LISA SHELTON!!!

Jessica Colon - February 3, 2012 - 2:24 pm

Congrats Lisa Shelton!! I hope to win the next giveaway!!

Monday, January 16, 2012

OUR FIRST BLOG GIVEAWAY ~ Kitchen Aid Mixer Decal Set from Un Amore’s Custom Kitchen Couture

Posted in Contest, DIY, Seattle Photographer, Snohomish Photographer, The photographer

Ok, so I have been DYING to have a BLOG Giveaway…and I have been getting so many questions and comments on my AWESOME Custom Painted KitchenAid Mixer from Un Amore, I just thought I had to share!! No, I’m not giving away a KitchenAid mixer {this time!} but I am giving away the next best thing!

{sorry ladies, this one’s all mine!}

Many people ask me if I have decals on my mixer…I actualyl picked this design and Nicole Dinardo painted it to match my kitchen! It’s a one of a kind, but guess what…Nick saw that this design was super popular, so she made a simple solution and started making Decals for those of you that want your mixer to look fabulous like this, without getting a custom paint job! Behold, Custom Kitchen Couture!!

I get to do a lot of the photography for this business, and am one of their biggest fans, so I’d like to Give Away a Premier Damask Decal Set to dress up your own KA Mixer {from Custom Kitchen Couture by Un Amore}!!

There are 3 ways you can enter to WIN this giveaway for a total of THREE entries:

1. Leave a Comment here on this BLOG saying something that will make me smile

2. Leave a Comment at our Heather Lynn Photographie Facebook Fanpage {just mention this giveaway!}

3. Leave a Comment on Custom Kitchen Couture’s Facebook Fanpage {and remember to mention this giveaway!}

KitchenAid Mixer shown is NOT included, you can WIN the DECALS and apply then to your own mixer!!! Up to 3 entries per account/ip address. Winner will be announced February1st on this BLOG, so check back to see if you’ve won!!

Comment Contest Ends January 31st!!

READY…..GO!!!!!

Posted in Contest, DIY, Seattle Photographer, Snohomish Photographer, The photographer Tags: Comment Contest, Custom Kitchen Couture, Giveaway, Un Amore Custom Designs, WIN FREE Kitchen Aid Mixer Decals

72 comments

Rachel Smith - January 16, 2012 - 3:51 pm

Sometimes, when I jump on the trampoline, I have to change my shorts.

Julie Schwab - January 16, 2012 - 3:54 pm

OK hoping to be first but sadly second (first the worst, second the best…) It is truly special people that can hold their heads high and wear custom made matching reindeer sweaters (or as the Europeans say ‘jumpers’) and walk around town looking casual.

Kymberly Dempsey - January 16, 2012 - 4:00 pm

I love how everytime our wedding is mentioned 2 things are discussed…
1.) The seahawks won the play offs that day
2.) Our photogropher was beautiful and so was her thong/ass crack that made an appearance…:) Most guests said the thong aka whale tale made for not only the best vow exchange ever but since my whale tale makes many appearances that I must have chosen our lovely phogropher based on our matching…ummm…assets.. <3
-Kym

Lindsay - January 16, 2012 - 4:50 pm

My photographer is a little peice of SUNSHINE, walking around making things beautiful with her light!!! XOXO

jamie mccotter - January 16, 2012 - 5:07 pm

Love these and our photographer!!

Jenaferre James - January 16, 2012 - 5:12 pm

I have been asking for one of your amazing custom mixers for my birthday for two years. Sadly, finances have not been so to allow such a luxury…yet. Keeping my fingers crossed & saving those pennies for next year! I do love sharing your page & hearing everyone’s adoring comments.

Erin Kowald - January 16, 2012 - 5:20 pm

If only I would have had the chance to get to know you better in Washington. Our photo sessions (well, Kendall’s photo sessions) were always so fun. We were blessed to have found you and been able to work with you. Crossing my fingers that I win this decal. You have the best taste. . .as evident by your Pinterest account.

Gina Chatterson - January 16, 2012 - 5:40 pm

Hello! Something funny huh…..well my husband came home last night from work and I asked him how his day was (he is a Police Officer). He said, “well the lady I took to jail peed in the back of my car and had poo all over her shoes”. “I spent a good part of my shift cleaning my car”. Poor guy, he had to clean pee and poo even at work:)

Allicia - January 16, 2012 - 6:29 pm

Love this contest idea!!!
Love the design!!
I’ve enjoyed following your photography on Facebook

Bridgette @ Baking Bridgette - January 16, 2012 - 6:44 pm

I’m so excited that you love Nicole’s work! I am always fascinated by her mixers. Thanks for the giveaway. Your mixer is gorgeous by the way!

