My cousins and I have been camping every summer since we were babies. There have been countless photo shoots and movies made on these vacations. You could say, we have been prepping for this shoot our whole lives!!!!!

2008 

Here we are at Tahoe the summer of 2010 rockin' the hippest swimsuits of the time.
​(Back when we shopped at Zumies, Pac Sun and Macy's)
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My dad shot these mock magazine covers
​at my Grandparent's house in Alamo, CA.
This glamorous shot was taken when we were all in High school. 

I love 60's swimwear so opted for that old school, bombshell, earthy direction when draping this collection.

My cousin Angie floating right off this dock!

My cousin Kristin, gazing into her prosperous future. 

This is the most hilarious but also epic photo of this shoot. My brother's hair is naturally coiled to perfection, he's rocking Ashely Cousin Art's beautiful up-cycled vinyl jewelry,
and he agreed to model Casually Uncommon's denim speedo
WITH NO HESITATION!
A fabulous brother indeed! 
Watch his film reel by following the link below!  

The youngest of all of us!
Peter Bustamante is 17.
And he modeled so naturally is was frightening! 

And the most surprising model of the day.
Our seemingly quiet cousin,
Matt Bustamante unleashed
full force fierceness
upon the entire lake!

Alright fine! I did photoshop my left butt cheek to be as full as the right one. I spent a total of 8 hours editing the lighting and then touching us all up on photoshop. I corrected the lighting for these on my dad's computer and exported them too small. So, the larger files were lost and I had to go back and edit it all over again. Meanwhile my laptop has decided it won't read files connected from USB anymore. So we had to put all the filed on a DVD so I could edit them at home. This was very tricky lighting to edit, because our camera was on a setting where it would switch between extremely over, and dramatically under exposed every three photos. Quite challenging indeed.

Anyways! My buns tanned nicely this weekend and my brother and I shot this shoot ourselves, and my gorgeous cousins modeled these designs effortlessly. It has been a blessing to have my family so closely connected to the fruition of my dreams. I can't express my gratitude to them enough. Truly beautiful souls.
#NextTime #AndreSnedeker #JacobBustamante #ArinBodden and #TeresaMiddleton please! 
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Named because this designs were documented in Cabo and Tahoe this Spring. Two beautiful Vacation Photoshoots!

In the sunny summer of the year 2017,
​we rocked this years Haight Street Fair.  

​Initially I thought the Fair would be at the end of July
I was fully stressed to find it was scheduled
a month earlier than planned!
So I had two weeks off after my after-school job ended. 
(summer break!)
before my sewing and acting summer camps start.
I moved into my friend's apartment in Oakland, spruced up some old designs, made a few new ones, organized it all,
and got my errands all ran
​(I sent in my Passport Application and signed up to vend at Oakland's First Friday this July) 

When I first arrived at the booth space,
Jaimie and I found out that our 10 by 10 space was... tilty.
So our initial "U shape" idea would not work.
Thank goodness the space next to use was never used,
so we sort of expanded our territory.

We should have brought two canopies though,
because poor Ashley was stuck in the sun. 

Apart from our space smelling like urine, the wind trying to abduct our canopy and our dear friend, the live painter, couldn't wrangle a ride out here... 

Above you'll see stock footage of the Summer of Love SF 1967,
Below you'll see me and Ashley. We met at Mama de Luna Art gallery in Crocket.

I met Jaimie at Raw Artists SF and I bought a birthday clutch she designed/repurposed.

The rest is history! 

I sold my vintage 90's cartoon bedsheet kimono at
How Weird street Fair, in May 
This design is simple! So I decided to make 2 more.
I sold the Winnie the Pooh kimono right off my back. A lovely englishman bought it for his sister because her nick-name is "Piglet" and the Spongebob one wasn't sold thus will be worn by my brother at this year's Pride.

I didn't know this man's finger was up, but oh well! we Look great. Please meet Jaimie of Yogini Designs and Ashley of Ashley Cousin Art. A clutch maker and a jewelry designer/painter.
Follow the links below to see their products! 

Designer these pasties was a dream! Constructing them was a nightmare. Never use iron on tranfer paper. Just dont! I will be Spoonflowering and producing these pasties to launch at July's First Friday here in Downtown Oakland. All you burning man Beauties Beware! You won't find nips this unique anywhere else! 

I even let some friends of mine choose a few images.

I wish I could have had these made for Haight St Fair
but I ran out of time.
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DM me for custom orders Pasties start at $7 per pair.