November!

I always feel old when time moves by too quickly.  It's been an amazing fall this year with great weather and many blessings!  I'm ready for the Thankful/Grateful season of November.

Here is a fall themed table scape I did the other day.

My napkins are folded and sitting up in a wire basket that I found in the Target $ spot area.  It was $3!  I feel particularly proud of that this year.  

My favorite part was using my tree slices as a charger.  I used these tree slices as part of centerpieces for my wedding (4 years ago!!) and now they are spread throughout the house with all kinds of things like vases and candles on top of them.

I also always like to add different heights of interest at a table.  So I turned my brass bowl upside down and set up a dessert plate on top.

I love mixing grey/tans/browns/gold/silver tones together.  I think it makes for a warm comforting feeling.

If you like the printable table decorations you can find them in my etsy shop!  They are so easy to use, you can print them at home and just write names or sweet messages on them and add that extra finish to your fall or Thanksgiving table!

Fall Paper Goods

During my watercolor painting kick I got inspired and started to mix all of these fun fall colors.  There is an artist that I admire who is always sketching with black ink and then going back in to paint with watercolors.  I wanted to try out some of her method here.  I came up with some fall party paper goods with geometric shapes and a floral design.

Above are some food labels.  I just cut inside the gray lines and fold them over in the center.  This way your labels can be double sided and you can mix and match the floral with the geometric sides.

I always cut inside the gray outline here and tape two together with a toothpick in between as another food label.  Or you can hole punch it once at the top and another at the bottom and insert a straw and use it as a name tag for drinks!

Of course I had to have two different options for cupcake wrappers.  The background is a natural watercolor paper texture to give some interest to the fall or thanksgiving table scape.  To print off your own high quality pictures you can purchase them at my etsy site here.

Vintage Children

Going off my last post...
Have you guys been noticing the trend in vintage children's clothing?
I really like this blogger Rachel from Smile and Wave.  She has a cute toddler that she often dresses in vintage dresses...

found here

found here

I think these little girls look really cute!  Here are somethings I've found on etsy.  I need to get my mom to open up a shop to make some money off of all of the adorable clothes she made for me and my 2 sisters!

1 here 2 here 3 here 4 here 5 here 6 here 7 here 8 here 9 here

invitations

I've been looking up pictures on invitations in flickr this morning.  Here are my favorites so far.

You can find this invitation here.  This is just fun.  I haven't seen any thing like this before.  I shouldn't be surprised though knowing how popular photo booths are!  But it is cute none-the-less.

I'm not sure if I like the invitation or if I just like the photo.  Those little flower markers (or whatever they are)  are so cute.  I like to see the inspiration behind the invitation.  This photo was found here.  But you should check out the designer here.  This designer for delphine press has the cutest photos of invitations.  There are cuter ones with all kinds of props laying with the invites; including but not limited to, tea cups, toys, boxes, flowers, stamps.  I'm explaining badly, just check it out okay.

This map was done for the same above invitation.  I think it is awesome.  It looks like the first page of an classic kids epic adventure novel.  It's very whimsical. The photo can be found here.

This invite is my favorite that I found this morning.  I just like the simplicity of it.  I like the stylized drawings of the church and restaurant.  I don't really think it would work for my wedding because I'm getting married at an ugly church.  But I'm really getting married behind the church in a lovely field in front of bluffs, so that might be a pretty drawing...
Photo was found here.

This is the RSVP card that goes with the above invitation.  I just thought it was cute again.  Photo found here.

I started a new job last week and have been working a little more than I'm used to... but that's good. Work is really good.

I've had my fair share of play too, don't worry.

Here is what I've been up to.

I made this scarf for a swap and mailed it off yesterday.... bye bye tree green beauty. It was going to a Canadian so I thought it was still applicable.

I also sent this flowering tree pillow along with the swap package yesterday.

This is the big item I sent to Canada... it is a market bag. It's huge! You could fit all of the days groceries in there and leave plenty of room for some fresh flowers to go on you dining room table. The fabric is from urban outfitters! I love it.

I made this headband in about 2 minutes, probably less. I made it after working 2 days at my new job and realizing I had to step up my trendiness factor...so i started to go the hipster route. My boyfriend thinks I'm ridiculous but I thought it was cute. What do boys now about headbands anyway?