Happy Halloween!

Loving these very black (magical) and red candy apples from the L.A. based food blog, Matt Bites! Matt Armendariz and his food-stylist partner Adam Pearson created this very eery yet beautiful still life. Click here for the recipe. Wishing you all a very safe and Happy Halloween! (Via Ink +Wit via Tigerprint).

Trick or Treatzone!

by Treatzone


We're super-excited to share work from our Halloween-inspired show currently at The Curiosity Shoppe, entitled Trick-or-Treatzone. The show features ghost paintings on vintage postcards, classic monster silhouettes on science textbook pages, and haunting phrases printed on patterned paper – and our opening party last Friday included holiday-appropriate details like "spooky brew" and candy corn of course!

The show is up through November 22nd, but in case you can't make it in person, we're making the show multiples available at our table. We hope you'll check out our fall makeover and we wish you a very Happy Halloween!

Calling all vampire lovers!

As Twilight and True Blood are hugely popular and the latest rage and of course it is Halloween, we found this fabulous board on It's a Jaime Thing for a vampire style wedding!

Deep reds and blacks, truly goth, and how about some ghoulish cupcakes thrown in!

Image found on www.twilightfangs.com

Fancy hosting a Twilight Party check out the Hostess Blog for more vampish ideas!

A New Rescue

I love this print by Heather Smith Jones for the The Working Proof entitled, A New Rescue. It is a five-color letterpress print incorporating antique type with new metal blocks made from her drawings. 15% of the gross sale of this print goes to Smile Train (each Working Proof Project release donates 15% of the sales to charity). Click here to find out more and here and here for more of Heather's work.

Colour for a Grey Day

It's such a grey day here today, I thought I'd add a little splash of colour with these beautifully photographed homes from Marie Claire Maison. Top photo by Phillipe Garcia and below by Vincent Leroux.

Last Call for Submissions!

Last Call for submissions for our upcoming Holiday Market at Poppytalk Handmade. This is the last day to submit to be a vendor at our "all things gift related and holiday themed event" which will be running this year from November 23rd to December 18th/09! Send us an email along with a link to your work to poppytalkblog[at]yahooo[dot]ca with the words "Holiday Market Submission"! We will be contacting successful applicants next week.

Font Friday!

Sedona Script by Casady & Greene


Marketing Script by Dieter Steffman


Carbon Type by Vic Fieger

1942 Report

I found a nice little font site the other day in my travels called Fontex.org which features free fonts for download along with premium fonts and font resources. Here's a few I liked:

i made this for you... vol 10

stephen's been out of town and while he was gone, it finally started to feel like fall. i didn't want him to miss a thing - so i gathered freshly fallen leaves and taped a collection to our wall.

welcome home stephen!

And the winner is...

Congratulations to Candace of Sparklepower! Candace was the 122nd comment (chosen by random.org) on our Poppytalk Handmade Giveaway. We are thrilled to offer her a $100 gift certificate to spend at our online market. Thanks to all 306 commenters, it was an awesome response! We will definitely do this again and we look forward to 3 more years at Poppytalk Handmade! This blog which is a couple years older than the market (started in March 2005) is where the concept of our online market started (October 2007) and we're thrilled to be able to support the handmade community bringing our readers to these awesome artists and designers. Thank you everyone (readers and participants) We are honoured to be here!

Fabulous Wedding at Puente Romano, Marbella

We loved this photo of the notes hastily written down, note Jeremy's and my mobile numbers just in case!
We were so excited to finally see the photos of Carla and Matt's wedding held here at the beautiful Puente Romano Hotel.

Carla was a delight to work with and knew exactly what she wanted, we only met twice to put all these lovely details together to make the day so special.

Carla chose a lemon for her main theme that we accentuated with bright colours, pinks, oranges and vivid greens. The bridal flowers were country style handties with roses in pinks and lemons with touches of green and oranges, our pedestals for the ceremony were vivid and brightly coloured to lift the wedding, which we later moved down to the beach club for the main reception.

We made up fans with lemon ribbons and fuchsia paper roses, large confetti cones fixed to the sides of the chairs down the aisle filled with pink, orange and lemon rose petals and the rest of the petals were scattered on the aisle.

After a very moving ceremony, beautifully conducted by Andrew Hunter, the wedding party moved down to the stunning setting of the Suite Del Mar on the beach.

We used the same style country style rose arrangements placed in square vases for the table centrepieces, set on table mirrors with bright floating candles in votives and lots of pink, yellow and green table crystals, the end result was very elegant.

We tied the napkins with lemon organza ribbons and the same fuchsia rose detail as the fans and tied each guest's name to the napkins.

Our decorated cava bottles marked the girls seats and personalised cigars were placed out for the men. Yet again we found a tree for our handmade, famous table seating cards!

Our thanks to Jeremy and Jenny for these fabulous photos and to see this wedding slideshow and more images of Carla and Matt's wedding, visit Jeremy's beautiful blog

Treat Street

I'm sure many of you get Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP weekly newsletter, and if you did today you were probably as delighted as I was to read about this adorable "secret bakery" called Treat Street. So love this. It's your friendly neighborhood secret bakery which pops up when you least expect it turning your day into some sugary fun! Click this week's GOOP newsletter featuring more about this fun pop-up neighborhood bakery and some of their favourite recipes such as these Eyeball Cupcakes (below). (Images from treatst.blogspot.com and cupcake photo by Eric Staudenmaier from "Hey There Cupcake" (Melcher Media 2004) by Clare Crespo via goop.com).