Theresa - January 16, 2012 - 6:46 pm

I have confidence in sunshine; I have confidence in rain; I have looked at every picture posted on Un Amore’s facebook (four times at least) and your Kitchenaid is definitely my favorite.

For your smile: sunshine, runny babbits, lemon drops, and rainbows.

And if I won these decals, I’d smile every day.

amy halpern - January 16, 2012 - 6:47 pm

My kitchen looks naked because my kitchenaid is under dressed. WInning the decal would greatly improve my kitchen

Hillary - January 16, 2012 - 6:49 pm

This makes cooking glamorous!

Christina - January 16, 2012 - 6:50 pm

Mixer decals are genius! I am in kitchen-aid envy!

jan - January 16, 2012 - 6:51 pm

I teach 8th grade. How’s that for a laugh?

Catherine Burt - January 16, 2012 - 6:53 pm

If only I had one of your works of Divine lovelines so I could make biscuits and special treats for my Miss Maggie,Harley,Coco and Rusty in honor of my eternally missed and beloved Dobie Brandy…it would be oh so fabulous!

Rachel - January 16, 2012 - 6:55 pm

Love your work! I really admire creative people that have a vision and can do it for a living! Keep it up, I enjoy the pictures of all the kitchen aide mixers!

Carisa Tobler - January 16, 2012 - 6:56 pm

Help!!! My Kitchen-aide is naked!!!

Jessica Simmons - January 16, 2012 - 6:58 pm

I’m in love with her mixer artwork! I also have a damask kitchen, and would LOVE to win!!! Beautiful photography!

Lilianne Brooks - January 16, 2012 - 6:59 pm

These decals me us smile !

Rebecca - January 16, 2012 - 7:01 pm

I just got a Kitchenaid and it’s needs to be prettified!! Thanks for the opportunity!

Teresa - January 16, 2012 - 7:06 pm

Doing a happy dance! I had no idea these decals existed!

Alyssa - January 16, 2012 - 7:06 pm

Nothing is better at bringing two people together than the mutual hatred of a third person

laura t - January 16, 2012 - 7:09 pm

my sad, tired, worn out Kitchenaid will thank you a million times over!

Denise W - January 16, 2012 - 7:12 pm

I have been drooling over this decal set ever since I got my first new kitchenaid mixer this Christmas (we have been married 25 years!!!) This is a great contest!

Jessica - January 16, 2012 - 7:17 pm

Your photography is a beautiful work of art so thought I would add a beautiful quote =)
When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! ~Ted Grant

Laura S - January 16, 2012 - 7:28 pm

Enter me, please! Brittney’s photos look great!

Robin - January 16, 2012 - 7:31 pm

Lovely and cool giveaway, thanks for offering it,and good luck to everyone who enters~!!!

Jeanie Neville - January 16, 2012 - 7:34 pm

What a wonderful idea! My yellow kitchen aid mixer needs the love!

Shari Dube - January 16, 2012 - 7:38 pm

You want something funny, ok here we go and this is true. Lately when my husband and I go anywhere he tells either a cashier or someone we run into that he met me at a circus. I was working behind the wirlybird ride near the yak ladies tent selling kisses for a 50¢but he got one for a nickel. He said I had $500 in my pocket. I never know what will come out of his mouth next. He really is a wonderful man. I would love to win the decals. Sorry but this is truly a crazy story

Kari Albin - January 16, 2012 - 7:39 pm

A photographer took a self portrait in a park.
Due to lighting conditions he used the built in flash on the camera. He quickly got arrested for flashing and exposing himself in the park.

Angie bachert - January 16, 2012 - 7:40 pm

I am a nurse and when I think of all of the bad things I have to deal with (death, poop, crazy family members, and more poop)
Just that little smile on my patients face knowing someone cares about them is all worth it.

Charmagne Pearson - January 16, 2012 - 7:46 pm

I love reading Nicole’s blog and Heather Lynn’s blog. I am so thankful for these wonderfully talented ladies to share their art with us little people. Pure joy that brightens my day! Thank you!

JoAnne C Kelley - January 16, 2012 - 7:49 pm

Hoping this makes you smile…
When the chicken was asked about crossing the road , it replied that it never would have if it had known it would have had to answer endless questions about it . Oh and….
the decals would look amazing on the new mixer my husband got me for Christmas.

