Hope your day has been a great one!
Create.
in Photography, Personal, Ideas
Making it Colorful.. Preparing for the week ahead!!!
Create.
Mixing it Up!
in Photography, Cooking
This little miniature beauty is all you need to mix up some delicious treats! This Dash Brand cutie is the closes thing I have to a Kitchen Aide, but it does the trick..
grab some delicious recipes at www.instagram.com/unprocessyourfood/
Remembering Yesterday -Khali's 1st Birthday
#TBT 2014
What fun it is to turn one with a colorful fit for a little girl party! For my great niece Khali's 1st birthday we decide to just use a girlie color palette with a few customize decorations as well as a fun photo booth to celebrate her 1st birthday! This party awesome including entertainment from Sprinkles the Clown who provides fun games for the kids that include music, face painting balloons and to celebrate the birthday child she gets to walk the red carpet for a crowning ceremony with everyone singing happy birthday! Oh what fun to turn one!
Entertain Provided By:
Sprinkles the Clown
All That Jazz/Clowning 4 You!
www.clowning4you.com
770-366-0597
Kustom Kreation Photography
www.thekustomkreations4u.com
Custom Party Supplies/Photo Booth
www.thekustomshop4u.com
770-272-2420
Jam on It- An 80’s Style Birthday Party
Jam on it… When we received a call from Aj’s catering asking for some custom signs for an up and coming 80’s party… We were all in…. We just needed a few particulars and then we were ready to assist where ever we could. After getting the information of layout and ideas from client(who is out of the box creative) we awaited the menu and instructions and went to work on the creative ideas that Aj of Aj’s catering had in mind.
The client theme for her son’s 9th Birthday party was a retro 80’s theme as well as introducing her son who has been taking professional dj classes. Once menu was set we went to work on the custom signs that would add theme details to the already grand ideas! Our area was entitled Hamilton Records (like Tower Records) A popcorn station was a client must , so Aj’s catering theme the popcorn bar The King of Pop – Popcorn station which this area had a variety of flavored popcorn then a few other classic/ and kiddie foods were Sloppy Joes, Nachos with all the fixings veggie platter complete with a cabbage patch kid fruit kebabs, chicken tenders and fries. We created T-shirts with a Hamilton Records Logo so that we all could be in tune with the theme of the party.
We created T-shirts with a Hamilton Records Logo so that we all could be in tune with the theme of the party.
This was the ultimate 80’s party that included so many things that took you back to the decade.
See more party pictures here!
Valentine Memories from the Past
Valentine's Myself and Family Photo Session - Blast from the Past Session Year 2008
So in honor of Valentine's Day we thought we would share our experience of creating memorable photos of my sons. As most parents we like to create memorable experiences for our children and for me being a photographer and a special holiday of sorts comes up why not set up a backdrop grab the kids and create memories... It's sounds like a good idea and it looks like everything will be success, but with a two month old babies.. Images can be so unpredictable. Looking back on this Family Self portrait it makes me laugh seeing that things were not perfect, but it did create a memory and put a smile on my face.
So to all you families, couple's , singles and kids.. Make it a memorable day and do something that will put a smile on your face.
Enjoy your Special day of Love!
Popcorn Love
in Photography, Holidays, Ideas
"Popcorn love
But it's more than that to me
Popcorn love
Just wait, they will see
Popcorn love
Every morning, noon and night
Popcorn love
Don't you know, don't you know
It's the real thing, girl" -New Edition
It’s been just a couple of weeks since the New Edition movie… Did you watch…
It was a great story of one of my favorite groups!!! We appreciate the songs that brought back many wonderful childhood memories
In the meantime we are just a day away from the ultimate love day… Couples Kids and Hopeful romantics are preparing for this special day of red roses, hearts and all types of love…
We have provided a list of a few ideas to make your love day a special one
- Handwritten notes to express your true feelings nothing say love more then writing from your heart
- Cooking up a favorite meal delicious delights of your favorite cuisine with a perfectly set table really put a smile on someone face
- Pick up your favorite desserts from the bakery for your love one
- Make a playlist of your favorite songs and share with one another (for the little ones have a dance contest)
- Fill up a cellophane bag with some Hershey's Hugs & Kisses with a note that says I love you.
