A Westervin Wedding: Invited

We did it! We finally finished and mailed our invitations! Hopefully, all invited parties have received theirs by now, except for some overseas friends. But I just couldn’t wait any longer to share. We are so pleased with ourselves.

Let me give you a play by play. We started with the same French Paper Co. envelopes in four different colors: slate blue, grout grey, packing paper brown, and a darker brown (pictured above). We also used the custom return address stamp, which featured a typewriter font.

Now comes the good part. Open the envelope and what do you find? A delicate vintage handkerchief invite, designed by Brian West and screenprinted by Barrel Maker Printing.

Arrows!

Inside, the hankie was wrapped around a wood card, made of Sycamore wood and printed with our logo (above) and instructions to visit our website for more information (below).

Our vintage typewriter came in handy once again when it came time to address the envelopes.

I had to keep a few of my favorites. They’ve come in handy in other ways. More on that to come!

The real fun part was collecting all the vintage hankies. We searched every antique mall and flea market from here to Timbuktu and found a few winners in Etsy and Ebay lots. It sounds tedious, but you know I enjoyed every minute of it! The real challenge was finding ones that fit our color scheme and general aesthetic but weren’t more than $1 each, give or take.

You like?

Envelopes:  { French Paper Co. }

Return Address Stamp:  { Note Trunk }

Screenprinting:  { Barrel Maker Printing }

Wood Cards:  { Cards of Wood }

Handkerchiefs:  vintage, various sources

Graphic Design:  Brian West!

A Pretty Pair: Signs of Life

{ Postal by Flavia Santoro }  { Georgian Bay, Ontario by Ted Jacobs }

Daily Pretties: Color Cabin

{ spacecamp_elemental by Aaron Piland, Ayumi Piland, Betsy Walton, Yellena James & Jill Bliss }  { Untitled by Pablo Boffelli }

The Shopping Sherpa: Man Lodge, pt. 2

Sometimes the Shopping Sherpa just can’t help himself. Yesterday he found some great stuff for the walls of our man lodge, and today he’s back with some items for our desk and bar. Because what happens in a man lodge? Drinkin’ and Workin’.

On the Desk

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Giveaway: Vintage Elephant Pencil Holder

EDIT: This giveaway has ended.  Enter our current giveaway here!

Readers, meet Lexington.  Lexington is an easy-going elephant who likes loud music, a warm, dry climate and holding your colored pencils.  Lexington may have been born over thirty years ago, but he’s a spry chap.  And guess what, folks.  Lexington wants to come home with you!  Richelle Davies, mother of a creative 8-year old (Spy-themed Birthday party, anyone?) and the vintage shop Hopgrasser, has kindly offered this vintage pencil holder for our first ever vintage giveaway!   Before we get to the rules, though, let’s have a chat with Richelle about the joys of thrifting.

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Daily Pretties: Bear Brooch

{ Brooch 8 by Nick Mullins }  { bearsbig by Eric Shaw }

Exhibit A is a brooch, made by the burly, beardy Nick Mullins.  I believe said brooch was made for Cadmium the Bear, pictured right.  Cadmium loves his brooch very much.  He would not let me borrow it…