem of lack of photos on this poor old blog. My camera's battery is completely kaput, so I'm hopefully going to get a new one soon. I'm also looking to see if I can bring in some guest photographers to spice things up a little.

As if that weren't enough, this Thursday and Friday we're doing a charity bridal fashion show. Last week, we were on TV promoting it - my first time on live TV! A little nervewracking, but it was fun. Anyway, I'm hoping that the event will be well-documented with photos, because there are going to be some seriously incredible dresses.

And in the spirit of the bridal show, here are some of the photos from the vintage bridal photoshoot we did in Petoskey this summer for Somewhere in Time. A huge thank you goes to the Bay View Inn for hosting us - it was beyond lovely!

Sorry for the rushed nature of this post - I was just bursting to share. Have a wonderful weekend!















Sunday, February 28, 2010

Presenting:

Wow, I've really been an awful blogger lately. But I have a pretty good excuse, I think - I've been working like crazy trying to get my mom's website up and running for her vintage bridal boutique! And at long last, it's finally up, though it is far from finished! You can visit it here.

I still have to add a lot more dresses, and information and photos for all of them. We're hoping, though, that it will be basically finished in time for the bridal show at DeVos, which is in less than two weeks. Yikes! I can forget about getting much sleep from now until then...sometime this week I'm doing a wedding photoshoot with Matt from Coat of Many Colors, one of my favorite places to be and definitely my favorite vintage store in Grand Rapids!

No outfit posts or anything. But just so that this isn't a completely boring post, here are a few pictures from last week's photoshoot. Unfortunately not pictured is a dress that came in the mail the day after the photoshoot. It's from the 1920's, and is hands down the most beautiful dress I've ever seen in my life - it's covered in beads and the fabric is like gossamer. So beautiful. I have decided that if I get married someday, that's going to be my wedding dress. Someday! Anyway, enjoy!



1920's "Daisy" wedding dress & headpiece - modeled by me


1910's "Rose" wedding dress - modeled by Esther


1930's "Ella" wedding dress - modeled by Esther


And now, some behind-the-scenes pictures! Much less glamorous, I assure you...


Ha! Seldom have I ever looked so attractive. But this gives you an idea of what we're working with.



Showing some scandalous ankle, which quickly dissolved into...


...this.

I hope you all had a great weekend!

Friday, February 19, 2010

Coming soon!


1920's "Daisy" wedding dress - modeled by Laura


1960's wedding dress - modeled by Esther

Today we had a photoshoot for my mom's vintage wedding dress business, Somewhere in Time Bridal! We're going to be showing at the bridal show in Grand Rapids in three weeks, so I'm going to be working like crazy to get the website up and running.

This is just a short little post - I wanted to offer a teaser of things to come. We got some lovely photos. It was so much fun, but I'm exhausted now! I'm watching the Olympics; I wish I could say it was to relax, but I'm convinced the ice dance competition will be the death of me. I don't care about sports - really - but I love figure skating (though I'm a lot less into it than I used to be) and Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto are so near and dear to my heart. I used to run a website about them, and they've always been nothing but wonderful and gracious to me. It would mean the world to me if they could win the gold. So send some positive thoughts their way!

Have a great weekend!

Be well,
Laura