Those are just a few ideas that you can incorporate in to your Valentine's Celebration to make it special and meaningful
What creative ways to you celebrate? What are you planning? Give us some of your best ideas.We look forward to hearing from you...
Girl Talk
There’s always something to discuss!
Remembering Yesterday-Footsteps on My Heart Dinner Party
#TBT2012
Footsteps all my heart and intimate dinner party with friends it all came about during a visit to Tierra Destiny's consignment shop. We were finishing up our visit and as I was leaving she was telling me that she would love to do something special for her closest friends. Being passionate about creating special events and decor she and I begin throwing out some ideas and just like that we confirm an event just a few shorts months away. The title of the event came directly from the conversation as Tierra was telling me of these close friends that created footsteps on her heart! Eureka!!!! That is it!!! That is the title of the event.. and everything else will represent that!!! Footsteps on my heart, Once the concept of design was developed when then incorporated favorite color palette.This celebration would be like no other because it was truly created from the heart. We decided on a catered sit down dinner. Tierra secured venue and catering from Aj's Catering Atlanta which in the least did not disappoint! Tierra giving me full rain of planning this event! Layout and design with added touches to make the guest feel special. we chose her favorite color purple with cheetah print with a hint of turquiose blue.
We announce the event in style with customize party invites! When the day arrives the table was set and a seven course meal was served it was a beautiful celebration of food fellowship and love a few tears were shed as Tierra explained the reason for the day and took time to write each lady a hand written note explaining how and why they place a footsteps on her heart.
This celebration to date is one for me to remember due to the heart felt nature of why and how it was created! From time to time we should incorporate small gestures to the people that we love respect and admire and let them know how they placed a footstep on our hearts!
Tierra Destiny- www.tierradestinyreid.com
Aj's Catering Atlanta- 678.773.3458 View work here!
Dinner collection/Design/Setup The Kustom Shop- www.thekustomshop4u.com
Social Event Photography- www.kustomkreations4u.com
Water
Captured: Water - trying to increase my intake... working on getting up to 1 gallon a day... How much water do you drink per day...
Meet the Parents
in Personal, Photography
On this day February 7, 2000 my father made his exit from the planet. Thinking back over my life and my fondness of photography and the journey of capturing the world through the eyes of my lens came very natural to me seeing that all of our lives my parents always kept a camera and photograph candid moments all through our childhood and beyond. We even schedule family photo sessions at the nearest photo studio for the professional photographs. As a teenager into adulthood I did the same thing always having a camera near to capture candid moments of our surroundings and photographing classmates at school! So today as I reflect on my dad and all the life lessons he brought myself and siblings.I'm thankful that he left us fond memories and images that told a tale of time in our personal history. Today I honor you dad and I thank you for the life lesson you taught me!
Now many moons later I find myself as a photographer capturing memories not only for myself and family moments I’m now able to provide timeless memories for host of families that I’m given the pleasure to meet throughout the years. So thankful for my parents who with unspoken words instilled in us the importance of capturing personal histories of people through images. An image can truly be worth a thousand words.
In Loving Memory of my Dad! -
To You From Me with Love
"Everything in Creation Serves a Purpose" I am thankful to my service to others. Woke up this morning full of gratitude. During a recent training class we had the opportunity to work with students to capture images of their event design work as well as providing them with head shot images that they can utilize for business and personal. Today when I logged on to our social media platforms we were tagged in several post from some of the attendees that were using images they received. Overwhelmed by the love, I found myself just full of gratitude to use my services, creativity and gifts to assist in servicing others. We are truly passionate about the work we do and the service we provide.
You can learn more about our photography service and the work we provide. Just take a look around our home! We love servicing small business and entrepreneurs assisting in creative lifestyle brand images that can be shared online and across all of your social media platforms. We also provide creative product photography. Giving concepts and idea displays to your product images.
