skulls and bats and lungs, oh my!

I'm really excited to have done a shoot this weekend with Bat House Design - they're making super cool graphic tees. I especially love the girls' crop top - it's such a different (sexy!) silhouette - girls, this is not your boyfriend's tee!

I had a lot of fun shooting up by the train, even when random motorcycle guy vroomed in...walked past us without saying a word...did *something* on the other side of the train (gah) (ha), then left. 

 

And I'm *SUPER* excited to see my photographs on their website, woohoo, I'm famous! :-) 

I know it's a little silly, but...yeah, I'm excited! 

 

what's new in the shop this week...

This is my least favorite time of year at the thrift stores. They move out almost all the dresses to make way for coats. I mean, yeah, I get it, it's winter. But someone might buy ONE coat each year...but they'll buy MULTIPLE dresses, so it doesn't REALLY make sense for them to allocate SO much room to coats, at the expense of dresses. Sigh. Yep, I'm a little frustrated. 


Went to two stores yesterday. Got two sweaters. NICE sweaters - a mint bulky real irish fisherman knit turtleneck sweater...and a 70s mustard gold loose knit serious batwing, cowl neck sweater. But still - two stores, TWO THINGS?? That's like crazy.


Okay, but on the bright side? I have a big bag of M&Ms. So. You know. It's all good.


Here's what's up at auction in the shop this week...click on any photo for more information and to bid.

 

back to business....finally

I've been sick again the past few days...but I managed to squeeze in a little Dragonfly shop photo shoot over the weekend. I worked with one of my fave models that I've shot with a couple times since moving to Brooklyn - Shelbi. She's very sweet and lives nearby. Isn't she just angelic?? She sort of reminds me of Alexis Bledell - Rory from Gilmore Girls. 


I'm not done setting up "The Studio" (aka The Office, aka The Dining Room!) yet. I still need to get supports mounted on the wall so I can hang background supports - for either my grey paper or fabric. I've been looking for some cheap (or preferably free!) indian looking rugs to put on the floor for autumn and winter. One of the runway shows in 2009 used a variety of smaller Indian rugs hanging as the background and it was quite lovely, but I would guess they have a little bigger budget than I do! 


In the meantime, I close the tall double doors between The Studio and The Bedroom, and use the doors as a backdrop. It's not ideal as all those lines are hard to keep straight in the heat of shooting and the paint on the doors is pretty reflective so I get sort of a glare off the doors on the side nearer the light. As with most things, it's a work in progress. But it was fun to shoot with Shelbi again and I'll finally have some new auctions up in the shop starting this Friday night. Yay.

and on the bright side....

and on the *bright* side, I finally got a little photo shoot put together this past weekend, and a really darling model, Justine, was kind of enough to traipse and spin around the woods for me. I was going for sort of a dreamy soft focus flowy end of summer feel. I was a little disappointed in myself - we were shooting late in the day in the woods on an overcast day...and I failed to remember some key guidelines about shooting in low light and ended up with a LOT of really blurry shots. For this sort of theme I do like a soft focus, but some of them were just plain BLURRY! I always feel so bad when I botch a shoot because the models are doing it for pictures for their portfolios, and when they spend a couple hours of their time and don't end up with that many good pictures......eek. I feel really bad. we also did some street style shots back on my street but I didn't get to edit them yet.


so tonight I've been mopping up my apartment from a flood! apparently the upstairs neighbor was cleaning...something...and knocked over what HE says was a 5-gallon bucket of water, but...my daughter had a 5-gallon fish tank for a couple years and this seemed like a LOT more than 5 gallons of water! I've got shoes and clothes and hats and my daughter's artwork hanging up all over the place to dry, as every box (I'm still not done unpacking!) that was on the floor was SOAKED. and THEN I'm getting ready for an ebay catalog shoot tomorrow night...so I have miles to go before I sleep, and mucho work to do! was nice to have a good excuse to sit down for a couple minutes and post this...

do you feel lucky??

sometimes you've just got to ask yourself...do you feel lucky? well? do ya??

 

cuz if you do, here are some giveaways hosted by various blogs around the interwebs that you might be able to win this week!

Vintage Red Graflex Camera from Polli - how cute is that?? The perfect fall accessory...

Just in time for Halloween, a Spooky bunting from Sew Home Grown

and a hauntingly lovely movie poster from the new Kazuo Ishiguro movie, Never Let Me Go (which I cannot wait to see!) - from Confessions of a Bookworm

I'm feeling lucky myself, because the model for this afternoon's photo shoot hasn't canceled. Yet. Got my fingers crossed!

shop update!

so many things have been going on around here,
it's been a little while since I've added all new items to the shop...but here's
a whole new lot of lovely vintage items for you! we're just about finishing up
our spring/summer stock, and will be starting to show fall items in just a
couple weeks (can you imagine??).

and for any of you local ladies, we're going to be having an in-home SALE on
August 15th - of vintage and contemporary clothing, STUFF, books, STUFF, small
furniture, and STUFF! yep, it looks like Dragonfly is finally going to be MOVING
TO BROOKLYN!!! (there should be a special font for things that are SUPER
EXCITING - like it could vibrate or something). As we start getting nearer the
date and I have things organized a bit, I'll post some photos so we can see what
we've got...maybe it's worth a trip...??

but i digress. back to the shop update! this first batch went up last night, the
second batch will be going up tonight, so stay tuned to
Dragonfly
Vintage Clothing

 

these next items will be posted
by midnight (est) tonight....