Introducing... the Hand Painted Invitations

Happy Monday all! I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are ready to take on another week. We have been busy this weekend launching our new line of hand painted invitations. Below is our first collection. We are so excited to add these to our repertoire. You may think, are you really going to paint every single invitation, well the answer is yes my friends. Crazy you may think, but we believe that every invitation deserves just as much attention and detail as the next. Each invitation is painted with acrylic paints and some are embellished with rhinestones. They can be customized to reflect your wedding colors or recreated as is. Check out more images on my shop. I would love to hear what you think.

Sushi Night

Last night we had a fabulous sushi dinner in honor of my brother. He left to go back to art school in San Fran today and for his last dinner in town he wanted sushi. So sushi it was and it sure was delicious. I am still thinking of it, wishing I had more. I found this cute little photo of the dos and donts of sushi eating. Its pretty interesting. I definitely break a couple of these rules, but for me, as long as I get the sushi in my mouth and no soy sauce on my white shirt then I am good to go. :) Happy sushi eating.

Shabby Chic Baby Shower Invitations

Here are the designs from last weeks inspiration - shabby chic baby shower invitations.

The Mom-to-Be, Dana, ended up picking the invitation below.

Below are the two other invitations she had to choose from. Each client always gets to choose from three different designs and can make as many tweeks as needed. This ensures the invitation is truly perfect for the client and fully captures the theme or vibe of the party.

I had such a great time designing these for Dana. I know her shower is going to be beautiful.

All Proceeds Go to the Red Cross

I am sure all of you have heard by now about the destruction in Haiti. I would like to donate 20% of all stationery, monoLOVEgram or wedding suite purchases from now until the end of Feb to the Red Cross to help the people of Haiti in their time of need. You can purchase stationery and monoLOVEgrams on my etsy shop.

Sweet Tooth

Good Morning Lovelies,

Something sweet for you on Thursday morning. I found these when browsing through Martha Stewart Weddings. They are beautiful and look soo yummy. Cupcakes are a delicious and cheap alternative to the wedding cake and make great additions to showers. Hope you all have a sweet day!

Weekly Inspiration:: Shabby Chic Baby Shower Invitations

This week's inspiration is a Shabby Chic Baby Shower. A friend of mine is having a baby girl and needs some shower invitations. She has given me so much to find inspiration through. When we first started talking she mentioned she wanted the invitations to have a shabby chic feel with purples, pinks and greens. She then came back and said she really liked the idea of playing off the "pea in a pod" theme, she especially liked this one because her grandmother used to call her sweet pea which is a term she is going to also carry into the nursery. Another great inspiration is the baby's name. Her name will be Ella Rose... isn't that beautiful! I think we can definitely incorporate all of these inspirations into her invitations. Check back at the end of the week to see the designs I come up with.

XOXO

Happy Friday!!

I hope you all had a wonderful first week of 2010. I hope your weekend is filled with love, happiness and lots of warm kisses.

photo by Elizabeth Messina