April 2010

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Letterpress: Angeles and Steve at the Hotel Maya

April 29, 2010 in Letterpress | No comments

Angeles and Steve were introduced to me by their wedding coordinator, Liz Coopersmith, of Silver Charm Events. Liz has a cool blog with very helpful tips and best of all, her Wedding Wise Wednesday posts of cool events and sales around LA and on the web. Not to mention, she’s a nice gal and awesome to work with!

In their invitations, Angeles and Steve wanted to incorporate the atmosphere of their wedding venue, The Hotel Maya Long Beach. They found this fantastic image of the Mayan calendar from istockphoto. We used the bottom right quadrant of the image on the invitation and the top right quadrant for the reply card. I think this image is a great example of how we can get such fine, intricate detail work with digital letterpress. Behold, the awesome beauty of letterpress!

Letterpress: Stephani and Kyle’s Cherry Blossom Invitations

April 22, 2010 in Letterpress | No comments

I met Stephani many moons ago when I visited my then boyfriend (now hubby) over spring break in college. Fast forward 13 years and voila, she is engaged to the corniest guy ever and getting married at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in downtown Los Angeles!

Stephani’s mom drew the lovely cherry blossom image for the invitations. We took one part of the cherry blossom branch and used it as the main image for the reply cards. Stephani loves purple! Her wedding colors are lavender and silver so the flowers and names are printed in light purple, the branches and stems in taupe, and the text in deep purple with a hint of silver. The paper is Strathmore cover 110 lb. in bright white.


Baby Wren

April 14, 2010 in Wren Jones | No comments

I’m sorry it’s been a while since I last wrote a blog post. Hubby and I have been going through some tough times. I was due to give birth to a baby boy on April 1, 2010, but our little guy, Wren, came early. I delivered a beautiful and seemingly healthy 7 pound, 20.5 inch baby on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at 12:12 pm in our home with our midwives. To our devastation, Wren stopped breathing at around 11:30 pm that night and was not able to be resuscitated.

Josh made a blog site in Wren’s honor chronicling the short time we spent with him.

We’re figuring out how to move forward as we process our grief. I think, hopefully, the hardest part is over.

Lots of love and thanks to our family, friends, and community. I’ve learned so much, and despite the awfulness of this experience, I have become a much better wife, friend… and mom.