Crystal and I used to watch the Anne of Green Gables movie over and over and over when we were younger, and Abbie saw it for the first time about a month ago and loved it and Elisabeth has actually read the book already and loves it.
When Crystal and I were younger, I remember us always wanting to match. I don't think we ever had actual matching outfits, but we would at least try to wear the same color as often as we could. When I saw instructions online (on pinterest, of course) for pillowcase dresses, we had to try making them. For my first attempt at sewing (other than a blanket I made for Jonah), I think I did pretty good! Ok, so maybe we're trying to live vicariously through them with the matching dresses, but they are pretty cute! And the girls loved them.
So...Anne of Green Gables AND matching dresses?!?! This one might just be my favorite.
We also made their headbands and flower clips and bracelets. Easy
peasy lemon
squeezy, as Abbie would say. You can see instructions for Elisabeth's headband
here, Abbie's headband
here, the bracelets
here, and the dresses
here. The flower clips are just silk flowers cut from the stems and hot glued to alligator clips.
For normal client sessions I try to keep the processing fairly consistent...about half and half with normal color and clean, crisp black and whites. Since this shoot was just for me I did some experimenting with different processing and tried some muted color on some, some extra
pinky on some (the ones of Abbie with the bubbles), and tried a warmer black and white conversion than I normally use. I'll probably stick to my normal black and white, but these were fun to try for a little change.
The girls were SO good for this shoot, so they were rewarded with supper at Cheeseburger in Paradise. YUM! I hope they continue being
BFFs and love looking back at these photos when they're, as Abbie would say, "growing ups".