Remembering Yesterday -Naimah's 13th birthday party
#TBT 2011
When my niece turned 13 we were trying to come up with a party theme that would fit a new teen... princess and little girlie themes were no longer a go to idea... we now had to think of something creative and fun for the girls.. so after recently attending a paint party and creating a cute red dress... a light went off in my head and we had the theme for my nieces surprise 13th party. We prepared for the party by purchasing the easels canvases paints and brushes ( thank goodness she has a small group of friends) we covered The dining room table with plastic covering and we setup our paint party. The girls were engaged in painting their masterpiece. After the completion of the art we all took a picture with the art pieces and then went on to the Birthday reception. Singing Happy Birthday and opening up gifts this made for a memorable birthday occasion.
Love
Spreading more Love in 2017!
Expression
During a recent birthday celebration of my dear friend Helena (motivation speaker and nation wide event trainer) this image was captured as the host(Birthday Lady) asked her guest to open the gifts she had placed at the table for each of them! It’s moments like this it’s such a real!
Helena Motivates - https://www.helenamotivates.com/
Photography Is...
Remembering Yesterday - Milestone Birthday In Vegas
Throwback Thursday – March 2016
Last year my brother decided to celebrate his 40th birthday in Las Vegas! Making a whole big celebration on the west coast a few friends traveled from Ohio to Nevada for a weekend of fun and excitement. With so much to do we made sure to enjoy every minute of our time spent on the trip. To make things a little more special we customize some party decor of his favorite basketball team The Spurs! (He is a die hard Spurs fan) The decoration added just a little special detail to the room. This was a milestone to remember fun times great moments spent with friends… Ahhh…. Can’t wait until the next time!!!
Custom Party Decorations- The Kustom Shop!
Thousand and one thoughts on a Wedding Day...
It's Wedding Wednesday and we thought we share of few of our thoughts on a wedding day!
Wedding Day Chaos and More
When I first arrive for a wedding day session. I'm a bit nervous I just want to make sure I'm getting all the images I feel is necessary for the day. However my mind is in total overdrive I'm sweating nervous and working to figuire out what do I do first. You have expectaction from the event planner and you have expectation from the bride and then of course you have expectation for yourself. Your on the verge of mental overdrive.. You working to shoot the images of details scattered with the people and then Oh those beautiful magazine images Oh yeah I have to make sure we get some editorial worthy shots with all that in mind Its just a constant think over load. Weddings being so precise with different things happening at different times. The main build up is preparing for the ceremony and the preparation until then. So you come in at the schedule time. You advise the event staff your here and then I look around grab some details and then I'm off to meet the bride.
Preferable she is still getting her makeup done or something of that nature so that I can capture the dress the shoes , jewelry and more. So I'm looking for the most detailed unique editorial way to capture these images. Details and Decor that is what I like.. Until I'm pressed for time.
Then as the bride begins to dress and making sure your not capturing the wrong thing while dressing but some of the most endearing shots that will be treasured for years to come. While your making everyone feel comfortable and your around getting the shots you feel like you need and then its time for you to go and see what are the guys doing.
Let me go capture a few of them. Shoes, lapels cuff links socks and grooms in action. The guys are quick and to the point while in your head your crossing off the shot list that exist there saying to yourself I think I got all the shots I need.
Now is it almost ceremony times... Whew let me check... Oh yes it is.. Guest are filling up the sanctuary and I'm running around trying to get some crowd shots along with details up close and personal and running to make sure I get the wedding party lined up and ready to go.
It's Showtime!
In Living Color
in Motivational
In Living Color
Monday Motivation Moment...
in Motivational
A few years back we decided to put a more positive spend on Mondays as a good start to the work week. As a entrepreneur work life can be a mix of allot of different things...working in your business and working on your business. So instead of seeing and reading the negative tone that some folks have as you enter into Monday we said Monday is a Make Moves day...No matter if it's business or personal everyone is moving about their day... So it your moving your covers over your eyes to avoid getting up and starting your day...If your up making meditation moves... preparing for school work or whatever agenda you have ahead of you... We all find ourselves moving about our day.So as we continue to move into the new year and beyond we have lots of moves to make and each week we post images of shoes/ feet that represent all the moves being made.
Happy Make Moves Monday!!