11 reasons you should keep reading etsy wedding

{ where am i going? art journal kit by elisejoy }

i know, i know. i never call, i never write.
was in NYC last weekend briefly on a music adventure to CMJ, am planning a trip to dubai/UAE, doing some behind-the-scenes research for this blog... no excuses!

my readers, i need to get on a posting schedule. i have roughly 11 things on deck, some of them for months, some of them i'm embarrassed to admit to because i've left blog friends hanging.

looking in my drafts folder, they are:

1. bridal-party gifts for women under $20, to follow up men's gifts under $20
   
2. silver earrings post requested in august by meg of a practical wedding, who is already married and no longer needs it...
3. bridesmaid dresses you *might* actually like
4. eco-housewares worth registering for
5. real etsy wedding: dorie
6. call for entries: seeking 20 motivated etsy wedding vendors for the wedding show, jan 15-17, toronto, see http://www.theweddingco.com/thedailynews/2009/10/calling-all-etsy-sellers/
7. a really really great giveaway with a prize (a really good one!) that i have needed to post since *june*. 
8. a post on the wonderful twin oaks bed+breakfast, where we stayed in natchez on our road trip in september, and proprietor regina charboneau's amazing food writing (and recipes!)
   
9. polls: what do you want to see more of? budget features? top 10 vintage? individual seller features? also: if people offer me non-etsy products to review, would you like me to accept them in order to pass them on to you as freebies?
10. for hannah at the daily etsian, an interview she gave me weeeeeks ago....
11. plus a really good story i've been holding out on.

i hope that by listing them here it shows that i do think about you far more often than it shows the last few months. plus it's the first step toward finishing a few of them, for the love. i also purchased (months ago!) a domain name for the site: etsyweddingblog.com, but have yet to revamp the template and reorganize the resources now that they've grown. i need an assistant. perhaps an intern... (don't we all!)

being at fort point open studios and working with other artists reminded me why i do this: to connect couples with amazing craftspeople and artisans, and to give exemplary indie design a wider audience. i've been neglecting that job of late, and plan to be more mindful of your good faith in reading.

for all waiting to hear back by email, i am catching up slowly.
i thank you all for your patience and for reading!

What does a rainbow taste like?

Well look no further, I think I found the answer. This cake just made me so happy when I saw it. From the blog, Whatever (made last spring for her children's last day of school). A rainbow cake - perfect for a rainy day (and we have many here). Click here for the recipe.

Via Urban Outfitters blog.

Wilco Loft

And I thought we had a lot of guitars hanging around. Loft magazine is previewing Wilco's Chicago recording studio in their fall issue (on newsstands) with great pictures and an interview with tour manager, Jason Tobias and Jeff Tweedy also online. The space is a definite candy store for musicians. See and preview the story here. Photography by Charles Harris.

Wedding Expo Fuengirola November 2010

We would like to inform our clients we will now not be exhibiting at the Wedding Expo in November in Fuengirola.

If you had planned to come and see us, please contact us and we would be delighted to arrange appointments.

laura@reviva-weddings.com

Apple Cinnamon Clouds of Goodness

by Jeannette Ordas of Everybody Likes Sandwiches

Biscuits should be light, fluffy and flaky. Cloudy bits of just warm goodness topped with butter and jam, best eaten on an endless Saturday morning. I'm not from the South, but my biscuit making chops aren't too shabby. So instead of playing it safe with my ol' recipe, I tried to shake things up a bit with a heavy dose of autumn.

Apple and cinnamon are perfect for fall and are a perfect combo for biscuits, as I discovered. I used a Bramley Seedling apple which is tart and sweet and perfect for baking, but feel free to use whatever apple variety you've got. The result was a biscuit that tasted like all the best bits of fall and without much fuss.

Apple Cinnamon Drop Biscuits
2 c all-purpose flour
2 t baking powder
1/2 t baking soda
1 t raw sugar
3/4 t kosher salt
1 t ground cinnamon
1 pinch of ground nutmeg
1 pinch of ground cardamom
1 large apple, cored and diced
1/2 c plain yogurt
1/2 c skim milk
8 T unsalted butter, melted

1. Preheat oven to 475. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the first 8 ingredients. Set aside.

2. In a smaller bowl, mix together the milk, yogurt and melted butter. Using a rubber spatula, add the wet ingredients to the dry, along with the diced apple, stirring until the mixture begins to pull away from the bowl. Be careful to not over mix!

3. Drop spoonfuls of dough onto a silpat (or parchment covered) cookie sheet, about 1.5 inches apart. Bake for 12 - 15 minutes or until tops are golden. Cool slightly (if you can stand it) and serve with butter and jam or eat 'em up plain.

Things that start with "B"

Brownie Camera

Some awesome things starting with the letter "B" today! Just "B" cause! From Brownies to Bowls and butterfiles to bookmarks, we love these things, we think they are the "B's" knees!

Butterflies

Bookmarks

Betsy Monogram Mug

Buttons Print

Ball Mason Jar Lantern

Bowls

Birds and Key Plate

Brooklyn Chinoiserie

Betsy Walton print