Upgrades! New Photo Studio!

New things come in and out of the studio all time. We all know that I'm a fabric hoarder and have a new shipment of fabric arrive at least once a week. But this time, these new pretties are here to stay! 

Since I moved into a new studio (I switch rooms with my little's playroom, and we both got more room out of it!) I've slowly been adding needed things and spaces. Like a great place to take pictures, where I don't have to take it down when I'm finished! 

There's a HUGE closet in my studio, and it doesn't work well as a true closet since it's so deep. Things would just get piled up and lost. First it was home to Fred. I wonderful 6 needle embroidery machine belonging to my loverly business friend Shauna at KAdorable Bowtique. But now that the military is taking her away, I've re-done the space to have be a permanent photo studio!

Here's the before ... 

First thing to go were the doors, totally unneeded and blocked off the space!

The old set up was a simple curtain rod with a burlap backdrop hanging and my DIY floor drop. Very simple and functional. But I would have to move things around to use it since I also used that wall space for the ironing board. It got old very quickly! 

Using the same curtain rod and floor drop I turning that huge close into a great space! That wasn't the end of the renovation though. I took advantage of a great sale for back drops at Lemon Drop Stop. I've been oogling at these backdrop for YEARS! I never thought they would make a huge different but they SO did! 

I purchased an everyday, Halloween, and Christmas backdrop ....

 

 I'm hoping that I can take advantage of a Christmas sale to get some of the spring holiday back drops!

Next was the mannequin. My little half body hanging ones are great, but since they're only half of a body the clothes still hang on them in a weird way or I have to pinch the back to make the look right. But on a full mannequin they hang perfectly! 

And when edited and cropped the clothes are the only thing that stands out! 

The last thing to figure out is lighting. Right now there's great natural light. But as the sun sets or the storm clouds come in it gets a little "yellow". Definitely my next purchase is lighting and soft box. The question is ... camera flash and soft box or stand alone???

It's a Party ... A Naming Party!!

I was so excited with the sell of my dress in the BBBB auction, and the great success it had during my own pre-order sale that I had to have another "party" for it. A naming party! Because a dress this cute need a matching name to go with it! 

I put it out there to my Facebook fans and got some fun names! 

All About the Boo!

Girly Ghouls

Put a Spell on You

Witchery Stitchery Boo

Cast a Spell

Hocus Pocus

Bibbity Bobbity Boo

Peppermint Ghoulash

and 

Bewtiched

Great names! Bewitched, Hocus Pocus and Put a Spell on You were my top three!

But the winner was .... drum roll please .... HOCUS POCUS! 

And to celebrate we popped the dress on one of my favroite little models and had a mini photo shoot! With made to match accessories by KAdorable Bowtique.

 

I love her!

First of it's Kind ... New Design + New Venue = AWESOMENESS!

Tiny Hiney has grown so much over the years and it always amazes me when we reach another milestone!

Sewing boutique clothes is a hard nitch to get into. There's some really great big names to go up against! And sometimes I feel like I'm over looked since my prices are more reasonable than most. BUT no matter what when I spot opens in one of those groups you jump, and you jump fast! And that's just what I did.

A great friend and customer told me about an auction that Bitty Bitty Bum Bum's Beyond Customes and Resell Page was having to benifit one of the creators behind BBBB. It would be GREAT exposure, so I busted out a new design with special Halloween fabric to put up for auction. 

Here is the end result ... 

For SOOOO many reasons I am in love with this creation! Many techniques that I had never used before, absolutely gorgeous fabric, and a great pattern! 

I love the detail of the bib and pumpkin buttons, just ties everything together!

 

This was my first dress using trim to accent. And this black lace just complements everything perfectly! 

But no outfit that comes out of the Tiny Hiney studio is complete without made to match accessories by KAdorable Bowtique! She knock it out of the park with this simple yet stunning necklace.

 So this little pretty went off into an auction up against some really big names! And I'm very happy to announce that it did incredibly well and sold for over $100!!!! I had a bidding war on my first boutique auction piece (insert happy dance here!) !!!!!

A week or so later, I released this piece on Tiny Hiney as my first "load/pre-order" and again it did very well for my first one! (Insert another happy dance!!) 

I'm definitely going to continue to offer special dresses and outfits like this through special Loads and Pre-Orders. Look out for Fall/Thanksgiving and Christmas ones soon!