Renegade preparations

We had dinner with the lovely ladies of Marzipan Garden (those are some of their aprons above). We're sharing a booth with them at Renegade Craft Fair and we wanted to get together to talk about our ideas for the booth. Sean and I went to Ikea this weekend and bought a bunch of cork boards that we are going to make into a screen/display wall. I'm excited and I can't wait to see Eva and Nina's hippo pillows!

Stopping procrastinating

Over the past year I have amassed tons of semi-precious gemstones, silver wire, tools, etc., all with the good intention of actually making some jewelry. I even took a silversmithing class at SVA last fall (made some cool rings!). I've made several random pieces here and there, but I really haven't gotten serious about coming up with a line of jewelry, per se. We've got a booth at Renegade Craft Fair this June, and I am making that my kick in the butt. My intention is to test out the market with about 10 pieces and see how it goes...This is one of the pieces I made recently. It still needs some work, but I mostly like it.

Tying 135 knots

We printed all of our wedding invites this weekend after finalizing the design and colors. As you can see, they took up the entire living room! We wanted to keep the invite a little less formal and try to link it to the outdoor and sunny atmosphere we're hoping to have at the wedding.

Besides completing the graphic, the string ties the various cards (info, rsvp) and envelopes together into a little bundle.

Lesson #1

Sean and I learned a lesson this weekend when mixing colors for our invites. We printed a digital proof of the invites and mixed the paint at my kitchen counter top, under a fluorescent task light. We got the colors pretty close and printed the first layer of all the invites...It wasn't until the next morning when all of the prints were lying in the sunlight that I noticed that they were a much brighter orange than planned. We brought out the proof and compared it to one of the prints in the natural light and voila! Check out the color difference (above)! To make sure we weren't totally color blind we compared the same two images under the fluorescent task light - and the colors were a much closer match (below).

The moral of the story? Mix your paints in the natural light, so that you can really see what they look like!