Anyone else looking forward to a particular TV show wedding tonight almost as much as some real-life weddings?
It’s the only (current) TV series I watch so I feel OK about my irrational excitement. That totally justifies it, right?
Here Comes the Bride
10/08/2009
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On a Bicycle Built for Two
10/07/2009For a couple who met four years ago on a bike ride and in planning their wedding found a vintage Schwinn tandem bike to use as their getaway vehicle, these wedding invitations were the perfect fit. Congratulations Paul and Erin! I hope your wedding is beautiful.
It’s such an honor to be able to create unique wedding invitations for friends and strangers. It’s not that expensive to get something custom made and what a difference it can make in the first impression of a wedding. Wedding stationery is definitely one of my favorite things to design.
If you’re interested in seeing some of my other wedding invitation designs, visit my Etsy shop.
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Meet the Wilsons
10/06/2009
Meet the Wilsons: Sully, Kortney, Jett and Dave (and their new baby girl Lennox, not pictured). They live in our neighborhood. Jason played guitar in their band for several months last year. And he used to work for Kortney. They have their own reality show on CMT Canada. That makes them celebrities. So basically, we’re famous, too. (Just kidding.)
If any of you live in Canada, please do me a favor and check out their show on Sunday nights. Not only is it not on TV here, but I’m very sad that I can’t watch the episodes online. They’re a super fun family. Dave and Kortney are attempting to launch their country music career while raising 3 little kiddos, flipping houses and working other jobs. I’m sure their crazy life will make for a very interesting show.
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A Perfectly Lovely Weekend
10/05/2009This past weekend was so wonderful! It started Friday when Jason met me at work with Chick-fil-A for lunch (including chocolate milkshakes.) Then we got on the road towards Valhermoso, Alabama where J was playing guitar in the worship band with our pastor Lindell Cooley at an outdoor festival. Besides the damp chilliness as it got dark, the night was perfect: two hours of worship and dancing and celebrating God, getting to hang out with 2 of my sweet friends and their adorable kiddos, watching our pastor get completely undignified jumping around the stage dancing and worshipping, and ending the night with fireworks! I love fireworks. Here are a few pictures I didn’t take:
Jason and I absolutely adore that little girl (and her parents are pretty amazing, too)! Getting to hold her always makes our days.
Her mama adores her too.
This sweet little boy is going to be a big brother this spring! I love this kid and his mama, too.
Our husbands, our pastor, and the rest of the band picking out some songs for the night (not that Lindell ever sticks to the setlist!).
Saturday, after sleeping in late, J got together with his bro to work on some recording stuff and us ladies went shopping. Found some great deals at the thrift stores and Macy’s. Had my first real fruit slush from Sonic (Half-price happy hour between 2-4pm – seriously?! My drink cost $0.50! Hello mid-century prices!!)
Later that night we went to PM for sushi with friends and then downtown Nashville to the art crawl. We ended a lovely Saturday falling asleep on the couch in front of Seinfeld in a “Roma-coma”. (Drifting into a peaceful rest after gorging yourself on Roma pizza!)
Sunday after church we had lunch at the brand-new abode of some dear friends; overate and then relaxed on the couch on a peaceful rainy afternoon.
I seriously can’t imagine a more perfect weekend. I am so thankful for our friends, for our church and our pastor, for our family. We don’t normally have a weekend that includes just about EVERYTHING we love: worship, friends, BBQ, music, fireworks, friends, art, sushi, “sleepovers”, church, friends, resting. Ahhh. Thank you Lord!
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Phone Photo Friday
10/02/2009
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October Randomness
10/01/2009Can you believe it’s already October?! We are not fans of Halloween in this household so that means just one thing:
Some adults buy candy to share with cute, costume-clad trick-o-treaters on Halloween. And then there are adults who hide out at home with the porch light off and eat all the candy themselves. I think you can guess which ones we are. We’re already on our second round of Reese’s peanut butter cups and the bag in the freezer is almost empty. (I highly recommend eating Reese’s frozen!)
Speaking of sweeties… Isn’t this picture funny? It looks like my husband is playing and singing his heart out on someone’s front porch. Basically, he is. Last week Waterside played a benefit concert for an organization that’s based out of a ranch house (with a very typical mid-century modern front door) so, naturally, the stage was the front porch.
What you see above is called a fairy circle (and arc). Doesn’t that sound fun? It’s finally sunny again, but last week and the week before we got a TON of rain in Nashville – in the whole SE U.S., actually. Which led to mushrooms. And fairy circles. And allergies…
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New Old Chair
09/30/2009Seven years ago, when Jason and I were engaged, we attempted to re-cover one of my parents’ old chairs with a tight-fitting slip cover and new chair legs. Sadly, the cover didn’t fit well and the legs made the chair unstable. I’m happy to report that our first real chair upholstery experiment came out much better!
When got this mid-century chair at a thrift store for $6.99, it had this horrible off-white ’80’s zig-zag fabric. The custom upholstery tag under the chair revealed that it was not the original covering.
Because the chair was so inexpensive, we were prepared to pay some good money for new upholstery to return it to a retro, vintage look. With a bolt of $35/yard fabric in our hands, my eye caught the clearance shelves at the fabric store. We were able to walk out with 1 1/4 yards of light blue woven upholstery (exactly what we were looking for), for only $9!
(Sorry about the poor photo quality. Someday I’ll learn how to use a DSLR properly.) We had originally planned to recover the off white vinyl footstool in the same fabric. There might be just enough but it will be really close. I’m leaning towards leaving the footstool as is. It currently has an imperfection on the top from a hole that was repaired, which bothers my perfectionist husband.
What do you think? Recover the footstool? Leave it?
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The Spice of Life
09/29/2009I love the variety that comes with doing freelance work. Today I finished a web site design for a dentist office, resized an ad for a masters program at a university, cut up some business cards for a guitarist and designed/printed/cut fliers for a guitar teacher. And that was all after work!
Tonight was some catch up work. Feels good to get a bunch of things knocked off my to-do-list after a couple of really busy weeks. (The last 2 projects listed are for my lovely husband. He doesn’t pay me but he’s still my favorite client…and if he’s successful, I benefit too, so it all comes around.)
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Wise Words
09/28/2009
“Hope that is seen is not hope at all.” — Paul
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Phone Photo Friday
09/25/2009
My sister-in-law’s name is Ginger but she occasionally gets junk mail for Finger. It’s pretty funny.
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