One large craft project

What a fabulous time! I could not have asked for a better day, and event, and I could not have pulled it off without loads of help from very talented and willing friends and family. I am one lucky lady. Below are some of the crafty projects I concocted while planning the wedding. Special thank you to our friend and photographer YiMay Yang who is too good at what she does, and everyone else there with a camera who helped us capture the event. For more photos visit my Flickr site.

Road signs. Made by Katie and Whitney (my brilliant and talented sisters)

Brides side & Grooms side buttons. Buttonpixie

Flowers. Natalie Galasso Designs

Hairpiece.

Donut stand. The Mad Batters

Cake Toppers. Sarah Giannobile. The dog on top is our dog Mazze and was a surprise from Sarah.

Photobooth.

Renegades

Another year another successful Renegade Craft Fair. Lot's of good stuff this year. I made more purchases than usual, but told myself I would take my lunch to work for a while as a budget trade. The Alligator Factory and KM Knits actually showed under Yarnivores. Scout Books is a cute idea, and I've seen them around. I can't wait until they make a 33 Cheeses book. ;) .

Renegade Craft Fair: San Francisco

I attended the Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco for the second year in a row this past weekend, and saw lots of new stuff and talent as well as some favorites from last year. I purchased more this year than last as well...

Above are some of the standouts, and are things I would have liked to purchase or did. Regardless I will definitely be keeping my eye on them for new stuff.

Baby showers

Above is a baby shower invitation. The event is going to be held at the Chocolate bar in Houston, Texas. Yum! The babies room is going to be safari themed. Congratulations Kay!

Albright/Wamsley Wedding

Below are the invitations and various collateral pieces I designed for the Albright/Wamsley wedding. Not only were the bride and groom awesome clients, the bride is also my sister.  They wanted "rustic elegance with a laid back feel", and they achieved it beautifully. My part in the wedding, as well as from Maid of Honor, was designing anything that needed to be printed. Aside from illustrating the birds which remind me of my sister, my favorite part of the project were the place cards which doubled as wedding gifts. 

All of the pictures below were taken by the very talented wedding photographer Laura Burlton. Check out her stuff!

Save the Date (magnet)

The photo for these save the dates was taken by the grooms mother, Nancy Wamsley, who is also an artist. I created the artwork.

Invitation 

RSVP 

Rehearsal Dinner Invitation

The rehearsal dinner was at the grooms parent's house. BBQ was the main course. 

Programs

The programs were printed, cut and drilled by Copy Dot Com, then hand assembled. Copy Dot Com did a great job and were really easy to work with. 

Place Cards

The leaves for these were cut from a template I designed. The names and numbers were hand written, then assembled.

Cake Art

Bessie's Bakery used some of the artwork from the invitations on the cake. The cake was carrot cake with cream cheese icing, and it was DELICIOUS.

Hey there cupcake!

Making this card was a lot of fun, and creating it reminded me of a fuzzy memory from my childhood of cards that had images on them and pre-punched holes that we could "sew". 

Project notes: When I make cards like this in the future, I will construct them a little differently the inside paper was too thin to glue of the back of an embroidery piece. 

Apron Daze

I have been working on this project for a while now. I worked with Cayson Designs to first, create the print for the aprons, then to design the promotional postcard. It's been a shift from my usual work and I love it. 

Orange study

It was a busy Christmas

The "Mustard Scarf" by Jane Richmond was a gift for James mother. It was a fun project and quick to knit up and I used Malabrigo kettle dyed wool. The hats are the "Really warm hat" by Melissa LaBarre. These were also a simple project that were fun to knit up.

For some of our friends we made a mulled wine mix based on a recipe by Ina Garten and, tied it to a bottle of wine. These were easy and created the need to buy a Clover pom pom maker. I now have one in almost every size. Pom Pom makers are easy enough to create at home with some cardboard, but I felt for the quantities I was making the store bought version were worth the extra cost to save a little time.

When we watched the Family Guy rendition of Star Wars with my sister she found Cleveland's character R2-D2 particularly entertaining. So for Christmas I embroidered her this picture and stretched it over a canvas to make a wall hanging. My favorite part was creating his 'fro out of french knots. I used a screen shot from the movie, traced it and transferred it on to the fabric using a heat transfer pencil then retraced it with a fabric marker.

More current projects

I've started doodling. These are some invites for various weddings.

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This is a birthday card I made for some friends. Their boys turned 2 a couple of weeks ago, and have been going through a construction phase for a while.

I used 3 screens per image (gold, green, and white). Alignment was a little bit of an issue with this one.

Playing with printing

I've been playing with linoleum block printing lately. This is a print I made from a picture I took of a sign in Noe Valley.

Current Projects

Along with my knitting I'm currently working on lots of fun things right now. Above are snippets of some invitations and cards.

Mazzercise

I felt the need...

Renegades

I managed to make it to the Renegade Craft fair this weekend. What a fun show! I didn't have my camera on me so I tried to makes notes of some of my favorites. I did make it out with a new skein of handspun yarn from Betsy ply. I can't wait to play with it.

An Invasion

These are a gift for my man. They are gouache, thread, and ink jet on water color paper sandwiched between 2 pieces of acrylic and a piece of acetate. After finding out how easy it is to have acrylic cut and drilled, I hope to do some more projects with it.

Shower Invites

Invites for a friends bridal shower. The "theme"or look of the shower is Texas shabby chic. The wedding colors are pinks and green and the wedding is in a rose garden. So we added pink to our theme as well.

New business cards

We went to SXSW interactive this past weekend. It was a great time as always. I made some business cards with my Gocco to hand out while I was there.