Metamorphosis {aka The Very Hungry Caterpillar}

Just so you know, my mom is really cool.

She makes finding caterpillars and putting them in containers for her granddaughters a priority. End result? They L.O.V.E "Ganny." Here are photos of Granny and the girls on May 8. Hello new caterpillar friend that we will check on daily with great anticipation of metamorphosis.

For the last 16 days this little fella was given prominent placement on their dresser and checked with diligence each day for progress. Today May 24, 2012, was a BIG deal because their caterpillar became "a beautiful butterfly." (Excuse the hair, ahem. We were playing in the sprinkler just before the release.)

The object of our affection was a gulf fritillary butterfly. Here is a great video on its life cycle.

Thank you, again Granny.

Butterfly Birthday Feet {The Invitation}

We celebrated Adalyn's second birthday on Tuesday with a butterfly theme birthday party. I was inspired by butterfly feet artwork that I found on Pinterest. I tracked down the party and it's a sweet story. I loved that the size of Adalyn's feet would be captured at a time where a baby becomes a toddler so the footprints that make the butterfly are her actual footprint at 100%.

The girls had a BLAST making the butterflies. By the end of our project the bottoms of their feet were an awful color. I found that ink pads worked much better than paint. To make the invitation above I made prints of Adalyns feet in black ink, scanned in the prints and changed the colors using Photoshop. However, the girls enjoyed making many butterflies of various colors with just the ink pads. Here is a sampling:

Senior Pictures {My Nephew Zack}

Well, it's official. I'm old. I have a nephew who has graduated from High School. I had the pleasure of taking his senior pics and designing this announcement. What a handsome, polite, kind and talented young man. An asset to the world and the family around him. Congratulations Zachary!

Peacock Lingerie Shower Invitation

Invitation design for a PeaCOCK themed lingerie shower. An appropriate "theme," for such a colorful event don't you think? Or, maybe inappropriate?

Wedding Shower Invitation {Grey & Lavender}

Designed a matching wedding shower invitation for these Grey and Lavender Wedding Invitations.

Custom Wedding Invitations {Grey and Lavender}

My best friends' little sister is getting married next month. I was excited to help with her wedding invitation design. Very simple, grey and lavender design featuring the couples photo and shabby, but chic spiral ornaments.

Fonts used in the design were from DaFont.com. Mortised Ornaments and Jellyka Delicious Cake

Au Revoir Rusty Water

It's never just choosing paint colors and shopping for antiques when owning an old home. More often it's fun stuff like being at the END of an ancient, city water line main that supplies your home with rusty, sediment filled water.

If you follow the progress of our house, you know we had MAJOR plumbing work done complete with custom cultured marble showers, re chromed faucets and two new potties. You can imagine our desire to delay using these new luxuries until the rust issue was resolved. After many phone calls to the city, a trip to the local water lab for testing and some um, unpleasant "discussions" between my spouse and I, the city is hooking us to a new water supply line!!!!

These photos show two of the four holes the city dug yesterday. Hope to be celebrating our new, clean water supply by purchasing NEW kitchen towels. Just not feelin' the "once white, now rust stained" towel look anymore.