My baby sister came for a visit

 

She met Rachel for the first time and it was splendid. 

My Model Sister

When I was younger and in dire need of subjects to photograph, my little sister always seemed to be my eager little model (and good thing too, because I probably would have made her anyway.)

These were all taken with a disposable camera, developed at somewhere like Walgreens  put into an album then rediscovered and scanned by me the other day. 

This was just before Halloween (she was a little cave girl, obviously) when I was in 6th  grade
So that would make it 1997.

She was be two years old.

This was from a little session right after they moved out of state.
I made this (adorable) pink dress for her and made her model it when I went to visit.
 

A few years later, when I visited again, I put some makeup on my sister (my mom didn't like that) put one of my jackets on her, grabbed one of my grandma's old porcelain dolls and took her to an old New England graveyard. My mom was all kind of creeped out by this shoot. :D

It was so cold, which made it look like she was sad or crying (that might also have been the eyeliner, which she had never worn before, being 9 and all)

This is probably my favorite ... possibly from all our little shoots. 

Anyway, my sister is awesome. Shes all grown up now and even more beautiful. 

(even though I think she wears too much make up and has too many piercings, but what else am I supposed to think? I'm the big sister.)

Becky made us curtains! ...I helped...

I wanted curtains for our living room, but had no idea how to make them.

Becky knew how to make them.

We started a project.

After I chose fabric, Becky showed me how to measure out how much we needed and how to cut the fabric.

The she pinned the sides.

I pinned one side.

Then she Ironed the curtains.

I ironed one side.

Then we had a curtain rod fiasco.

But then it was OK.

THEN she added little strips of fabric to hold back the curtain when it was open.

Here is the smaller window. 

And the larger window.

Here is the little fabric strip.

Little pieces of Velcro were added because Becky is amazing.

She also attached two pieces of fabric together to create the large curtains. 

Becky! The designer and creator of  my lovely curtains.
This image was stolen from her blog,  http://quinnandbecky.blogspot.com/
Isn't she a lovely preg-o?

So,  now Becky's gone and I'm trying to recreate her method to make curtains for our bedroom.
I miss her.