vintage ad browser

today i found this database of vintage ads via the herman miller blog. it is such a great website for wasting some serious time browsing old advertisements from the mid 1800's to today. it's handily sorted by category and decade... these are just a few of my very faves:

love the branding...c. wonder

I love the branding of C. Wonder, a luxury retail chain full of design details and surprises.

The use of bright colors and pattern and how everything from the graphics to the store look

are cohesive in their look.

  

inspiring work space

found here

trina turks new patterns

love these new pattern's by Trina Turk for Schumacher

WPA zoo posters

i came across this post on mental floss today and couldn't resist sharing these great posters done by the WPA of illinois and pennsylvania advertising local zoos during the great depression. i think the hippos are my favorite....

a most adorable teapot

By Barbara Barry for Wedgewood, available here

happy 2012

Charlton and I had a fun time ringing in the new year at the Campus Outreach New Year's Conference. We got to hear some amazing speakers such as John Piper, Matt Chandler and our very own Pastor Reeder. It was a wonderful way to start the New Year. Here are some fun pics from the New Year's party photo booth that my friend Stacy sat up at the conference to help promote the Briarwood Fellows.

And War Eagle! Auburn won the Chick-fil-a bowl!

camellias

These camellias grew in my friend Lauren's back yard, 

are they not gorgeous!

The Christmas Story

merry christmas

http://youtu.be/kWq60oyrHVQ

stephanie & mike on style me pretty

ok, clearly i was so excited about stephanie & mike's wedding being featured on style me pretty that i got lost in the excitement and completely forgot to tell you about it here! (actually.... if i'm truthful, it's just been an insanely busy week so i haven't had 2 minutes to sit down and do this.)

....but in any case, i'm telling you now! stephanie & mike's wedding which i did the flowers for back in july was featured on style me pretty last friday, and i was so happy to see all of the beautiful photographs by levi stolove up and featured! - see pics from levi below, and the complete link is here!

snippet and ink

I was so excited to have my work from Hannon's wedding featured on Snippet and Ink this week. Click here to check it out.

liz & sergio - city hall

yesterday i put together some flowers for liz & sergio who had a black friday city hall wedding. i've been talking with liz about flowers for their reception here in nyc in the spring, and we decided they needed some flowers for their civil ceremony this weekend too. it was fun to put together a little preview of the concepts we've been talking about for the reception. plus, some of my favorite flowers are starting to come back at the market so it was exciting to work with them again! I put together a bouquet and some boutonnieres/corsages, and had so much fun delivering them down to city hall. there's just something so romantic about getting married at city hall in new york, and liz & sergio both looked so fabulous! - i'm hoping to share some images from their photographer later, but for now here are some of the pics i took on my own...