Already September and back from Hell City and haven't even posted a blog about the July New York roadtrip that Alissa, Luscious and I took in back in July!
You'll have to hang in there a little bit more before I can get you an SG Luau, home shoots and Hell City update...but without further ado....
New York road trip July 2011.
started out with a week in NY with my family! It's been 7 years since I moved away and I MISS them so much!!!
I'm trying to plan more trips home!! And my sis, Yankee_ will be in Ohio visiting me this month!!
I love going back to NY, but it really does feel like another country compared to Ohio!
cousins....Yankee_'s cat and my dog
Zenny loves his aunt Yankee_.
my family is all about some poker
Derek jeeter hit his 3000th homerun while we were in NY. It was pretty awesome to be at home...... in NY..... watching the game........ with my family....... AND it was on my sister....Yankee's birthday!!
Pretty awesome
And also pretty awesome because my sister was going to be shooting her first set for SG in New York City with Alissa the next day!
more on that in a second.....
After spending a week with my family, Killer47 drove Yankee and I to the ferry to meet up with Alissa and Luscious in NJ and we all took the Sea Streak Ferry to NY.
me and Yankee_ waiting for the boat
touristy
we missed the ferry by 5 minutes.... luckily though....because we met this gorgeous lady on the boat ride over!
Bill_.
We liked her so much that we shot a set of her on our way out of town!...more on that at the end of this blog
This was the first time that I set up the locations and hotels for a roadtrip...
It went pretty great!
We met a ton of great new friends and awesome people in both NY and NJ and we are so excited for our next visit
One of the people that I got to meet in setting up our travels up was the amazingly talented, Jessica Lichtenstein
Her work is right up our alley!
And we are planning some future collaborations with Jessica for the future both on SG and off.
If you are in the NY area, you can see Jess' art show this November....
Here is her facebook so you can like it!
and on facebook....
While we were lucky enough to rent this amazing place from Jess and her hubby to use for shoots and to stay in.
It was pretty much the most badass place we've all ever stayed in....
me and Luscious enjoying
Luscious enjoying our amazing mac at Jess' place
One of my favorite things in Jess' home
because lately, I do need to chill the fuck out. But I am working on it! And it's working.
iphone snap of Jess' artwork on her coffee table
we had some friends over for some wine and drinks and to enjoy the new place.
the elevator opened up directly to our apartment
mirrors in elevators make girls act silly...it's just a fact.
hipstmatic elevator meld shot by Alissa
out drinking with Luscious, Alissa, Yankee_, Fractal, Reagan, and Waikii.
wished we would have had more time to shop while we were there...
but I did replace my broken sunglasses in soho
and found some sweet new frames
the noho
dinner view
in NY
out to eat
me on the street in NoHo
We arranged a trip to NY at the same time as the beautiful Waikii! She and I became SGs at the same time back in 2006, and we have been online friends ever since. It was so amazing to get to meet her in person! She was even more badass in person than she is online.
Waikii shooting with Alissa for SG
I caught some fun photos of Luscious on the street in NY.
while Alissa was shooting Waikii
Next up....... my real life little sister, Yankee_ shot a set with Alissa.
I can't believe her set goes into member review on September 20th! SO exciting!!!! eeeep!!!
Then we got to shoot Lousiana and Auriga on our last day in Jess' apartment. And she came home and worked in her studio so we could all hang out a bit.. It was a fun day!
what a babe this lady is!
cheetah chair in the entryway
hanging out with Auriga and Louisana on their shoots.
Auriga
at Louisana's shoot
Louisana
best friends
awesome candids of me shooting that Lush took during the shoot
So that was our first NY location. We barely scratched the surface of the locations we plan on shooting in this place and we are so so so excited to go back!!!
But in order to keep our locations fresh for shoots (and also because our awesome hosts needed to come home from the beach ) we moved on to our next place....an amazing new dream of a hotel in Chelsea, NY.
I spent a lot of time on the phone, internet and using iphone apps to set up our locations and trip details...and I was super stressed before the trip worrying if everything would go right.... BUT everyone was just as happy with the second location as the first! Here we are just getting settled into the new place. My hard work was worth it.
Luscious in the lobby of our new hotel
setting in
view from our room
me in the dream view
I turned Luscious into a cameo
stairway to the pool
I love Alissa's hipstamagic of me!!
We had 3 shoots on most days! The next day was no exception!
