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15
Apr
2011
Spring Celebration!
Yay! I finally was able to have my Spring Tea Party…(after the forced postponement!) I had a wonderful time with some of my close friends and truth be told I didn’t just serve tea…we enjoyed a few glasses of bubbly (it is a celebration after all!) I really wanted to celebtate good friends and spring, so I wanted to make sure every detail was extra special. The event had to live up to the invites!
The china is Wedgwood in the ‘India’ pattern. It is from our bridal registry and this is the first time we’ve ever used it, we had to peel off the barcode tags! If I had to choose again I think I would have pick a different pattern, something more modern. Well to be real I think I would have done fine with no china – we are just not the kind of people that entertain that way. We have pretty much every accessory that goes with the pattern, so I guess we’ll keep it and I’ll find ways to put it to good use like more fabulous Tea Parties!
This is the boys enjoying a gourmet breakfast from the leftovers…I think they could get used to this!
18
Mar
2011
Vernal Equinox
March 20 2011 is officially the first day of spring! So I wanted to celebrate it by having a few friends over for a Tea Party, how lovely would THAT have been. Well, winter wanted to give me one last blow and knocked me out with the most heinous sinus infection ever. EVER! I’ve been out of commission for…um…lets see….SIX days so far!!! How RUDE is that?! In any case my plans will not be thwarted….just postponed. So even though there will be no tea cups clinking this weekend, I would love to share the invites I handed out for the event…
I ordered the saucers from The Vintage Teacup which is like browsing through the most wonderful china shop with no worries of breaking anything! I wanted to do the writing using a pen made specifically for porcelain but I ended up using a paint pen. The drying time for the speciality pen was 24 hours…I didn’t have that kind of time! The place mats I scored at a local thrift shop, I couldn’t believe how perfect they were for the invites. I used an inkjet compatable iron on material on the placement, but if I had to do it over again I would have opted to have the mats screen printed. Overall I really liked how they turned out! I will be sure to post photos of the party when it happens…
1
May
2010
Pink Baby Shower
My dear friend Sonia is having a girl! To celebrate her sister threw her a pink themed baby shower complete with pink cupcakes and pink tissue paper flowers made by Sonia! One of my favorite games was a contest to make the best looking Play-Doh baby…I didn’t do too well on that one!
I was happy to help out with some of the paper projects. I used an Indian block print pattern in pink to make a “Onsie Laundry Advice Line” as well as a coordinating banner and favor tags. I wish Sonia all the best with her pregnancy and I can’t wait to meet her little ‘Cutie Pie’!
12
Apr
2010
Pretty Pearl
I am a proud owner of a new (to me) letterpress – is a Golding Pearl No.3. I am still in the process of restoring it….ordering parts…and learning how to run it. I love it like my children! I can do blind impressions right now (deep impressions in paper without the ink) I need to locate 2 more roller hooks & springs, so if you have a couple lying around PLEASE contact me!
Letterpress printing has been around for awhile (Mine dates to 1908)…it is an art-form that has recently become popular for high-end invitations and stationery. Since the presses are no longer manufactured (for the most part) – you pretty much have to do some research to hunt one down and restore it. It is a labor of love!
I’ll keep posting updates on my restoration project as well as printed samples.
14
Feb
2010
Happy Valentines Day
I LOVE Valentines Day – but with two boys I have to keep the ‘frou frou-ness’ to a minimum! My older has been fascinated with cootie catchers and is completely amazed that I used to make them when I went to school (you know WAAAAY BACK in the dark ages).
So with some help with graphics from ‘Lettering Delights‘ I made these awesome monster themed ones for him to give to his friends at school. Once I got in to the rhythm of things the folding went pretty quickly. They were a hit with the girls and boys!
Also, seeing that my charcoal grey felt worked so well on our holiday cards I decided to give it a go again with our Valentines Day Cards….nice, don’t you think! (I have a feeling this felt will be showing up a lot until I can get it out of my system)
15
Dec
2009
Merry Holidays!
Every year I do a photo holiday card of either us and the boys or just the boys. I always think it is more interesting to photograph the boys because you never can guess what you will end up with and since I am not in the photos with them I get the joy and aggravation of taking the pictures! This holiday season was no different, I had an idea of what I wanted to do and a half baked plan on how to execute it! I knew it would be absolutely impossible to get the 2 monkeys with a decent photo in the same frame – so I devised a plan to shoot them separately and then through the magic of photoshop make it appear that they were in the same frame! I took over 150 photos and really only about 3 were usable for my purposes….(love that memory is so cheap!) You can’t even tell that I am begging, pleading, threatening them through the whole ordeal. I love how the finished product came out:
and here are some outtakes from the shoot:
Some behind the scenes details:
For the back drop I had a bolt of charcoal grey felt that I propped up on stacked chairs. I have a wall of windows directly in front of it for the natural light. (I know I have a real professional operation going on here!):
Our grey felt backdrop
I took a few photos of just a draped sheet for the middle message portion of the card:
the 'middle' of the card
Then the rest all came together in Photoshop….
It was alot of fun to work on this year’s holiday card…I am already making plans for next year’s production!!! Stay tuned!
