Portraits // Lisa Gilmore Design

Portraits are my favorite! Especially when I get to work with fun and talented individuals. Sessions are so much better when I work with people like this young lady here...Meet Lisa. She is the fabulous owner of the amazing interior design company Lisa Gilmore Design!

Portrait Shoot :: Marissa

I am so privileged to be able to work with such amazing people! Marissa and I went to school together years ago and hadn't seen or talked to each other in probably 8 or 9 years, but it felt like two old friends catching up after just a few months of not seeing each other. Crazy right? loL

C.R.U.S.H.

Alright, so what do I find attractive? Physically speaking...a great upper body! A dude that has muscles and clearly works out, but isn't so big and muscular that that is all you see - a big chest and huge arms. Most of the guys I've liked and dated have been slim, but actively work out so in my opinion they have nice "medium sized" muscular arms, a strong upper body and of course a nice pack ;-) (abs).

I like guys and don't discriminate, but the last time I found a white guy attractive physically AND liked their conversation...? I think I was 11 or 12. So I was a little shocked when he walked through the door and immediately, I wanted to know who he was. A 6'2, dirty blonde, bluish/hazel eyed, slim, yet muscular white guy. Thinking to myself, "hmmm he's cute." His roomate and my friend introduces everyone in the room one by one. He says "Hello. Nice to meet you all." WHAT?! Woah, woah! Wait a minute. WAIT. A. MINUTE. You're British?!...I'm smitten. loL!

I've been told I'm a flirt and a heart breaker (I don't think that's the case, but if you happen to be the one who's heart I broke let me just say I sincerely apologize and it was completely unintentional). I have no intentions to do anything with this guy, but for real he's a cutie! I strike up conversation immediately because, I'm going to London in the next few weeks and it's common ground convo. DUH! I ask, he answers. He asks, I answer. I could listen to him all day.

We all head out to eat dinner. Our initial group of 8 quickly turns into 4 after some decide to go somewhere else for dinner. Oh well. It is he, two friends, and myself. We go somewhere good a cheap lol. Unfortunately (but not so unfortunate) we have to wait for about 30 - 45 min. before we're seated. We're all practically starving! But this does give everyone time to get to know each other a little better. "How old are you guys?" we all answer 22. "Ahh man, you guys are making me feel young." "Well, how old are you," I ask. "How old do you think I am?" We all guess, between 20 and 24. "18."

Haha! Come on, stop it. Seriously? "You look like you're at least 22." I guess it's because of his height. Could also be the first impression he set. He seems quite mature. The pure fact of knowing he is 4 years younger than I am would usually immediately put my wanting to explore things to an abrupt halt! Why didn't it happen this time? Let me just clarify, I have no intention of exploring anything with anyone right now. But I found myself continuing to "slightly" look for him this weekend while we were at the conference. Weird.

I'm assuming this is what you would call a crush? loL. I am too old to be talking about crushes I think. But like I said, he's a cutie, has a lovely voice and yes has that upper body that I find attractive. Oh well, the conference is over and I enjoyed the weekend. Maybe our paths will cross again sometime, but if not, it was very nice meeting him.

xoxo,
Nina

St.Pete Beach :: A Commercial Shoot

  The details of St.Pete beach....#1 beach in the nation.

The Trunk :: A Promo Shoot

The Trunk Boutique is one of my favorite locally owned boutique stores here in Florida, so I was thrilled to do a promo shoot for them! These photos were taken quite a few months ago (shame on me for waiting so long to post). I think it is so important to promote local businesses - I mean, I'm a small local business so it is important for me to support others just as they support me. I'm so happy to have gained such a good relationship with the amazing talent behind The Trunk!

Spring Break + New Room Ideas!

Everyone knows spring break is right around the corner, or if you're like me and live in St.Pete spring break has already passed and you've missed your "week long break" opportunity to redecorate your room lol. Oh well. Sooooo...I've been thinking and I think I want to paint one of my walls or just part of my wall with chalk board paint! While I'm at it maybe I'll paint this little night stand of mine too..? Who knows! I've been wanting to paint my room and dressers for the past year now and I have yet to ride over to Home Depot and buy paint or brushes - I've been scared. I've been scared and scared away from voluntarily going to Home Depot, Lowes, or any other warehouse type facility for that matter! My dad is a Home Depot junkie and when I was a kid we'd stay in that place for hours it seemed like, going through those dreaded dusty aisles looking for that particular screw, paint color, light bulb, or worse....plants in the garden area! (cue scary killer movie music!)

So now at nearly 22 years old I haven't stepped foot in home and garden improvement store in almost....hmmm maybe 3 or 4 years? Something along those lines. I think I can bite the bullet and go get some paint though. It's time and I really want to change my room around a little now. So like I said I've been thinking about the chalkboard wall. What do you think, yay or nay? I've been pinning ideas on pintrest of what may work for me. I don't want to cover an entire wall black because I only get one large window worth of natural light to my room and I don't want to over cast that with black walls, but I do think it would be kind of cool to just write some reminders to myself on my wall. I already have a mini white board, why not add to it. Tell me what you think, have you been seeing this new trend of chalk board walls? Do you like it, not like it, never even thought about it? 

seeing the entire wall like this doesn't look so bad.

Preview :: 2013 Senior Model

These girls are so much fun, I had a blast working with all of them! The craziness of hair and makeup while putting together outfits reminded me of the madness I used to go through (and still do on occasion) for different big events in school! We all had fun talking, laughing, and getting to know each other. We had the lovely April Barron as our hair stylist and makeup extraordinaire, Miss Hershley Oge! I can't wait to do it again! Here is a sneak peek of our fabulous photo shoot the other week. A new surprise is coming soon and I'm so excited to share ;-)

Preview :: Cozette

This girl is stunning, I mean her fro is pretty amazing right!? I'm a just a bit jealous of it loL. I can't wait to share more photos! But until then, here are a few sneak peeks...

DESTINATION MEXICO!

So it was super cool because I visited Cozumel, Mexico for the first time this past November with family. I only had a few hours to tour the island and there were a few "must-go-to" places I had to visit according to a few friends, one being the Tequila Factory ;-) haha! I didn't really have any expectations as to what the city would look like, but I knew I didn't want to spend too much time at the beach because 1) I'm used to being at the beach I do live in FLORIDA! So beaches aren't that big of a deal to me and 2) because I HATE tourist traps! (Again, I live in Florida so I'm very aware of the beach being a huge pulling area for tourists.) I always want to see the "real" city whenever I visit a new area.

We had a great tour guide just take us all around town to the "must see" ancient Mayan temples, tequila factory and of course just riding around the city so we could see what it really looked like. Pictures speak for themselves so I'll stop writing now and just show you some of the photos I got while I was down there :)

Okay okay, but first this photo is my absolute favorite! This is my mom (elementary school teacher holding up her school sticker) surrounded by darling school kids who were marching in the street. I believe they were practicing for a future parade so I asked the teacher if I  could take a group photo of them. They were oh too happy to pose for the camera! Aren't they adorable?! This pic puts a huge smile on my face :)

Haha! Us at the Cava Antigua Tequila factory with our awesome...ahem, tipsy, tequila expert!