Happy 2011 everyone!  It was so nice to take a little break and unplug last week, but I’m slowly easing back into my routine.  I still haven’t really wrapped my head around 2011 yet, have you?  2010 was such a whirlwind and full of transition from start to finish.  I met some of my favorite bloggers (and make new friends) at Alt, moved to a new apartment that feels more like home, and lost my grandmother – all within the first month of 2010.  A winter storm left us with more than 2 feet of snow and kept us housebound for nearly a full week.  A bit later in the year I quit my day job (yay!), started a second blog, and then the months started to fly by even faster.  There are more big changes in store for 2011, but I’m optimistic about the challenges to come.

I’ll be back with some beautiful wedding invitations just a bit later.  But since I didn’t do my usual weekly round-up last week, I thought I’d do a quick round-up to start off the week:

• A fabulous idea for next year: felt holiday cards!
• Silver foil wedding invitations
• Pretty striped calling cards
• Chocolate stamps – yum!
• I love these peeks inside the Rifle store opening
• Cool business cards with a handprint!
• The sun and the moon
• I’m excited to help judge the LOUIE awards in a few weeks.  NSS folks – have you entered yet?

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and New Year!

{image via mary ruffle}

Happy Friday everyone!  This has been an incredibly full week for me; if you follow me on twitter you may know that I spent most of the weekend and the earlier part of this week up in New Jersey and New York, working on a project with my Dad and seeing some of my fellow bloggers in town for Bridal Market.  On Tuesday, I attended a taping of the Martha Show – and if you’ll allow me to geek out for a quick second, the bloggers in attendance got to take a photo with Martha and Darcy Miller at the end of the show (that’s me in the red sweater on the right)!

So much fun!  Now that I’m back at home and the weekend is almost here, I’m looking forward to relaxing and enjoying the cooler weather here in DC.  But in the meantime…

…a few links for your weekend!

• Completely in love with these beautiful quilts
• A surprisingly chic Halloween wedding
• Love all the details from this party that Allison planned for her son’s 4th birthday
• A useful article for any freelancer about financial record-keeping
• The most beautiful shade of blue
• Gorgeous hand-printed wallpaper

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

• Some Halloween invitation inspiration
• A few funny greeting cards from Richie Design
• I’m still gaga for these red + aqua mid-century modern wedding invitations from The Indigo Bunting
• Beautiful beach-inspired wedding invitations from Petit Bureau
• Dan + Barbara’s modern foil stamp wedding invitations
• Gorgeous black and white calligraphy
• From Wiley Valentine, the adorable Piper’s baby announcements and nursery

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!

{image courtesy of martha stewart living omnimedia}