Wet and Wild Engagement Photos!
When it comes to engagement photos a princess must ask herself, “Do I want pictures of me in my turtle necked frock, wearing grandmas brooch and my beau wearing a tux that cuts off the circulation of blood to the part of his brain that controls his facial expressions” or “Do I want to wear a sexy black dress, some stilletos and take my lover to the beach and show the locals how babies are made?” Hmmm…Toughie… For my hot friends Heather and Milan some sand and grind suited them best!
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gement photos were shot by Heavenly Portraits. More of these wet and wild photos can be seen on the Heavenly Portraits blog. Check it out. Definitely a talented duo of photographers.
These are probably some of the hottest engagement photos I have ever seen! I love the one where the wave is totally working him. Note to princesses: Real Kings dont mind getting their threads a little damp in order to get a smooch from gorgeous you!
So, I’ve worked as a photo assistant in the past and I think there are definitely some questions you should ask yourself before you choose your photographer. See below and have a royaly, fabulous day!
1.) Does your photographer jive with your princessy ways? If you dont like the photographers personalities, they’ll end up bugging you all day. When you are interviewing look for someone that you would want to invite to your wedding.
2.) Does your photographer know WHO the royal family is? One of my girlfriends got her photos back and saw that their were tons of candid shots of a friend-of-a-friends kid playing around the cake-cute, but not what she wanted…and no pictures of her Grandma at all-what she wanted. It may sound a tad over the top, but a real Princess takes care of business before the big show. So gather some snapshots of the people you want pictures of and show them to your photographer fella and tell him who you really want pics of. Otherwise you’re going to have some great high definition pictures of your cousins flavor of the month that he met at a bar to treasure forever.
3.) And remember Princesses, photographers dressed in black are not former crystal ball readers dressed in black…they can’t read minds….If on your wedding day you have noticed that the photographer hasn’t shot any formal picture of you alone in your gorgeous princess dress that took a month to pick out then you better say, “Hey! Dude with the camera! Would you mind shooting that baby over here?” Yeah, it may feel a little awkward, but a real princess knows how to communicate what she wants gracefully…and I know you can do it!
Love, Princess Nini Spice
Graduation Cakes fit for a Princess!
This past weekend was my sister Princess Amy’s Graduation Party. My mom, the Queen never fails to remind us and everyone around us that me and my four sisters are princesses. She takes such great measures as making 3 couture Graduation cakes for one party. Some call it extravagant, some say its glutonous, some even throw around the word, “spoiled rotten adults” but the only thing I have ever tasted in my moms cakes is sweet! So check out these hot graduation cakes my mom didn’t fail to impress with!
About cake #2: Princess Amy is known to balance her studies with her “sipping” in grand affect. What cracks me up here is the large orthodox bible that my mom put on the jacuzzi. I guess she assumes Amy reads her bible in between downing her nearby Margaritas and wine. I guess all you need is wine, the bible, some holy jacuzzi water and you got yourself one blessed Sunday. Great job mom!
Happy Graduation to you Princess Amy and to all of you other princesses graduating from pre school, elementary school, high school, college, veterinary school, law school, cooking school, opthomology school, pharmacy school, cosmetology school, driving school, napkin folding school, astronomy school and boba making school. I heard a really cool quote today.
”Seek to find what the world needs from you.”
-Eckhart Tolle
Love, Princess Nini Spice xoxoxo
My Marie is Married!
…and another one bite’s the dust…. a couple weekends ago wearing a gorgeous Mon Amie wedding dress one of my sweetest girlfriends Marie got married in Laguna Beach to one very LUCKY dude named Gregg. Their ceremony was uber-duber beautiful on a cliff over looking the ocean. It was a beautiful Southern California day that turned one of my favorite girls night-gal-pals from a “Miss. ” to a “Mrs.” Marie is a testament of “Everything happens for a reason.” So all you single gals take a good look at Gregg (who is the most amazing guy ) and remember to hold out for THE BEST guy who will treat you like the princess you are!
Before meeting Gregg I really thought there was no guy good enough for Marie. I mean she is so sweet, so kind, so faithful, so patient, so smart…I felt like they discontinued the matching “ken doll” to the “Marie Barbie collection.” And then he shows up with this humility, kindness and prince charming good looks and boom….I’m left drinking latte’s and eating dinner by myself! Oh well, it’s my philosophy that the fun of “Getting married” is actually the journey of “getting” there. It’s the journey of horrific blind dates, meeting strange men and having to ride home in a cab with a martini on your skirt and calamari in your hair that makes eventually “getting married” so fun.
