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Upcoming Events!

  • Birthday Celebration: Fashions by GinaRenay / Pool Party July 26, 2008


  • FASHION PHOTOSHOOT W/Shinobi

    Candler Park

    Avant Glam, Selfish Styles Magazine, Urban Mainstream

    military flatbed in downtown expressway ATL, GA

    Sunday, July 13, 2008

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  • GETTING MY HOOK(ER) ON!

    DAILY!

    I HOOK

    & STRUT IT OUT!

    in Fashiontastic Flair!

    Coming to a corner near you!

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  • www.myspace.com/awesome_crochet
    A phenomenal chain reactionary spot for letting my thread down!

    Meet friends and future associates as we build an awesome chain of events!

    Engaging Loops all the way to fashionista's heights!

    www.myspace.com/awesome_crochet.com

2008 "HAUTE STITCH" Events

  • I HOOK ME!

    June 25, 2008

    live radio interview w/Dred

    hiphophoney.com

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    Sunday, June 22, 2008

    Model Explosion II w/Adonis Models

    Crowes Nest

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    Sat., June 14, 2008

    Wet & Wild Pool Party

    with OoooWee Productions

    Bikini Crochet Fashions by GinaRenay

    College Park, GA

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    Fri., June 6, 2008

    Urban Network Summer Presents:

    Men of Renaissance

    Utopia Ice Ultra Lounge

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    Sun., May 18, 2008

    Rock the Runway

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    Sun., May 18, 2008

    Fashion in Motion:

    A Tribute to Mothers

    Paradise Restaurant & Lounge

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    Sat., May 3, 2008

    Dancing Stage Play"So Fresh

    Beulah Baptist Church, Decatur, GA

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    Fri., May 2, 2008

    Urban Network Fridays @ Utopia

    Modeling for:

    Designer DEE HILL

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    Sat., April 26, 2008

    "A Diversity of Talents Fashion Show"

    Supporting the fight against breast cancer

    American Idol Diana DeGarmo

    Opera Atlanta

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    PROFILE MAGAZINE

    Designer Photoshoot 1st & 3rd weekends, April 2008

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    Sat., April 19, 2008

    URBAN FASHION ATLANTA TV

    Designer Showcase tv taping

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    Fri., March 21, 2008

    EXOTIC IDOL

    The Studio, Atlanta

    vendor

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    Sat., March 8, 2008

    "All Eyes On Me" Fashion/Hair Show

    Club Expose

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    Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008

    "Walk The Piazza"

    Verve Lounge

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    Sat., Jan 19, 2008

    "Miss Georgia: A Perfect State of Mind" Album Release Party

    Rays Ova Da Edge

ClustrMaps

True to Self

  • And that's freeing,

    awe!somely so

KATRINA WILL NOT DEFEAT ME!

  • I AM a Katrina....

    SURVIVOR

    ARRIVER

    REVIVER

    STRIVER

    THRIVER!!

    Ya better ~ High 5 ~ Her!!!!

    you go girl!

    I am my own Designated Driver!

    "driven" by creativity

    girl, you so crazy

Hmmm...



  • The current mood of GinaRenay at www.imood.com

PASSIONATE!!!!!

ALBUM Stats. Brown Like ME

  • Bubblin' Brown Sugar/FIBER-Licious NEVER tasted so good: PASS THE HOOK!
    BROWN Like ME! 3,705

ALBUM Stats. AMAZE ME!!!

  • Gyrl, Your HOOK is HAUTE!
    AMAZE ME! 4,548 Ima~GINA~tive CROCHET on the RUNWAY!

ALBUM Stats. OriGINAlity

  • I LOVE WHAT I DO AND WHO I AM!
    I'mPassioned! 14,080

ALBUM Stats. Hook/Shook ME!

