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Inception. Best Movie of Life.

I can't even begin to express how much I loved Inception. It was completely my type of movie. I thought nothing would ever beat out The Prestige on that front, but I was wrong. I wish I could talk about it without giving everything away. But this is one movie where you want to go in knowing the least you can. Trust me, it's worth it.

"I've been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off."

I suck. Apparently. I know I've been gone ages. Distracted by so many things. But I miss my blog. I really do. Maybe a lil pick me up makeover is in accord. Maybe. We'll see. Anyway, I'm back babes.

All About You, By Me

I've named my business, do you like it? One of my besties, Sharly came up with it. She always knows me so well and what I need.

This weekend I did a few banners. The first is for Kendal, from Just A Girl... She is making a new blog journaling her experience moving to Atlanta!

The Next one is for Ke'Anna, from The Ke' To Your Heart. This is her first custom banner as she's new to blogging. Check her out. She is a newlywed army wife and she's making the switch to all organic foods and beauty products.

Lastly, I created a new business card for my sister, Caitlyn Renee, of Caiti Sings. She's a talented working actress and singer and she's staring in the play The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife here in Atlanta. She had a lot going on on her last business card and she wanted something simple and polished.

Thanks for all the love I've gotten so far in my new business. Don't be shy, I love doing these so email me with your requests. If you'd like to show your support for me, I'd appreciate it and you can post these on your blog in an html widget. Also, which design do you like better?


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Thanks,
Jaimie

All About You, By Me - Custom Banners Made With Love

SO i usually design my own banner and layouts and what not. I figured I better learn cause I'm SUPER anal and no one knows what I want better than myself lol. I did my own layouts and banners for both blogs. I eventually started designing banners for the shows that I watch and the couples I ship cause I'm super dorky like that. I always help my friends out with their designs or banners and they're always telling me I should start offering my designing services.

So here I am finally doing it. I'm charging $15 dollars for banners, and we can talk about designing layouts. I know some girls charge $10 or even lower, but in all honesty I think they're charging too little for something that takes time and is done exactly how you want it. In the words of the Joker, "If you're good at something never do it for free." (there's that dorkiness coming out again lol) I think I'm rather good and I take take my time and make sure I make its exactly how I or people want it to look. If you want to go to someone with a lower price by all means do it, but I assure you I'll give you my best work.

I accept payment by Paypal and turnaround is usually same day, unless I have a gig, if not 2 day maximum.
Contact me at jaimie@justkissnmakeup.com

Thanks!

Here are some examples of my work, you can click on them to make them bigger. Blogger did wash them out a bit with the big upload, but yours will be delivered by email and can then retain its maximum pigmentation.

Stuff for my Bloggin' Beauties and Myself:

Stuff for my friend from Ireland:



(this one is for his mom, she's sick and apples and daisies are her favorite things)

OTH Fan Banners and Icons:

Best You Ever Had

I love BlogTv I swear I do. I had such a fun time in Tiff's chat tonight, first it was just me and her, then a few more, then it got bigger! And somewhere along the way we had some these guys (HookahDooka) ask to come on and sing for us, they wanted to practice, we agreed and they sang a song to me. I'm just impressionable and awesome like that. I loved it! Great Voices.

Don't forget to subscribe to their channels!

Tiff:
http://www.blogtv.com/People/eyecon1219 and http://www.youtube.com/user/eyecon1219

Hookah Dooka:
http://www.youtube.com/avibenmusic and http://www.blogtv.com/People/hookahdooka

Check the original here

jaimie's the best - Broadcast your self LIVE

My Wedding Dress Choices

Option 1:


minus that shrug

Option 2:



Option 3:



I can't decide!

I'm Mixed. But I'm Black.

