Indah & Gavin Print Materials

 

Programs, Seating Cards, & Table Numbers for Indah & Gavin's Wedding

hey, its a house.

We bought a house. A neat one-story, u-shaped, brick ranch that backs to the ninth hole of a golf course. It's 2200 square feet of . . . well, it's ours anyway! We settled in August and even though I should blog about it, I'm going to take the year off and focus on working on it. Here's what you should know:

1. We love it. (Obviously)
2. It needs a lot of work.
3. Over the next year we're going to be doing as much of that work as we can.

I began tapping away at this blog mainly for myself to track inspiration and write about things that were important to me in the moment. Now that we've got the house, it's what's important to me for this season, so I've decided to focus on it.

Eventually, our hope is to have some great before & after pictures! Mostly because we want to live in the afters.

woody.

everyone seems to be into the woods lately, I'm diggin' 'em too.
check out these:

1. wood deck
2. palo samko bird
3. laser-cut alphabet

setting up

Setting the table for dinner guests can add an instant touch of sophistication to the most casual of get-togethers, and since I find it particularly satisfying to arrange (and rearrange) plates, napkins, glasses, and flatware; I'm prone to doing this even when we're just having lasagne.
here's a few ways I've set our table in the past couple of months:

I grabbed these lavender-colored spider mums from the grocery store thinking they'd look cute in a centerpiece but after setting the table I made a last minute switch to individual blooms in some glass votives we had on hand.

Our table and chair set we purchased from IKEA a few years ago and the glass tabletop is actually from their office desktop collection, but I snagged it in the as-is section for about $10. The runners and chargers I picked up at Target while they were having their after-Christmas cleareance so I got those on the cheap too. The flatware was my gift from Timothy for Christmas and we were ecstatic to have friends over so we'd have an excuse to lay the table with them!

shake it

1. Handcarved Block

2. Glass Salt Well

3. Chemistry Shakers

4. Tall Electric Dispensers

5. Alphabet Block Shakers

6. Diagonal Shakers

7. Bamboo Salt Box

great {design} expextations

i've been anticipating the arrival of this month's issue of Print, mostly because i've been excited to see the regional design annual winners, but two other things struck me before i could even get to the award section.

1. this quote:

"people today don't just appreciate good design - they expect it."

- David Butler, the vice president of design for Coca-Cola

as a person who strives to create work - and generally live life - in a way that more then simply, meets expectations, i find this quote surmises what i've discovered in my limited experience and it also challenges me. how inspiring!

and 2. tur-da! this amazing ad from Neenah Paper announcing the addition of a pearlized linen paper to their line: way to combine my two favortie things. side note: the typography and pattern looks straight out of Martha Stewart Living.

it's beautiful. and just examine the texture . . . the little swatch of "linen is embossed" to feel extra linen-y, how delightful. I can't wait to use this paper for a future project.

also i really love this color right now.

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