Stephanie Emerson - January 16, 2012 - 7:52 pm

I am obsessed with damask.. my bedroom has been overtaken. It would be awesome to vomit some of that loveliness into my kitchen!!

Christine - January 16, 2012 - 7:56 pm

I love love love these mixers!!

Ally Benson - January 16, 2012 - 8:20 pm

I don’t have a Kitchenaid mixer yet, but having the decals for it would be great incentive to buy one soon!

Claudia White - January 16, 2012 - 8:32 pm

What A very elegant touch to a designer kitchen!! to go with all the designer baking I do!!! It would so Rock to get a mixer boost!!! Awesome design!

Renee - January 16, 2012 - 8:56 pm

I love your artwork, you are amazing!!!

KristinE - January 16, 2012 - 9:19 pm

I am so happy that you are featuring a give-away of these decals. I have been admiring her work since she was featured on the Pioneer Woman. It’s so awesome to see such amazing work from a kick butt lady!

Sharon - January 16, 2012 - 10:08 pm

I finally bought my first KA Stand Mixer, as I have wanted one for so many years! Amazon’s sale was it and now the Pro 6 QT mixer in Gloss Cinnamon is mine! How lovely it would look with Nicole’s designs! I’m in! Thanks….

Amanda - January 17, 2012 - 12:08 am

Something to make you smile……
Well, when I was younger I always said when I get married I was 2 things…. a KitchenAide mixer and a rainbow vacuum. Last Christmas I received the mixer! (Whoohoo best surprise gift EVER) the best part about having that mixer:
We as a family have begun working out; My son (5y/o), during the workout if I take a rest says and I quote, “Come on mom! Dig deep you don’t wanna be fat!”
But when he says that I don’t wanna ‘dig deep’, all I can think about is going infact the kitchen and with the help of my KitchenAide mixer making some sugary, sweet, chocolatey, goowey, yummy dessert! She is my weekness!

Jason Kvame - January 17, 2012 - 12:34 am

Hello… So I’m a photographer and I think your work is awesome. My gf has a Kitchenaid Mixer that she just absolutely loves and uses all the time. She has been drooling over the kitchenaid designs more than food itself at the moment. So I figured I should atleast try and win one for her so she can drool more but make something yummy at the same time! She can’t make anything yummy staring at the computer screen. Thank you for offering the giveaway, it’s a wonderful idea.

Tiffiany - January 17, 2012 - 1:36 am

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Steve Martin

Jayne Mackie - January 17, 2012 - 3:40 am

I just got my first kitchenaid mixer and it’s in the exact colour of the pink in your giveaway! fate much?

To make you laugh here’s my appauling attempt: What do you call a man in a bush?

Russell!

Belinda Tolley - January 17, 2012 - 6:03 am

mY bERRY cOLORED MIxer would love some tattoos!!! Please PiCK MEEEEE!!!

Margaret Diez - January 17, 2012 - 6:59 am

The very first appliance that my husband gave me was my Kitchenaid mixer. All these years later (too many to count)’ I still smile when I look at it. Great giveaway idea.

Amy Kipp - January 17, 2012 - 7:11 am

Want, want, want!!!!!!!!! Oh did I mention I want this?

Allison - January 17, 2012 - 7:53 am

I got my KitchenAid for Christmas! I have been eyeing these decals since then!!

Terri Camp - January 17, 2012 - 7:53 am

I love my 1979 KitchenAid Mixer but at our age, we could use a little fixing up! These decals would give her the face lift she needs! Beautiful! This is such a fun blog and a great contest idea! Thank you!

Anita - January 17, 2012 - 8:51 am

I bought a Kitchen Aid stand mixer a few years ago, just to make Gingerbread Houses with my Special Education students every December. I make a about 10 batches of dough every year. I also started a tradition at the same time of making houses and trains on Christmas Eve with my son and his neighborhood friends. I don’t even remember how I stumbled across this website. I absolutely love the creativity. I would love to decorate mine with a gingerbread house design and have the tradition continue for years to come.

Shannon Thompson - January 17, 2012 - 9:37 am

I am in love with that mixer.
My little guy sat in bed eating cereal watching scooby doo. it was hysterical cause the whole time he was going im just like daddy…

dollhousecreation(at)gmail(dot)com

Shannon Thompson - January 17, 2012 - 9:39 am

liked both pages on fb
Teh Doll
dollhousecreation(at)gmail(dot)com

Brie'n Miller - January 17, 2012 - 11:26 am

Happy Snow Day Heather!! I hope you are enjoying every second of “Snowmageddon” (that is what King5 is calling it! Ha!!)