  • INSTRUMENT OF SPONTANEITY!
    AWED! GIRL 58,688

ALBUM Stats. ImaGINAtive Temerity

  • Thou Shalt Dare To Be FABULOUS!
    Avant-Garde!! 12,776

ALBUM Stats. Freeform & Crochet Art

  • ART~~rageous Hook
    Freeform&Crochet Art! 3,105

ALBUM Stats. Engage ME!

  • FOAMING AT THE HOOK!
    CROCHET MADNESS 23,915

Fun, Fun, Fun!

Past HOOKtastic Events

  • HOOKS GONE WILD! Don't Blink, You'll Miss It!

    Friday, Oct. 27, 2007

    Carver Bible College

    "Celebrating Carver Homecoming"

    3870 Cascade Rd SW

    Atlanta, GA

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    Tues., Oct. 23, 2007

    Fulton County Federal Building

    Employee Appreciation Day

    141 Pryor St. SW

    Atlanta, GA

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    Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007

    La Femme Africaine Inc.

    2nd Annual PinkFest

    "Reversing the Trend"

    Dinner/Dance/Fashion Extravaganza

    Attire: All Shades of PINK

    Dorothy C. Benson Senior

    Multipurpose Complex

    6500 Vernon Woods Dr

    Atlanta, GA 30328

    6 pm - 11 pm

    Tickets: $50 couples, $30 singles

    www.lafemmeafricaine.org

    678 488-4256

    404 454-5266

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    Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007

    6:00 pm

    LADIES OF NOW

    Nigerian Outreach for Wellness

    2nd Annual Gala

    Honoring the 2007 Lady of Excellence

    Mrs. Nkiruka Abbey

    Dinner, Cultural Activities, Fundraiser

    Location: Dorothy C. Benson Complex

    6500 Vernon Woods Dr.

    Sandy Springs, GA 30328

    Tickets $20, $30/door

    Info & tickets call 404 200-5633

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    Saturday, September 29, 2007

    3:00 pm

    Miranda Burnette Ministries

    Presents..."A Success Seminar"

    The Christian Socialites Presents

    A FASHION SHOW

    Colier Community Center

    2625 Joe Jerkins Blvd

    Austell, GA 30106

    Tickets are $10, $15/door

    www.mirandaburnetteministries.com

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    Friday, Aug. 17, 2007

    DREAM KWEENS Premiere

    Queens International Lounge

    Norcross, GA

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    Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007

    DREAM KWEENS MOVIE PREMIERE GALA

    Red Carpet/Champagne Reception

    FASHION SHOW BY Movie Costume Designer GinaRenay

    Elegance Restaurant VIP Lounge

    Decatur, GA

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    Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007

    VIDEO SHOOT

    Rap Artist KeVasia

    "ROLL CALL"

    Mozley Park, Atlanta

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    Saturday, July 28, 2007

    5th ANNUAL NIGHT UNDER THE STARS

    Birthday Bash to Benefit Pac's Kids

    @ The TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR CENTER

    FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

    Carlos Coleman & Friends Celebrate w/All-White Affair

    5616 Memorial Drive

    Stone Mountain, GA

    High Energy FASHION SHOW

    Spoken Word, Hip Hop, Reggae & Caribbean

    Red Carpet Begins at 6:30pm

    6:30 - 1:00 am

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    Sunday, July 29, 2007

    FASHION FANTASY 2007

    Poplar Grove Event Center

    3010 Poplar Road

    Sharpsburg, GA

    6:00 - 9:00 pm

    Tickets, call 678 423-4140

    www.fashionfantasy07.com

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    JULY to AUGUST 9th, 2007

    SUMMER CAMP

    Tuesdays & Thursdays

    Northcreek Community Church

    Norcross, GA

    crochet instruction: ages 7 - 12

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    Wednesday, July 18, 2007

    Success in Learning Summer Camp

    ages 9-12

    Talk Presentation & Lesson

    "Creative Loops: The Joy of the Foundation"

    @Centerville Community Center

    Snellville, GA

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    Saturday, April 28, 2007

    Event Info Name: 2007 Alpha Phi Alpha Fashion Show

    Tagline: Music/Video Awards

    Host: Tau Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

    Type: Causes - Fundraiser

    Time: 3:00pm - 10:00pm

    Clayton State University

    UC Commons Area

    2000 Clayton State Blvd.

    Morrow, GA

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    Saturday, April 28, 2007

    VISUAL ERECTIONS

    Fashion, Art, Spoken Word

    All in one sensual night!

