Mint

Photographer Heather Roth organized a quick photo shoot last week in time for Valentine’s Day, and my 1920s invitations played a part! Here are a few images from the shoot, and more can be seen on Heather’s blog and Landlocked Bride.

(Thanks Heather!)

When Sierra and Juliet from Poppies and Posies contacted me about designing a website (with a feminine, slightly 1920s vibe) for their floral and event design business, I jumped at the chance. It’s not every day you get to work with such talented clients, and such gorgeous photography!

Be sure to check out the website and blog, and a big thanks to Eli Van Zoeren for the build.

I’ve spent a few hours this week carefully cutting down some new custom, screen printed save the dates (scraps above). Full photos will have to wait until the bride has a look, but I thought the leftovers on my cutting mat looked rather sweet.

I also added a few new save the date designs to the shop. They were designed a while back for Paperless Post (the middle design is available here), and the other two may or may not make appearances at PP in a few months. I’ll keep you in the loop!

The above picture is a sneak peek of another custom invitation for a couple having a destination wedding in Mexico. We explored lots of options and ended up with this design, based on embroidered flowers and printed on recycled papers. More photos to come when the light cooperates.

And lastly, we assembled some welcome booklets (above, previously, the hang tag programs) for a wedding we wish we were attending in Phuket, Thailand, and Katelyn assembled a big order of Wildflower invitations (below).

I’m so thrilled to have my invitation work featured (twice!) in Southern Living’s wedding issue, which is on stands now. On the left there is the Border invitation, with the Eleanor invitation over on the right!

Thank you, Southern Living!!!

It seems fitting to end the year with one of my favorite projects — my 2012 collection for letterpress invitation company Bella Figura. This is my third year working with them, and designing the collections in the summer/fall is always really fun (and hard to keep secret). The new collection launched yesterday, and here are my designs!

Thanks for reading Mint! It’s been a wonderful 2011 and I’ll see you right back here the first week of January. Happy Holidays!

We have a few tea towels leftover from this weekend’s craft market, and they’re now in the shop. Hurry before they’re gone!

On Saturday I’ll be at Rock & Shop in Durham, NC from 12-5! There will be 100+ designers and crafters selling their wares, not to mention food trucks, live music, and beer. I can’t imagine a better way to finish up (or, uh, start) your holiday shopping. At the last minute and just for fun, I had some fabric printed with four of my patterns at Spoonflower, and then had them sewn into tea towels! Today we’re busy ironing, ribbon-tying, and tag-hanging. These are limited edition, so come on down to the market to get yours! I’m looking into options so we can hopefully add these to the online shop at some point. We’ll also have the full selection of our everyday and holiday notecards on sale, as well as our invitation book to flip through (the online shop will be closed on Saturday, but will be back on Sunday). Also pictured above… a sneak peek of my collection of  new Valentine’s Day Invitations, launching on Paperless Post soon! Yes, I was working on Valentine’s Day this week.

Tonight, be sure to stop by Golden Belt, which is an old textile mill turned live-work-shop-eat space (and where I moved my studio this fall). Golden Belt has an entire building dedicated to artist studios, and the artists have been super busy getting ready for tonight’s 12×12 show. Each participating artist created 12 original 12×12″ works of art, all of which will be sold for $200, with part of the proceeds benefiting The Center for Child & Family Health. Above, some artwork found in Chapel Hill this week — wall tessellations by Leigh Suggs at the Ackland Museum Store and a close-up of Lauren Salazar’s installation at the Hanes Art Center.

And lastly, a few close-ups of our home. The mobile is a new addition to our sunroom, and we finally hung more pictures on the walls (the one on the left is in our retro seafoam-tiled bathroom). It’s hard to believe we’ve been in our house for over a year! We’ve done lots of improvements — small things to most people probably, but big things to us, and are slowly collecting furniture and artwork we love. The house to-do list is never-ending! But, I’m learning to accept that most projects can’t get done in a weekend, and maybe next year I’ll have more courage to share our attempts at improvement on Mint! There’s something nice about the year coming to an end, isn’t there? Fresh starts, new projects… onward and upward.