Shannon Nelson - January 17, 2012 - 12:14 pm

Loving this mixer and Un Amore. She’s brilliant and your photography highlights her talent amazingly… great job!

Penni G - January 17, 2012 - 2:23 pm

I have been “bugging” my husband how much I would love her art work on my mixer. But he just doesn’t agree with me. I would LOVE to have the decals and I’m sure he would to, so I would stop “bugging” him!

Sonia W. - January 17, 2012 - 6:10 pm

Well…..I’ve been stalking your website for ages because I love your photography style and I want to shoot photos like you when I grow up. And since you’re so inspirational in your photography, perhaps I could also glean some more inspiration by having a similar looking mixer? Also, this decal design matches my bedroom decor, and it would be *SO* cute to draw that out into the kitchen too!

Angel S. - January 17, 2012 - 10:33 pm

This is a FABULOUS idea!! I have seen your pictures of your mixer on the net and always thought that I wanted one like it when I grew up….perhaps this is my opportunity. btw.. love your stuff it is GREAT!

Mandy - January 18, 2012 - 8:26 am

From one photographer to another you inspire me!

Ashley R - January 18, 2012 - 10:12 am

My birthday was January 16th! I love your website. Everything about it is super cute!

Tracey - January 20, 2012 - 10:50 pm

This idea is absolutely amazing! My fiance’ suprised me with a Kitchen Aid mixer and said he loved everything I baked so he wanted to make things easier for me. I know I will wear the motor out soon!

Amy Ziegler - January 21, 2012 - 8:35 am

I am dying for these custom mixers. I have a white normal junky one that my husband probably bought for $10 lol. It barely works. I love design on the custom painted mixer looks stylish girl!

Amanda Valenti - January 22, 2012 - 8:15 am

Something to make you smile….

You mixer is pinned EVERYWHERE on Pinterest! I have had it been in my “Things I Dream Of Folder” since the first week I joined Pinterest!! I love it. The painter did an AMAZING job, I would LOVE this look-a-like decal!

thanks so much for the chance to win!
avalenti6936 at yahoo dot com

Amanda Valenti - January 22, 2012 - 8:18 am

I commented on your Photographie facebook page!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Heather-Lynn-Photographie/49400132088#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150594090862089&id=49400132088

Thank you!

Nicole Taylor - January 22, 2012 - 5:36 pm

I LOVE these mixers! For a person who makes cakes on the side, I would die for one of these mixers! It would make my cakes even more special to be rockin fancy tools!

Laurie Coronado - January 22, 2012 - 7:42 pm

I can’t say enough about how much I love your work!! And I feel the same about Un Amore! What better way to get the best of both worlds than to win the blog giveaway?! : )

Alicia - January 24, 2012 - 1:33 pm

I NEED to transform my lime green/yellow kitchenAid into something fabulous!

Clarissa Nuckles - January 26, 2012 - 7:43 pm

I don’t know you, and you don’t know me, but I LOVE your blog. I hope that makes you smile. I’d love to win this contest.

Mary - January 27, 2012 - 10:53 am

This is such a fantastic giveaway! Thanks so much for the opportunity to enter.

Katy - January 27, 2012 - 3:05 pm

Have been saving for a custom mixer job … So if I win the decals I can invest in the food processor right??… And then I’ll need more decals!!!

connie Thompson - January 29, 2012 - 7:23 pm

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Dawn Pinky Newell - January 31, 2012 - 8:24 am

WOW!!! your photos are epic & moving, simple & elegant. I have bought my only daughter a mixer as a new apartment gift. She always loved using mine, and it was time for her to have her own. And then…she has done something… she turned me on to the CustomKitchenCouture site… I have not done anything productive for over 24 hours now – all I can do is sit & click & stare @ the designs for the mixers… thinking I want one of everything… ok I should knock down one wall and build on to my kitchen just to have more space to have a “gallery” of mixers & designs… the dreams I had, the designs that filled my head… the pictures of flowers so real you can almost smell them, the roar of a bomber engine as it flies by… and my husband ( bless his heart) has been truly wonderful, he wipes the drool from my face fairly regular as he walks by me in my office as I just sit comatose staring at the designs…
What a wonderful thing you are doing by having this contest – to whomever wins, may their heart be filed with happiness & joy to have something so wickedly cool!!!! Now yall all go & play purdy!

