We can’t think of any better cure for a case of the Mondays than plates of gorgeous cookies – can you? Our lovely Kelly has been baking up a storm lately and treating us to heaps of delectable goodies. So sweet on mismatched vintage china, we can just imagine these pretty cookies as part of a wedding dessert bar!
Chocolate Chip with Toasted Almonds and buttery Shortbreads with Macadamia Nuts… and oh yes… dipped in more chocolate! Yum, pass the milk please!
Love the work by Danish company, luckyboysunday, found on Bliss.
Dig these fine young gents and their plush accoutrements:
Inspiration for a new line of baby boy birth announcements? Perhaps… maybe… but we sure adore the décor.
Every serious circus needs a ring of fire, obviously – here’s how to make your very own. Tiny tiger not included!
If you missed last week’s exciting edition, we’d like to announce a new weekly feature: Lucky Fridays! Each Friday, we’ll feature one of our letterpress cards. Then we’ll choose THREE LUCKY WINNERS to get a free card. Post a comment by 12 p.m. PST the following Thursday, and we’ll announce the winners on the following Friday!
The three winners from last week are (drum roll, please):
Heather will contact you shortly to arrange sending your Esther Aarts Oompah Band Card!
This week’s feature:
Design: Stinky Skunk
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: Pepé Le Pew, but of course, mon amour, with a whiff of swinging sixties baroque
Send it to: Who knows? The Shadow knows!
Our favorite detail: The concentric smoke rings of skunk funk, and the innocent expression on the striped perpetrator.
Ideas we scrapped for this one: We rejected a couple of Skunk drafts that were a little too ripe.
Why letterpress? A tactile letterpress card can make even the coldest heart a little scent-imental.
Remember to post your comment and check next Friday to see if you’ve won!
We stumbled across these sweet personalized handkerchiefs from Heather Strickland – she recommends giving them as bridesmaids gifts, but we like the idea of writing a sweet note to your groom that gets delivered on your wedding day. So romantic!
Easy to make and lots of visual impact and classic birthday fun – that’s what we were going for when we whipped up our cookies & cupcakes for Jude’s birthday…
Nothing says circus like animal cookies! These were super easy to make and so fun to decorate…We used the sugar cookie recipe from the classic Joy of Cooking – delicious, crispy and buttery! We made royal icing which is the simplest thing to make and frosted them with small paint brushes (more tips for decorating here). Animal cookie cutters found here and here and here.
The cupcakes were baked in the cutest red & white striped cups with chocolate frosting and rainbow sprinkles topped with ribbon flags for a festive circus-y look. We found the striped cupcake liners at Sweet Baking Supply and made the little flags out of grosgrain ribbon and wooden dowels (we found ours at Flax but you can find them at most art/craft supply stores) cut down to varied lengths (find the how-to in our new book, Handmade Weddings!)
Good Morning! Wow! We needed a pick-me-up with our coffee and these VIVID pieces did the trick. Aren’t they gorgeous!? Found on Design Milk— their creators are a Swedish group called Design By Leftovers. The above piece is called San Francisco Leftovers. Yes, Ma’am!
We’ll take two, please. They’re small.
Sometimes one just needs a triple shot of color to get going in the morning, no?
We love these two images of brides in our fair city! Isn’t San Francisco a beautiful wedding backdrop?
Top image by Matt Miller of Our Labor of Love, bottom image from Esla Events.
Via Snippet and Ink.
Saturday was Jude’s first birthday party, and what a fun little fête it was!
We served fresh popcorn in vintage style popcorn boxes, sugar cookies frosted with royal icing (so fun to paint!) and delicious cupcakes with chocolate frosting with little flags made from ribbon and satay sticks – classic birthday treats!
The cake was a yellow cake with buttercream frosting, with a cute little banner (it’s been a hot trend this year, and I couldn’t help myself – so perfect for the circus theme!) And how perfect were these napkins? I found them (as well as stripey straws, paper fringe and more) at a super adorable little shop called Shop Sweet Lulu!
We provided clown noses, for those who didn’t happen to have any appropriate circus attire on hand…
…or who just happen to look ridiculously cute in one…
We made these charming birthday hats out of pom poms, ruffly paper trim, stickers and poster board – so fun!
One of Jude’s birthday presents was this amazing Schylling baby piano that Sabrina picked up at the super marvelous shop Paxton Gate’s Curiosities for Kids which was a big hit at the party – she brought over hers too so we could have dueling pianos…
Our friends Jillian and Toast of Because We Can, came in hilarious cowboy attire…(props to Jillian for staying up ’til the wee hours the night before decorating cookies!)
We thought y’all might be interested in seeing all the great ways we’ve riffed our Heartland/Apple Farm design. So many people have adapted it to their own farm setting— so we thought it would be nice to share! Above is our original Apple Farm design on the left and a super cute version that Melanie Case commissioned on the right. Love the apple and orange on the same branch, brilliant!
How sweet— a Michigan Cherry orchard and a ceremony in Sun Valley Idaho! Love the horseshoes and the cowboy chic.
Then Eunice did a great riff on the Sun Valley Idaho version for Shannon and Jason and their Texas ranch wedding. It’s fun to see the two versions of the trees— we got it right on the bottom RSVP with the more deciduous looking variety. Check out the adorable Super 8 film of their wedding here.
Another great aspect about Heartland is that we can often substitute motifs from our other designs with great results! The motif from our Vintage Rose design was perfect for the garden wedding on the left, and our Mi Amor birds went wonderfully with the Mexican flags on the right!
Such a perfect design for a Napa wedding!
Let us know if you’d love any of these designs for your wedding by contacting info@hellolucky.com. Take a screen shot and send it along via e-mail, or give us a call to ask about the process of using one of these fabulous rustic wedding invitation designs.
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