I *heart* ebay

Dear Ebay,
You are always there for me when I need some obscure item. When Im pining for a brooch to wear in my hair, you have it. And you give it to me for only $7.63 including postage. You are the best friend a gal could ever have.

Love, your friend
Delaks xxxx

PS. This is the first accessory I have bought for the wedding! To be worn like this:

Or maybe even like this:

Funky Stationery

In Martha Blue and Red colour scheme

I am building quite a portfolio of invite designs atm, the more I do the more I want to experiment with new styles. This set is designed to be a more fun/casual design, and my first foray into floral motifs (Im not much of a flowery person, but I know there are plenty of brides out there that are). Im beginning to find a 'signature style' in these experiments that I hope is unique and interesting enough that I could sell these at some stage in the future (or at the rate of design Im going, send each of my 200 guests individually designed invites!! lol)

In Hot Pink and Pink colour scheme

Stripy Stationery

So I have done another set of wedding stationary just for the fun of it, but I think its actually something I might end up using for our own wedding. The more I muck around with the design of my invites (and I think this one is invite redesign number 7 or 8 at this stage...) the more I think I might like to do this as a bit of a hobby/small business. Tough industry though, I wonder how I would deal with my bridezilla self as a customer??

In other news: this website made me chuckle this week, although it makes me wonder if any of my family/friends/wedding suppliers would like to send me a "please shut up about your fucking wedding, bridezilla" postcard because quite frankly I do talk about my wedding A LOT ;P hehehe

I *heart* blogs

'Fluid' by Julie West

Doncha love it when things just turn out? I had been thinking lately that I would like to start a proper art collection, and in particular that I would like a cool, smallish, stylish print for our new place. Now where do you begin to try and find a cool, smallish, stylish print when you dont really mind who its by or what its of?? So Im doing my regular blog browsing, and lo and behold on the ever useful design*sponge blog is a link to a site called we*heart*prints... which is exactly what I was after!! we*heart*prints lists affordable and beautiful prints that are available online - perfect! Now the only thing left to do is pick one from this amazing selection...

Stylish Stationery

My sisters stationery set - click to see larger size

This is the set of stationery I designed for my sisters wedding which is coming up this weekend. I *think* they turned out quite well - stylish, cheap and simple, just what she asked for. This was a good experiment to see if wedding design is something I might like to do as a career move - I quite enjoyed it and I like the outcome, but I would still love any feedback from blog readers out there to develop my skills further :) Critique away!

Here are some of the geeky technical points:

• Everything can be printed on a normal home printer on A4 sheets - this whole set required one ream of thin white A4 cardboard
• The square invite is a standard square envelope size (she bought hers on ebay)
• The Thank You slip is DL sized, so they fit 3 to an A4 page and can be posted in a standard DL envelope
• The OOS is A5, so you just print it on cardboard and fold in half as the cover
• The only seperate part to stick on is the white box on the cover of the invite - this was stuck with glue to the left flap, but it could also be printed on a sticker sheet to seal the invite shut if desired
• The whole thing cost about $100 - $150 for approx 90 invites

I am yet to release my own invite design to the world, partly because I want it to be a bit special and secret, and partly because I have changed it so many times it might be different come next Feb! But as a bit of a sneak peak, heres my Save the Date card so far:

If youre a DIY Bride (or should that be DIBride?) like me, for inspiration check out Luxe Paperie for funky ideas and colour combos, and KenzieKate for gorgeous and stylish invitation designs