It's Time To Brag.

Hey friends!  So if you didn't catch my Facebook post yesterday, let me catch you up.  :)

I am REALLY excited because my designs were featured in a super cute and popular wedding blog called Fabyoubliss.  I did all the dresses and headpieces you see the lovely girls wearing.  :)  The English tea inspired bridal shoot that Michelle and I had planned quite a few months back was showcased as a spring wedding inspiration for engaged cuties all over the globe!  I am over the moon excited and truly humbled by it all.  You may think I am bragging when I do these blog posts...and you'd be right.  :)  I love shouting from the roof tops that I have taken my God given talent and used it to the best of my ability.  But in the end...I just feel plain old blessed, and I want to share it with you.  I'm blessed to have an amazing talented friend Michelle (AKM Events), who pushes me to create and includes and uses me in so many of her design endeavors, I'm blessed to have a working mind and set of hands to oblige, I'm blessed to work with (and even be friends with some of) so many amazing other people that make this all look it's best:

Contributing Vendors:

Photography - Color and Cake Photography www.colorandcakeweddings.com

Overall Design/Concept - AKM Events www.akmevents.com

Wardrobe/Accessory Design - 27 Dresses Designs www.27dressesdesigns.com

Hair and Makeup - Beauty Pros www.thebeautyprosnwi.com

Floral Design - Lake Effect Florals www.lakeeffectflorals.com

Desserts - Wildflour www.wildflourvalpo.com

Stationary - Paper Treasures www.papertreasuresdesigns.com

Venue - Ogden Gardens http://www.ci.valparaiso.in.us/index.aspx?nid=632

Tablecloths and Sashes - NWI Chaircovers www.facebook.com/NWIChaircovers

Models - Bride, Victoria Myers

Groom, Troy Hill

Bridesmaid(purple), Kayla Pomeroy

Bridesmaid(green), Lauren Hunt

I'm blessed that now 3 amazing bridal blogs have found beauty in what I do...

And most of all, I'm blessed to have an amazing group of friends and family that support me and my crazy "shoot for the stars" and "dream big" life.  I love you all!

Here's the feature again if you didn't catch it:
http://fabyoubliss.com/2014/05/29/whimsical-english-tea-party-inspiration-shoot/

And here's more beauty from the shoot....My favorite shots.  Thanks again to all who were involved!

XO,

Christina

Zombie Design. Bringing it to Life.

Hey everyone!  So I have been kind of bad at keeping my new year's resolution of blogging once a week, but I'm not too behind considering how crazily busy I've been.  Michelle and I did 2 photo shoots pretty much back to back in the last month.  (Gotta squeeze them in before wedding season starts)...and I am exhausted.  I always joke with her that they are like a wedding itself...You take all this time making things and planning and it's over in a few hours.  My part in the shoots (as you may've guessed) was woman's wardrobe.  Months and months ago you might have seen a few posts of the sketches I did for the designs of the dresses.  You can also read my "That's Sketchy" post if you missed it.  Anyway, I was so excited that I had found a love once again for planning ahead and getting out on paper what I was going to make.

What is even more exciting is that now the shoots are over and I have the real thing that's been created through my little seeds of ideas...


(Although my pink ruffles had to be changed to black (a last minute change when I realized my pink tulle was a completely different pink when I opened it...AAAHHHH!) , I thought it made the design even more edgy...which was exactly what we were going for.  Model Ashley's blue hair took it over the top rock and roll.  And how about the headpiece?  That was all Michelle's vision, but I couldn't be happier that I went with it.  It was perfect with the dress. :)

And the bridesmaids dresses for the same shoot turned out so gorgeous, my drawing did not give them justice...but you get the point.  Our blond model Jill said something to the effect that she finally got to wear a bridesmaid dress she liked.  Too cute.  :)  Thank you to her and Katelyn for rocking these!  An interesting tidbit about Katelyn is she actually works for The Beauty Pros and did the hair for our models in the English Tea Bridal Shoot.

And speaking of the English Tea photo shoot...

"Bride" Tori looked just gorgeous in the two piece dress design I put together.  I just adored this look.  It was constructed out of the most unique vintage lace tablecloth.  The detail reminded me of church stained glass windows...minus the color of course!

And these two real life besties Kayla (who you may recognize from my collection photos...or our gypsy chic shoot from last year) and cutie pie Lauren made these ruffled floral dresses look magnificent!

And that's all the designs I've "brought to life" as of late, but stay tuned!  There is definitely more on the horizon.  

Peace. Love.

Christina