Happy! Happy! Joy! JOY

Oh boy, it's been a thrilling ride since I returned from my mini-vacay to the mountains for my birthday. I must do a blog just on the JOYful time I had! Don't worry, that's coming!

Upon driving back to Atlanta in dreary but perfect mountain-getaway weather, I immediately came back to cleaning out the inbox, returning phone calls, attending meetings, pitching, writing press releases, strategy meetings and fashion events! Gotta love my life (smug).

Speaking of the fashion events - the Betsey Johnson fashion show on the 6th was fierce!  Our client, Model and Fashion Beauty Director for the 19th Hole Magazine, Renee Knorr co-hosted the event with the lovely Suchita Vadlamani formerly of Good Day Atlanta.  I want to personally thank the fab Nikka Shea of Oh! Nikka and Alicia Edwards, fashion/style blogger for their write-ups.

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Renee Knorr with Suchita Vadlamani

On September 8th, client One Hundred Days with Author/Humanitarian Linda Cox debuted Market Rwanda at the pop-up shop in Atlantic Station and boy were they impressive!  I literally walked in with my mouth dropped open in ooooooooo's and ahhhhhhh's. Congratulations to the fabulous team at One Hundred Days, Susan & David S., Kelli & Scott S., Jim C., and former Miss America, Kirsten Haglund. What professionals!!

Market Rwanda made quite a splash at the pop-up event and started making sales even before the party officially started. Gotta be those chunky beads, or maybe it's the colorful bags or the rings or earrings?  I don't know, it's all gorgeous!  Enjoy some of the pics below and read the blog over at OHD for more commentary.

What a week, but it's been so happy and joyful and I'm so thankful to all the people and events I'm connected  to that made it all possible! (((HUGS)))

We're ready for shopping!

model wearing Market Rwanda beads

Look at that fanfare! Linda in grey wearing those famous chunky beads!

Yellow Chunky Beads from Market Rwanda

Yellow Chunky beaded earrings from Market Rwanda

Awesome party Modern Luxury!  Also special thanks to Nikka Shea (Oh! Nikka) & Holly Clay (Sheen Magazine) for coming out!

Happy HAUTE September!!

Happy September Everyone!

We LOVE Fall and not just because it's just simply beautiful, but because....well, it's Just Simply Beautiful!!!  Autumn has a way of using the changing colors of leaves to get us into reflection as the hibernation of Winter prepares to make it's arrival.

While Summer was definitely HOT here in Atlanta and in our agency - we had record-breaking media accomplishments during Summer, thanks to the fabulous brands we have the opportunity to work alongside.

Jersey Girl Sports, continue to trend as the #1 online website for women who love sports.  Charleston media rolled out the red carpet for Strikes & Stilettos, their baseball 101 for women!  Shouts out to the crew at Z.93 FM - Tessa & Baby J and of course the beautiful Laura Harris for Low Country Live. Atlanta always show us love from Sam Crenshaw at WXIA to CBS Better Mornings and Good Day Atlanta.  Now the ladies are in Miami to kick-off "1st & Flirty" with Black Enterprise for their football 101 and will make a TOUCHDOWN here in Atlanta with the Harvey Twins on September 18th.  BE THERE!

Yours Truly is celebrating my birthday on September 6 and what better way to party than with a fashion show presented by Betsey Johnson at the W. Hotel in Buckhead. Talk about HAUTE!!! Model and Fashion & Beauty Director of THE 19TH HOLE MAGAZINE, Renee Knorr along with former Good Day Atlanta host, the beautiful, Suchita Vadlamani are hosts for this fabulous event.  All I gotta say is "If you're NOT there then you MUST be a Square!!"  LOL!  Tickets are only $10 before the event and pre and after parties are for all to enjoy!

