Yes, we’re still here!

April 20, 2012 By

We’ve been MIA lately, but we’re not sitting around with our feet up for sure! Beverly’s kids’ school year is quickly coming to an end and there are *so many* events and activities at the end of the year. I had forgotten what all goes on at the close of a school year. My semester at the college is winding down too, but not before collecting final essays and administering final exams. One of my students asked me how many more times we would meet and he was shocked when I told him three classes and the exam period, for a total of four times (after I refrained from telling him to check his syllabus!).

We have once again had a wonderfully busy month working on so many fun designs for our clients. We actually closed the shop for a few days so we could catch up on custom design orders. I have several fun blog posts coming up to highlight a few showers and parties we’ve created products for, but in the meantime, I thought I’d share some of the pictures of our crew from Easter. Beverly sent me the pictures last week, but I hadn’t had a chance to download them until just now.

They are too funny. We wanted them to sit together, but Molly and Addi immediately laid down so instructed the boys to do the same. They didn’t stay there for long, and the next series of pictures looks like a wrestling match.

Oh, how I love these sweet, smart, silly nephews of mine. They just.won’t.stop.growing. It’s killing me.

And I love that these sweet girls love each other. Molly calls Addison on her play phone at least once a day. So cute.

Don’t forget to check back soon for some fun party pictures!

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{Holidays} Easter printables

March 30, 2012 By

I finally have our Easter printable collection available in the shop for you!

Beverly created a banner, place cards, cupcake toppers, a sign, and stickers for you to download and print. Use all or some of the products to create a fun and festive atmosphere for your Easter celebrations.

{my sign is printed, cut to size and mounted on two pieces of coordinating cardstock}

The place cards can also be used as food label tents if you’re planning on serving Easter lunch or brunch buffet style.

The cupcake toppers would be cute in muffins before church or in carrot cake cupcakes after lunch! And I love to use the stickers on clear Solo cups for sweet tea {or maybe white wine??} for the afternoon egg hunts.

Find the full collection here, for just $5! I’ll email the files to you. Then, simply download and print the files on white cardstock. Cut and use however you need for your Easter celebration.

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Pleasant Distractions

March 28, 2012 By

In between filling orders, responding to clients, playing with Molly and grading papers, I’ve been slowly decorating for Easter. I finished a second Easter egg wreath, this one for the front door. The grass is a bit more unruly than my other one and I’m chalking that up to two things: 1) I was in a hurry to get this project finished and off the kitchen counter and 2) I bought the cheapest grass I could find and it’s super thin and lightweight, so it doesn’t stay tucked in between the eggs! I’m getting ready to break out the scissors and just cut those dangling pieces off.

I also totally copied Jessica’s mantle {kind of}. I went right to Target the day after she posted these pictures and got some more eggs and hunted down the pinwheels.

However, there weren’t enough of them for me to get three for each vase, so I just grabbed one and have totally forgotten to look every time I’ve been back to Target since. So they look a little lonely just sticking out of the vases on each end of my mantle, but they’re more spring-like than what I had up there, so they’ll do for now!

And…that’s as far as I’ve gotten.

On a kind of related side note, surely I’m not the only one who thinks Easter candy tastes the best? Maybe it’s the pastel colors or something. I don’t know, but I can’t.stop.eating.it. Especially the peanut butter M&M’s.

They are definitely tastier than the primary colored originals.

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Spring has {already} arrived

March 21, 2012 By

Happy spring!

I don’t know about where you live, but my daffodils have bloomed and are already spent! Two of my tulips popped up today, which I thought was particularly fitting for the first day of spring. It’s been so warm here that everyone is already in dresses and sandals, and I actually broke out the white wine the other night – it was quite refreshing on a warm evening.

I decided I’d better get on with my Easter decorating before the holiday came and went. I dug out my spring bin from the attic, surveyed the goods and made a quick trip to Target and Michael’s after I dropped Molly off this morning. I have a bit of crafting to do {don’t worry, it’s not much!} and then hopefully I’ll have some fun pictures to share.

I did get down the Easter egg wreath from last year and Molly was SO excited to see it when she got home from school. She kept saying, “Is that for me?! Did the Easter bunny come?”

I hope to share some pictures of the house decorated for spring/Easter with you this week, and I want to share a print that I whipped up this morning in between emails and mopping!

