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Loving Lately: Stranger Things Title Sequence
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last month, you’ve probably heard of (and binge-watched) Stranger Things. Mark and I are trying using a TV lineup so we don’t binge through our favorite...
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Wedding Wednesday: FINALLY PHOTOS
I debated on writing a big, fat wedding recap, but decided against it. Instead, photos! Because that’s what everybody is interested in seeing anyway. I’ll add commentary because that’s what I do. But...
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Throwback Thursday: The Time I defended my MFA Work as Garth Algar
I’m finally enough removed from grad school to share this gem with you. Sometime during my last few months of insanity grad school I thought it would be a good idea to defend my thesis in top ten...
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Loving Lately: Colored Roots
Y’all know that I’m always on the lookout for the next fun hairstyle to try. I’ve seen colored roots all over the place and really want to give them a try. I’ve had a hard time with platinum on my...
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FO Friday: Painted Thank You Cards
I love playing with paint, so I decided to take a stab at painting some thank you cards. I have 25 poster-sized sheets of 140# (extra heavy) weight Speckletone Starch White leftover from the wedding....
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September Design Challenge: Create a Stationery Line
Or that time I designed 5,124* things in a month. *this is the number I calculated using Google Sheets. I didn’t pull this out of my ass, I swear! So, I’ve been unemployed since May. (Or as my...
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October Creative Challenge: Publish a Book
On Friday I mentioned I’ve been doing creative challenges to keep from dying of boredom hit my creative goals while unemployed. Last month’s creative challenge was to revamp my etsy wedding stationery...
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October Creative Challenge: Halfway Point Check-in
What’s the point of setting a goal if you never look at the progress? None! So here’s my progress report for the Publish a Book goal I set this month. I’ve written 14,000 words this month. This number...
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I’m a Gopher!
A Golden Gopher, that is. (Image via tumblr) I have been keeping this news to myself for the last month because I don’t like sharing things until they’re 110% set in stone. Tomorrow I start my new job...
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October Creative Challenge: Publish a Book (Recap)
Happy Halloween! October is over and so is this month’s creative challenge. How did I do? I managed to ALMOST finish this challenge, and not in the way that I had hoped to finish. I started this...
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November Creative Challenge: 50K Words (+ a book cover)
Nah, I didn’t hit 50,000 words (yet). I’m around 35,000 and trying to push to write 3000-4000 a day so I don’t have to play catchup after Thanksgiving this week. Last weekend I planned to write...
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Wedding Wednesday Vendor Highlight: Ackley Publishing + Field Paper
This is a pretty detailed post because it gets into the nitty gritty of paper and print — two things I geek out about. It’s also the last wedding vendor shout out I’m doing, and I saved the best for...
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December Creative Challenge: Tackle Unfinished Projects
When thinking about a December creative challenge, I thought, what better why to end the year than with a project cleanup challenge? The last few months’ creative challenges tackled big projects. All...
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Wedding Wednesday Vendor Highlight: chimesdesign
This is the last in my Wedding Wednesday Vendor Highlight series that features my wedding. I designed and created a lot of things for my wedding, from my invitations to our decor, so I decided to do a...
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Wedding Wednesday: Claire Invitation Suite (+ free download!)
Last week I mentioned I planned to feature each of my wedding invite suites in the upcoming Wednesdays. Each of these features will come with a free downloadable printable item. First up, is the Claire...
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December Creative Challenge: Halfway-Point Check-In
My December goal: finish three of the following unfinished creative projects Finish Tokens of Kindness book. I haven’t done anything with this so far this month. Clean up blog post drafts. I’ve been...
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Wedding Wednesday: Grace Invitation Suite (+ FREE download!)
Grace Wedding Invitation Suite I designed Grace with traditional formal weddings in mind. I don’t love script typefaces (because they can be hard to read and cheesy), but this version of Bickham...
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2016: My Year in Design
Accomplished in 2016: Obtained my MFA. Redesigned my landing page to include a p5.js sketch (which is, apparently, very difficult). Learned how to do brush calligraphy. Wrote and designed a design...
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Our New Monthly Organizer (+ free download!)
I love being organized. I adore planners and calendars. Even in our age of digitized organizational apps, nothing gives me more of a thrill than writing something down and checking it off a physical...
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SkillShare Class+Project Complete: Baugasm Series 1—Experimental Gradients
Two classes down, three more to go! As part of my April Creative Challenge, I completed Baugasm Series 1: Create Experimental Gradients and Textures on SkillShare. The guy who runs this class has made...
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