Tore, Dhrti, and Mitska
Being silly and loosening up before the shoot
rearranged the room to make a badass location for Tore
a candid after Tore's shoot
the adorable Dhrti getting ready for her shoot
Alissa and Luscious shooting Dhrit
a candid after Dhrti's shoot
Mitska
styling
Some days we didn't eat anything until like 9:00 at night and we were dead tired...but it was such a great experience and such a blast.
a quick minute of shopping in NY
Alissa and Luscious
love this bar...want to shoot her someday
The next morning....we were supposed to shoot 2 more sets before heading to NJ....
First was Avian_ from Austria!!! Yep, Austria.
I met an adorable girl online.....Avian!! She wanted to shoot with us. The only problem was that she lives in Austria and we live in Ohio........
sooooooo we planned our trips to NY at the same time!!! It was a blast to get to meet her in NY and she is such a sweetheart!
our super amazing hair stylist for the trip in action
We had planned on staying in NY one more night and shooting Fabrizia and some pictures of Jess, but some crazy mishaps kept us from doing that so we adjusted our plans and no choice but to book it out of NY one night early and head for NJ where we were supposed to shoot the next morning.
The 3 of us barely had a voice and had to make some last minute changes in our plans so we decided to blow off some steam and have some fun and we headed to Point Pleasant NJ!
drinks
I'm sorry I'm just thinking about cats again....
In the morning, we had one final shoot before we headed out of town with Bill_, the hottie we met on the Sea Streak!! Bill_ is the ferry's only female crew member and she arranged for us to have our own private ferry for the shoot!!
Here are some outtakes.
bill
On the SeaStreak shooting Bill_
a photo that I took on the boat with my camera...not my iphone
Then we loaded up the car and headed back to Ohio!
roadtrip back to Ohio
No matter how far from home I am....I never forget to say goodnight at the end of a day to my sweet<3
love travel but I LOVE HOME. and home is wherever he is!
came home and went to a wedding for one of Killer47's buds
i love weddings!
Killer47 and his buds from elementary school....awesome.
I promise to catch up on blogs in the next the next few weeks...and give you guys some more personal updates. But I will say that the west coast is definitely calling me.......and I think I'm gonna pick up.
Oregon....California..... a change is officially on my horizon more on that soon
Wild and Free
xoxoxoxoxop
Sunnie
You'll have to hang in there a little bit more before I can get you an SG Luau, home shoots and Hell City update...but without further ado....
New York road trip July 2011.
started out with a week in NY with my family! It's been 7 years since I moved away and I MISS them so much!!!
I'm trying to plan more trips home!! And my sis, Yankee_ will be in Ohio visiting me this month!!
I love going back to NY, but it really does feel like another country compared to Ohio!
cousins....Yankee_'s cat and my dog
Zenny loves his aunt Yankee_.
my family is all about some poker
Derek jeeter hit his 3000th homerun while we were in NY. It was pretty awesome to be at home...... in NY..... watching the game........ with my family....... AND it was on my sister....Yankee's birthday!!
Pretty awesome
And also pretty awesome because my sister was going to be shooting her first set for SG in New York City with Alissa the next day!
more on that in a second..... After spending a week with my family, Killer47 drove Yankee and I to the ferry to meet up with Alissa and Luscious in NJ and we all took the Sea Streak Ferry to NY.
me and Yankee_ waiting for the boat
touristy
we missed the ferry by 5 minutes.... luckily though....because we met this gorgeous lady on the boat ride over!
Bill_.
We liked her so much that we shot a set of her on our way out of town!...more on that at the end of this blog
This was the first time that I set up the locations and hotels for a roadtrip...
It went pretty great!
We met a ton of great new friends and awesome people in both NY and NJ and we are so excited for our next visit
One of the people that I got to meet in setting up our travels up was the amazingly talented, Jessica Lichtenstein
Her work is right up our alley!
And we are planning some future collaborations with Jessica for the future both on SG and off.
If you are in the NY area, you can see Jess' art show this November....
Here is her facebook so you can like it!
and on facebook....
While we were lucky enough to rent this amazing place from Jess and her hubby to use for shoots and to stay in.
