Handmade Wedding: The Toile

This is what happens when you need to make a toile and have blown your budget for the dress on italian silk and gorgeous trim. This bargain-bin green calico did the trick nicely, though. I actually quite like it.
I’m not always good about mocking up with a toile, but a wedding dress is [...]

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Handmade Wedding: Finishing the Invitations

So now that my invitations are designed and printed, it was time to assemble them and make reply cards.

1) Cutting: I bought a paper cutter to get absolutely straight edges. These things are cheap and a good investment. It saved me a lot of time cutting the edges off of each invitation, and [...]

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Handmade Wedding: Silkscreening the Invitations

My last post was about the process of designing my wedding invitations. In this post, I’ll talk about the execution.

As you can see, the invitations are designed sort of like a pamphlet. When unfolded, the darker teal vine borders are on one side of the paper, and text is printed on the other [...]

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Handmade Wedding: Designing the Invitations

I’m getting married in September, and these are the handmade, home-silkscreened invitations I recently sent out. I’m really happy with how they turned out, so I thought I’d talk a little bit about the process of making them.
1) Research: I started with research. I looked around the web for designs that caught my [...]

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The Fig Cafe

On our getaway, we stumbled on a place called The Fig Cafe in Glen Ellen. We had a wonderful brunch: “Fig Royales,” made of sparkling wine and fig syrup; spiced french toast with fig maple syrup and seasonal berries; and eggs florentine.

It was as delicious as it looks.

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Getting away

The days have been feeling long lately, in more ways than one. So late in the day on Friday, we decided to run off to Sonoma for the weekend.
After some cursory research on Trip Advisor, we found a vacancy at a bed and breakfast called the Melitta Station Inn in Santa Rosa. When [...]

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Flora Grubb

On Sunday, we rode our bikes to the new Flora Grubb Gardens location. What a gorgeous nursery. I was clutching my heart, pining for an actual house with an actual yard. Or at least a porch that gets a bit of sun. Anything.
San Francisco, why do you taunt me with your [...]

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Lacis

Last weekend, I stopped by Lacis in Berkeley to pick up a few things. Lacis is something of a dream store for me. Part of it is dedicated to their lace and textile museum, while the rest of the site offers all manner of tools and supplies for textile arts, as well as [...]

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