Photo A Day, November—Week 2
23/simplicity, 24/a word, 25/quirky, 26/message, 27/no!, 28/I am grateful for
Evernotes Every Friday
1. Typography Wrapping Paper Okay now that Thanksgiving is over, how wonderfully cool is this type-centric wrapping paper?? Found via designworklife
My Etsy Shop: Your New Friend Sam
Over the years as I've posted a few dozen invitation designs, and all the while quite a few people encouraged me to open an Etsy shop. And I finally did! Back in February, on a night my husband was out of town, I sat down and stocked a few invites and opened a shop. Just printables, nothing printed. Calling the shop "Your New Friend Sam"—a name I had been wanting to establish here on my blog but never felt enough confidence to do. Then while working with my best friend on her wedding stationery, starting with her save the dates, I created a return address stamp with a mix of handwritten and digital type. And from there, my little shop grew from invites only, to also include rubber stamps. And that's when things got interesting. As of August, I still hadn't sold over 20 orders through my shop, but in this past month my sales have almost doubled! And that doesn't even include friends and family that have been keeping things consistent along the way. As a perfectionist, I kept delaying an official post on my shop until I felt like I truly had it figured it out
Monday Musings
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. Source: You and Saturation
Photo A Day, November—Week 3
16/play, 17/5 o'clock, 18/mirror, 19/where i ate breakfast, 20/communication, 21/i wish i had this, 22/behind Join me and follow Fat Mum Slim's blog for the Photo A Day prompts, join us for the month of November!
Evernotes Every Friday
1. The Everygirl Site You know those days where you just get lost in the Internet, going from one page to the next? Well that's what happened to me this week after seeing a pin of this print from The Everygirl. I saved it for a later Monday Musings post and as I perused the website, I just loved the design of it. Especially the drop down menus. Seriously amazing and beautiful design so I just had to know more. After going through a few Google pages, I found the designer! Alaina Kaxzmarksi and her team just launched this site this week funny enough! So here's a huge shout out to them
Rachel and Amelia’s Bedroom in the Trees, Mama and Baby Photography
This photo shoot came to being when Rachel and her little babe stayed the weekend at my house. Seeing them snuggled up together in bed sparked an idea to make a little outdoor bed complete with a wooden pallet headboard, a bedroom among the trees if you will. We definitely were just "winging" it the day we scampered about town looking for a location and finally found this grove of trees within a 5 minute drive from my house. In my head I pictured our little sleepy baby from Amelia's newborn and 3 month photos, but of course the little miss was wide awake
Monday Musings
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. -Leonardo da Vinci Source: Year of Lettering.
Photo A Day, November—Week 2
8/someone I miss, 9/mine, 10/book, 11/a memory, 12/clouds, 13/part of me, 14/eating, 15/in my purse Join me and follow Fat Mum Slim's blog for the Photo A Day prompts, join us for the month of November!
Evernotes Every Friday
1. Tahlia’s Modern Mint + Coral Birth Announcements This is seriously one of the cutest birth announcements I have ever seen in my whole life. See more images, along with the cover, here. Designed by Greenstar Paperie, found via Oh So Beautiful Paper. 2. Evernote Skitch Logo Process Seeing this logo process really added more to my appreciation of this new logo for Evernote Skitch. Designed in house, found via Brand New. 3. Easy DIY Pendant Lamp I've really been loving the look of pendant lights in these past few years, not that I own a single one of course