Has it really been six months since my daughter was born; time goes by faster with a baby in your life. I’m back in the studio + teaching design; part time for now. I’m happy to be doing everything I envisioned doing while raising my daughter with my husband but (wow!) I am busy. I have a backlog of projects to share and plenty of ideas and energy! I hope to post more about my work and life. Thanks for being so patient!

Write Around Portland had their gala fundraiser, (XYZ) a few weeks ago at DWR. We were excited to design the invite again this year! The invite was built from many parts; a perforated card + rsvp, the return envelope and a belly band to hold it all together. The invitation was mailed in a clear plastic envelope. XYZ centers around word games and we used classic games as a point of inspiration on the invite.

The belly band

The invite

The invite with perfed rsvp ticket postcard. This project is always a pleasure to work on, I love the way it turned out!

More knit projects on the way. I’m still working on the bottom one!

Congratulations to K + Z on their big day over the weekend! I created a custom minimal invitation for them over the summer.

In the original suite we did not include a rsvp postcard, this was added and fit the shapes of the suite nicely.

Clare printed on a cranes cotton felted paper. I’m growing weary of lettra, this was a nice change and heavy weight without too much bulk on press.

Summer was quite busy in the studio and we had the pleasure of working with a new client, Kim of SYdesign. Kim presented us with a new project and brought in a unique vintage tearbook of items found from the fifties as a point of inspiration.

I was speechless, the book was pretty amazing. Each page was fabric with magazine and package tears carefully backed and ironed on. Each page had a theme or season and the entire book seemed to chronicle the life of a child.

Kim let us borrow it for an afternoon to takes some picks for our mood boards. I would love to make one of these for our new babies first year!!

What a fantastic find, thanks Kim!

I worked on my first baby blanket all summer, it took a lot longer than I anticipated and I’m super happy with the result!

I also worked on a few super tiny hats for our newborn, the gender is a surprise so I kept it neutral!

Available now, a new holiday card on minted!

Have a great weekend!! I’m currently on maternity leave though the little one has not yet arrived. Things have slowed at the office while I’m away though we are still accepting projects and invitations to start in late December so send us a hello if you’d like to connect.

Hello there, is summer really almost over! I’ve been away from my blog busy preparing for the arrival of my first child. Busy at the studio wrapping up client projects and wedding invitations before my maternity leave, oh!

I’m an admirer of Ports 1961 and came across this video on hulu. I was happily surprised at how much process and behind the scenes they shared and the wonderful ideas and genius of the then creative director Tia Cibani, enjoy!

If the video doesn’t show up above please click here!

A and I are getting things ready for the new baby :) I’ve been busy knitting my first baby blanket. I’m planning a patchwork blanket in pima cotton, its taking me a long time, hopefully it’s done by October!!

Just a few things to announce. If you haven’t checked out my client’s shop Alder & Co. here is another fantastic reason to. On August 3rd from 5-8pm they will be hosting a Design Sponge meetup! Hope to see you there.

Also check out the Alder posting on Remodelista today, (yeah Carla!) and my logo is nicely displayed!!