Category — design

Since most of the recipients have found these in their mailboxes, I am excited to show them to you! A quick funny side note: You will notice that my name is no where on the invite. It wasn’t photoshopped out, I just didn’t feel the need to have it on there. Neither is a phone number to RSVP, since everyone invited knows how to contact me.  However, I also decided last minute (a day later) not to put return address labels on them…  Which led to this facebook message: Did you send Cindy and I something in the mail? It looks like it could be from you but it doesn’t have a name on it. Lucky for me not many of our friends sew their invitations!  A few minutes later I had facebooked the entire guest list to let them know that yes, the invite to a birthday party? That was from me.

Anyways, on to the invites.  I first saw this idea for sewing two-toned ruffled crepe paper on a blog… but it was a while ago and I don’t remember where. I figured I would incorporate it with the invites and voila! I wish it were that easy. I went through 2 broken needles before deciding to just sew the crepe paper and glue it on. I was super disappointed, and still need to google “How to sew on paper,” but I went with it and produced something I was proud of.

I was standing in line at trader joes last night, picking up some dinner (curry chicken, white rice, Asians slaw and the best mini chicken cilantro wontons) when I saw this. If it wasn’t for the packaging I probably wouldn’t have picked it up but the bright orange was calling my name.

A close up of my birthday invitations…

Yes that is sewn crepe paper, I have taken my sewing machine to a whole new level.

Tulips + Irises = a beautiful bouquet from my husband.

Broken up bouquet + my UO vase = love

Etsy + Letterpress + a mini card in French = The perfect Valentines Day card from B.

1. The rain and wind here in Orange County has been craaaazy. (Also, I know we are spoiled here weather wise… but for us, this is craaaazy!)

2. We ordered Chinese food tonight, and realized too late that we didn’t get any fortune cookies. I am pretty sure that is bad luck.

3. If I took my yoga mat anywhere other than from my bedroom to in front of the TV (yeah Wii Fit!) I would totally snatch up this yoga mat, made by my lovely friend Jessie. It is made out of the most awesome-est fabric, and it’s on sale!

4. Have an awesome weekend!  I am thinking a trip to Ikea is in the cards for us… I’ll keep you posted.

Don’t tell my (web designer) husband… but this pretty much sums up my knowledge on the inner workings of websites:

(here)

of a sewing desk. Bryan and I can’t seem to decide on one for our office (he wants white, to match our other desks, I am leaning towards something older and more, well, wooden. If that makes sense).  And until we get a desk, I won’t be able to sew. But. As soon as we do get a desk I need to find an excuse to make some invitations, because I need to do something like this:

Tulle, cupcake liners, paper…  gorgeous. Oh! Valentines day is next month… hmm… The ideas are a-flowin.  You can see more photos of Raya’s handmade invites on her blog, the paper pony.

On a side note, Brandy from Red Collar Prints has found herself with 2 of the sold out 2010 Linda and Harriet calendars.  She would like to offer you the $30 calendar for $20 plus shipping! Just contact her at brandy@redcollarprints.com. A lucky someone snagged it up!

The time for Christmas cards!

Although I usually design and print all of our cards from home, we wanted to use a wedding picture for our Christmas card this year so we decided to go with the company Moo. We love Moo and have used them before for their mini moo cards. (Some of which I had my pictures printed on, and I then turned them into magnets for the fridge, seen in the last picture in this post.)  We decided on two different designs… I like the headless one but Bryan was worried that we would get too many calls regarding our missing faces!

We decided to get postcards and on the back we noted our new address (Killing two birds with one stone!).  They won’t arrive for a week or so, and I can’t wait to see them!

We decided to have a holiday/house warming party which meant I needed to put something together to send out. Originally I was going to just design something and email it a’la PDF but I couldn’t resist printing them. Everyone loves getting mail, and I love sending it!

I went the classic route this time, with a little bit of whimsy in the red font. The wreath vector is from BrairPress.

I want… no I need this office.

So bright, so organized, so pretty. I wonder if bright yellow walls would go with our chocolate brown carpet… Hmm…

Office created by this Lady.