just be.

emily took a class from amy tan at sweetpeas and snapshots in february. amy taught the class her reverse applique technique and emily made me this shirt.

I LOVE IT and i want to wear it everyday.

and speaking of amy, things like this happen in my life so often and its starting to freak me out. about two years ago i met a woman at a class donna downey was teaching at my local scrapbook store, scrapbook oasis. she was wearing a really cute tshirt (and im so mad that i dont remember her name, because ive met her more than once and i think she is adorable) but i asked her where she got it and she told me it was an amy tangerine shirt. i looked amy up when i got home and was so bummed she didnt have photos of her shirts on her website, but after some searching, found her stuff online. i thought to myself, this girl really needs photos of her work! i thought about emailing her, how cool would it be to do that for her? never thinking in a million years it would ever happen. well, fast forward two years and once again the world is so much smarter than i give it credit. how we manage to hook up with people so naturally….i know it is so meant to be, but it boggles my mind.

so back to present day-emily met amy and amy then learned about me through emilys blog. emily says to me one day, “i wonder if amy would want to use anna and ivy as models!” and we giggled at the possibility of it. but it turns out, she DID want to use them as models-and me as the photographer! last week i went up to LA and shot her line of kids t-shirts. we used the girls and two little boys that live near ivy. it was awesome!

how crazy is that?

ed. you can find some of her designs right now at kitson and blackwagon…the other designs are coming soon to a boutique near you.