Here are the invitations for a shower I’m throwing tomorrow: “Cute As A Button” Here’s how I made them 1. Grabbed a Sharpe and drew the “Cute as a Button” and the little buttons. 2. Scanned the drawing and finished the invitation in Photoshop, printed and rounded corners 3. Cut scrap fabric using rotary cutter [...]

After my shower a few weeks ago {I’ll share when I’ve got pics}, I wanted to make sure my thank you cards were special, but didn’t need to spend a lot of money on them. I came up with an “IOU” idea, and created these in Photoshop. They print out 3 to a letter-sized piece [...]

I’m not good with words. I always come up with the right thing to say 10 minutes after the opportunity presents itself. I don’t bake that well. Yes, I have chocolate chip cookies and chocolate crinkle cookies that I can deliver consistently. But anything more complicated than that will take me LOTS of practice to [...]

This website was both so fun to design, and *excrutiating* to look at these delicious chocolates for long stretches of time without having some to snack on. Check out my new Danville Chocolates website design: www.danvillechocolates.com.

Most of my friends are creative. Some of them are flat out duds. {kidding}. ALL of my friends are creative in their own right: teaching, nutrition, numbers, crafting, and the list goes on. Nicki, however, really sets the bar. {when you get a chance, look at the wrinkly babies on her photography blog here}. She [...]

I’m hosting my friend April’s baby shower next weekend, and although I’m dying to share the details as we plan them, I don’t want to spoil it! :) Here are the invitations I made and sent out a few weeks ago… designed in photoshop, printed one side on heavy paper and the other on a [...]

Here she is, my latest blog redesign project: Penelope Loves Lists. Meredith, who describes herself as “unapologetically organized” writes about all things organizational: work, home, kids and life. This was a fun project to work on and was my first time working on the Thesis Theme. Geek Alert: While this theme boasts its ease of [...]

I’m trying to get off my feet in the evenings a bit more. But I still need a project in my lap. Here I’m making shop tags for Pillows By Mom, whilst my little one encroaches on my surface area. {I made the tags in Illustrator, attached Whitney’s Green Apple Divine Twine, and clipped them [...]

…A cute little chocolate store in downtown Danville, CA. Do you like the logo? ;)

Over the last few weeks I’ve had the pleasure of working with Jules and Tristan, new blog friends on the redesign and migration of their communal blog from Typepad to WordPress. The launch took place two weeks ago, and I think we got all the kinks out. The migration from Typepad wasn’t as painless as [...]