    9 pm

    Complimentary martinis until 11pm

    $10 in advance, $15/door

    Tickets: www.legacyapparel.org

    VIP Studios

    4818 Fulton Ind. Blvd.

    Atlanta, GA

    Sunday, April 22, 2007

    MILKY WAY 2007 Competition

    SHAKE-N-GO Hair Style Fashion

    @ Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

    New Orleans, LA

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    Wed., April 18, 2007

    L-WEEK Fashion Show

    Lawson State Community College

    Arthur Shores Auditorium

    Birmingham, AL

    2nd Annual "RIP THE RUNWAY"

    Show starts at 7pm

    Hosted by the Student Gov't Assoc.

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    April 7, 2007

    SUBLIMINAL Spring Fashion Show

    Georgia State Ballroom

    Show starts at 8pm

    Hosted by J-Nicks of Hot 107.9

    Music by DJ Ill Will

    DJ Knowital of the Untouchable DJ's

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    March 17, 2007

    Lace, Beads & Glimmer

    presented by the 100 Designing Women of Atlanta

    at Big Bethel AME Village

    Atlanta, GA

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    February 28, 2007

    African Cultural Show

    Gordon College, Gainesville, GA

    AND again on the SAME DAY!!!

    February 28, 2007

    Gifa Imoudu presents

    at The Aquarium Night Club

    Stone Mountain, GA

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    February 11, 2007

    Kinky in the 'Ham

    Jazz Hall, Birmingham, AL

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    January 28, 2007

    Visual Erections

    Atlanta, GA

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    January 9, 2007

    Lipstikk Inc. Presents

    Eye Candy Fashion Show

    Sutra Lounge, Atlanta, GA

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    January 6, 2007

    Dream Kweens PhotoShoot

    StudioPlex

    Atlanta, GA

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    December 31, 2006

    Filming Runway Scene of

    The Dream Kweens

    Paradise Studios

    Stone Mountain, GA

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    December 30, 2006

    The Office SportsBar

    presents 2nd Annual Pajama Party

    Norcross, GA

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    December 16, 2006

    Greater Missionary Baptist Church

    Christmas Party/Fashion Show

    "True Beauty"

    Decatur, GA

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    December 5, 2006

    Initial Tuesday presents

    Fashion Explosion

    Cafe Vaca, Duluth, GA

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    November 16, 2006

    Zeta Phi Beta Society

    presents FASHION!

    Dave & Busters

    Marietta, GA

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    November 12, 2006

    BET Hip Hop Music Awards

    DJ Stereotype, CEO, SubuUrban

    Underground TV interviews celebrities

    on the Black Carpet

    wearing a GINA RENAY original

    collaboration

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    October 27, 2006

    Fashion Show/TV Taping

    at The StudioPlex, Atlanta

    "Celebrating Fashion"

    guest panelist, designer

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    September 16, 2006

    Suwanee Day Festival

    Suwanee, GA

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    August 2006

    Mary Kay Open House

    Buford, GA

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    August 2006

    EXPO 2006

    Pickneyville Community Center

    Norcross, GA

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    August 3-October 25, 2006

    Teacher Show

    Pickneyville Community Center

    Norcross, GA

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    July 2006>

    Old Time Summer in Historic Buford

    Buford, GA

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    June 2006

    United Ebony Society

    Juneteenth Celebration

    Lawrenceville, GA

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    June 2006

    Artist Demonstration

    Suwanee Arts in the Park Festival

    Suwanee, GA

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    March 11, 2006

    FIRST SHOW SINCE ARRIVING

    (I am a MS KATRINA Survivor!!)

