Beautiful Handwriting

These are a few pages from my Mom-Mom's cookbook, which was originally her mother's. (Given to her by her church in 1924) I just love the hand written dedication and recipes. So beautiful.

My nephew is adorable...

and for Christmas he had a bunch of art stuff on his wish list (mind you he's ten and a half months old...but you can never start them too young!), so obviously I had to get it for him. But no kid's art supply collection is complete without a smock. Que a trip to the craft store for a blank smock, some acrylic pain and some fabric puff paint. What did I paint on the smock you ask? His name...duh!

Merry Christmas!

For your viewing pleasure: my 2012 Christmas card!

Hand lettered and totally my style. I kind of really love them. And if you love them as much as I do, good news: you can buy them from my Etsy Shop!

(inside sentiment: May the magic of Christmas be with you the whole year through)

Bridal Mugs

I wanted to make fun mugs for the morning of my friend's wedding while we got ready. Along with the mugs I decided to make a fun little basket-o-treats.

Operation Personalized Wedding Gift

To go along with the monogram from my last post, I applied it to a couple of different things to create a whole personalized gift set as a wedding present. I made note cards, wine glasses, wine bottle labels, coasters, and a candle. It was a lot of work, but I had fun with it, and I think I'm going to have to start doing this for more weddings. And now the newlyweds have a great personalized wedding gift that they won't be able to get anywhere else!

Fun With Monograms

This is a monogram I've been working on to go along with a whole gift set I'm making as a wedding gift. And its all hand lettered of course!

Greeting Cards

These are a few cards I did for a recent project that focused on hand-lettering

Birthday: Make a Wish, today is your day
(Inside: Happy Birthday)



Friendship: No matter where life takes us, I will always be there to walk with you in the sunshine and dance with you in the rain.
(Inside: Thank you for being my friend)


Mothers Day: Mom, You've encouraged my dreams, wrapped them in love, and blessed them with inspiration
(Inside: Thank you for your endless love and support. Happy Mothers Day)



Sympathy: Remember to embrace the joys of the past, rejoice in the enchantments of the present, and always delight in the light that is yet to come.
(Inside: With deepest sympathies for your loss)

Hand Lettering

Just some hand lettering I've been working on for a new project.

Merry Christmas!

This is the Christmas card I designed this year to send out to all my friends. I wanted to do something hand-lettered and illustrative...

Thank You

As always, thank you cards are very important. I decided to do a little watercolor for this one.

Creative Bridal Shower Gift

I had a bridal shower to go to today, and rather than buy something from the registry, I wanted to make my gift a little more unique. So I decided to put together a little scrapbook package that the bride could use to make a scrapbook of the honeymoon. I wanted to make the album cover fun and more personal, so I painted "Our Honeymoon" in a tropical style since the couple is honeymooning in Punta Cana. I love how it turned out, and I'm definitely going to do this again for future showers.

Road Less Traveled

I wanted to fool around with some fun hand lettering and decided a quote would be perfect for my experiment. This quote has been stuck in my head a lot lately, and it's one that I'd like to practice in own life a bit more...

Shadow letters

A typography experiment with cutout letters and shadows...