Christmas for Minted

I recently entered some designs in the Minted Holiday Design Challenge. Winners can win $$ and are voted by you! AND this year, they've got some pretty amazing judges for special awards: Jenna Lyons, the President and Executive Creative Director of J.Crew, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, CEO of Apartment Therapy, Kristin Von Ogtrop, the Editor-in-Chief of Real Simple magazineKelley Lilien of blog Mrs. Lilien. As an extra extra bonus, Jenna Lyons will be featuring and her favorite design in the November J. Crew catalog under "Jenna's Picks." That would be beyond surreal. But a girl can dream. Check out my collection for Minted here & vote if you like! :)

Orange and Pear: Camp Cirrus Trays

Orange and Pear always has such great gift ideas & I'm loving these new Swedish trays they have now.  Tis the season for outdoor entertaining, right?

Check out the full collection here.

Sunday Suppers in TradHome

How gorgeous is this shot?

Sunday Suppers was asked to be a guest blogger for the latest issue of TradHome. Shot by the amazing Karen Mordechai, styled by my talented friend Lizzy Sall and Karen, and cooked up by chef Cammille Beccerra. They always put together some pretty amazing dishes & this high tea spread does not disappoint. Well done, ladies!

See full article here.

[image courtesy of Sunday Suppers]

design*sponge NSS Coverage

Going into the National Stationery Show with your biggest wall featuring a product in a completely new medium (digitally printed watercolor) was a little scary. Are people going to like this as much as I do? Will they like/understand the big size? Is the focus on lettering & color variations too simple?

I felt better after Day One when the response was good, but seeing Grace's post on it this morning was the best gold star I could get. See her full post here, including her shout out to my business cards for best at the show. In a sea full of paper, to me, that's the best compliment you can get.

Thanks so much to Grace & Amy for coming by!

[images courtesy of design*sponge]

From the Desk Fridays: TeuxDeux

Do you guys know of TeuxDeux? It's the prettiest, simplest online to do list. While you know I love my notepads & will always be a paper note-taker, TeuxDeux is amazing for staying organized - especially when you sit in front of a computer a lot like I do.

One thing I'll be adding to my teux deux list for the weekend is to get a pedicure - one of my favorite post-NSS treats:)

Have a great weekend!

[TeuxDeux was created by swissmiss and Fictive Kin]

NSS: The End

Now that NSS is over, we all get to rest. Well, rest a little, then start fulfilling orders. We'll be in some great new shops, so stay tuned for those announcements as we get things shipped out. The notepads will be available online June 1. The 2012 Letterpress and Watercolor Calendars will go up in July.

 

[Some final pics of the Watercolor Calendar from our booth.]

NSS: The Booth

Just a few shots from the booth. We have reused the same stuff (foamcore boards, the material pinned to the boards, door-as-table, dining room chairs, bedroom rug) for the past four years and yet it still looked fresh this year. We had so many compliments on our set up & I can't take any credit. It was all my talented friend Lizzy. (Lucky RISD gets her for the next two years. Sniff, sniff.)

Today is the last day and is only three hours, which means no one comes, which means we get to buzz around visiting each others' booths. I hate the price tag of the show, the "awards" they call "awards," and I certainly never look forward to moving stuff in & out, but I really do love talking to and meeting with fellow stationers, designers, buyers and editors. Cut out the crap, and it's really pretty fun.