Look Ma!

…Some handiwork in honor of all our Moms whose ‘ink’ flows through us.

Happy Mother’s Day

Don’t worry Mom!  This one comes off.

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Mirror Mirror…

Honored to be featured in Style Me Pretty’s new “Living” Blog.  I worked with Loli Events, and FaceTime Beauty  to create a Sprinkle Party – a second baby shower!  The Sprinkles are in the manicures, pedicures, cocktails and treats.  I hand lettered thoughts and menus on mirrors.  Trent Bailey Photography captured all that glittered.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The British Are Coming!

Recent work for a client.  Ephemera and Sundries courtesy of Myers of Keswick.  

What would we Anglophiles do without such a shop?  They even carry Fairy Dish Soap.

However, still miss the individual instant porridge packets.

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Spies in the House of Love

“We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything.

The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things… all of it, all of the time,

every day. You’re saying ‘Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it.

Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness’.”

– Shall We Dance

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Spreading the Words…

I had the pleasure of working with Gillian Simon, one of the masterminds behind the stationery line, Quotable.

Gillian started this line twenty years ago, born out of a simple frustration for finding cards that would inspire friends and loved ones.  The line now includes calendars, mugs, magnets and other sweet ephemera.  ’Each item features a quotation or proverb written in a distinctive style and script.’

As I do, you probably have one of those cards hanging on your refrigerator right now!

As Ms. Simon says, “They’re inspirational, everyday cards. They have universal sayings, but depending on what place you’re in mentally, the quotes mean different things to different people.”

Avid surfers, Simon and her betrothed used a Bob Marley quote for their Wedding Invitation.  {In high tide or in low tide, I’ll by your side.} It is the first Wedding Invitation of its Quotable kind!  So I was honored to add my white cursive style to her simple and classic quotable style.

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Listed!

Officially listed in the 2013 Winter Edition of the New York Magazine Weddings Issue.

On stands now!

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Business is Blooming

A recent frugalista client used the “Love In Bloom” collection from  VistaPrint for her invites and envelopes.  The envelopes and invite were not only inexpensive, but surprisingly vintage looking!  Photographed at the incredible Opalia Flowers in Brooklyn.

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This May, Répondez, s’il vous plaît

Spring Wedding Season has kept me busy – suitcases full of invitations kind of busy!

If you are lucky enough to receive and invitation please RSVP!  Brides and Grooms are not only waiting for your reply, but Caterers, Florists, and friendly Calligraphers await your “répondez, s’il vous plaît” to help complete those Brides and Grooms’ special day.

At one point our civilized society didn’t require response cards-it was understood that once someone received a written invitation, it was customary to respond on their own stationery…

The roots of many of our Western etiquette practices seemed to have emanated in the Versailles Court of King Louis XIV.  Etiquette or as the French called them – ‘tickets’ were written on the back of invitations as the ‘rules’ for parties at the Court.

Newspaper columnist “Miss Manners” thinks that “RSVP” came about as a polite way of reminding people of something that they should already know:  If you receive an invitation, you should reply.  She reminds her Gentle Readers of their possible folly in not doing so in this Washington Post column.

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International Mail of Mystery

I love writing International addresses, it gives me a chance to ‘travel’ to places I have not been (yet.)  They all sound so exotic, without moorings or maps.  My favorite addresses, as I have mentioned before on my blog, are those from Ireland.  They are so mysterious, noting Castles and Counties, often without postal codes or street addresses.  It’s always a mystery to me how they find their addressee and yet they do!  In a blog post last year, I  attributed this magic to the Celtic philosophy of Anam Cara – a spiritual notion of  finding your ‘Soul Friend.”  Little did I know, but soon found out, that the photos I featured in that blog post belonged to a client whose ancestry was connected to  John O’Donohue, poet, philosopher and the author of Anam Cara.  Now THAT is the luck of the Irish.  Recently, I worked with two clients of Irish descent, one is even having her Wedding IN Ireland, complete with a Jameson Whisky tour and tasting.  Both clients invites were…numerous.  And when I stood aghast at one client’s mention of how many brothers and sisters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were in her family, she simply shrugged and offered an explanation of ‘her people’:  ”This is what we do.”

May we all have numerous International addresses to send to!

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The Buzz

…I’ve been overwhelmed from the response of having my work featured in Martha Stewart Weddings, The Knot NJ Magazines as well as on the sites of Style Me Pretty and The Wedding Bee.  From one client referral on the Wedding Bee, my wordpress site received well over 2000 ‘hits.’  You Bees are serious!  And the requests keep coming… Word of mouth is always the best advertising whether it is shared between friends or with the world (wide web.)  Many thanks to all my former clients for their referrals.  

Remember you can submit your wedding to the Real Wedding Sections of  Wedding Websites and Magazines, like Style Me Pretty, Martha Stewart Weddings, Once Wed, and The Knot.  Many of you are so clever and artistic with your vision-it deserves to be seen!

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In this New Year…

…don’t forget your ‘old acquaintances’ – send them a letter!

Many thanks to all my clients for a wonderful year.  Looking forward to 2012.

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