Everything happens so much

I know its been a few years, and where do I start?? So much has happened that I couldn't keep up with blogging it all!

First of all, I got engaged!!

isn't he cute?   :)

here we are in Hawaii where he proposed. I am such a lucky girl!

We made it official on Christmas day, but we are still planning on having a "big" wedding next year when he gets out of the military.

Last year I was lucky enough to win the "Advertising Person of the Year" award from the New Orleans Ad club!

Just decorating my space with a murderous unicorn, no big deal

I also won some Tellys for a few commercials I made!

 These are the commercials that won, if you want to watch them (you know you do!)

UNO, Jazz Fest, Genovive

I've also been teaching an intro to After effects class at NOVAC in New Orleans. If you're local, want to learn motion design and are a computer nerd, sign up and come say hi!

What else?!? My friend got married in 2012 and I designed her invitation suite for her. They came out beautifully!

We printed the save the dates on hankies-

and we made 2 separate invites; one for her Sangeet and another for the wedding reception.

 Here is a post about it!

Another friend of mine had a baby! So I designed her baby shower invites for her and I just love how the came out-

And finally I have encountered my new Everest- my wedding invitations! I am going to make them myself and the process is daunting. I already created our engagement party invites and here's how they turned out-

I used my Gocco machine to print with bronze ink

and my silhouette machine to die cut all the cards. Then I hand painted all the edges red and hand made all the envelopes. This sticker machine thingy is amazing for stuff like this!
here is a post about that too! 

Since we are getting married in New Orleans I am going with magnolias as our main theme flower, and our colors will be black, gold, and red (gotta have some saints colors in there!

Last but definitely not least, we have a new addition to the puppy family. Presenting Princess Little Foot:

Here she is chilling with her bro. 

That's all I can think of for now! I promise I'll try to update more often from now on :)

Clark-Chandamuri wedding 2012

Clark-Chandamuri wedding 2012

Here are the invites I created for my friend's wedding.

We printed the save the dates on hankies and folded them into a petal enclosure.

 

 

 

Engagement party invitations!

Engagement party invitations!

Here are the invitations that I hand made for our party!

Gocco printed with bronze ink

All laid out to dry!

I used my leftover screen and ink to print up some napkins! I will definitely be doing this for the wedding too, they came out great.

I used the Silhouette to make some decorative cut outs of our names.























little video of opening the invite

Here are some pics from the party!

Cookies my sister made! :)

Wine crate renovations and moving day

Recently I have become obsessed with finding, refinishing and decorating wine crates. I want to hang them on the walls to create shelves, but I can't do that yet, because we are moving! So this will probably be my last post for a while, as I start to pack up my craft stuff. But here are some photos of a couple of the wine crates I managed to take pics of before packing:


I managed to collect about 11 crates, some I got for free, some I had to buy, and some had fancy lids and other unique details. I sanded all of them down, teak oiled them to make the wood stronger, stained, and then poly-d them. These I stained in a walnut finish and then I used my awesome retro stencils to decorate all the sides of the crates. Then I lined the inside with these cute papers I found.


I went a little crazy at the Paper Source store when I went to get paper for the crates. I ended up buying these little book binding kits as well to match, I think they came out adorably.

This koi fish paper is so cute it makes me want to cry. It's screen printed, and when looking closely, it looks as if by hand. Photos can't even do the paper justice.

I cant wait to use all of these crates for decorating. I have a whole set more that I lined with fabric, but those will have to wait. Here's hoping the move to the Big Easy is nice and easy!

A very dinky Christmas

So this Christmas, I spent a good chunk of time making presents instead of buying for my friends and family. Here are how some of them came out!

First for decoration and some jewelry elements I went crazy with more shrinky dinks. I made frames, birdcages, banners, and other things, which later became necklaces or random charms.


Some of them I attached to presents and maybe people could think of their own things to do with them...


I also used some of my shrinky dink flowers from earlier to make my mom a necklace that she saw me wearing and fell in love with.


I also made one for my grandmother, here they are wearing their fancy new necklaces-


And here's my mom wearing hers-


Here is a coupon book that I made for my boyfriend with various coupons for things that I think he will like-


Sticking with my tea towel theme lately, I made my girlfriends some silk screened towels with "our slogan" on them (yeah, we're cheesy). They each got two, one black and one gold. Who Dat.


And topped them off with a shrinky dink key chain/chip that they can show off to all their friends so they can be jealous.


And here is one third of the trifecta, Jessica showing off her tea towel.


Whew! It was hard keeping all those gifts a secret. :) Can't believe we are already a week into the new year. Hope everyone is having a great one!