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What to Wear for the Holidays

Christmas is often the time when extended families are together.  I get a few requests every year to photograph families that have finally all come together for the Holidays.  It may be the only time it happens all year.  Whether your family portrait this Christmas is by a professional or on your own, it will really make a difference in the overall look if you take the time to coordinate the color scheme of your group.  Use this picture as a visual to have a clothing basis of creams, dark grays or black and tan.  Add a few pops of red or any bright color to tie it all together.

Click the above icon or here to see my Pinterest board of What to Wear.  Get lots of other clothing ideas for families that belong to other people as well as my own stuff.

On a more personal note, I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas.  I don’t cook much during the year and I make up for it the days leading up to Thanksgiving and Christmas.  If you need me, I am in my kitchen.  It is exhausting!  Pinterest has opened up a new world of things to try but I have one go-to cookbook that I always use.  It is my Nana’s Calling All Cooks  cookbook that I inherited years ago after she passed away.  I can’t believe I actually found it on Amazon!  I highly recommend this book.  It has good ole Southern recipes straight from Alabama.  It has the kind of stuff you will find at any church potluck.  Mine is a little more special than what you will find at Amazon because it is falling apart and full of flour and sugar.  The page with my favorite dessert, Four Layer Chocolate Pie, has chocolate on the pages from when she used to make it for me.  I know she made it for me more times than I can count.

Thanks, Nana!

You can find more of my favorite recipes (or what I love the idea of making) on this Pinterest Board.  We have cookie exchanges coming up so yesterday was dedicated mostly to cookie making from scratch.  I think store-bought Oreos are just as good (to me).

Happy Holiday Baking AND Happy Birthday to My Mom today!

Mental note: now that I found Calling All Cooks  online, I will have to buy it for everyone next Christmas.

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picture perfect family atlanta

Picture Perfect Family: Another edition of What to Wear Wednesday and I like this one because of all the Gray.  I am itching to paint a wall in my house gray.  It is a popular color right now and I see it paired with yellow a lot.  I guess the great thing about it is that you can put any bright pop of color and here I have a couple of bright pinks that stand out.  Red for the holiday season would work just as well or even more of the plum color (pants).

It may be too late in the year for a family Christmas portrait to be made by most professional photographers.  If you missed out on one this year you can still coordinate your colors and try to take your own Holiday card pictures.  Minted is a newer card company that your friends may not know about if you are looking for the latest and greatest designs for a card.  I have samples of their cards and they offer a thick card-stock and good quality products.  Take a look at my children below.  They are a tough crowd to get a decent picture from but I just go with it.  I like a more candid picture included on my Christmas Cards anyway. If you can’t get the picture-perfect shot you are looking for, do something fun.  Be real.  Life isn’t picture perfect so show your kids like they are.  For mine that means VERY silly.  Think about what you enjoy seeing on Christmas Cards from other people.

picture perfect family atlanta

I am a self proclaimed slacker blogger.  I’m going to make a big push at the end of this year and have 12 days of blogging.  I have lots of session shares and things I never got online and I also will share some favorite photography related products and gift ideas.  Enjoy your last few days of November.  My oldest turns 11 years old on Friday so it is a big week for us.

 

What to Wear | Picture Perfect Family

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Smyrna Family Photographer

Smyrna Family

We had a great time during this session.  It was a beautiful afternoon with lots of Fall colors and more use of the purples that I love so much.  Mom & Dad were easy going and the kids were just perfect.  I love that I got to “shoot” another middle schooler and that it was the same day he got braces!  What a milestone day for him and I’m glad I got to capture this family before these kids grow any bigger!

This brother and sister did whatever I asked but still were free to have a good time and be themselves so we got some fun candid moments of them together.  That is what I mean by perfect. 🙂

Smyrna Family Photographer

 

 

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What to Wear October

Want to make a bold statement?  Here are some great bold colors.  What better month to wear orange than October?  Boots Boots Boots.  Loving this time of year when we can pull out our boots!

If you don’t want to make such a bold statement, try the core base of this model with chocolate browns and denim.  You can add your own favorite colors to this.  Take note of all the different textures going on.  It makes for a great portrait to have chunky sweaters, corduroy, denim and different textures of clothing.

Lots of fabulous Fall colors right now.  Get out and take some pictures of your family in the Fall leaves now!  Throw in some sun and it makes for a fun picture.  Baby Grace knows what I mean:

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Wow.  It is definitely my busy season!  Welcome to October – I can’t believe it is here!  It is one of my favorite months and it looks like the leaves are changing earlier this year making for beautiful family portraits way ahead of my Christmas cut-offs (1st of November).

The selection of clothing above look great with Atlanta Fall backdrops.  Purples and Teals really stand out from the changing leaves.  Below is a real-world example of a session from last year.  This session was held at the beginning of November.  I believe we are going to hit these Fall colors earlier this year.  They are spectacular!

And another sample session using shades of purple can be found HERE.

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Football Season officially started today for me. War Eagle!

Auburn fans often find me as their family photographer so I thought I would share an Auburn-inspired “what-to-wear”.

 

I’m probably biased but I love burnt orange and navy together.  I think the orange and browns look great in Fall too.

Here is a little blast from my past at one of the Atlanta Auburn Club events my family likes to attend.  Kate loves to shake her pom-poms every chance she gets!   (me too)

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