So I did what I do at every wedding I attend, I clocked the left ring finger of Marie and Gregg’s wedding photographer Trever Hoehne . What? Like you don’t do it? I thought hey, he’s artsy, he’s cute and then my girlfriends leans in and says “and he’s ENGAGED!” Oh well, good for his chick, cause he is one impressive dude who took some awesome pictures of this wedding. Check em out on his blog: http://treverhoehne.blogspot.com I love weddings and I Love you Marie and Gregg! Love, Princess Nini Spice xoxoxo
“Where there is LOVE there is GOD also.” – Leo Tolstoy
Thank you-so-much-homemade cards
There is a saying that goes, “Good friends listen, great friends understand and real friends help you move!” Well, when it comes to “Real friends” I don’t think I could have picked a more ripe and organic bunch than my girlfriend Cece and her 3 kids. So I wasn’t going to tell anyone I was moving for the (no exaggeration) 19th time in my life. I felt bad for having my friends take time out from their weekends to help the permanent crisis mode chick. I was going to slyly get some boxes and just do everything in 10 trips using my Toyota Corolla…yeah, but my girlfriend Cece had other things in mind. She called me and said, “Hey woman, I heard you are moving. The kids and I are helping you. I am bringing boxes and tape and you can’t stop me. See you Wednesday.” This amazing woman homeschools her kids. She kept her kids in late on Monday so they could finish all their work early and could help me move. They all showed up bright eyed, cheery and ready to bubble wrap all my little Tiffany boxes and Friends DVD’s. This sweet little family reminded me that real friends switch things around and don’t hesitate to shed some body sweat to remind you that you are loved and cared for. I also thought about how blessed these kids are to have a mom who is daily showing them what it means to be a real friend. So I made this cutie patootie homemade Thank you Card for the fam. I used my cricut to cut out the die cuts of “Merci” and “Gracias.” I used a silver metallic pen to accent the stars and write out Thank you in different languages. I googled different ways to say Thank you. Here is a little lesson for all my friendly fluent peeps:
Cam On- Thank you (Vietnamese)
Danke- Thank you( German)
Tack- Thank you (Sweedish)
Schnorhagallem- Thank you (Armenian)
Thanks for reading friends!
Love you!
PrincessNiniSpice
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Bridesmaids Dress Tip…
Oh violet bridesmaids dress, I loved you so,
I miss the way you gently made my waist grow!
Yet I will always have affection for you Periwinkle blue,
the way your long chiffon protected me from groomsmen spew.
But, no one compares to you Hooker Red,
The way you kept all eyes on me as the conga line was led.
Oh bridesmaids dresses, you are a honor to wear,
True friendship wears all colors without a care.
Now that I have probably dis-throwned myself from ever being asked again to be in another wedding for the rest of my life I can blog this morning…..(*Side note (or attempt to get foot out of mouth)…I really have felt honored to be in every wedding that I have been asked to be in. No matter what the dresses have looked like, I think its an even trade for the jokes I make during my speeches 
So a friend of mine is getting married and she has led her ladies passed the Jessica McClintock, Macy’s and Bloomingdales stores and decided to stop in front of Anthropologie for her dresses.
I think this is a genius idea! One of the girls in the wedding said, “I will ACTUALLY wear this dress again.” I took a look at the Anthropologie dresses this morning and they are so super duper cute! If you are going to spend $150 -$200 on a dress then what better place to spend it then at a place that you can also pick up some new drawer knobs? Cuteness all around! Check out the Maritime one below! Have a great weekend girls!
Love, HonestChitChat
Friendship blocks rock!
How do you tell your girlfriend that she rocks? Make her a block! For Lana girls birthday I got crafty and made her an itty bitty block with pictures of us at her fab-parties, with a little note on the bottom. She is so cute and has been such a good friend that she deserved to be cemented on the block of fame. It came out pretty cute too…Make one for your best girlfriends…
Tools:
2×2 inch block, pink paint, jewels and gem stones, blackand white photos cropped to 2×2 inches, rubber cement glue, sealant, paint brushes.
How to:
1.) Select the photos you want to use and change them to black and white in photo shop, by changing the “mode”
2.) Crop photos to 2×2
3.) Paint little block pink
4.) Cut out excess background from pictures
5.) Glue on dried block.
