Posts in Category: Vendor Spotlight
Small Business Love-Up: Elkin Creek Vineyard
We are celebrating and loving up on small businesses and showcasing some of our favorites. Today we’re raising a glass to Elkin Creek Vineyard.
This small but fabulous vineyard and winery in the Yadkin Valley in the NC mountains is run by two families that Ryan and I love dearly. Not only have we photographed at their venue, but Elkin Creek is a favorite spot for us, especially on Sundays. We collect our energy, relax and reflect.
On Sundays, we sit on their porch by the river, eat wood-fired pizzas and fresh sour dough bread and drink their amazing wines. They’ve extended their food service days during quarantine to include curbside pick up, special menu items and wines to go.
If you are in the area and love wine, or love amazing food and want to support this special place, we encourage you to stop by. In the meantime, we hope you’ll follow them on Facebook, where you can see what they are serving and how to feed yourself while supporting these amazing folks!
We love graphic design and commercial photography whether logo design, brochure design, head shot photos, architectural photography or product shots. At Pixels On Paper we pride ourselves in listening to a broad range of clients and customizing our photography and graphic design services to meet each individual request. Our skills, styles, and visions come together to be a permanent record that either reflects an identity or delivers a message that speaks to thousands. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your business needs. Email us at mail@pixelsonpaper.net or call 336.990.0080 to learn more, receive a quote or to let us know how we can put our skills to work for you.
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Wilkes Wedding Expo 2020
Pixels has been photographing the Wilkes Wedding Expo for years. Owner of Bridal Traditions and Expo Host, Kelly Shumate is one of my best friends, so of course we photographed the latest one in March of 2020.
For years, the Expo has been a place for brides-to-be to find vendors and see their hypothetical dreams played out in various applications. Wedding industry experts flock to this early spring event year after year at Wilkes Community College. Pixels has exhibited annually over the years, as have pals of ours in the catering, DJ, event planning and venue realms. If you are looking for ideas, this is an Expo worth attending and if you are a vendor who wants to get in front of prospects, consider exhibiting!
2020 was Kelly Shumate’s last year hosting. She is celebrating 20 years in the Bridal Boutique & Prom business and wants to stay focused on that in the foreseeable future. But for the 2020 Expo, she took on a wonderful co-sponsor – Kelli Rodriquez of Embellished Events for You. Beginning in 2021, Kelli and Embellished will be the new hosts! Congrats and best of luck with this important annual event.
We love graphic design and commercial photography whether logo design, brochure design, head shot photos, architectural photography or product shots. At Pixels On Paper we pride ourselves in listening to a broad range of clients and customizing our photography and graphic design services to meet each individual request. Our skills, styles, and visions come together to be a permanent record that either reflects an identity or delivers a message that speaks to thousands. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your business needs. Email us at mail@pixelsonpaper.net or call 336.990.0080 to learn more, receive a quote or to let us know how we can put our skills to work for you.
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Small Business Love-Up: Bridal Traditions
We’re celebrating and saluting small businesses during a time when they are suffering and waiting to reopen full force. Today, I want to shine the light on Bridal Traditions. Kelly Shumate, the owner of BT and beYOUtiful Boutique … oh how I love this girl. We have been friends for more than a decade and have memories to back up that time. Pixels even created her logo back in the day.
If you find yourself on a small, blue marble hurling through space, you should have a Kelly in your life. I photographed her bridal anniversary portraits, pictures of her with her sweet husband and pup for the holidays, and the Wilkes Wedding Expo for years.
Kelly is community-focused, a smart business woman, a good time Charlie and one of the hardest working women in the biz.
We’ve photographed the Wedding Expo for years including this previous one in 2020, but I have also had the fun and pleasure of accompanying Kelly and her team to Atlanta for prom and wedding markets and buying efforts over the years for her boutique. Watching her work, choose styles and chat with other vendors is the best.
