I will get back to my christmas outfit inspirations shortly but I have had this post planned for a while and wanted to make sure I got it up, hurricane Sandy or not

Growing up there were a few short stories that I was completely fascinated with. Scary stories, or at least scary to me at the young age. They were never overly gory and never really involved villains. It was more psychological. Watcher in the Woods and another that I have been trying to find for years where all I can really remember is it involved a doll and a corner of a garden (prize to anyone who knows what I am talking about). As I got older and began my love of literature it stayed with me and showed up in my really enjoying short stories like The Yellow Wallpaper and The Lottery (which I swear to you is the inspiration behind the Hunger Games). The Girl With The Velvet Ribbon is hands down in my top ten childhood creepy story favorites. When I originally discussed doing a shoot with this theme with my hubby I wanted to have a young married couple as the main characters but then I thought it would be cool to do a progression shoot, one session when the two “lovers” are young and one when they are older. Unfortunately with schedules, hurricanes and general craziness I could only fit in the younger session. So here is Sawyer with one of his lovely friends from Timor, Carmen, as the girl with the black ribbon. They announced they would be good for me for ten minutes and I kid you not we made it on the dot ha! And since it is a quick read and many of you may not know it here is the tale: 

Cheers!

Kelly