Posts from — September 2009

I’m in the mood for a great fall reading list. I probably won’t finish them all before spring summer, but I’m looking for leaves and romance and dark and gothy and all of that mixed together. Some of these just come to mind and some of them are online recommendations…

Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen

I’ve never read a Jane Austen book. I’m not quite sure how that happened but this seems perfect. It seems autumny and I believe it’s sort of a satire on gothic romances. Perfect!

Griffin & Sabine
by Nick Bantock

I don’t have them all but I do have four or five of them. Perfect fall reading; getting lost in romantic letters and postcards (and you can really take them out and read them which is spectacular!).

Eva Moves the Furniture
by Margot Livesey

I just stumbled across this one and it sounds perfect. Set in Scotland, a story of love, life, death, coming of age…and ghosts.

Walden, or, Life in the Woods
by Henry David Thoreau

Somehow, I’ve never read this. I need to fix that.

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…but so much cuter…

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Oh wait, I have one. But it’s a secret. Hmm; for some reason, since we moved to the Asheville (artsy!) area over 3 years ago, I’ve been creating LESS. And by less, I mean that my paints are dry, paintbrushes do not come out, wood and paper has done nothing but collect dust. I’m not really sure what’s up with that. It may be partially due to the fact that I have to work more, but maybe it goes beyond that. I want to change it though…

Anyway, came across this cool store that makes me want to make some immerse myself in mixed media. Well, first I have to finish a client’s website, but after that, who knows! Actually though, maybe I should contact mentioned cool store because they really need a new site, don’t you think? Anyway, on to some of the fun stuff I came across (thanks to Jordan Ferney – I think that’s where I came across it).

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I recently did the wedding “collateral” for my friends wedding which is this Saturday! I’ll share everything soon now (invites, RSVPs, place cards, etc.!).

Ooooh and just since I have it handy, here’s the map that was sent with the invitation. Originally this was going to be letterpress which would have been amazing, but it still came out beautiful (letterpress is super duper expensive!).  Here is the invite (it’s an accordion fold so it looks a little weird like this):  Don’t forget to click images to view them larger!

….and map:

I couldn’t have done them without Dave’s awesome help (thank you!). We work well together as “designers”. Too bad he wants to be all teachery and fine artisty instead of opening a design biz with the love of his life.

Moving forward…. here’s the RSVP postcard:

Here’s a little taste of the labels we did for the wine bottles that will also serve as table numbers. It’s no the best photo, but you can sort of get the idea…..

And everything was sent in a beautiful chocolate little pouch envelope…..trying to find an image of the package deal.

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So I’m all about Apple, and can’t wait to see what kind of tablet, or “booklet” they come up with. This Microsoft version is not available yet, but ooooooh. It is pretty amazing! Come on Apple, give us a peek because yours will even be better.

I heart new technology.

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So I’m going to try a new thing tomorrow. A day in the life sort of thing. Either Saturday or Sunday of each week, though who knows, maybe I’ll change the day each week, especially since I’ve been a bit hibernatory (I don’t think that’s a word) on the weekends lately. The deal? Simple. Photos of the day. So hopefully there’s a post here tomorrow. You can yell at me, throw shoes, call me a liar if there’s not.

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