Style Circle: Cafe au Lait + Cocoa

Isn't the bride just the cutest? And that cupcake -- divine!

Credits here

Folksy love

Maybe I'm slow here, but through Tea for Joy, I hopped over to The Copper Swallow, which led me to the general area of folksy.com -- looks like an UK etsy?  Cute cute cute!

all at folksy.com

Northfield Primitives, Asking for Trouble, Champignons, Konnie Kapow!

Sarah Carr, teasemade, The Botanical Concept, Chain of Daisies

Adrianne Illustration, Amanda Sainsbury, Kitschy Coo, Lost at Sea

The Copper Swallow

Etsy love

So many resolutions/goals this year.  But I like to think of them as achievable, not just a fantasy to-do list.

On that list of Achievable Things is to splurge less, and to focus on Necessities.  Like perhaps replacing the paper/disposable blinds that have been our upstairs window coverings for the past nearly-two years.

But, that still means that Window/Virtual Shopping is still available to me :)  And these delights are well-worth my time, even if I can't quite plunk down the $ to back it up.

yumminess, at Belle Clair Boutique

beautifully fun rubber stamps (and more!) at
The Paper Princess (also on etsy here)
(hee, I got one for Christmas, I love it!!)

justmejewelry

artLAB

(sigh)

Totally one of those days. So, immediate cheer from blogs:

• Gorgeous lavendar chair at Neiman Marcus, via The Finer Things

• Cupcake stationary, by Dingbat Press, featured by Cupcakes Take the Cake
  

• This beautiful combo of a bouquet AND a cupcake, on Martha Stewart via Cupcakes Take the Cake
  
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• This recipe (and the extolling of its virtues) from The City Sage
  

Shhh ....

I heart Papyrus. And they're having a $1 card stock-up sale. Craziness to get excited. But look at these cuties:

(nuns water-skiing) (Duh, I love cupcakes!) (Copper journal) (Silver Tie Journal)

But also, best time ever:

Aaron Brothers' penny sale!! Seriously. I know I'm on their mailing/email list, and I *never* hear of this sale. And I try to re-sign up at their website for mailings, and they tell me that I'm already on their list so I can't re-sign up. They don't tell me cuz they know I'll buy everything in the store...

On a lighter note...

Aren't these adorable? All by evince design -- one of the girls I worked with one summer sent me a link to Erin's shop when she first opened it, and I was instantly enamored with all the cute notecards! Since then she's expanded, and I just got an email today with these adorable invites. And I'm still in love with those cute notecards...

Etsy front page treasures

Ahh etsy, you always cheer me up.

{QuercusSilver} {thejewelrybar } {BeauAndStella } {yaelfran } {karlita} {friedasophie }

Paper yummies

(via PaperCakes)

Doesn't that just look delightful? Not so much "visual feast," since surely a lone cupcake couldn't be that, but it's so .... girly, i guess, it's *most* definitely a delight. Sometimes i wish i could trace how i hope through the virtual world, because i have no idea how i got to PaperCakes on my lunch break (though PaperCakes apparently used to be Chelstastic, that's *awesome*) -- but I can't wait to cruise through her etsy store!

Invitation

Ahh, Printable Press.

This is it. I love the wording. And the colors. Although i super heart the colors below. But jeez, the wording. Even though I know I could use the words on another invite, still.

Okay, and other wording via paperpress:

• Together with their families, ____ and ___ request the pleasure of your presence at their wedding .
• Please join us to share our joy and support our love as we exchange vows and are united in the commitment of marriage. ___ and ____
  
• It is with joy that we invite you to celebrate the marriage of ___ and ___.
  

And darn, but these are cute too:
[Elegantly framed]
[Classic Curls]
[Gothic Forest]
And, um, just about everything here.

Invitations!

Okay, really, no more than half an hour more. But somehow I got into invitations. At Target. I know. But i tried searching Etsy earlier, and i super heart letterpress, but again, budget + not wanting to go crazy-go-nuts on this convalidation ceremony/i hope i'm not harboring bitterness towards my family for jumping on board 4 years later (i should be happy!) --

invitations. simple. inexpensive. awesome.

target's
here
here

and here

Ooooh -- I popped over to marthastewartcrafts, thinking there'd be some fab invites (not so much, for me) -- but i love this idea!

my mom used to take my sister & me to a paper store (stationarie?) and let us make our own "personalized" stationary by running copies on papers we'd get to pick (man, that's pretty cool for a mom, huh?). Anyway -- colored stationaries are *so* cheap (compared to invite sets, right?), though perhaps cutting each one + folding, not so much... but still, just an idea. especially with these seals!


and with colored seals, colored envelopes seem silly, and white 4x6" envelopes are *so* cheap! Or whatever the slightly-larger craft-sized envelopes are...

via the knot via the girl next door

Etsy Stop #56 of the day

If I was as devoted to work as I am to popping in on etsy... well, I would be a superstar.
(via Etsy's handmade blog, authored entry by Amanda Gersh/crabmommy)

sweetbeets precious letterpress tag!

sweetpoppy cupcake toppers!

HeyYoYo's *awesome* tulip cupcake papers!!

whitneysmith cake stand . . . Ooh, and lots of other pretty whitneysmith pottery! (cake stand, cake stand, plate, plate)

i'm such a sucker for the front page

Who doesn't like pretty papers?
fieldandsea, @ $27

I have been all over knit-woven rings, I have no idea why, I know I can't pull them off...
neawear, @ $35


Um, the wall deal is cool, but man, that couch is what I really want...
Expressingyou (for wall decal)

Huh. I almost like this as an art print in itself, than the set of four art postcards...
michellebrusegaard, $5

Ooh, and this too :) $6!




And okay, this is mean, but seriously: fail. I won't name who it is, but ummm, no.
It's a ring. For your finger. Uh-uh. It might be a cute hair thing (I just learned the word fascinator, see below, and I'm not sure if that's what this would be called since I don't *exactly* know what a fascinator is, still, but this looks like one to me. Not something to wear on your finger.)

Inspiration from etsy goods

my first card using carabelladesigns! Okay, so it doesn't really count b/c I just mailed it to my best friend, but still. Go me!


Emilygrayjewels, $45

Dewberryvintage, $52 (and too tiny :( )