Oh So Beautiful Paper

Archive for January, 2010

Happy Friday everyone!  Before I sign off for the weekend, I just have to say a huge “thank you!” to Jen from the haystack needle for sharing her wedding details with us this week!  I’m afraid I’ll have to keep this short + sweet since things are just a teensy bit hectic this week, but I’m looking forward to being back (and all moved!) on Monday.  In the meantime…

…a few links for your weekend reading pleasure:

• In case you missed it, my guest post over at Inspired Bride — and definitely check out these free printable wedding stationery details from Katie at Chellé Paperie!
• A Valentine’s Day card swap!
• Plus more cute handmade valentine’s day ideas, like stitched valentines, a paper heart garland, and DIY doily valentines
• I probably won’t have a chance to do a full Alt Summit digest post — but you should check out this one and totally come next year!
• Isn’t this such a lovely way to propose?

Have a great weekend everyone!

{image credits: pony tail}

Happy Friday!  Jen here from the haystack needle.  It's been such a treat to guest blog on OSBP!  As my final post, I thought I'd share two things I love to do when I have an afternoon or evening to just sit and play with paper: make albums and work on my wedding scrapbook (it's still not done after more than a year, but it's getting there!).

 

First, this is a Polaroid album that I pulled together for two of our friends, Kevin and Ali, who got married in the Cayman Islands.  I brought my Polaroid camera down to the wedding, and I've finally found a way to pull together the Polaroids in a special book for them.  I used this Kolo album, bits of paper and cards that captured that island spirit, and Japanese tape.  Oh, and my typewriter came in handy to type little captions.

And here's a peek at my wedding scrapbook. I took a scrapbook that was the right size (wrong cover) and used some Mod Podge, a photocopy of a map of Maine, ribbon and patterned paper to create the cover you see here.

Two months before we got married, we hosted a spaghetti feed, which basically translates to the largest slow cooker you've ever seen (Hamilton Beach commercial slow cooker circa 1963 — no joke!) filled with homemade sauce, bowls of spaghetti, and the entire family gathered at Dan's family's camp.  It was a great way to bring together Dan's family (which is super big) for a casual (second) wedding celebration, since we went with hosting a small wedding.  The spaghetti feed was so much fun!  For the invites, I used alphabet stamps and Yellow Owl Workshop's landscape stamp set, which reminds me of camp.

Thanks so much, Nole, for letting me share all these paper bits of our wedding!  I had so much fun being a part of OSBP this week.  Have a great weekend everyone!  -Jen

All the photography here (and throughout the week) by Charlotte Jenks Lewis.  Thanks, Charlotte!

Hi again everyone!  Just popping back in to let you know about an upcoming bridal event here in DC – the DC Couture Wedding Consortium 2nd Annual Luxury Bridal Show.  I'll be participating in the event with a few fellow bloggers – Once Wed, District Weddings, and The Relentless Bride - along with some amazing DC area wedding vendors, including The Observatory, Julianne Smith Wedding Garters, Bella Notte, Something Fabulous, Occasions Caterers, Presentations, Table Manners, and many others.  Plus, brides will have an opportunity to win the gorgeous wedding gown pictured below from The Cotton Bride!

 
The Bridal Show will take place on Saturday, February 6th from 1 – 4 p.m. at Decatur House.  Registration is $25, but you can use the code DCCWC for a 25% discount – just click here to register.  If you're planning to attend the show, please come and say hello!

And, here's the best part – I'm giving away two free tickets to the show!  So if you're in the DC area (or will be on February 6), just leave a comment below to enter to win.  Be sure to leave a valid e-mail address in the comment form (not the comment text box), since I'll contact the winners via e-mail.  You'll have until midnight on Monday, February 1 to enter.  Bonne chance and I hope to see you at the show!

{image credits: the observatory}

Hello again everyone!  I bet you didn’t think you’d see me back here again so soon, did you?  Well, I’m really just sneaking back for a moment, since our actual moving day involving movers and furniture is tomorrow.  But since we’re nearly in February already (yikes!), I wanted to try to get in one more Valentine’s Day card round-up before the weekend!  So let’s get right to it…

{satsuma press}

 

{chewing the cud}

 

 

{bird and banner}

 

 

{fold}

 

 

{little aviary}

{avie}

 

 

{rifle paper co.}

{linea carta}

 

 

{seesaw}

 

{paper ink press}

 

 

{pistachio press}

 

 

{anemone letterpress}

{something’s hiding in here}

{pearl + marmalade}

{dutch door press}

 

 

{the paper peony}

 

 

{paloma’s nest}

 

 

{night owl paper goods}

 

 

{lily jane stationery}

 

 

{parrott design studio}

 

And just in case you’re looking for something a bit extra special for Valentine’s Day, check out this amazing papercut valentine from Rob Ryan:

{rob ryan}

 

Okay, I’m running back to finish packing… please think good moving thoughts for us tomorrow!

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Hello, hello!  This is Jen with the haystack needle again.  Thanks for following along this week as I guest post for Nole, who’s moving into her new home.  Today is all about the invitations for our wedding rehearsal dinner:

We hosted a small wedding with a simple ceremony (no wedding party and our friend Erin married us.)  So the day before the wedding (after a big morning of decorating the barn with the help of friends), we invited everyone to Dan’s family’s camp for a classic lobster bake.  Dan and I get lobster every time we’re up in Maine, but we got really lucky that day.  His dad picked up a crate of lobsters straight from a fisherman’s boat.  Fantastic.

Most of our friends and my family had never been up to camp, so it was a treat to have everyone together in such a special place for us.  My mom contributed a couple favorite dishes that represent my background: German potato salad and Persian spinach patties.  Dan picked up sparklers which were a perfect way to close the night with our whoopie pies.

For the invites, I used letterpress flats with lobsters (of course!) by Linda & Harriett.  L&H designer Liz Libré and I share a love for Maine.  When I met Liz at the National Stationery Show years ago, we discovered she and her huz went to college in the Maine town where Dan grew up!  How fun, right?!  I wish I had figured out how to run the flats through my printer rather than writing them out by hand (since my handwriting would not be mistaken for calligraphy, let’s be honest.)  But live and learn.  In my scrapbook, the background paper is part of a lobster placemat by Carrot & Stick Press.

All photographs by the lovely Charlotte Jenks Lewis.