Etsy shop open!

Now that I've been a married woman for a week and two days... the honeymoon's over and I figure it's time to start thinking about money again! Just kidding. BUT, I did receive such rave reviews on the wedding invitations, custom portraits, and wine labels I created for my wedding that I've opened an Etsy shop. I'd been planning to do it anyway, but the encouragement has been wonderful! Check it out at LoveDoveCreations!

A li'l Update

Wooot! I'm married!!

It was totally perfect, and everything looked beautiful. I can't wait to share some of the Do-It-Yourself ideas I came up with that worked great! I also can't wait to share some of the DIY's that I found online that worked great too! I absolutely loved being able to create the look and feel of my wedding myself.

Stay tuned!!

Steampunk Wedding Cake Extravaganzaaaaa!

k, not steampunk at all, but frakkin' awesome!

Well, it's been a while. I've been busy with wedding planning, wedding planning, wedding planning! 

I tackled designing the invitations myself from scratch. Now the invitations and RSVP cards are complete, along with homemade envelopes... and mailed! Now we sit back and wait.... hah..

Today my mother, my fiance, and I, met with Melissa from Buttercream Couture. I was introduced to her at the Fraser Valley Wedding Swap a few weeks ago. Her cupcakes are delicious, and I could literally eat a whole vatt of the buttercream icing. Oh yes, it's my bag baby. So good. We met with her to discuss pricing and throw around ideas. She is extremely excited about the prospect of a steampunk theme for the cakes. Apparently, almost every wedding she's done this year has been "Tiffany blue" (gag). She was brimming full of ideas.

Honestly, I hadn't really given cake ideas much thought, I've been busy with everything else milling around in my brain. I was excited that she was excited. And not just, "act into it for the customer" excited. She almost peed when I showed her our invitations. So I thin this will be a lot of fun for her, and us.

I'm hoping to make the cupcakes an extravagant display, rather than just placing them on a table in a pyramid. Naturally, I googled steampunk wedding cake ideas. They are so gorgeous!

*UPDATE* To see the steampunk wedding cupcakes I ended up with for my wedding (they're gorgeous!), check out my post Steamy, Buttery, Cupcakey

have you seen these edible button cakes?

kekeke... steampunk "buggies" cake topper

Red Head Redemption

"Ohhh, alright" by Roy Lichtenstein

I have decided to pay honour to the red hair I had for three weeks. As a naturally very dark brunette, becoming a flaming redhead for three weeks is no small feat! Especially when there is old black hair dye and bright blue streaks involved. But I did it. Even after three different shades of red, I still couldn't find the exact shade I'd always wanted to try on myself - and after all the bleaching and dyeing my hair couldn't take much more experimenting - so I finally went back to black.

My short stint as a redhead.

 And so now I shall live vicariously through these paintings of beautiful red hair. Enjoy!

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema - "Spring Flowers"

 "Perdita" - Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys

"Alice Guerin" - Paul César Helleu

Mary Cassatt - "Maternal Kiss" 1896.

Mary Cassat - "At the Theater (aka Lydia Cassatt Leaning on Her Arms, Seated in a Loge)" 1879-1880

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"Lady with a Red Hat" - Frank Duveneck

Pierre Auguste Renoir - "Seated Girl with Blue Background", 1890

Laura Muntz Lyall (1860-1930) -  "The Little Red Hair"

"Helen of Troy" -  Anthony Frederick Sandys

François Boucher - Title unknown to me

John Hughes - "In The Grass"

William Holman Hunt - "Amaryllis"

Jules-Joseph Lefebvre - "Mary Magdalen in the Grotto"

"Melancholy" - Jean-Jacques Henner

William McGregor Paxton - "Girl Combing Her Hair"

I don't know the artist or title for this one.

Frederick Sandys - Love's Shadow

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer - "Eve"

George Frederic Watts - "Portrait Study of a Girl with Red Hair"

Władysław Ślewiński (Polish, 1854-1918) - "Woman Brushing her Hair"

Magnolia Pearl

Magnolia Pearl is a romantic style clothing/bag company whose shop is a traveling caravan. Everything about it is devastatingly beautiful.

Magnolia Pearl is the brainchild of Robin "Pearl" Brown, one of Texas' most influential fashion and design icons.

 

 

Magnoila Pearl's humble beginnings

The Graphics Fairy!

I've discovered a wonderful blog! The Graphics Fairy daily offer up free high quality vintage images, graphics, and clip art. There's over 2000 images on here to pick through for use in craft projects, collage, DIY, scrapbooking, Home Decor, etc. Again I say, wonderful!

Some samplings! (You'll have to visit her site for the large downloadable PDFs!)