6.) Write little quote, “I love you friend” or a personal note to your beloved friend in photoshop. Crop the note to 2×2 inches and get it developed on photo paper with your other black and white prints. Glue it on the top and bottom of the block.
7.) Adhere all jewels, gems and princess like bedazzlements!
8.) Paint on sealant so everything stays in one memorable place.
9.) Make a wish on your block that you and your friend will stay friends forever, through thick and thin, summer and winter, chick flicks, the office and burnt spaghetti!
Love your BFF,
HonestChitChat
Best friends and beverages…
One of my best girl friends in the whole wide world was telling me about a book she was reading. It’s called Three cups of tea. She explained the name to me. If you are a guest you get 1 cup of tea. If you are a friend you get 2 cups of tea. If you are a friend thats practically family you get 3 cups of tea. I got all, “my little pony” and “cabbage patch doll” on her and gushed, “You are a 3 cups of tea kind of friend to me!” Esspcially since her book inspired my new art piece in my Etsy.com shop.
After thinking about this a little more though I thought about the signifigance of having “tea” with a friend. I mean you can easily down 3 cocktails at a bar on a friday night with some gal pals, you can easily walk down to Java Joes with your co-workers 3 times in one day and then bolt back to your cube, but how many people can you really sit and have 3 cups of tea with? How many friends do I have that are patient enough to sit with me through all of my drama, jokes and reinactments of lunacy in broad daylight? If you have a “3 cups of tea kind of friend” I suggest you hold on to them tight and make them some cupcakes tonight cause those kind of sweeties are a rare and exotic sugar cane.
However, as far as tea goes…..I am way over it! I was doing a detox for the past few months and the only way I will ever take green tea again is if it’s a ice cream, fozen yogurt or mochi flavor. However, if you want the best Soy milk chai tea in the WHOLE WIDE IRVINA WORLD…(which covers travel to 6 countries) you’ll want to go to Alta in Newport Beach. It only comes in medium though (which equals 3 Irvina mini tea cups Have great day friends! xoxoxo
Dinner Party tips via Sedar dinner and Jew Jew Beans…
I’ll let you in on a secret….I think that I am pretty funny. I think it’s the gift of being half Jewish and half Mexican…or as I like to call myself a “Jew Jew Bean” A little chair raising with a pinata in the air and you have a fiesta with one jolly chick…Me!
So I was visiting my little sister up in San Fran this weekend when to my delight we were cordially invited to a Sedar dinner. Being the Jew for Jesus that I am I was so stoked to attend! To the unfortunate melody of my rumbling stomache I learned that the Jews in San Fran take on a Sedar dinner Old testament style where they sacrafise their blood sugar for the sake of knowledge and God. Meaning they did the ritual prayers before dinner…Let me give you the stats: 4 hours of sitting through rituals and chow time didn’t start till midnight. I told my sister, “The Christians Sedar dinner is better…we eat…then we pray….and we get carrot cake!” My sister scolded me with her hazel eyes. But, really I took pictures to show evidence of my inncoence. Look at the scene below. Grown women are so hungry that they are throwing back their heads in angst. Before it was even time to eat it the matzo bread was rationed without one measurment of the carb content. *Dinner Party Tip of the day….If you’re going to host a Sedar dinner (and want the people to blog about the food) feed the people first….but if you have to sit through it get creative and make yourself a …..
Jew Jew Bean doll…like I did! Sexy ain’t she? And if you really know how to play your cards right you’ll get lucky with a sweet little sis like mine…..
…who will reward your patience and take you to Tangerine in San Francisco for breakfast. Order the Zuchinni Latke. It ain’t no Gefilte Fish! Trust me! Shalom!
Follow your heart
So for all my fabulous fans you know I have taken a step away from writing and dove into some creating. Ahhhhhhhh the beauty of being misdiagnosed as “Creative” instead of “ADD” Can you imagine me on Ritalin? It’s a shame really I could probably make the best batch of Peanut-Brittle-Ritallin you ever did taste! I need to market that!
Anyway, I have been working on these mixed media pieces. I am thinking of scanning them and making them into a little box of greeting cards. I am going to sell the originals and prints on my Etsy shop. Here’s a fun little game for you guys. Can you find the old bridemaids dress fabric that I cut up and glue on the artwork? *Past victimized- faux -fashioned- bridesmaids in the same wedding are prohibited from playing.
