Category Archives: Awesome

Recent design work!

Despite all of the recent chaos, I’ve been quite the busy bee. (Pun not entirely intended). I just finished up two blog designs for two delightful ladies, and they were a truck-ton of fun to create.

First up is Katie’s blog, Ruffles and Truffles.


She wanted ruffles integrated in somewhere, but pretty much gave me free reign to do whatever, and, well, I did! Top ruffle, bottom ruffle, stripes, circles, banner… Fun stuff. Go and read her awesome blog!

Next up is Colleen’s new blog, There comes a yes.

Colleen and I are partners in crime, so I took her pink and turquoise request and ran with it. I know she is a giant lover of chevrons, and I’m convinced that the flame-stitch will be the new chevron, so I did a chevron-flame-stitch lovechild. Hard lines + bold colors + fun script + classic serif = good times. Go visit her blog. You won’t regret it.

Whew!

If you’re interested in procuring my design services, shoot me an email!

B-A-N-A-N-A-S

OMG again. Just tipped off that Ashton Kutcher twittered (and facebooked!) our wedding video. This is just nuts.

OH MY GOD

Lauren + JP from ataricharm on Vimeo.

Our wedding music video. I die. All over. I die. I can’t even begin to express how much I love it, how much it makes me grin and cry at the same time, and how wonderful it makes me feel. I’ll let the video speak for itself for now. More on the magnificent Matt Odom to come.

Favorite thing ever?

Yes. Caturday has come early. Image via here.

You are welcome.

J. Crew haxx

baller watch. click on the thumbnails to see 'em bigger.

I think it probably is no secret that I am a big fan of the J. Crew Timex watches. I even bought one for JP as a wedding present, and he loves wearing it.

I have a confession: when I bought him the watch, I had secret hopes that maybe sometimes I would be able to jack it and wear it around. That wasn’t going to happen, because he loves it. That left me pining for a watch that was a bit out of my price range for just a WANT WANT WANT. Then it dawned on me. Hey, it’s a Timex. Maybe the non-J.Crew Timex land has similar watches. Oh, and maybe straps too!

Bingo. Ish. Timex makes some pretty great faces that were similar and inexpensive compared to the J. Crew watch, but no crazy fabric bands like the neon ones I’d coveted at J. Crew. Sad trombone until a trip to Target yielded some great results– the Timex Easy Reader watches fit on JP’s fabric J. Crew band perfectly, and looked strikingly similar to his fancy watch. And way less expensive.

We purchased the watch, then ordered a neon band from J. Crew, and voila. A much more do-able version of the watch I’d been stalking for months. So, dears, if you’ve been jonesing  for a J. Crew Timex, but don’t want to drop the dollars, go this route. It’s pretty cool… and… has indiglo. Hola, middle school.

Recipe for an awesome watch

  1. Timex Easy Reader Watch, whatever dang color you want, $29.99-39.99 Make sure to get the watch via Target or Walmart. They’re about $5-10 cheaper than via the Timex website.
  2. J. Crew Watch Band, tons of colors, $10-15 Okay, let me give you the skinny on the bands. Our local J. Crew has some really incompetent staff. (I used to work in retail, so I feel that it gives me the right to bitch when employees, especially managers do not know their inventory inside and out. I mean, hello, I do, and I don’t even work there.) Anyway, the bands that were on the biggest sale online were full price in the store. Liar pants said they were “new.” Um, hi. No. He also provided some really wrong info regarding the neon bands and availability, so I just ordered online. Cheaper, and they had my neon rose. PLUS, if you order by the end of TODAY, you can get an extra 20% off of sale items [read: the awesome-colored bands] using EXTRA20 as the promotion code. Sweet.
  3. Without tax/shipping/what-have-you, you are able to get a $170 watch set-up for $40. WIN.

Whatcha think? Pretty good, no?

If anyone has an extra thou around…

… please purchase these chairs and send them to me. Or keep them, and let me live vicariously through you. I’d love them in a bright lacquer.

I have a thing for chairs. Anybody else?

Oh, hi there.

Funny seeing you here. What was that? Oh, I’m pretty good.

Yes, yes. Weekend before last we did get married, as planned. How did it go?

I’ll say.

Word.

It was way waaaaaaay better than I could have ever imagined or dreamed. We had the time of our lives, which is quite clear by the wet-rat-state that my hair was in by the end of the night. (I.e. when I finally got into the Smilebooth. Damn, I swore I had brushed my hair in the last century.) I can’t wait to go into gross detail about the whole thing. So. Freaking. Much. Fun.

So, everybody, what’s up with you? Other June 19th ladies, how’d it go?

*All shots from our Smilebooth. More on that goodness later!

Something paperless from the paper-lover.

We’re having a fairly small, relaxed, and super yummy rehearsal dinner. As per our request, JP’s parents are hosting the dinner at one of the local mexican restaurants. Of course, because I’m obsessed with designing anything that will stand still long enough for me to attack it, they let me do the invitations.

I made them without paper. Shocker, I know. Seeing as I’m pretty at awesome at waiting until the last minute, and seeing that we already had 20,000 things on our plate, I decided to go the interweb invite route.
I had read somewhere before that the rehearsal dinner should stand apart from the wedding stuff, but still have a similar feel. I took that to mean “drop the super-set wedding theme, and have some fun.” So that’s what I did. Fun and lighthearted, different from our wedding goods, but still goes along the same thread– love, hearts, brights.
I’m also a fan of the fact that I made the text scroll behind the bunting. I think I’m probably the only person that notices this or cares, but it entertains me. It lets me pretend like I’m working with paper!

So there you have ‘em. The paperless invites from the self-proclaimed paper-aholic.

How did you handle the rehearsal dinner invites? Did you go with paper or rebel and ditch it?