Bouganvilla at Los Monteros

Here is a wedding we created at Los Monteros using local flowers, stephanotis and pink bouganvilla, it was beautiful and the bride was really pleased. She looked amazing in her spanish style dress hopefully more photos to come.

Beach Glamour Puente Romano

What an amazing wedding this was, so many people came up from the beach whilst we were creating this wedding to say how stunning it looked.

honeymooning #1: get outta dodge

{ vicarious travel set: june blossoms, with customized travel guide by cascadelemonade }

here's a fabulous gift idea: travel sets! the one above from cascadelemonade even includes a custom travel guide written for where you or your happily married friends are headed. neat!







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Zine Two from You Work For Them

Just a few samplings from You Work For Them's latest online pdf zine, ZINE TWO. What's so cool about this free zine is that you can actually click on applicable links pertaining to each image which contains downloadable vector art, images and patterns! Instant gratification!!!! And then you can make your own beautiful art using them! (Above uses a variation of four different brushes, vectors or patterns - brush 17, botanicals 13, night life, water color and vatercolor 01). (Below: Mr. Hyde & Trygve 02 by Designed by Emma Trithart. And below that, Ray Fenwick's Infinityland 01 patterns with Radius 04). Click here to download the zine or here to go to their site.

Special Guest Post: by Christine Schmidt of Yellow Owl Workshop

WAKE UP EYEBALLS - Day 1
Special Guest Post by Christine Schmidt, Yellow Owl Workshop


Hello there. This is Christine Schmidt from Yellow Owl Workshop coming at you from San Francisco. Big thanks to Jan and Earl, my lovely hosts this week!

From my view atop Bernal Heights I can watch the rainbow ships and homes below slough off the grey evening fog. The colors surge backing the morning sun. Although his work has a depth and disconnect belying the eye-searing spectrum, SF’s own Keegan McHargue uses full spectrum beautifully. And he is a cool dude. Can’t swing a painting from Metro Pictures? Yeah, me neither. Gets some Keegan in zine form from Nieves.


Or in monograph a rad store here in SF called Park Life.

Special Guest Post by Christine Schmidt, Yellow Owl Workshop & Yellow Owl Workshop blog

New Special Guest: Christine Schmidt of Yellow Owl Workshop

I hope you're enjoying this "Special Guest" series we've been hosting these past couple of weeks. I know I sure am, seeing a different perspective on things and each one so unique. I'm excited to announce this week's new "Special Guest" is Christine Schmidt of Yellow Owl Workshop out of San Francisco. If you don't know her work, visiting her Workshop is definite must! She makes really original prints, cards, plaques, journals and things. And besides all that, she's just a sweet person. I'm really looking forward to her perspective and I'm sure you will too. So stay tuned this week for daily posts from her neck of the woods!


Yellow Owl Workshop
Yellow Owl Workshop blog

mingus' gocco'd origami

Loving all these new origami gocco'd designs coming out of Australia from Mingus Designs. Saw them first on her flickr stream whilst visiting the gocco pool. The cards are printed on 100% recycled paper and the fabric is hemp organic cotton based for the pouches and bags. I've got an email into her to see if and when/where they will be available.

Update (Jul 1): The items should be up in her etsy shop in the next couple of days

Paint and Ink

Paint and Ink was Etsy's featured seller recently, and I was naturally delighted to find her imaginary maps of faraway lands. Printed from original paintings drawn with dip pens and India ink and illuminated with glowing watercolor, her work reminds me of pirate treasure maps from old story books. These would make such great little boys room art! Also love these podged wood plaques which bring remarkable depth and life to the ink and gives the edges of the wood a sappy, resiny look. Click here to see more of her shop and read her featured seller interview here.

sweet sails

Just came across these sweet little sailboat cushions from Kate Durkin on Etsy today. Hand-embroidered sailboats, perfect huggable accents to a couch or bed and a great soft toy. She also has some great owl ones too.

nantaka joy - summer series

I am loving these beautiful new papergoods from Nantaka Joy this summer. The above pattern named, Agate is from her Nature Explorations series, where patterns of textural agate explore a topographic viewpoint. Metallic on charcoal with scalloped edges. (Below:) From her Cloth Story series, an olive ombre notebook on a pearlized cover and an ombre lace grey tiny card both with lace-like patterns. Click here to see more.

steliedesigns: invites and postcards

{ sydney wedding invitation in blue/green }

lovely fresh design! minneapolis-based steliedesigns makes save-the-dates, invitations, and cards with 100% post-recycled cardstock and envelopes. check out the rounded-edge ones below...





more at steliedesigns.etsy.com

hello friends -- i have a huge backlog of email and i apologize for not keeping up with everyone's post suggestions and ideas! (*sorry* angel!) please do keep them coming -- i promise to apply ass to chair and get through these as soon as i humanly can. in the meantime, keep it up! and thanks for your patience. :)

hope you're having a great saturday!

How-To (NSS Post Series) at Susy Jack's

Susy of Susy Jack has done a write up on her experience at the National Stationery Show on her blog this past week. She's breaking it down into three parts and the first part she's calling Part 1 - Pre Show. It's a great little write up on topics such as "should you participate", "prepping for the show" and "public relations/advertising" and booth basics. She wrote a nice little part on participating at Poppytalk Handmade which ran tandem with the show. Click here to read Part 1.

gardeners samplah #4: accessories and whatnot

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all from me for now for the garden aisle, friends -- headed to jazz in the garden, no less. happy friday!!!