Four Month Old Isaiah
Considering you will be 5 months old next week, I'm a little late in posting this. Thankfully I took good notes and wrote this out a few weeks ago because you have changed SO much since you turned 4 months. Every day brings us a new joy and discovery
Sam Allen Creates : July and August 2015
So It's the end of October, I do know this, even though I am about to share July and August work with you guys. Be patient with me please
Sam Allen Creates : May and June 2015
I don't know about you but May seems just like yesterday so posting about projects created that month, and in June, seems totally valid. Right right? Even if that's just me feeling that way, you still may like seeing a peek at some of the projects that came across my desk that month. Considering we were gone in Oregon and Colorado for half of May, this compilation is that much crazier to me—and of course still working full time. I definitely felt quite crazy there for awhile, but here's why
Sam Allen Creates : January and February 2015
This blog has totally fallen to the wayside as I have been trying to maintain all these various projects. Monday Musings and Friday Footnotes have been non existent for some time but I hope to bring those back soon along with a monthly, or bi-monthly feature of the miscellaneous projects I've been working on. Between my friends and Etsy clients, there's a lot of random projects that cross my desk that don't really have a place in my Etsy listings quite yet as they are too unique or custom and then other smaller projects for friends that don't quite need a full blog post. Or of course, an Etsy project that when photographed, hide amongst the nearly 150 listings in my shop. Either way, I just wanted to share a few of the fun things I've had a chance to work on, through my shop and on the side. If I haven't said it a thousand times already, I love my work. Love love love it. January This was the most insane month of my life, work-wise. My full time job kept me quite busy with TONS of overtime working on a catalog so lots of early early mornings, late nights, and weekends were
Friday Footnotes
1. Freelance Wisdom from Kristen Drozdowski This post. Love. Needed. Loved. Read it. Once. Twice. Thrice? Not all work is fun - and during those non-fun times, it's important to always love and embrace the fact that you're allowing yourself to follow your dream to do something creative for a living! Even when it's stressful - you'll love it all if what you're doing is something that makes you happy. Found via June Letters, more on Kristen's site. 2. 40 Reasons to Love Lettering I love how Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge phrased this in her introduction to 40 Reasons to Love Lettering: As technology becomes more advanced and more impressive, I find myself missing the “old way” of doing things more and more. Even though I love a great digitally printed logo or sign, you can’t beat the hand-painted signs and lettering that used to cover shops, storefronts and the sides of buildings. I totally agree! Which is all the more reason that I love getting to create so much with lettering in my Etsy shop! I couldn't have said it better myself! And I loved going through all 40 images of such a wide variety of lettering, from the style of the lettering to the placement
Monday Musings
Devote yourself to your community around you & devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose & meaning. —Mitch Albom Source: Em Dash paper Co
Monday Musings
Success is not easy and is certainly not for the lazy. -Samantha Saifer-Berngard Designed and lettered by The Everygirl.
Friday Footnotes
1. Jasmine Star's New Site And she did it again. The amazing photographer Jasmine Star and designer Promise Tangeman just launched a redesign of the already amazing site: jasminestar.com. With gorgeous photos to display, the website vertically scrolls (y'all know I love that feature) showing off the details with top notch typography. And of course, Lindsay Letters created some custom lettering work for the site. Basically all 3 of my favorite female work idols busted out a gorgeous new project and I am in awe. See the site here. 2. Flourish Forum I get so so excited over every single purchase made through my Etsy shop—like seriously overjoyed—but when someone purchasing something hand lettering I get so much more excited to bust out the pens and write away to my heart's content. And I know there are so many more people who feel this way. So many that a forum has been created called the Flourish Forum. How awesome is that? Thanks to Besotted Blog for the tip! 3. Bookjiig Bookmarks How I love these typographic chalk designed bookmarks! I think I need one or two, or five. Designed by Russ Gray, found via The Dieline. 4. Screen Print DIY Oh man, I so want to do
Friday Footnotes
1. Ticketmaster Ticket Redesign Concept I just adore personal projects
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