Bridal Traditions just celebrated its 20th Anniversary. I couldn’t be more excited for her, more proud of her, or more happy to have her as one of my best friends. If you aren’t following her on Facebook or Instagram, I hope you will.
We love graphic design and commercial photography whether logo design, brochure design, head shot photos, architectural photography or product shots. At Pixels On Paper we pride ourselves in listening to a broad range of clients and customizing our photography and graphic design services to meet each individual request. Our skills, styles, and visions come together to be a permanent record that either reflects an identity or delivers a message that speaks to thousands. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your business needs. Email us at mail@pixelsonpaper.net or call 336.990.0080 to learn more, receive a quote or to let us know how we can put our skills to work for you.
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Small business love up: Anchor Coffee
Some day, perhaps, this bundle will pop into Anchor for “a cuppa.” For now, he’s a cute side-car at a place we adore.
As we celebrate small businesses during this government and socially sanctioned downtime, I would be remiss if I didn’t shine a light on Anchor Coffee. It’s a place we love filled with people we love.
Our family goes to church with owner Greg Brady and his family and we photographed them during their child’s dedication. It was a precious moment and we were honored to do it.
Anchor is a shop that we visit often for coffee or a beer and they have live music, too. Boy are we missing them during this quarantine time.
Like all businesses in the community, they’re serving as much as they can to stay in business and continuing to be enormous sources of love and light when we need it most.
Are there businesses that you love and miss? If you can, consider buying a gift certificate, ordering curbside or just calling to tell them “we miss you!!” God Bless Anchor and those we get to worship with, pray for and do life with. I hope you will support and follow Anchor Coffee if you’re a Wilkesboro local.
We love graphic design and commercial photography whether logo design, brochure design, head shot photos, architectural photography or product shots. At Pixels On Paper we pride ourselves in listening to a broad range of clients and customizing our photography and graphic design services to meet each individual request. Our skills, styles, and visions come together to be a permanent record that either reflects an identity or delivers a message that speaks to thousands. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your business needs. Email us at mail@pixelsonpaper.net or call 336.990.0080 to learn more, receive a quote or to let us know how we can put our skills to work for you.
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Small Business Love: Waggles Pet Supply
Pixels, like the rest of you fine folks, is quarantined and trying to remain patient, grateful, humbled and empathetic. We’re taking this thing seriously and that recently has taken the form of redoing one of the bathrooms in our house. More on that later…
We thought it would be appropriate, since we are a small business, to highlight some of the small businesses in our area that we love and support, with the hope that you will too. I’m starting with Waggles Pet Supply! Oh how we love these people.
We partnered with Waggles a few years back, and with the help of generous locals, were able to provide 560 lbs of pet food to the Wilkes Animal Shelter. We offered free pet portrait sessions to clients who donated a minimum 15 pound bag of dry pet food to the shelter, and during the two-day event, locals and clients from as far away as Charlotte, N.C., participated.
Pixels has also photographed owner Kim Hatfield and her family (Terri, Rayne, and Journey) for personal portraits on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Kim is a close friend of ours and we get all of our sweet dog Chelsea’s supplies from her and it’s her where she gets a bath. We were the very first to take advantage of her curb service during quarantine.
We hope you’ll go to their website and follow them on social media and support them with purchases for your fur babies. We have to take care of each other during this time! Wash your hands everyone and stay safe. We love you.
We love graphic design and commercial photography whether logo design, brochure design, head shot photos, architectural photography or product shots. At Pixels On Paper we pride ourselves in listening to a broad range of clients and customizing our photography and graphic design services to meet each individual request. Our skills, styles, and visions come together to be a permanent record that either reflects an identity or delivers a message that speaks to thousands. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your business needs. Email us at mail@pixelsonpaper.net or call 336.990.0080 to learn more, receive a quote or to let us know how we can put our skills to work for you.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License
All photos are ©2020 Pixels On Paper. Do not copy, crop, or remove watermark.