“I’m a hairstylist by trade,” she tells CafeMom. “I just love taking photos of my kids.” You can hear her 3-month-old daughter, Liberty, gurgling in the background and her 2-year-old son, River, asking his mom, “Mom, where is my napkin?” But such is the life for a busy working mom who is juggling two kids and while her recent passion project has quickly gone viral. Between her parenting duties and her career, Wexler has somehow found time to become a whiz with a needle and thread. This explains why her skill for crafting and costume making has blossomed into projects that regularly catch the media’s attention. Her costumes have graced the cover of Chicago Parent, and she’s been covered on her local news station in the past for an amazing Halloween costume she designed for her son. Her latest project combines her two hobbies as a series of colorful photos of her youngest daughter as she portrays famous women throughout history. And her inventive Instagram account has already caught on with other parents. Wexler first started doing elaborate photoshoots of her kids with her son, River. “When [River] was a baby, I dressed him up as a burrito for Halloween and started doing holiday photoshoots with him,” she explains. “I started a little Instagram [for him]. We do anywhere from Christmas, Halloween, Cinco de Mayo, Octoberfest, so it started with him. And when Liberty was born, [I thought] I’m definitely going to do shoots of the two of them together and then I took a little spin-off of it.” That spin-off was the Instagram account Photography of Liberty, a series of photos of her then 3-week-old daughter dressed as famous influential women. Wexler first got the idea to dress up her newborn daughter when she was looking at her baby girl and inspiration struck. “I was like, ‘I love Frida Kahlo. I need to dress her up as a little baby Frida,” she says. But Wexler didn’t stop there. Soon there would be a tiny Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a tiny Jane Goodall, and even a tiny Dolly Parton. We can hardly wait!
