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We came across London-based illustrator Paul Thurlby's alphabet prints on Ohdeedoh and were totally smitten by the hilarious illustrations...
Thurlby has a whole alphabet done in super cool retro kitsch style - love the vintagey beat up treatment!
Thurlby is offering his 12" x 19" alphabet giclee prints in limited editions of 200 prints of each design.
You can find his prints for sale at his Alphabet Shop.
We were so thrilled to spot our baby's first year journal and photo album making an appearance in this adorable nursery!
The nursery belongs Phoebe, the daughter of the very talented Hilary Lang. How cool is this vintage mobile?
Love the cross stitch and these teeny (and very comfy looking) booties!
Aside from having a fabulous nursery, Hilary Lang makes many, many, super cute things - such as this hilarious overall-wearin' rabbit...
The patterns for hand-sewn projects such as this charming little turtle are available in her shop...
Um, hilarious.
You can also see pictures of her many projects here...
Silk-screened concert posters are a truly fabulous and inexpensive décor option and Poster Cabaret has a great selection from some of our favorite artists and designers for some of our favorite bands.
They also have some great prints by artists such as Bianca Gomez...
Love this bull with his wooden features and curtain-bangs...
The Decemberists can always be counted on to have gorgeous posters...
We love all the different, totally cool design aesthetics...so inspiring! (not to mention that these gorgeous hand-silkscreened posters will only set you back $20-$30!) Love, love, love them!
We've love the idea of eclectic collections of objects/favors that double as seating cards, like these vintage aluminum parakeet pins...
Or these vintage millinery flower seating cards (which could be transformed into stick pins for your guests by adding pin backings).
These goodies are from Tinsel Trading, but Etsy and ebay are also great online resources!
To make the strips, we just printed guest's names on text weight paper using an inkjet printer, and rubber stamped the table assignment on the reverse. Simple!
A recent fixation on this super cool set of alphabet blocks originally designed for the San Francisco MOMA has lead to a mini-obsession with Alexander Girard, famed designer for Herman Miller and collaborator of Charles and Ray Eames (and, of course, muse to our most favorite boy wonder, Jonathan Adler)...
We love these hand-made dolls, designed exclusively for House Industries by Marilyn Neuhart. They are based on dolls she sewed for the opening of Girard's Textiles & Objects Shop in New York City in 1961. How hilarious is that lion? We adore the folk art inspired motifs...
A 72-piece wood memory game, full of delightful illustrations...
Alexander Girard amassed a huge collection of nativities, most of which he spent the last years of his life curating for his wing at the International Museum of Folk Art in Santa Fe (which is absolutely amazing!). This set is based on an original Girard illustration that hangs in his son's house.
House Industries also has a series of great Girard fonts (Girard inspired wedding invitations or birth announcements perhaps?!).
His work is available in all sorts of places - including these stylie carpet tiles from Flor..
These pillows, figurines and other items are available through maXimo — the company that distributes and manages licenses for the work of Alexander Girard.
We just came across Kevin Waldron's absolutely wonderful illustrations via the equally wonderful blog Stickers and Stuff.
How fantastic is this lion with his snazzy pipe, turtleneck and hair nerdily combed to the side? Hilarious!
Sketch of a character named Mr. Peek...
We love the loose and charming style...
This adorable Owl & the Pussycat is genius. We are pea green with envy!
We are loving Hollin and Eric's beautiful wedding, full of sweet details and DIY elements. Hollin, along with some helpful friends and family, created most of the decorations, and it all turned out so vintage chic!
Thanks to the very talented Ben Blood for sharing his gorgeous photos of their wedding at Treehouse Point in Issaquah, Washington. Tree-filled and moss-covered, Treehouse Point offers two incredible treehouses for lodging by master treehouse builder Pete Nelson who, along with his wife Judy, host private events and overnight retreats. So natural and ethereal!
The groomsmen donned tweed and wore handmade mismatching boutineers and ties.
Hollin's vintage inspired dress was made by Portland designer Holly Stalder, who even gave Hollin extra fabric for her to make the flower on her veil! So lovely.
Hollin and her bridesmaids made their own headpieces...just gorgeous!
The bride's sister and maid of honor Keiko, hand drew and screen printed coffee and tea bags as favors for the guests.
Hollin's mom made each of the bridesmaid's dresses. We love the fabric and individual sash detailing.
Hello!Lucky designer Anna created whimsical invitations complete with illustrations of the bride and groom dancing under the trees.
What a talented group of people! Congratulations, Hollin and Eric!
Everyone's talking about it, but we simply can't help but join in the collective swooning over the new Kate Spade collection! While the clothes are stunning on their own, we just love the bold use of color and retro styling captured in these photos.
Take a look at the whole collection here!
The colorful tights paired with bold, graphic pieces; so simple, and yet so genius...
Truly, we would love to look like this every day! Ah, if only...
Oh, Kate - you've done it again!
Earlier this year we were delighted to print the invitation suite for the owner of one of our favourite UK stockists, High Tea of Highgate (the fact that this is a delightful tea shop in a lovely part of London and that Georgina is a fabulous cook is entirely co-incidental!)
Georgina's wedding to Riccardo Carrelli took place in the magical setting of Burgh Island, an Art Deco hotel situated just off the coat of Devon and the setting for several Agatha Christie films. Our letterpress suite printed over images of the island set the mood for Georgina's 1920's inspired celebrations and the whole event was beautifully captured by the photographer Joanna Wilkinson
The Burgh Island hotel and the equally famous 'Sea Tractor' used to transport guests at high tide.
Georgina's fantastic dress was designed by Alice Temperley and, we are assured, was just perfect for doing the Charleston in!
...and to prove it!
A truly genius way of creating an edible centrepiece!
