Our Wedding Album

A few pages from our wedding album from Pinhole Press. I bought these for my parents and in-laws for Christmas and I made another copy for Boy's relatives in India. We're absolutely floored with the quality of the printing from this company.
















I totally want to make more albums! Living in such a digital world, I've completely forgotten about the nostalgia of flipping through physical pages of a photo album.

I just need more stuff to photograph now...

p.s. Photos from the wedding ceremony

Friday: Link Love

Mini Ruche in Kiwi

Remember on Fridays I used to pair a cool outfit with one of my bags? Yeah. That didn't last long.

I will share the latest addition to my shop, though! (See above image)

So I'm dedicating Fridays to cool things I read on the interwebs.  Because I browse lots of sites, and I want to share them with you!

• The most awesome things my lady crush (Liz Lemon) says.
• Cutest DIY heart garlands (for Valentine's Day) <3
• She's camouflaged into her wall paintings!
• Feed your face right to prevent acne.
• The dollar stores got it right.
• This probably cuts down some time on mashing potatoes.

Happy weekend!

Love,
Jenny

The Perfect Pair

I'm looking for a pair of neutral-ish shoes to go with my new bag, the Packet in Chai Latte.  I was making an order + the rest of the bags in this leather and one of them didn't turn out too well. I thought about offering it in the shop with a heavy discount, but I quickly decided that I needed a new bag (the last time I gave myself a bag was last January! It was the Mini Ruche in Black). And you thought I kept every other bag!

Now I'm looking for the perfect shoes to go with the bag (Not that I need a specific pair of shoes to match this bag --it will pretty much go with everything I have. But who said I need to make excuses not to shop?).

I usually go for pairs like B, C, and E.  But I know Boy will not allow it because they are similar to what I have in my current collection.  And seriously. Jenny. Let's be more practical about shoe-shopping. For once.

Here I go. I'm talking to myself.

WHICH! is why I am leaning towards something a little more menswear-meets-womenswear-but-with-a-little-bit-of-heel-because-let's-face-it-being-5'2"-with-a-really-long-torso-and-stubby-legs-is-not-so-exciting-in-flats-and-life-is-way-more-fun-with-the-possibility-of-a-sprained-ankle-in-4"-heels. A is my top pick right now, but D looks so airy and fun. I wish the heel were at least one thousand* inches taller, though.

*Side note: I say one thousand the same way Kristen Wiig says, "Just one thouuuuuuuuusand more songs, Mr. Meyers! Please, please, please! Mr. Meyers!" in "Garth and Kat" on SNL.

Okay, leaning towards D... since it's on sale.  A sale justifies everything.

I hope you learned a valuable lesson from all of this.

p.s. Another conversation in my head about buying shoes. This is not a new thing.

Diamond in the Rough

Rough Black Diamond Studs by LexLuxe

I am not a jewelry girl.  The only pieces I sport daily are my engagement and wedding rings.  Otherwise it's just costume jewelry on occasion. (And by costume jewelry, I mean inexpensive humongous dangly earrings.)

However, I am really drawn to these raw diamond pieces.  I don't know what it is about the rough diamond next to the shiny metal.  A modern decay look.  Really intriguing to me. 

I'm totally digging these!

Rough Diamond Studs by LexLuxe

Rough Diamond Stacker Ring by Specimental

Hubert, The Snow Leopard

OK, fine.  The title is false advertising.  He's actually more like a chubby bunny running around the backyard.



But still, my chubby bundle of love! :)

Speaking of love.

Valentine's order deadlines are posted on the right side of this blog (and in the announcements section of my shop). Tell your husband. Or mom. Whoever is going to buy you your Valentine's gift(s) this year. ;)

Love,
Jenny

Pink Lemonade, Anyone?

Even though it's frigid and snowing now, I couldn't help but think of sipping on pink lemonade from a mason jar on a warm sunny afternoon while making these new bags.  It's a refreshing to have some pops of color in the shop again! :)

Happy Friday!

Love,
Jenny

Handbag Designer 101

Remember in 2010, when I was a finalist for the Independent Handbag Designer Awards?

Well, that gave me the opportunity to be included as one of the design inspirations for Emily Blumenthal's (founder of IHDA and HBD101) book, Handbag Designer 101. 

Yay!

This book pretty much has everything you need to know to start your own bag line.  I mean.  Pretty much.  Everything.

New Things for 2012

Images from Heidi Adnum (author of this book!)

Recognize a little something something on the back cover of this book?

I've contributed a little bit of photo-taking knowledge in this book by Heidi Adnum.

I'll be getting my copy sometime soon so I can share it with you! :)

Besides the cool book feature, I've got a handful of good news about the business to share for this year. In the meantime, please excuse my lack of posts, as I am a little short on time and brain capacity to blog while getting all these things sorted out at the same time!

Love,
Jenny