Some One Like Me- Hot off the press!!!

 As some of  you may remember from an earlier blog, last year I designed the book cover for my aunt's (Dee Taft) novel, Someone Like Me!  WELL... it's finally here!! Yay!!


I personally CAN NOT wait to read it in it's entirety!  During the planning days, she sent me a synopsis just so I could get a feel for the book.  Talk about a tease!


Oh, let me just go ahead and recap that whole story!  I'm still amazed by it!


Aunt Dee had called and told me about her latest book project and wanted to know if I would be interested in designing the front cover.  Of course, I was!  I'm always up for a new challenge!  But at the time I was clueless to what I wanted it to look like!


Well... SEVERAL months passed... and I still wasn't able to put too much thought into it before hitting the proverbial brick wall.  Then one morning, as I was making my bed, it just hit me out of the blue! ( I wasn't even thinking about my aunt or the book at the time)  I could see it as plain as day, exactly how the cover should look!!  So I quickly ran my ideas past her.  She was as excited about it as I was!


Next, I dressed my youngest daughter (yep... that's my Lou Lou on the cover) in a little sundress... then very sloppily put her hair into little doggie ears... we were pouring on pitiful!!  Then grabbed my camera and took off looking for the perfect location.  

I knew that many of the mill houses in Lindale were looking really shabby, so that was my first spot to check out... and we were in luck.  Found an old, run down... abandoned mill house.  The plus was that the yard was all grown up too, with a few patches of wild flowers.  I have to laugh when I think about what those neighbors must have thought of me and my Lou playing around in this run down shack!!  Lydia was putting on the pitifulness... (my spell check tells me that's not a word... I beg to differ! ; )  that's for sure!


So... now that you've got the long story I hope you'll stop by my beautiful auntie's blog site for more information about her book!!  And ORDER it!! You won't be sorry!

Click here to visit Dee Taft's blog site! 

Also, all photos on her site were taken by Bella Faccia Photography!  So you know you don't want to miss that! = ) Te he!

Here's a few more from the book cover shoot that didn't make the cover, but I LOVED anyway! = )

Enjoy and ciao Bella's!

Christy C

Pitiful... I tell you!

My sweet Lou Lou! = )

I just LOVED the way all the layering turned out on this one!!