Lately I am obsessed with the idea of teepees, so I decided to make one. I have bamboo growing in my backyard, so I cut about 8 stalks of bamboo and fitted them together with wire. After that I was going to fit some painter’s canvas that I had around the teepee structure, but I got busy and didn’t get back to it for a few weeks. In that time, the grape vines growing in my backyard started to come after my teepee. Literally come after it! Even though the teepee structure was sitting about ten feet away from the grapevine branches, these swirling branches are reaching out and grabbing for the teepee. A few branches have made it to the teepee and are wrapping around it. I will take pictures of that and show you what I mean.
I’m pretty sure my recent teepee obsession can be linked back to Pinterest.
Have you heard of Pinterest?
It’s a really great way to keep track of images and ideas that inspire you. It’s seem so handy for any creative endeavor you might try to undertake. Planning a wedding? Make a Pinterest board to keep all your ideas in one place. Remodeling or decorating your house? Definitely a good way to keep all your ideas in one place.
Here is my Pinterest board to inspire me to do a photoshoot with a teepee (and stars and sunflowers): Teepees and Stars and Sunflowers.
So I keep thinking I want to make a teepee and use it in a photoshoot. It would be a great prop for a kid’s photoshoot or even for adults too. It seems like there are so many ways it could be used. So when I finally make my teepee and use it in my photographs, I want to also somehow incorporate stars and sunflowers. Stars because it seems like stars go along with the idea of a teepee. At night you would sit in your teepee and stare up and out at the stars above. And sunflowers because the sunflowers my mom planted have finally started to bloom. She planted the regular varieties – mammoth tiger striped sunflowers and also some unusual varieties. Soon I will post photos of some of the sunflowers.