Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi everyone!  I’m heading out a bit early to enjoy the long holiday weekend here in the U.S. and go to finally bring our cat (who as you might remember was in the animal hospital last week) back home where he belongs.  The poor guy didn’t get to come home last weekend as we’d hoped and ended up needing surgery, so we can’t wait to have him home.  As a result of his illness, we’ve also changed our plans and are now staying home for the holiday – our first Thanksgiving on our own!  It’ll actually be nice to have a quiet weekend and just be grateful for my little family.  But in the meantime…

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…a few links for your weekend!

…and in case you missed it, here’s what happened on OSBP this week:

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend, and for those of you celebrating this weekend I wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  I’ll see you all back here on Monday!

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p.s. We’re taking advantage of the long weekend to do a server switch, so if things are a bit wonky over the weekend please bear with us.  Hopefully there won’t be any major disruptions, but just in case I promise it’s only temporary. 🙂

Vintage Inspired Tea Party Bridal Shower Invitations

You might remember Stephanie‘s beautiful blue and white nautical wedding invitations from a few weeks ago.  Well, Stephanie is back, this time with a bridal shower invitation inspired by vintage tea tins!  For these invitations, Stephanie went with a green and white color palette and vintage-inspired flourishes to complement the tea tin design inspiration.

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From Stephanie:  The bride is having an Irish themed wedding and the shower is going to be a tea party!  It was a little challenging to tie the two concepts together but in the end we decided to use vintage tea tins, particularly Irish breakfast tea, as a model for the invitations.  We used a green color palette along with little shamrocks to incorporate some Irish whimsy!

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In order to drive home the tea theme we decided to wrap the invitations with a tea bag hanging from twine and a custom made tag that read “Katie & Chris, The Perfect Blend.”  I hope the guests enjoyed receiving these invitations as much as I enjoyed creating them!

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So pretty!  Thank you so much Stephanie!

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{happy weekend!}

Happy Friday everyone!  As you all read this, I’ll be in the middle of a long drive with my husband to visit his family in upstate New York.  I’m not looking forward to the long drive up, but it’ll be nice to chase after our niece and nephew all weekend.  Before I head off, I’ll leave you with one last reminder to enter the holiday card giveaway from Satsuma Press – the contest closes tonight at midnight!  But in the meantime…

…a few links for your weekend!

And in case you missed it, a quick round-up of this week’s posts:

That’s it for me this week!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I’ll see you all back here on Monday!

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Christina’s Bridal Shower and Engagement Party Invitations

I don’t often have the opportunity to feature either engagement party invitations or bridal shower invitations, so when Rachelle from Wiley Valentine sent these over as part of Christina and Trevor’s rock n’ roll wedding invitation suite, I thought they deserved a post all of their own!  Rachelle carried the rock n’ roll theme through with the type choices and banner details on the bridal shower invitation:

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I love the delicate patterns in the engagement party invitations, also letterpress printed by Michael at Czar Press:

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So pretty!  A huge thanks to Rachelle for sending these over!

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{happy weekend!}

Happy Halloween weekend everyone!  This is shaping up to be a bit of a crazy weekend, and not just because of Halloween… you may have heard of this tiny little rally happening in my neighborhood?  Should be interesting!  Aside from all the commotion, I’m looking forward to some Halloween fun with good friends and hopefully a few trick-or-treaters, but in the meantime…

…a few links for your weekend:

…and in case you missed it, a round-up of this week’s posts:

That’s it for me this week!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and a Happy Halloween, and I’ll see you all back here on Monday!

{image credits: bekah campbell via mary ruffle}