I think it was a dress called “Unicorn Barf” that started the whole thing during the summer shutdowns of 2020. It went up for rent on a Child Dress Designer’s website and I thought.

“Woah, look at all that color”

and her mom thought

“Woah, look at all that color”

But if you can imagine, we had slightly different reactions to it, with mine being the less than enthused one and struggling to picture how that would all come together well.

Her mom had no problem envisioning it and the messages started rolling in.

“We could do it with a unicorn. Imagine, something over the top and colorfully and vibrant and Magic!”
”What if we did a candyland theme? Know anywhere we could do that? Giant lollipops and and a colorful walkway!”

“Katie, what about skates and knee high socks?”

And as I mulled over the idea of a colorful rainbow princess riding a candy laden unicorn down a rainbow road, we started looking for the EXACT RIGHT rainbow dress for Bella.

I had just started working with Jeanne’s Designs and she caught mom’s vision right away and got to work on the most colorful sparkly rainbow dress that mom could dream of.

Sadly her wonderful dress was lost in the mail and our session continued to be pushed back.

Happily the dress was found again and finally delivered but we continued to struggle to find the right pieces to pull it all together. In the end mom ordered not 1, not 2 but 3 hairpieces before we landed on this glorious candy piece created by The Headmistress.

Our location was picked, our date was finally set, excitement was mounting and after a year of dreaming our TWO different looks were selected for this session.

Then it happened. I was scrolling through my favorite location rental website ONE WEEK before the session when I stumbled across THE HOUSE. I knew it was the missing piece to the year-long puzzle we had been building. I booked it immediately.

And finally, finally, on June 10th, 2021, one FULL year of planning later. We did it.

After so many missed memories in 2020 I really wanted our next summer spokesmodel session to be a celebration of all the sweetest parts of summer.

And what’s sweeter than Ice Cream on a hot summer day? I

I knew I wanted to shoot with an Ice cream truck for the entire year leading up to this event, but like the procrastinator I am, I did not start looking for one until a month prior.

Despite my procrastinating ways, I found Mobile Sugar Shack. Not only do they happen to be my neighborhood’s ice cream truck but they have the cutest trucks and were so kind to meet up with us early on a Saturday morning so we could do this shoot.

To complete the styling on the shoot I included some of my favorite summer elements from my childhood, the neighborhood I grew up in, pools, hula hoops and roller skates.

It was the perfect kickoff to a summer of fun sessions!