It was pretty much the most badass place we've all ever stayed in....
me and Luscious enjoying
Luscious enjoying our amazing mac at Jess' place
One of my favorite things in Jess' home
because lately, I do need to chill the fuck out. But I am working on it! And it's working.
iphone snap of Jess' artwork on her coffee table
we had some friends over for some wine and drinks and to enjoy the new place.
the elevator opened up directly to our apartment
mirrors in elevators make girls act silly...it's just a fact.
hipstmatic elevator meld shot by Alissa
out drinking with Luscious, Alissa, Yankee_, Fractal, Reagan, and Waikii.
wished we would have had more time to shop while we were there...
but I did replace my broken sunglasses in soho
and found some sweet new frames
the noho
dinner view
in NY
out to eat
me on the street in NoHo
We arranged a trip to NY at the same time as the beautiful Waikii! She and I became SGs at the same time back in 2006, and we have been online friends ever since. It was so amazing to get to meet her in person! She was even more badass in person than she is online.
Waikii shooting with Alissa for SG
I caught some fun photos of Luscious on the street in NY.
while Alissa was shooting Waikii
Next up....... my real life little sister, Yankee_ shot a set with Alissa.
I can't believe her set goes into member review on September 20th! SO exciting!!!!
eeeep!!!Then we got to shoot Lousiana and Auriga on our last day in Jess' apartment. And she came home and worked in her studio so we could all hang out a bit.. It was a fun day!
what a babe this lady is!
cheetah chair in the entryway
hanging out with Auriga and Louisana on their shoots.
Auriga
at Louisana's shoot
Louisana
best friends
awesome candids of me shooting that Lush took during the shoot
So that was our first NY location. We barely scratched the surface of the locations we plan on shooting in this place and we are so so so excited to go back!!!
But in order to keep our locations fresh for shoots (and also because our awesome hosts needed to come home from the beach
) we moved on to our next place....an amazing new dream of a hotel in Chelsea, NY. I spent a lot of time on the phone, internet and using iphone apps to set up our locations and trip details...and I was super stressed before the trip worrying if everything would go right.... BUT everyone was just as happy with the second location as the first! Here we are just getting settled into the new place. My hard work was worth it.
Luscious in the lobby of our new hotel
setting in
view from our room
me in the dream view
I turned Luscious into a cameo
stairway to the pool
I love Alissa's hipstamagic of me!!
We had 3 shoots on most days! The next day was no exception!
Tore, Dhrti, and Mitska
Being silly and loosening up before the shoot
rearranged the room to make a badass location for Tore
a candid after Tore's shoot
the adorable Dhrti getting ready for her shoot
Alissa and Luscious shooting Dhrit
a candid after Dhrti's shoot
Mitska
styling
Some days we didn't eat anything until like 9:00 at night and we were dead tired...but it was such a great experience and such a blast.
a quick minute of shopping in NY
Alissa and Luscious
love this bar...want to shoot her someday
The next morning....we were supposed to shoot 2 more sets before heading to NJ....
First was Avian_ from Austria!!! Yep, Austria.
I met an adorable girl online.....Avian!! She wanted to shoot with us. The only problem was that she lives in Austria and we live in Ohio........
sooooooo we planned our trips to NY at the same time!!! It was a blast to get to meet her in NY and she is such a sweetheart!
our super amazing hair stylist for the trip in action
We had planned on staying in NY one more night and shooting Fabrizia and some pictures of Jess, but some crazy mishaps kept us from doing that so we adjusted our plans and no choice but to book it out of NY one night early and head for NJ where we were supposed to shoot the next morning.
The 3 of us barely had a voice and had to make some last minute changes in our plans so we decided to blow off some steam and have some fun and we headed to Point Pleasant NJ!
drinks
I'm sorry I'm just thinking about cats again....
In the morning, we had one final shoot before we headed out of town with Bill_, the hottie we met on the Sea Streak!! Bill_ is the ferry's only female crew member and she arranged for us to have our own private ferry for the shoot!!
Here are some outtakes.
bill
On the SeaStreak shooting Bill_
a photo that I took on the boat with my camera...not my iphone
Then we loaded up the car and headed back to Ohio!
roadtrip back to Ohio
No matter how far from home I am....I never forget to say goodnight at the end of a day to my sweet<3
love travel but I LOVE HOME. and home is wherever he is!
came home and went to a wedding for one of Killer47's buds
i love weddings!
Killer47 and his buds from elementary school....awesome.
I promise to catch up on blogs in the next the next few weeks...and give you guys some more personal updates. But I will say that the west coast is definitely calling me.......and I think I'm gonna pick up.
Oregon....California..... a change is officially on my horizon
more on that soon Wild and Free
xoxoxoxoxop
Sunnie
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charlielove:
I <3 your blogs... but holy need for spoilers!
dorsal:
your little sis is beautiful. i love that set!