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Making the decision to move my studio out of the house has been a big one!  I move in a week, and I’m really excited about Hello Tenfold’s new digs. My current home studio is sort of hobbled together hand-me-downs, along with a few Ikea purchases for storage. But the new place! Well that’s an open book. Here are a few things I’ve been eyeing for inspiration.

above, Katsuya Kamo’s studio, photographed by The Selby

vintage camera display photographed by shawn hoke

stylist susanna vento, and photographer kristiina kurronen, found on emma’s designblogg

string of lights by pigeon toe ceramics

stylist susanna vento, and photographer kristiina kurronen, found on emma’s designblogg

1. west elm rug // 2. air plant supply co. // 3. lloop lamp via wit + delight  // 4. west elm desk // 5. air plant supply co. // 6. stoneware farmer’s market basket // 7. anthropologie chair // 8. city hall clock

Within a few months of the new studio will be a new everyday note card collection, photos of some summer projects, holiday invites, and a brand new Hello Tenfold logo and website! I can’t wait.

Today I’m on the hunt for simple, modern Thanksgiving centerpiece ideas. My goal is to use things that are around the house, in the yard, or can be picked up with a quick trip to the grocery store. Cause the clock’s a-ticking. Here are some of my favorites!

Top: This centerpiece was styled by Joy Thigpen for Once Wed, and I love that it’s simple, rustic, and fuss-free. Photo by Tec Petaja. This one might be the winner for me…

1: Kate Pruitt created this table setting for Design Sponge. Although the modeling clay is a little too time intensive for me at the point, I think pine cones spray painted white would do the trick, and only take a second. I also love the white paint pen on the leaf! For another great example of this idea, check out Sunset.

2: Feathers on napkins and fall colored grocery store finds in bowls makes this one (via Holidash) the easiest of all! Photo by Seth Smoot.

3: If you have healthy plants around the house, arrange them on the table with candles in between and voila, simple and modern. If you don’t have pretty house plants, pick some up and enjoy them way past Thursday. Created for Sunset and photographed by Thomas J. Story.

4: This is another one I might try. Fall leaves, branches, berries, and a few orange pumpkins. This I could handle! Photo by Thayer Allison Gowdy for Sunset.

5: Found on Holidash and photographed by Seth Smoot, this one just requires a branch from your back yard, a can of spray paint, and 10 minutes of drying time.

6: I have a sneaking suspicion that this one is harder to pull off than it looks, but it’s sort of the same idea as #4. Grocery store finds (mushrooms, pears, eucalyptus, fall leaves, carnations, alstroemeria, and paperwhites) are casually combined with a vintage oatmeal tin by the talented Studio Choo for Design Sponge.

Most of the couples I work with on invitations are out of state, but I love when I get to work with locals! Colleen and Doug live in my area, but are getting married on Bald Head Island, which is a beautiful spot off the coast of North Carolina, only reachable by boat. Once you’re on the island, the only transportation is your bike, a golf cart, or good old-fashioned walking. It’s a beautiful vacation spot, or a great day trip if you’re lucky to live close enough.

Colleen & Doug wanted something simple and modern, but with traditional elements and illustrations to reflect their wedding destination. There is only one chapel on the island, and I made an illustration of it for their main invitation. I made an illustration of the Bald Head Island light house for the label on the outside of the vellum wrap, and then we used a hawaiian shirt for the luau-themed rehearsal dinner and an orchid illustration—orchids are their wedding flower—for the morning-after brunch and the address label on the rsvp envelope. They were printed on a soft white paper with a charcoal grey liner for the outer envelope and a matching grey envelope for the rsvp. Like my own invitations, Colleen and Doug decided to use a vellum wrap instead of an inner envelope.

This inspiration board isn’t what Colleen and Doug are planning, but it’s what I imagine their wedding could be like!

image credits: [1] oyster photo by michele waite via 100lc [2 and 3] hello tenfold [4] by simply bloom via once wed [5] by ashley garmon [6] bald head island [7] studio foto via smp

These will be added to hello tenfold next week!

As I read through each of your comments about my “news,” I was overwhelmed by your kindness and by how insanely talented you guys are! Some of you are frequent commenters, and I know your beautiful blogs & work well. Others are new to me. I’m just showing one photo each from a few different commenters, but please follow the links in this post to see tons more talent, and click through the comment links on my last post, too. So much to be inspired by! Above is work by Ivana of Love Ardently.

This is an invitation from Libby Cole, who must be a Durhamite like me! Libby has done work for Duke and a new local restaurant, Dos Perros.

Jennifer Mao is an all-around talented woman from Seattle. This photograph, from her series “With or Without You” makes me smile.

Kate Miss is a designer working in NYC who does branding, books, illustration, packaging, photography, websites, and more.

This beautiful invitation was designed by Kate Arends from Minneapolis.

Great mix & match stationery from Avie.

Beautifully designed & printed invitations by Jonna Isaac.

and many more… go check each other out.

Thank you so much for all of your support! Your emails and comments have been so encouraging and helpful for me the past few days. I’m uplugging for a bit but I’m excited about returning to Mint on Tueday.

After making so many inspiration boards for our wedding (many of which I couldn’t share here because I did such a bad job remembering where I found the photos!), I thought I might as well make a couple out of our own wedding photos. I’m not quite sure why I wanted to do this, other than it was really kind of fun. And since inspiration boards were where the wedding planning all started, it seemed fitting that that’s how I should end it, too.

It is a little bittersweet to be done with our wedding planning. Despite all the tears (oh yes, there were tears) it was a lot of fun and was the biggest project we’ve pulled off yet!

As soon as I finish writing it, I’m going to have a “wedding graduate” post for A Practical Wedding. If there were two things that were most important about our wedding planning, it was that we only spent time and money on things we enjoyed, and practicality was a major priority. I’ll leave it at that for now, and I’ll let you know when my “two cents” are up on APW.

Have a great weekend!

[photos all taken by either harry taylor, amy jones, or myself]

Wedding quick links:

• Save the dates

• Invitations

• Rehearsal dinner invitations

• Bridal shower invitations

• Programs & direction cards

• Guest book

• Pew Cards (and here)

• Birdseed bags (with template)

• Flowers

• Dress, jewelry & veil

• Getting organized (with download)

• Paper & printing

• Tearing paper & gocco tips

• Our photographer

• All wedding posts

a few recent favorites, from a few favorite blogs:

via apartment therapy

photo by lara rossignol via sfgirlbybay

photo by kerstin reilemann, via decor8

photo by wai lin tse via design sponge

photo from Marie Claire Maison via the Style Files

photo by wai lin tse

via luphia loves

photo by mark lund via mustard and sage

I’ll be getting more wedding inspiration and ideas right up until the day of, I know it. Yesterday I caught up on what seemed like 200 posts I’ve missed from Style Me Pretty, and I loved these double silhouettes (maybe a last minute addition for our rehearsal dinner invites?) and this veil shot by A Bryan Photo, which I kind of want to stage because my veil is the best. The Best. Oh I am excited.