These painted green chairs are right up my alley! A few years ago when we moved into our house, P. and I bought some lovely leather chairs for our kitchen table - they are really nice but I guess as time moves on, my taste is changing a bit and I am drawn to bright colours and cool architecture and shapes.
{I've been really bad at tracking where I'm saving my photos from lately, so unfortunately the source of this photo is unknown :(}
Have you heard of Big Cartel? It's a cool program that allows small businesses to host an online shop without all of the hassle - or in their words 'Simple Stores for DIY Rockstars'! I decided to create a small store {it's free for 5 items and under} to sell some prints of the nature pattern watercolours I created in my Australian illustration course. I've found a way to print the paintings on watercolour paper so they look almost identical to the original art. Check them out at inBloom Studio Boutique!
I finally got around to decorating my console table for Spring! I did away with the previous winter wonderland and made way for some fresh greens and yellows. Check out the beautiful forsythia! I wish they lasted forever.
A quick thank you to Celia of Design for Conscious Living for the shout-out to me and inBloom Studio on her new blog! I am blushing...
I recently designed Celia's business cards and had them printed on a linen cardstock and they turned out beautifully! For more of Celia's work, you can check out her website here...
Did you celebrate Earth Hour on Saturday? I went to this concert last year but this year I kept it quiet and read a book by candlelight. I always love hearing stories from my grandma about how before they had electicity {or Alec Tricity - she thought it was a man!} they could do nothing much after dark except read and talk by candlelight - there were no tv's or computers or video games to distract us and make us completely anti-social!
I also loved the first night of that huge black-out a few years back. I lived in uptown Toronto and Pete was working downtown. He walked all the way up {MANY city blocks} to my apartment as his car was stuck in a lot downtown, and then around 10pm that night we decided to walk back downtown to get his car. It was unreal! Everyone was out on the streets walking and talking, socializing. Restaurants were open by candlelight and handing out free drinks. It was such an incredible night that I'll never forget. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate electricity and heat and hot water! But we could stand to hold an Earth Hour a bit more often I think...at least more than once a year.
p.s. Toronto decreased its typical energy consumption by 15% of what is normal at that time...not too shabby!
I was so busy on Friday trying to decide which dress to wear to the Canadian Event Industry Awards that I don't think it occurred to me that we might win! Check out our Star Award for 'The Best Wedding Under $75,000' category for this wedding design. The Canadian Event Industry Awards is a national award program presented by Canadian Event Perspective Magazine. I haven't won an award since who knows when {high school I guess!} so this was a lovely surprise. We are honoured and would like to thank the Academy...!
I may not be going to the Juno's but I am going to be attending the CEP Star Awards as a nominee! My other company, inBloom Event Design, has been nominated for an award for our design work on Julia and Iain's wedding! The event is pretty formal and I feel a bit like I'm getting ready for prom with hair, makeup, pedis and manis. I still haven't quite decided on my dress - shall I wear this cool Grecian piece from French Connection that I love {looks better in real life!}? Or this emerald green Banana Republic dress that I wore for...erm...a few weddings last summer? But I do love the colour of it...I'm leaning towards the emerald green. Thoughts?! Have a great weekend!
I recently complete a logo and business card design for Suzanne Perrett of Organize My Chaos - a professional organizer. And man, is Suzanne organized! So prompt and efficient in fact, that I started the logo on a Monday and both the logo and business cards were signed off by the Friday - that is unheard of!
Suzanne wanted a motif that symbolized organization {something neat and tidy} using a clean and simple font. She also wanted to use a cheery yellow {or 'mimosa' as I like to call it} which I loved - so sunny and bright! I came up with this motif of some very organized and lined-up dots with a clean font that gets just a little bit awry on the word 'chaos'. And I loved her business cards too as she opted for a clean, one-sided card with a raised logo and tagline {the bumpy dots look great!} and her contact information printed flat.
I will soon start work on her website re-design...I can tell that will be a fun, not to mention a very efficient, project!
I decided to redecorate for Spring...and I gave my blog a new name. Is that allowed in blogland?
I'm loving this side-braid hairstyle apparently made famous by Lauren Conrad, but made a bit more sophisticated by Jennifer Aniston at the Oscars. I tried this easy 'do on the weekend - and believe me, it salvages a bad hair day {and growing-in bangs} extremely well!
