Archive for January, 2009

Fun With My Wedding

January 4, 2009 { Posted in: designs & crafts | 7 Comments }

For my wedding last Summer, I wanted to save money and have some fun customizing and creating my own wedding invitations, programs, dinner menus and decorating my own wedding favor bags.  I wouldn’t say that the  process was the most fun, but it was definitely rewarding to be able to incorporate my own ideas into the little details of the wedding.  I realized during the laborious process of making everything that most of the guests probably didn’t even care or notice these little things.  It mattered to me though and I think these little things makes a difference to the overall look, feel and experience of the wedding whether some realize it or not.  I’m also the type of person who saves wedding invitations, programs, etc.   I guess that also explains why I put so much work into mine, haha.  I learned a lot through the whole process and if I were to do it all over again I totally would and do it better!

The wedding invitations personalized with a picture.  There were two versions.

These inserts were single handedly stamped.  Hard to do with two kitties around.

The wedding program that was whipped together a few days before the wedding.

The dinner menu for the reception.

The wedding favor bags accessorized with flowers, ribbons and thank you charms.

Just in case anyone was wondering, I bought all of my crafts and supplies from Paper Zone, Packaging Specialties, JoAnn Fabric, and some help with croppings and printings from Sudden Printing and Kinkos.

Happy New Year!

January 4, 2009 { Posted in: life | 5 Comments }

A new year, a new start.  After abandoning my website/domain for over two years now, I decided that one of my resolutions this year is to revive this place I once called my creative outlet for all things I love — designing, photography, travel, meeting others with the same interests and making new friends along the way.  I miss how it was back days where there was a community of young, inspired, and maybe even bored bloggers turned artists – graphic designers, web designers, photographers, etc.  It was a friendly community brought together by people with similar interests in this digital world.  I’m sure there are many communities out there just like that now too, but I feel like I’ve lost track of it and don’t know if I can find that same “community” feel again.  I still keep contact with some of the people I’ve met over those years, thanks to all the social networking sites out there today.   Just imagine random people finding each other without the help of Friendster, MySpace or Facebook because those communities didn’t exist yet.   I could see that many of  those people aren’t part of that blogger/designer community anymore either though.  What happened??  For me it was a phase that I went through for a couple of years, then the inspiration and passion just slowly slipped through my fingers due to life’s other priorities.  Plus, up keeping a website can be a huge task in itself.   Well, the itch is still there, always been.  Ironically, it was one of life’s crazy priorities that intensified that itch. I got married.  Yup!  Sounds funny, but wedding planning really brought back all the creative juices I once had.  My mind bursted with ideas and the passion gradually returned.  I realized after a very long hiatus that maybe this wasn’t just all a phase for me and that I need to take grab of it again.  So starting today I’m going to try my best to keep this blog updated.  It’ll be my new project for the new year.  Please check back for updates!