    Eclectic Expressions

    4th Annual Fashion & Talent Show

    College Park, GA

Soul Flow

  • GENTLE NUDGINGS
    And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.--Anais Nin

Proverbs

  • I am Me!
    'I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it...I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By doing so, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that I do not know ...but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which Idiscarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me and I am Okay.' --Virginia Satir
  • ~~~Tell IT!~~~
    "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
  • (~~GOOD CHARACTER~~)
    Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece--by thought, choice, courage, and determination.--J. Luther
  • (~~IN A STILL, SMALL VOICE~~)
    Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates. ************************
  • (~~MAKE THIS DAY COUNT!~~)
    If one advances confidently in the direction of her dreams and endeavors to live the life she has imaGINA'd, she will meet with success unexpected in common hours. (Thoreau)

VICTORIAN CROCHET

Woven Labels

E-spiration

  • Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile
  • Courageous

    shameless

    doing me--blameless

    tameless

    aim--bless

    yarn tress

    happiness

    sculptured quest

    invited guest

    a-Muse

    yes,

    yes,

    yes!

    Art-Rageous Gina Renay © 2005

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    The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. Maya A. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you have confidence, you can have fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.--Joe Namath

Girl! You Better Tell It!

  • This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare

    to thy own style be true

    ~~GinaRenay, AWED Hook Style-preneur

  • "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." ~ Foster C. Mcclellan
  • "The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing.

    You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else."

    ~ Geoffrey Gaberino
  • hooking unto a life of enthusiasm

    wielding my spontaneous weapon of choice:

    joyfully & accurately

    bull's eye:

    a created masterpiece

    Awed GinaRenay

Never Forget

My Rotating Pursenality

  • crochet exotic oriGINAtions: passionate threads....

    imaGINAtion at play!

A Pet

  • More fiber pleeze!!!--wait, that's a web!
    my pet!

Doin' Face!

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Crochet BLUSH!

  • "CROCHET IN THE EXPANDED FIELD"

    (2/06 article)

    http://supernaturale.com/articles.

    html?id=166

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  • ~Mandarin Design~

    You go girl! Love it. You make Crochet look good.

    Is that you in the photo to the left on the main screen? You are the Crochet Queen.

    I love the way you use large type, colors, bold text, and happy chics and movin' pics.

    Linkin' n winkin' from the quilt at Mandarin (it's stored at http://www.mandarindesign.com/2005_12_01_archive.html and posted every now and then).

    It's fun to see you having fun, and your entire place looks like a crochet fun house.

    Later,

    meg

    Feb. 7, 2006

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  • NEXSTITCH Summer 2005 Edition

    Blogger: Gina Renay

    Updates: Every Other Day

    Pics: A Ton Style, and a whole lot of it. You've never seen anything quite like this before.

    Gina is the mastermind behind the fashion-tabulous, poetic blog called, "Awed." Her photo album displays an array of original, creative collections which are sure to provide inspiration and motivation.

    She ardently tests the boundaries of crochet with a conglomerate of updated generational styles, from early 1910's-esque high waistline, decorative boutique dresses to 1950's matching secretarial jacket and skirt combinations to modern reconstructed, abstract apparel. Interspliced amongst those are several designs featuring bold, afro-centric patterns. All of her designs showcase an attention to detail.

    With a flaire for the unorthodox, Gina's styles are haute, haute, haute!

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Chilling watching the news before I head off to work  in an hour but I love my e-viewers so wala ... Lots of new adventures on the horizon; just trying to  prioritize.  I'll be back home after 6ish.  I still got pictures to upload & past news to report...hopefully I'll be refreshed enough to write and not just hit myspace and not get off, wink...Awesome_crochet_hello