Mint

The wedding collection from Passing Notes is so beautiful that I’m sure their work frequents the wedding blog world. I can’t believe how beautiful and detailed each project is.

[some photos are by jesse leake]

My friend Erin makes these beautifully made drool bibs and sells them on Etsy in her shop Yarn Yumminess. If I had a kid I’d definitely pick up a few.

All the items here have sold out (quickly!) but Erin takes requests and can make all kinds of lovely things.

I’d love to have this grocery bag myself!

Lately I’m bursting with ideas for projects I want to start. One thing that might be relatively easy to knock off the list is a portfolio site for my design stuff. I’m not looking for jobs or anything, but if I wait until I am looking for a job to start pulling things together… well, that would be a nightmare.

I think I want the site be formatted like a blog, because I want to be able to update it quickly every time I finish a project. Which leads me to Squarespace – has anyone used it? I know Whitney from Darling Dexter uses it for her photography portfolio, and I really like this example that I found on SquareSpace’s website. Perfect.

For those of you who haven’t heard of Squarespace, it’s an online platform that allows users to drag and drop, point and click, to create a customized website from a lot of basic templates. You do have to pay for it ($8 per month for the most basic setup) but that includes hosting…

So. Is it really as easy to use as they say?

[image via zoompress studio]

I wrote about Harry Taylor’s photography before, but now that he’s over there in the supporter’s section, I thought he deserved another introduction. Harry is an amazing photographer, and I’m SO excited that he’s going to be photographing our wedding. He has a more documentary style approach to his wedding photography, and although he’s great at capturing those typical wedding moments, he’s also good with some unusual stuff – like tintypes, ambrotypes, and holgas.

Harry often travels for his weddings, so check him out no matter where you live. (And by the way, that’s our wedding reception venue below!!!)

I posted about Tory Wright’s work on OK Great last week, but I thought these images were so cool that they’re worth a re-post. (The weird thing about writing for more than one blog is that I get so excited about stuff that I want to share it with everyone, everywhere!) You can read the original post here, or you can visit Tory Wright’s website for more portfolio images.

From Tory’s website: “I explore the intersection of fashion and consumerism, using collage as a drawing tool. I collect, reclaim, and reuse Duratrans (the ever present light box advertisements) and fragrance campaign posters seen within department stores as a source material. Through the removal of more than half of the original printed image the overt becomes the subtle. Distractions from the seductive messages of such advertisements are cut away, laying bare the architecture of a culture of aspiration.”

Exactly two years ago, my fiance and I were on a plane to Thailand, where we backpacked for three and a half amazing months. Last weekend I was looking through our photos of the trip, and came across these mosaics from Wat Arun in Bangkok. Many Thai people will tell you that Wat Arun is prettier from afar, but I completely disagree. I can say from past mosaic failures that up close it is very impressive. You can head over to Mint’s flickr page for more photos of the mosaic-covered wat (i.e. Buddhist temple).

such beautiful styling.

i’ll take one of everything.

[happy weekend!]