I designed this logo for the Old Charm Bed & Breakfast in St. Mary’s, PA. The client, owner Michael, wanted something modern yet mixed with a traditional and of course, charming feeling. We went through a few rounds of ideas and settled on this. The actual filigree illustration in the rounded square is based on the top of a chandelier that I found and loved. He chose the colors of maroon and limey green — they are favorites of his! Looks like he’s already implemented it on his website too

I looove working on projects like this – they are the dream for a designer!

In one word.

ABSOLUTELY.

If you are like me, you prefer to switch lenses often, sometimes as much as I want to keep my 50mm 1.4 on all the time, it’s just not possible when I need a wide angle. Since I can’t afford a full-time assistant right now (other than loverly Amy who will work with me for pennies when she can), the shootsac IS my assistant. I could only get the basic bag now, hope to get a fun cover later, but even in black it’s so professional I don’t know that it’s necessary. Anyway, in short this bag really is all that it promises to be. My only  thought for an improvement would be on the flap, a small zippered area for memory cards so I can easily find them and switch them out without digging around in the deep pockets. Other than that though, it’s pretty much perfect. I love it! Thank you Jessica Claire for making a really cool product that is worth every penny!

I was so excited to get it, I ran out to Fed Ex to pick it up the day it came in because I had to have it for my Friday/then Saturday wedding.

And these two were taken by my sis Amy who was able to help me out at this wedding, she got two good ones of me doin the ‘thang.’ I like the second one, I look like I know what’s up. ha! Don’t you love how they have the bride get ready in this crazy children’s room? Makes for colorful pictures, that’s about the only good thing though

Next purchase is the shoulder strap for it. I do think it’s necessary, I’ll get ahold of that pretty soon hopefully

Night all!

Meeting Heather through a comment on her blog and then the rest of the GTG girls in my breakout into the photography field has been so awesome. They have helped and encouraged me so much, and I was thrilled to work with Heather on something for her business that could help polish her image. She had her colors chosen already, so we worked with them and had a few meetings to really establish what she was looking for. Sometimes you don’t know until you see it whether you like it or don’t. She pushed me hard on this – and I’m glad she did. I think we came out with a beautiful mark for her, inspired from a bunch of different places, and spent a ton of time choosing the mark and the typeface itself. We went for a purchased rather than a free one for the script because having a professional font that actually costs something (even if it’s not a ton) really makes you have the edge over others who are just ripping off the latest and funkiest free font off the internet (not that there is anything wrong with them – they are just more prevalent)

Heather – I hope you are so happy with your logo, and I’m excited to see you’ve already applied it to your website and pictures as a new watermark.

Anyway – here’s to an entire weekend of worshipping God with our music until we are totally exhausted!!! It’s going to be a long one. I’ll have my laptop though so I’ll still be around

Also I have to note how disturbed I was by last night’s Private Practice on ABC. I hated the storyline with Violet, and I hate the storyline with Adison. I want to be strong and give it up, but I really want to see them fix this next season. So we’ll see. Either way it was so disturbing I could barely sleep, and I’m hearing a lot of similar things all over the internet. What are you smoking, writers???

For the annoucement, the colors I had settled on way in the beginning because they are the colors in Courtney & Dan’s house, and I figured it would be easiest to match pictures in this way done in a house setting. Plus, they go together, and oh yes… I’m found of teal & brown since they are my company’s colors. I gave them five designs to choose from, some more complex/detailed, this is the one we all agreed on in the end.

This was an invitation created for a GE reception held at a planetarium. It was really fun because I used a combination of vector imagery and photoshop with brushes to create a starry night, hill scene. The constellation is the leaf motif from the hybrid paint scheme. It also had a matching little thank you card!

The most recent edition of Stairways Magazine, UP created with the team. I was really happy with this one because the colors were really great (blues and teals, my favs) and it was a winter theme. My goal was also to get way more consistent with the design so I we have a really nice, not busy template and created something I think will be easily updateable each time.

We also are almost done redesigning our website, and it will be up very soon!

HAPPY FRIDAY!

I had a particular vision for an invitation immediately and knew I could do it on a small scale since it was only about 15 invites for basically no $$. Courtney & Dan’s colors for the baby are teal & brown (like a lot of things in their house) so that was sort of the theme.

And Amy was awesome and made matching cupcakes!

Then the girly-ness ensued. There were lots of little babies there. haha.

Thanks for reading. Courtney & Dan, we love you!

I knew I wanted it to be flickr based since I rely so heavily on flickr and it is by far the easiest, affordable way to keep your photography and any other visual digital files organized and current. I tried downloading a few different flash type of players that would filter my flickr sets, but none of them worked as good as the tried and true rock — I am using the pictobrowser, and its simple and easy. 

I hope you all like it!

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Wacom Intous3 6×8 Pen Tablet

In other news this weekend was fast and crazy but great. I shot a wedding on Saturday that I thought went really really well. It was simple but beautiful. I have about 900 pics to go through so hopefully I can get those ready soon. I also have like 4 web projects coming up that I need to quote and decide if I can handle, and I (also) (sarah palin style) (did you ever notice how much she says also?) started working on Daniel’s senior portraits, so here’s a sneak peak. Senior girls, don’t faint.

Also, next Sunday, November 2nd, Brian and I and our worship team are leading a special night of worship at Grace that is going to be amazing! Our team has been practicing so hard. Five of the songs will go onto Brian (and I’s) full-length worship album we hope to have out in 2009. Please come out and enjoy some amazing time with God and the chance to be part of the excitement! Also check out this awesome little flyer Danielle designed in like one hour for it. She is so awesome! Spread the word.

Now off to get ready and go to a meeting!

of course gotta get in the gorgeous long grasses. notice the fall foliage coloring starting in the background? there’s no turning back now. it’s FALL.
 

Design Fruit started making wall decals. I might just have to get a set of these ones in deep brown for our bedroom . They are so cool! They are available on etsy.com. I should check out and see what other decals are out there too.

And our babies have found a home with Miss Christa (Graffiti Girl Designs!) and her hubby Mr. Sean (shown below with casey at a wedding). Thanks guys, you won’t regret it. I’m so glad it could work out so my parents didn’t become completely cat crazy people or have to give them to a shelter.