Oh, and I almost forgot! We get the sweetest emails and pictures from our clients {you truly make our day when you do this, by the way!} and often moms or shower hostesses will blog about their parties. Sometimes they share their blogs with us and sometimes we happen to stumble across them. About a week or so ago, one of our clients convo’d us via Etsy to tell us she blogged about the baby shower she hosted using our grey & yellow sunshine collection. Her post was *so* sweet and it reaffirmed that we love what we do! Thank you Jenn for your kind words!

PS – Want to see a cute girl in an Easter dress?

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Egg hunts, cousins, and bridal tea invitations

April 26, 2011 By

Even though it’s officially been spring for over a month now, I still feel like Easter weekend is the magical weekend that announces SPRING. Maybe it’s the beautiful colors of the clothes and candy {my favorite? the beautiful speckled peanut butter M & M’s}, or spending the weekend outside with family. Either way, we had a wonderful Easter weekend.  To kick start the weekend, Molly and I went to a Easter egg hunt in our neighborhood, hosted by my friend Jessica and her son Graham. Jessica went all out with the decorations and sweets table; the kids – and moms – loved everything!

Doesn’t everything look amazing? Jessica has experience as an event planner, and it definitely shows!

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Easter Sunday, after church and brunch, we went to Beverly’s house for the afternoon. We all enjoyed the afternoon outside, watching the kids run through Benjamin’s new sprinkler and the girls learning how to interact with each other. Every time we get together, Molly and Addison play together more and more. On the way to brunch, Molly was asking for Addi Bird and when she saw her at the club, she laughed and pointed, saying “Addi! Addi Bird!” I pray every night that my daughter and my niece will be the best of friends – they’re practically twins, so they have to be, right?! Here are some of my favorite pictures from the afternoon:

trying to get a picture of the great-grandparents and all the great-grandchildren

sweet girls: hugs!

cooking up trouble already...

...annnnd switch!

I don’t have a lot of pictures of the boys…I need to be better about that!  Beverly got some great shots of her kids on her camera, so maybe she’ll post those soon.

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We’ve had so many fun, spring-like requests recently:  baby showers, wedding showers, and Sip ‘n Sees. We’ve done some really pretty, elegant invitations lately and I can’t wait to see pictures from all the parties.

A customer that we recently created birthday party invitations for contacted us about invitations for a bridal tea.  How lovely is that? I love a good tea party. Here are two of the designs we created for her:

So feminine and elegant, yet simple. They make me want to host a bridal shower!

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A labor of love: My Easter egg wreath

April 13, 2011 By

Last Easter, I wanted to make an Easter egg wreath, so I bought the wreath form but never got around to buying the plastic eggs. After Easter, I bought eggs on sale and put them in my spring decorating box and was so pleased with myself that I had everything I needed to make the wreath. Fast forward to this year:  I realize Easter is coming, we’re i the middle of  stalled redecorating/reorganizing project, and I can’t find the wreath. I’ve got the eggs, mind you, but no wreath form. So I finally go back into the attic, pull out multiple boxes of Christmas decorations, put them back in, look in a closet, and finally resgin myself to the fact that there won’t be an Easter egg wreath this year, either. The next day, in a moment of clarity, I remember that I put the wreath form *on top* of the purple storage container that houses my spring decorations and realize that it must have fallen off and is indeed in the attic.  So back up the stairs I go, pull out the Christmas boxes again and magically find the wreath form.

Then it takes me three more days to get motivated to actually start making the wreath.

And then I realize I don’t have enough hot glue sticks OR Easter eggs.

So after acquiring said items, I start making the wreath and realize that I didn’t put the eggs close enough together and then it’s time to get Molly from school and then we have an appointment and then…well, you get the idea.  So the unfinished wreath sat on our very limited  kitchen counter for a few days.

Until yesterday. I finally finished that sucker. Molly loves it, which is the only reason I made it in the first place.

Last night, I wanted to get a picture of the wreath before it got dark, so as we were getting ready to read Molly her bedtime books, I grabbed the camera. She saw me get the camera and ran after me, calling “Cheese!” Obviously we don’t take many pictures around here.

When I asked her what she thought of the egg wreath, she said, “Cute!” {But I think she’s the cute one!}

So now that that project is complete, I guess I should get around to finishing one of the other 2 zillion half-finished projects.  What do you think?  Have you made a wreath like this before? What else do you do to decorate for spring and Easter?

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