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2007-08-23T19:47:00.000-04:00

cute, right?

2007-05-17T10:30:00.000-04:00

We put her in the guest room last night and used some boxes to block off the doorway. This is what she did to the boxes…

not a wedding post...

2007-03-30T21:15:00.000-04:00

My brain no longer generates any thoughts outside of centerpieces, cakes or dresses. I feel like I need to expand its functionality a little so I strayed away from The Knot longer enough to find this piece by Kim Beury.

new member of the family...

2007-03-30T19:57:00.000-04:00

I was greeted by this monstrosity when I pulled into the driveway tonight :) Paul pick up this sweet ride to help transport stuff for the shop. Oh man...I don't even know what to say.

i'm going to make a horrible wife...

2007-03-30T19:56:00.000-04:00

aisle...

2007-03-30T18:41:00.000-04:00

I found these garden stakes for $1 a piece! We plan on having the ceremony out on the lawn so I wanted to dress up the rows of white chairs somehow. We'll put one of these at the end of each row.

I was originally thinking of making paper cones in green with brown and white/cream ribbons and filling them with some kind of white flowers but then I saw the red poms in the second picture. I love these. I would make them in white but I think real flowers would be end up costing more than I had budgeted for this little project. I'm afraid that silk flowers might look weird but I'll try one and see.

this is the bouquet i want...

2007-03-30T18:34:00.000-04:00

I love this big bunch of hydrangeas! This is exactly what I was picturing in my head except I would switch the purple for green. Perfect. And it's not $150. (Hopefully not $150)

i don't know what i was thinking...

2007-03-25T17:15:00.000-04:00

Paul and I met with the florist a couple weeks ago to get ideas about pricing. I really don't know what I was expecting but I definitely wasn't expecting $55 per table...especially with 22-25 tables. Anyways, here are some pictures of the beautiful flowers that you won't be seeing at our wedding :)

for the tables...

2007-03-24T16:44:00.000-04:00

Instead of doing a full-blown candy station, we might put little jars on the tables and fill them with mints, etc. We could finish them off with a ribbon and a little label. I found these little jars at Ikea. A 4-pack costs $2.99.

favors...

2007-03-24T16:21:00.000-04:00

eBay has everything! We found these laptop candy molds for our favors.

Paul found this cake topper, too...

wedding ideas...

2007-03-22T10:52:00.000-04:00

I found these pics from a real wedding on the Weddingbee site. I think I might have to borrow a few of these ideas.

:)

2007-02-19T17:04:00.000-05:00

This is one of the other pieces I did for Paul's birthday. I love this picture!

birthday gifts...

2007-02-19T16:59:00.000-05:00

Paul's birthday was Saturday and these are two little drawings I did for him.

lanterns...

2007-02-19T16:49:00.000-05:00

We were thinking about hanging something from the rafters of the pavilion roof. The roof is a little high so this might make it feel a little cozier. I like the way they used different sized lanterns in this pic.

flowers...

2007-02-19T16:31:00.000-05:00

Hi Jen! I don't know if you still come here but I'm going to try to post some wedding stuff for you to check out. I think we're going go with brown and green for the colors. These are some of the ideas I found for flowers. I really like the hydrangeas in the top right pic. Very simple but pretty.

sketches...

2007-01-27T11:22:00.000-05:00

save the date cards...

2007-01-14T18:07:00.000-05:00

Here's one try.

quick little drawings

2007-01-02T20:35:00.000-05:00

christmas gift for my dad

2007-01-02T20:15:00.000-05:00

This is one of my favorite pictures of my dad. This version is after I cut it down a bit but I'm the one with the little vest and Jen's the one hanging out in the front. I turned this pic into a gift for my dad but, unfortunately, the picture came out very, very out-of-focus. I'll hopefully be investing some gift cards in a new camera soon and will be able to post a better picture of the finished product.

christmas gift for j & k

2007-01-02T20:08:00.000-05:00

5x7" mixed media on bristol
Oh man!!! I need a new camera! The picture is a little dark and there's some weird light strip going on over on the left but this is a small painting I did for Jen and Kelson.

christmas card 2

2006-11-30T21:40:00.000-05:00

christmas card 1

2006-11-30T21:13:00.000-05:00

christmas is coming

2006-11-02T14:51:00.000-05:00

The other day I heard someone say that they were completely done with their christmas shopping and today I realized that we have less than 8 weeks left til the 25th. After having a minor anxiety attack I came up with a couple quick ideas for Christmas cards. I'm very, very new to Illustrator so I tried to keep them pretty simple.

new

2006-10-08T17:25:00.000-04:00

11x16" mixed media on bristol
I tried to take a better picture but I think my camera just bit it. I don't feel like this is finished just yet so I think I'll put it aside for a little while. For me this means that I'll be cleaning my room out in 10-12 months and find this among a mess of other stuff. I'll pull it out, hang it up and think about what I should do to it, and then put it back among that other stuff for another 10-12 months.

work in progress...

2006-09-23T21:36:00.000-04:00

16 x 20", mixed media on canvas

recent sketches

2006-09-23T21:31:00.000-04:00

some older stuff

2006-09-23T21:26:00.000-04:00

TEST

2006-09-15T13:43:00.000-04:00

test test test...