Happy Friday everyone!  I hope you have a lovely weekend – filled with hot chocolate and peppermint bark if you're somewhere cold, and if you're somewhere warm, well, I'm just jealous.  I'll be back here on Monday with a new giveaway that I am SO excited to announce!  But in the meantime…

…here are a few links for you to enjoy:

• This week's invitations: letterpress invitations for a wedding at the zoo, DIY Gocco-printed wedding invitations, simple Thanksgiving dinner invitations, and floral-inspired bridal shower invitations.
• Churros and chocolate? Yes please!
• Check out this free cd pocket template from benign objects.
• The importance of good grammar.
• Love the use of balloons in this wedding.
• Wouldn't these shaker folk art pieces look amazing as marriage certificates?
• Geometric laser cut prints.
• I just can't get over Kate's gorgeous floral arrangements.

That's it for me this week – happy Friday the 13th and I'll see you back here on Monday!

{gorgeous polaroid collage by Juan Felipe Rubio via coco+kelley} 

This week has been Operation Apple Recipe week for me – we've got tons of apples from our orchard excursion over the weekend and have been trying to put them to good use.  So far I've made soup and stuffing, but this weekend I'm planning to make individual serving apple pies and possibly an apple crisp if I don't put myself into a sugar coma first.  I do have photos from the apple orchard to share with you next week, and may share photos of my baking adventures depending on how things turn out, but in the meantime…

Here are a few things I've enjoyed this week:

• A most amazing mexican fiesta-themed wedding on Ruffled
• Cute Las Vegas-themed moving announcements via Peach & Pearl
• If you're in the Richmond area, Courtney is putting together a fun event at Anthropologie on October 25 – you should stop by!
• I'm loving all the patterned tights for fall
• A yummy recipe for pear tarts and another recipe for pumpkin hazelnut doughnuts – for when I've finally run out of apples…
• Sycamore Street Press is giving away a set of holiday cards – and Liz from Linda & Harriett is offering a free card on October 19 in honor of her mom's birthday, on the condition that you send them to someone just because.
• Love all the details from Erica's bridal shower – planned by Maria and photographed by Kate – over on snippet & ink
• Delphine is offering 25% off all custom letterpress orders, but the offer ends October 31st!

That's it for me this week!  I hope you all have a warm + cozy weekend, and I'll see you all back here on Monday!

{image credits: bloom, grow, love via abby sharp}