Another discovery! There are treasures everywhere in this crazy studio.
This time we didn't even have to dig it up. We just finally noticed it on Cindy's desk: a box of little photo pins from the early 1900's.
We believe this image is from
Harriet Beecher Stowe's senior portrait session. What a find!
These little ditties are also great for intimidation, like a sheriff's badge. People think twice before messing with the long arm of
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
For a limited time only, we're offering these HBS Photo Pins for FREE. That's right. Come by the studio to pick up your free Harriet Beecher Stowe senior portrait photo pin and send a message to the world: "Back off. I'm with Harriet," or possibly: "Stowe's fo sho."
While looking for something else, I stumbled upon one of yesteryear's
finest products.
More proof that the studio hasn't been cleaned out thoroughly enough. I checked into it and these
baggies were probably manufactured and purchased prior to the
ziplock revolution of 1964. This means that these baggies could have been sitting in the cabinet where I found them for nearly 44 years. When those baggies where purchased, my parents may have been roughly 10 years old. I was probably -19 years old at the time.
Our latest discovery was found in the storage building - the part of the storage building that hasn't been disturbed since the early 1920's.
It's a long rusty hook with a wooden handle. I didn't know what it was and when I showed it to Aaron he recognized it right away. "That's for catching and killing chickens." He then proceeded to demonstrate how one can catch chickens with the rusty hook.
He left the killing part out, not wanting to horrify children who might watch the video. He also used a stick, rather than a chicken because we didn't have any chickens or a large chicken costume for me to wear.
Watch and learn:
NOTE:
- We do not condone the catching or killing of chickens with long rusty hooks, unless those chickens are attacking your family or if they look delicious.
Cindy has discovered my twin brother. I never knew I had one.
I returned from running some errands and found this on my desk:
I'm not really convinced that this guy looks anything like me, but she insists that he does. You be the judge:
Maybe she meant the groom.
Leave a comment and/or vote on the poll to the right to let me know what you think. Do we look alike or am I way cooler? (I'm the one on the left by the way...)
Yesterday, Jamie, our part-timer, was going through some of the cabinets in our office and rearranging to make space for our packaging materials.
In the process she came up with this:
Was is a prop from iRobot? No, it was a passport camera.
So Aaron of course wanted to try it out. He grabbed a sailor's hat from the back and put on his best tired immigrant look.
Then we got Taylor, our high school intern, in on the action.
Notice how Aaron and Taylor wore their striped shirts for the occassion.
I think Jamie's passport picture gets the "Most Like a Mug Shot" award.
Later, Aaron forgot he had his sailor hat on and wore it to our accountant's office. He said he made it almost through the whole meeting before he realized he was still wearing it. The accountants hadn't said a word about it the whole time.
I made a discovery in our attic earlier today while I was looking for our Christmas decor. It was amidst our piles of props from the good 'ol days. The days when parents wanted pictures of their kids sitting with stuffed food products.
Over-sized stuffed french fries.
These probably went with the giant hamburger we gave away at
Watermelon Day 2007.
Our Over-sized Stuffed French Fry model is Ursula Saelzler (you heard me),
Taylor Bowers' friend.
If you would like a portrait with our Over-sized Stuffed French Fries, just give us a call at 704.888.2881 or email info@littlephotography.net to set up an appointment.
These sessions are totally free and only take a few minutes. You'll cherish your OSFF portraits for life.
