Posts from — November 2008

Ok blogging world, I need your help. I am looking for flat cards in this color:

Marigold, mustard… this one is from Mountaincow.com and is called saffron. Unfortunately they only offer it in a light weight. I need something at least 80lb. I have googled everything I can think of and just can’t find that color! If you have seen it or know of a great paper place, please leave a link, I would be very very grateful!

My Thanksgiving weekend included:

-uncle falling off the roof (he is alive, just very very bruised )

-dress fitting with Mehtab (thanks for the recommendations, she is great!)

-seeing a woman stuff a balloon into the trashcan at the starbucks drive through

-mailing off our Save The Dates

-buying my first ever pink peonies! who would have known they would be in season in late November?

Pictures to come.

Hope yours was exciting too

Woooo Hooooo!  We finished our save the dates! Here is a little photo montage of the final product

The Save The Dates themselves. Paper bought at Paper Source, printed using my handy Gocco and white ink. I wish that the white would have printed a little whiter, but am overall happy with how they turned out

The assembly table. I used a marigold colored textured paper I found at Michael’s as the envelope liners. They were a bit thick, but with a nice ruler and my bone folder (yay martha!) they foldered over nicely. We used double sided tape to attach the liners. Glue works as well, but can come out bubbly sometimes, especially if you use a thin paper.

My youngest sister Megan (and bm) happily assembling them. (She was happy, I had just made us pancakes bacon and eggs )

A close up. I went to Office Max to buy a sealer thingy, and the lady gave me these cheap just add water ones… let’s just say I totally thought I was going to end up like Susan from Seinfeld. 

All finished! Well, except for those top two… which still need addresses… (ahem, bryan)  I would have liked to use vintage stamps, but couldn’t easily find a stamp store where they sold face value stamps, and I am scared of ebay, so I just used the heart stamp they have at the post office right now. I also hand addressed them myself. Not the nicest looking, but more personal than a label. With that said, I love me some labels, and hopefully will use some on the invitations, I just couldn’t find any I wanted to use on these

Whew! All done, and I am so so happy with them! We will get them out into the mail on Friday and I will go ahead and say that I hope people contact us with compliments I’m not gonna lie.  I know that DIY invitations are not for everyone, but if you are confident in your design skills, I would say to go for it. We spent maybe $50 on 45 save the dates, including the postage. Not bad

I hope you all have a wonderful wonderful thanksgiving! I won’t be posting tomorrow, but possibly on Friday. I have my first dress fitting that morning so I will let you know how it goes

Sorry for the lack of posts today, the save the date assembling went very well! All i need is a few more stamps and one of those sealer thingies so I don’t have to lick all of the envelopes Until I upload all my pictures, I will leave you with this craft idea from Martha Stewart today. Wouldn’t these be lovely lining the aisles at a fall ceremony?

Tonight’s post is later than normal, but it will take place of my early morning post on Wednesday. I have wed.-fri. off of work so tomorrow my younger sister is coming over for some pancakes and envelope liner assembling! I did give up on designing my own (B and I just couldn’t agree on the ‘perfect’ one) so we are using some awesome textured marigold colored paper I had bought at michael’s during the friends and family event.  

Tonight I gocco’d our return address on the Save the Date envelopes. The mustard color looks to be a little glittery… but we will see once it dries if that goes away You can see on the overview shot a little mock up of the finished look  

*interruption: Bryan just brought me home an apple pie from McDonalds. Best. Fiance. Ever.

On to the images. I will be back tomorrow afternoon with progress pictures!!

Hello!  So this post is a little abnormal, but today is an abnormal day. Working for a startup company in this economy is no bueno for my bank account so I am looking to take on more freelance work. Here is what I can do for you:

Photo Editing: I was a photo-communications major in school which meant that photo editing was key. As of right now I edit for Matthew Morgan Photography. If you are a bride and would like your pictures professionally edited, I am amazing at it Maybe you couldn’t afford a photographer so you had friends take pictures, maybe you had a photographer but didn’t like the editing, whatever your reason, I am your girl! Please email me at heather {at} wemetinabar {dot} com for pricing and more information. You can see my mad crazy editing skills here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Invitation/ Paper Good Design: As a graphic designer I get to work on (boring) health ads and posters during the day, but my real love is invitation design. If you are looking for custom designed invitations on a budget, please contact me! You can see my work here and here. I can print with my ink jet printer and with my gocco as well. Again, please contact me at heather {at} wemetinabar {dot} com if you are interested!

Update: I added some editing before and afters on my About page (top left) if you are interested!

I have told my maids that they can wear whatever shoes they would like on the big day. But I am thinking maybe I should narrow it down to a few color choices? Just to be kind of consistent?  My maids will be wearing this dress:

I like the silver look… The guys will all be in black tuxes, but would black heels look too dark? Am I just way over-thinking this? (Bryan, don’t answer that!)  What do you think would look best? 

Speaking of shoes and colors, I love this look, found on Ritzy Bee.

Oh aaand, I received my refund from Zappos today (mean emails really do work! ) which means I am stopping by the mall to look at a few pairs of shoes! Hopefully I can find some so that I will have them for my fitting on friday! I am heading straight to BCBG to try these beauties on:

Oh. my. goodness. 

I just found out that my Davids Bridal dress is a knock off! I am sure most are, but I had no idea. My first dress shopping experience I fell in love with 2 Jim Hjelm dresses, neither of which is the knock off. You can see those dresses here.

I ended up buying this dress from Davids Bridal. 

And I just now discovered this dress from Jim Hjelm! Click on the “more views” button! Same exact dress!

I am so excited! I knew I loved my dress, but knowing that it is a knockoff from one of my favorite dress designers, well, that just made my day!

A tote bag designed specifically for Mission Viejo (where they recently opened a new store)

A good piece of advice:

(both from behind the curtain of Kate Spade)

So I had bought 3 pairs of shoes from Zappos.

None of them worked, so I returned them.

Zappos decided to give me my money back in the form of store credit.

I asked them to credit my card and they said “No Problem”. 

They told me to wait 2-10 days for the credit to show up.

Today is day 10. No credit.

I send an email… they send me a $30 coupon to say they are sorry.

I tell them thanks, but I would really just like my money back, like, today.

They say “oops! Your account wasn’t credited until a few days ago, so please wait another 2-10 days for it to show up.”

Ugh.