Kitestring's Christmas Spectacular

Friday night i went to Kitestring's Christmas Spectacular and i gotta say... IT ROCKED! This is the 3rd annual Spectacular, and it's been the best one so far. This is a charity event put on by the very talented folks at Kitestring Creative Branding Studio, to bring after school arts programs to Hamilton kids. Even though it's only the 3rd year, this event is getting huge! The place was packed... and i mean really packed! The place, by the way, was The Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts. There was a killer candy buffet, a pageant with all sorts of performers, tons of door prizes, an after party with a live band called The Greasemarks (who were amazing, btw!) and lots of funky, merry people! 

Chris, the imagination behind Kitestring, interviewing one of the Rollergirls. Lee from Double Barrel Studios, who I just met that night and seems super fun, is filming. 

This is the crazy candy buffet. Need I say more....?

Here are the performers from that night. It was a nice surprise! Hamilton has some serious talent!!

The Rollergirls giving out door prizes

Gorilla Cheese was there and they gave out Grilled Cheese sandwiches to EVERYONE! Yum!

The Greasemarks playing at the after party. Love their sound!

Way to go Kitestring! Once again you put on an awesome show. Go big or go home, right? And what a great cause too, thanks for lending a hand to the people in our neighborhood! 

Holidays Month

2010 is almost OVER.....

HAVE YOU HAD YOUR FAMILY PORTRAITS THIS YEAR???

Snowball - A social media social, by kitestring

The awesome crew of Kitestring Creative, my favorite marketing company, put on a 'super social' event to teach people about using social media for business and for pleasure. Needless to say, it was a huge success, lots of fun... and because of it, now I'm officially a twitterer...or tweeter? And of course I took pictures! It took place at the 'Staircase Theater' in Hamilton. There was fun and games, lots of learning (4 pages of notes!), tea and cookies and the most absolutely delicious scones (I had 2 with jam and cream - great for my diet...) and so much socializing... I met a ton of new people! THANKS KITESTRING! p.s. where can I get me some more of those scones?

Charity Portrait Day was a SUCCESS!

I just wanted to thank everyone who participated in this event to help make this happen!

We were very busy on December 12, 2009, we had over 35 bookings and were able to raise almost $1000 that we donated to The Good Shepherd's Hamilton Foodbank in the form of Metro Gift Cards. All the participants went home with a beautiful 8x12 portrait and a grocery bag full of goodies! This event was photographed by myself and the 2 other wonderful photographers that I share a studio with, Geoff Carruthers (who planned the event) and Julie Thompson. I would also like to thank the people that volunteered to help out with organizing, assisting, ushering, etc... Thank you to all the business that donated their food. I know it was a tiring day for everyone, but what a great experience. Hope you all had as much fun as I did! Here are just a few samples from December 12...