Have you heard of Big Cartel? It's a cool program that allows small businesses to host an online shop without all of the hassle - or in their words 'Simple Stores for DIY Rockstars'! I decided to create a small store {it's free for 5 items and under} to sell some prints of the nature pattern watercolours I created in my Australian illustration course. I've found a way to print the paintings on watercolour paper so they look almost identical to the original art. Check them out at inBloom Studio Boutique!
I hope everyone had a great long weekend! I had a good one filled with lots of productive work around the house, a birthday party for my sis, and then a nice day of nothingness! I'm a workaholic so usually I get a bit excited for the weekend as it means more time to get more work done...warped, I know. I am trying to get out of that rut so P. and I have decided to allow one day {or afternoon} each weekend to escape the house and work and go on a fun outing or to a restaurant we have always wanted to try. By scheduling this time in, I'm hoping we stick with it!
Remember when I mentioned that one of my clients had created the cool swag for the Juno Awards a few weeks ago? Well Gabrielle of The Uptown Giftbox Company was kind enough to send me some photos of the logo I created for her company onscreen at the award show...very cool! Thanks so much Gabrielle.
Over the weekend my sisters and I decorated a big tent at the Wooden Sticks Golf Course in Uxbridge for a wedding show on Sunday. We went with a Woodland Chic theme to match the gorgeous natural surroundings and paired a fresh Springy green with a rich chocolate brown. For centrepieces, we used wooden sticks {well...they were actually cherry blossom branches} and green spider mums, along with beautiful green and white lanterns. It was just a mock wedding but it turned out beautifully! See Bloomerism for more information and pics!
I wrote a post a while back on Bloomerism about clutches and I just found a bunch more on Etsy that I love! Check out these beauties from Shakuyaku. Which one would you choose?!
I finally got around to decorating my console table for Spring! I did away with the previous winter wonderland and made way for some fresh greens and yellows. Check out the beautiful forsythia! I wish they lasted forever.
A quick thank you to Celia of Design for Conscious Living for the shout-out to me and inBloom Studio on her new blog! I am blushing...
Martha has some cute {and pretty tame/non-toxic!} April Fool's Day tricks on her website! From the top: blue food colouring in milk; serve an ice cream sundae - but it's really mashed potatoes and gravy; serve a baked potato - but it's really an ice cream sundae {I like this trick much better!}; fake-out insect {actually this may give me a panic attack...maybe not such a good trick!}; and rearranging your spouse's drawers...I might try this one out!
Did you celebrate Earth Hour on Saturday? I went to this concert last year but this year I kept it quiet and read a book by candlelight. I always love hearing stories from my grandma about how before they had electicity {or Alec Tricity - she thought it was a man!} they could do nothing much after dark except read and talk by candlelight - there were no tv's or computers or video games to distract us and make us completely anti-social!
I was so busy on Friday trying to decide which dress to wear to the Canadian Event Industry Awards that I don't think it occurred to me that we might win! Check out our Star Award for 'The Best Wedding Under $75,000' category for this wedding design. The Canadian Event Industry Awards is a national award program presented by Canadian Event Perspective Magazine. I haven't won an award since who knows when {high school I guess!} so this was a lovely surprise. We are honoured and would like to thank the Academy...!
I won't be going to the Juno Awards this weekend {rats!} but a logo I created will be! One of my clients in British Columbia, The Uptown Giftbox Company - a company that makes high-end and beautiful gift baskets - will be supplying the 'swag bags' for the Canadian Music Award Show on Sunday. I worked with Gabrielle Durning a few years back to re-create her logo and her company's marketing material. Now, only a few years later, her beautiful giftboxes will be in the hands of celebs like Sarah McLachlan, Bryan Adams, Nickelback and Elvis Costello.
For the swag bag, Gabrielle created a custom cedar box and worked with a First Nations artist to have an original design created and silkscreened onto the boxes. These beautiful boxes were then filled them with gourmet and luxury BC products. They look amazing! Congrats to the Uptown Giftbox. And I'm just a little bit excited that my logo creation will be going to the Juno Awards, even if I won't be!
I recently complete a logo and business card design for Suzanne Perrett of Organize My Chaos - a professional organizer. And man, is Suzanne organized! So prompt and efficient in fact, that I started the logo on a Monday and both the logo and business cards were signed off by the Friday - that is unheard of!