Whenever someone asks me my ethnicity, I always say Black. I always have. That’s how I identified myself and it was never a problem. Now people didn’t always believe me. The light skin and freckles throw people off. They’re always like, “What? You’re black? I don’t believe it”. That gave me the room to tease them and come up with crazy mixes like, “Yea, I’m half Dominican and half Romanian.” And they’d believe that more easily! Now I always knew my family had Native American and French in us, as we come from New Orleans so we had that Creole aspect. But I never knew how much. So I asked a bunch of my family members about our heritage and this is what I got.

Paternal Side:
My grandfather’s mother is half Native American and half French.
My grandfather’s father is white.
So my Papa, Norman Sr.: ¼ Native American, ¾ French
Which surprised me, I always thought my grandfather was black somehow.

My Dad's dad - Papa

My grandmother’s father's (Charlie 9) Mother (Ethel) is half Italian and half Black.
My grandfather’s father’s father is Black, but of French background. Which is where the Francois comes in. They say his curly hair made him think he wasn’t completely black though.
Charlie 9: ¼ Italian, ¾ black

My grandmother’s mother’s (Elizabeth) mother (Corinne) is half Jewish and half black. She is the direct descendant of a white Jewish slave owner and a black mother.
My grandmother’s mother’s dad is a Black man. His name was Governor Ruth.
Elizabeth: ¼ white jew, ¾ black

So when Charlie 9 and Elizabeth had a baby, that baby, my grandmother was:
Momo, Elizabeth Ann: 6/8th black, 1/8 Italian, 1/8 white jew

My Grandma and Cousin Janet

SO then, when my grandparents got together…
Momo: 6/8th black, 1/8 Italian, 1/8 white jew
Papa: 2/8 native American 6/8 french

That would make my daddy:

Daddy: 6/16 black, 1/16 Italian, 1/16 white Jew, 2/16 native American, 6/16 french

(If my calculations are correct lol)

My dad, Norman Jr.

My dad

Maternal:

My mothers’ father’s father is half Cherokee, half black.
My mothers’ father’s mother is black.
My Papa: ¼ native American, ¾ black

My Mom's Dad - Other Papa

My Mom's Dad - Other Papa

My mother’s mother’s mother is ¾ irish and ¼ black. Stewart family.
My mother’s mother’s dad is black..
So my Memo is: 3/8 irish, 5/8 black

So when my mother’s parents got together…..
Memo: 3/8 irish, 5/8 black
Papa: 2/8 native, 6/8 black

That made her:
Mommy: 3/16 Irish, 2/16 native American, 11/16 black

My mommy and me

Mommy

And so then whey MY parents got together:
Daddy: 6/16 black, 1/16 Italian, 1/16 White Jew, 2/16 Native American, 6/16 French
Mommy: 3/16 Irish, 2/16 Native American, 11/16 Black

That makes my sister and me:
17/32 Black
6/32 French
4/32 Native American
3/32 Irish
1/32 Italian
1/32 White Jew

Me, My Auntie Kim, and My sister Cait

So we’re a little over half black, which is what I expected, it’s interesting to see the break down. I’m more “mixed” than I would have thought. When you combine all the smaller nationalities of the Caucasian relatives we are:

17/32 Black
11/32 White
4/32 Native American

It’s pretty cool though because all the members of my family are very different from each other. Especially my dad’s side, all his siblings are a full range of the color spectrum. They're all have the same parents, Norman Sr. and Elizabeth Ann. Check out the pics. Most of these pics are of my dad's side.

Charlie 9

My dad and Uncle Charles

Auntie Dede and Auntie Kim and Uncle Tony

My Cousin's Jessica and Janet (and Janet's husband)

Auntie Kim, Uncle Tony, My Dad

My Cousin Justin

Uncle Charles and My Cousin Jihad

My Dad and Auntie Kim

Auntie Dede

Cousin Taylor

Auntie Kathy, Auntie Kim, Auntie Metra

Auntie Metra and her son Jihad

My Auntie Dede, her husband and my cousins, Janet, Jessica, and Jared

All the grandkids

My cousin Chris