We just love the detail of these wedding favours a uniquely British delicacy - seaside rock from The Rock People. The couple's name runs right through it!
Congratulations, Georgina and Riccardo!
Invitation photos by yours truly, wedding photos by Joanna Wilkinson.
We were trolling Etsy and came upon these adorable Japanese country-inspired fabrics! So cute for crafting projects for a vintage wedding. Stefanie Style has a cute selection.
Also love these pretty pastels from cottonblue. So inspiring!
This weekend's flea was a little overcast, but we still managed to spot some great stuff. Our favorite flea newcomer hands-down was Tinsel Trading -- we've always coveted their shop in New York, so it was so great to have them come to us!!
These beautiful fabric flower parts are perfect for making corsages and hair clips...
...and these leaves and lily-of-the-valley would be so sweet for bouttonnieres! Can't wait to start crafting!
You can also shop Tinsel Trading online. Those pretty pink leaves are available right here.
Yesterday at Jessica's 30th birthday party we got a taste of these amazing macarons from Paulette Macarons' new San Francisco bakery (their other one is in Beverly Hills).
The flavors are amazing -- including rose, columbian coffee, madagascar vanilla, caramel, and sweet wedding almond -- and so is the packaging!
We got our selection in one of these pretty boxes.
Each one is artful, delicate and delicious. These would definitely be an amazing treat for wedding favors!! You can order them online here.
Paulette Macarons San Francisco 437 Hayes St, (Cross Street: Gough St) 415.864.2400 Mon | 12 - 6pm Tue – Sat | 11am – 7pm Sunday | 12 - 6pm
Photos from here.
We recently picked up a bottle of this Cabernet Sauvignon by Three Thieves, inspired (and labels designed by) by Brad Vetter at the legendary letterpress studio Hatch Show Print.
Such gorgeous packaging, and mighty tasty, too! We got ours at Canyon Market in San Francisco, whose logo is incidentally designed by another favorite illustrator, Grady McFerrin.
Image from here.
We're thrilled to unveil the latest in our "Visit..." destination wedding invitation and save the date series, by Lab Partners...Chicago!
Love all the adorable details in the illustration!
We also recently completed this Visit New York invitation suite in curry & coal.
We created this matching reception card to complete the suite. Cute, right?
Photos: Adi Nevo
We recently had the opportunity to collaborate with Annena & Co and Lisa Lefkowitz Photography on an event design showcase at Spruce. If you haven't checked this restaurant out, definitely stop by - the food is great and the ambiance, designed by Stephen Brady of Williams Sonoma Home, is very 1930's executive lounge -- lots of rich tones and leather!
Annena Sorenson of Annena & Company worked with Kathleen Deery (one of our favorite floral designers!) and Classic Party Rentals to create rooms with different themes. The Wedding themed room is above.
We collaborated with Maybelle to create these menus and place cards.
Birthday party theme.
Business anniversary theme.
Gift bags! Thanks to Lisa Leifkowitz (and her photographer Stephanie Poole) for sharing these lovely photos!
This inspirational pic by Paul Lowe has made it around the blogs, but it was just recently that we put 2 + 2 together on sourcing some of these cute details!
We found these stripey straws thanks to Alison Hotchkiss at Alison Events (photo courtesy of Jordan Ferney). They're available from Kikkerland as well as locally in San Francisco at Arch.
These beauties are also coming soon from Jack & Lulu (via Haystack Needle).
Fluted cupcake cups via Cupcake Social, also available at Bake it Pretty.
Photos: Paul Lowe, Jordan Ferney, Kikkerland, Haystack Needle, Cupcake Social
Thanks to Shana for spotting and sharing this fantastic giveaway! You may recall these adorable address files were featured in an issue of Martha Stewart Weddings a while back - they make great guest books!
Well, Sharilyn is giving away sets of refills on her blog. So if you have one of these files, sign up! And for those who don't, there's a wait list, so get on it early!
Photos: Lovely Design
We just discovered Australian-based Mor Cosmetics via Lovely Package, and we are coveting, BIG TIME. How beautiful are these tins?
Delicious lip balms, available in tons of colors and flavors right here.
Also love their Nordica collection. Such pretty packaging! Shop online (US) here.
Photos via Lovely Package and Mor Cosmetics.
The July flea was a little cold and overcast, but we still found a few gems, like this 1950's cake topper.
Cigar bands - love the typefaces and colors...
Queen Elizabeth II commemorative tea tin.
Prancing horse vintage greeting card.
Adorable vintage children's book plates.
Vintage matchbooks from classic San Francisco hotels. The one on the left reminds us of our Visit San Francisco wedding invitation suite and save the date cards by Lab Partners.
And finally, some funny (and slightly bossy) hobby stationery! Hilarious! See you next month!
Thanks to Misti Layne for sharing these gorgeous pics of the red, white and blue Classic Cowboy wedding invitations we created for Maggie and John's June wedding at Rancho Nicasio.
The whole wedding, designed by Stacy McCain and Mary Lois of Loop Flowers, is full of delightful rustic homespun details. Check out more pics on Style Me Pretty today (thanks, Abby!!). And congratulations, Maggie and John!
Photos: Misti Layne
At Hello!Lucky we specialize in Letterpress greeting cards, as well offer DIY step by steps & free printables. Led by sisters Eunice and Sabrina Moyle, our small team of expert designers and artisan letterpress printers specialize in creating neon & foil, holiday cards, birthday cards, & thank you cards, that are full of creativity and whimsy. We've been featured in Martha Stewart Weddings, Design Sponge, Style Me Pretty, Real Simple, and many other leading publications. Please feel feel to contact us via chat, phone or e-mail - we'd be happy to assist you!
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