Monthly Archives: December 2010

Monogram Essentials

December 29, 2010 – 6:17 pm

Recently I sat down with a bride to pore over invitation samples and I had a conversation that I’ve had many times over the course of the years: monogram etiquette for invitations. This is such a common conundrum that I thought it would be a great issue to discuss here. This is the general rule: [...]

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Apple Falling From the Tree Bit

December 23, 2010 – 5:30 pm

I love checking out all kinds of craftspeople, designers, bakers, furniture makers, artists… anyone who has an artist’s eye is worth checking out! This new feature, “Folks We Love” will focus on people doing neat things of all types. People will occasionally ask me where I got my “art gene” from. “Are either of your [...]

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Jasmine Garden

December 20, 2010 – 4:12 pm

I am diving into a new year’s resolution a couple weeks early here. As you can see from the new masthead above, I am finally getting serious about this blog:  hopefully 2011 will bring a more disciplined, categorized, organized, efficient and pretty blog.  Ty and I sat down with a friend last week who had [...]

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Alert: Head {finally} Above Water!

December 16, 2010 – 8:11 pm

Let’s start off by saying that it has been C.R.A.Z.Y. up in here for the last month. There were some days that I literally felt dribble down my chin from staring at the computer screen for too long. Once Thanksgiving wound down, holiday cards immediately wound UP, which is a good thing. All this to [...]

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