Also One Hundred Days and Author/Humanitarian, Linda Cox continue to trek through Atlanta on an international treasure hunt to Rwanda with MARKET RWANDA! In July, MARKET RWANDA debuted its beautiful handmade collection of jewelry and home decor at Emerging Art Scene Gallery in Castleberry Hill to a media wave and will be launching into September at the HAUTEST fashion event in the city celebrating Fashion's Night Out with Modern Luxury at SHOP ATLANTA. The VIP reception promises to be exactly what we're hoping for! MARKET RWANDA is a beautiful collection of handmade jewelry and home decor from Rwanda courtesy of One Hundred Days whose mission is to help build restoration in Rwanda. The shopping experience will be going on all weekend from September 9 - September 11. Stop by and say "Hi!"

That's just a little of what we've been up to!  There's so much more of this creative energy going on behind the scenes from new looks, movie premieres, reality shows and even writing of a New York Times Bestselling book.  Stay tuned, ya hear?!  We have SO MUCH to keep sharing!

Until next time, Happy HAUTE Labor Day Weekend and reach out to us if you're interested in attending any of these fabulous events!!

CIAO!

Club VIPink - Meet The Ladies of Pink Stiletto Valet (PSV)

I've had the pleasure of working with one of the hardest working women I know!  A former model and NFL-wife, Cordie Moore is a business savvy mogul mom who's sold luxe properties in her lifetime, worked as a VP at a Fortune 500 Financial Institution and now taking the male-dominated valet industry and putting a pink kiss on it with her all female valet service, Pink Stiletto Valet!


Pink Stiletto Valet™ (PSV), an all female valet, hostess and models service. PSV is sexy, savvy, and staking claim in what is a male dominated industry. Cordie Moore is CEO and Founder of a powerful and sexy brand. She says, “The PSV brand means everything to me. I want our clients to know that we are more than just pretty faces. We provide excellent service and delivery; and serve as a marketing extension of the main event.  We ensure that each client is taken care of in a manner that leaves a positive memory of each affair – whether corporate or personal.” 


The ladies just wrapped up a sexy photo shoot in anticipation of their debut in Men's Book Atlanta, a publication of Modern Luxury Media and they are gearing up for their next PSV Casting call that will take place at the Buckhead boutique of Grammy award-winning Ne-Yo and his fiancée Monyetta Shaw next month.


Below are a few of the pics, so enjoy!  To see a full album, make sure to "Like" these ladies on Facebook and to get more info about the casting call, follow them on Twitter.

What I know for sure.....Is this....

As long as you TRUST that you were created for a purpose and a reason, that you're needed and God is brilliant, LIFE will be good to you.  The good and the bad, the sunshine and the rain are all part of the plan. Believe it or not the pain IS a NEEDED ingredient for the awesomeness to happen. For-real.

It's been an intense but pure exhilarating week.  I absolutely LOVE zipping across Atlanta from Buckhead to Midtown hideaways and even the circle of I-285 to get from Decatur to Cascade Road.  I absolutely love to switch between being on the set of an editorial shoot with a glossy magazine for clients to training clients on "Blogging 101" in the comfort of my home office while clients make themselves comfortable on the couch or on the floor. Talking cosmetics, beauty and lifestyle in mini-mansions ain't bad either, and I had my moment with that this week too (yeah I'm smug, LOL)

And then there are the many phone calls to and from media, clients, vendors, inquiriers and employees to returning messages that reach from New York to LA. But what makes my day the most is when the clients go for the gold and start talking national with only names that everybody know!

But the best of it all is when the media responds with a RESOUNDING YES and then I know it's a job well done and this week, we got those wins in too!   What I know for sure is that I'm having the time of my life and LIVING each day in its fullness from joy to frustration to surprise to creative innovation - I feel it all! So THANK YOU to my clients for allowing me to join you on your life's journey because you are the main ingredient to why I enjoy life the way that I do!

Enjoy pics from my adventures this week!

Flirt & Flutter Lash Loft - Atlanta (Downtown)

Beauty Expert/Owner - Shea Evans chatting up the photog about her pictures

Beauty Expert & Master Lash Specialist, Shea Evans of Flirt & Flutter Atlanta

It's takes a village - Shea's creative director, Carlos making sure everything's in place!