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Baking Birthday Slumber Party {oooh the crazy fun}

Posted in Birthday Party, Childrens photography, DIY, Events, Life Style, Portraits, Seattle Photographer, Snohomish Photographer, The photographer, kids

I recently had the brilliant idea to have a Baking themed birthday party for my 12-year-old. My blossoming young tween wanted a baking-ice-skating-painting-dance-slumber party…so we compromised and I let her have a few friends over the night before to participate in the preparations for her Baking Slumber Party!! Part of the “party” was in the experience of making all of the cake-pops and cookies the night before, together.

The girls had a blast {and I almost had a nervous breakdown with all that was going on at once, at volume 12, until 2 am…} We had lots and lots of help from my fabulous mixer {custom painted by the amazing Un Amore Designs} and I think the girls just liked having turns using it {I know it inspires ME to bake!!}. Bright and early in the morning, before the party, the girls made decorations with cupcake liners, and party favors with Cookies in a Jar. We even had time to mold edible PhotoBooth Props {lips and mustaches on a stick!}. My favorite touch!

I provided ideas and inspiration, and everything was homemade by the girls except the aprons! I really wanted to make those myself, but I am no wonder-woman…so I hired the wonder-woman at Rockin Bobbin to make my over-the-top adorable aprons and hat flowers {just got the chef hats at Micheals!} My youngest girls even got to dress up and be a part of the party! They all had the best time I could have ever imagined!! It was totally worth the hours spent on Pinterest and sleepless night with a house-full of aspiring Bakerellas

Posted in Birthday Party, Childrens photography, DIY, Events, Life Style, Portraits, Seattle Photographer, Snohomish Photographer, The photographer, kids Tags: aprons, bakerella party, baking, baking party, birthday party photo booth, Birthday Session, cake pops, cookies, DIY, DIY deocorations, edible props, home made, kids birthday party, mustache props, photo booth, Simply Sweet Cupcakes

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

New Year, New Hope ~ Holiday Session

Posted in Family Photos

This last few months has been flooded with adorable little mini-sessions and family-fun galore!! I have been doing Holiday sessions like you would not believe, and I have had a blast! I love being part of making family memories and telling a story of who you are and what your family is about!! I was completely touched by the Schwab family that is fighting {and beating} Cancer. This photoshoot was a Celebration of Life and every single moment we have together!! Heck-yeah. Hope. Love. Life. This is what it’s all about, and these families of lovers and fighters are so lucky to know how precious life is. This New Year, I am totally going to smile bigger, love deeper, live louder and dance harder.

Posted in Family Photos Tags: celebrate life, family pet, Family Photos, fight against cancer, Holiday Session

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

DIY Fun ~ Pinterest Inspired

Posted in Seattle Photographer, The photographer

So, I have always been a crafty momma. I like making gifts and pretty things. I used to scrap-book with my girlfriends, and set up scenes to photograph just for a page, and spend hours creating the perfect homemade birthday invitations…ok, I still do that, but I have totally been consumed with working and going, going going, that I had to remind myself that I’m not just a photographer. I’m a mom, an artist, I like to dress up, dance, I like to cook, I like to create crafts and plan parties!!! So, with a little help from my new BFF Pinterest, I have been categorizing those ideas and actually doing them!! This Fall season, I have taken back my inner house-mom and I got crafty, I dressed up for Holloween, I find new things to do every day! Take a look at some of my Pinterest Inspired craftiness! If you aren’t already a Pinterester, you may not be addicted yet…that’s ok, you will be soon, and you can Follow my Pins HERE!!

I really had a great time dressing up with my girls this Holloween! My favorite was my little Audrey Hepburn in her tutu from Bee Bops and Lollipops {I didn’t have to buy a thing for our costumes since I already had the tutu!}. I had a lot of fun as Rosie the Riveter too:) {my other girls went as I love Lucy and I Dream of Genie}.

After trick-or treating, we made roasted pumpkin-seeds…3 Kinds! Cinnamon, Salted Caramel, and Traditional Sea Salt!

We also totally had to try recycling old crayons into new fun-shaped rainbow crayons! All three of my kids loved this!!

We also made these decorations for the door! This ribbon wreath and pumpkin ideas can also be found on Pinterest! I am inspired every time I sign in, but I always find a way to put my own little creative twist on thingsFun, Fun, Fun!!!

Posted in Seattle Photographer, The photographer Tags: Costumes, Crafts, DIY, Pinterest

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