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Meet Aimee

Thanks for visiting my blog! I am a girl who loves all things anthropologie, DIY & homespun. If you are interested in making arts and crafts, chatting it up, doing a photo shoot or submitting to my blog please contact me!

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Tag Archives: troy grover photography

{Industrial Elegance}

One of my best friends, Lindye Galloway Events asked me to design a table scape with her for the Utterly Engaged New Years party. Sixteen teams contested in the “modern” themed challenge. Each team was given a budget of $150 for the centerpiece which had to be made of industrial materials, paper or fabric as...

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DIY Sushi!!

For our wedding, my sister-in-law gave us all the necessities for rolling our own sushi, complete with recipe cards & a shopping list! As avid sushi lovers, we were so excited to try it out! We decided it would be fun to attempt this adventure with our friends & fellow photographers the Frenzels. Here are...

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Flora and Fauna

The drive down to the Newport peninsula is in full bloom! I’m not sure if the trees have been falsely alerted that it’s spring, but they look beautiful! Driving past the white and purple blossoms have lifted my spirits this rainy season. The first day of Spring on March 20th is fast approaching! In the...

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The Lately

It has turned out to be quite the busy month! So sorry I haven’t been blogging as usual. We took a trip out to Omaha last week for a late wedding reception with Troy’s family, then busily began designing for the Utterly Engaged party, celebrated my Birthday on Friday & then traveled out to Palm...

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A Peek into Modern Glam

One of my best friends, Lindye Galloway Events asked me to design a table scape with her for the Utterly Engaged New Years party. Sixteen teams contested in the “modern” themed challenge.  We decided on a modern glam theme & used industrial & paper materials to accomplish our look. We had a blast doing the...

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you a-muse me

Yesterday morning I met up for coffee with my friend Allison, who I worked at Montage Laguna Beach with this past summer. While we were talking she mentioned how neat it was that Troy and I are in the same “muse” now. I love that word, MUSE. I’ve been thinking about that today & re-appreciating...

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Will The Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up.

One of the toughest decisions of an engagement shoot is what to wear. After all, you are paying a good deal of money for that ‘oh so good’ photographer of yours. It seems to be, that when it comes to choosing the perfect outfit, couples tend to go safe rather than fun. I call this style the...

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frozen but hot?

While in Las Vegas shooting a wedding with Troy Grover, we visited a fun restaurant called Serendipity. The word serendipity means accidently discovering something fortunate. I would say that happened to us :) Really cool lamps & design inside. A blogger I found who documents ceilings snapped this great shot!  

I also got to try Serendipity’s famous...

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“have myself a home life”

One of my very favorite things in high school was my CD alarm clock. At the time it was pretty high tech. You could actually choose a CD track to wake up to every morning. I used to set my alarm to John Mayer’s “Home Life” song. Ironic that years down the road I’d be...

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