New Maps!

I've been busy with some new custom wedding maps over the past couple weeks! Enjoy browsing and let me know what you like!

BJ and Liz are dear friends of Jeremy and mine so their map didn't need much direction from the bride and groom. They would rather have a concert at Schuba's (with Eddie Vedder) than a traditional wedding, so that's what they'll do! (minus Eddie, although I would bet BJ did try!) Liz is also pregnant so she had little time to get the invites out! So we got this finished within a week and get them into her invitations just in the knick of time for the invites to be mailed! Looking forward to this one!!

When the GROOM emailed me about this project I was a little surprised to not be working with the bride. But working with Matt was very easy and the map was done in no time with his great help and direction. Matt & Rebecca emailed me just weeks before their wedding to have a map made. I whipped up their map in no time for their guests hotel welcome bags.

This bride is my friend and is very laid back, so this golf club wedding map was easy and fun to create. Kelly and Mike added their map from their invitation to their hotel guests welcome bags.

Kelly and Mike's beautiful wedding at Medinah

A few weeks back a couple that my husband and I have known for many years wed. It was so great to see them get married and be apart of their beautiful ceremony and wonderful reception at Medinah (as well as be apart of the invitation/map and print job process) I loved it! Take a look at the wedding of the century below :) Congratulations Kelly and Mike!

Everyone enjoyed the candy station!



The cake matched the logo I created! Super cute.


I created dinner menus for the place settings.


The programs!



The maps were in the invitations and the welcome bags at the hotel!



Kelly and I with our work-workout buddies!

4 months of mommyhood

After four months of being a first time mom all I can say is...WOW.
I had no idea. Delivery sucked. Recovery sucked. But meeting my little Olivia for the first time was the most amazing thing I've ever gone through. The first 4 months can be summed up as awesome, tiring, stressful, but most of all amazing, did I say that already? Olivia was born on December 28, 2010 at 7.45 PM. She was a little peanut at 6lbs 9oz with some huge feet. She's now big healthy girl at the 75 percentile. She loves to eat,which I am thankful for (after seeing a few of her friends not want to eat...frustrating!) play and be with mom and dad (and new nanny). She's awesome, changes every day and is SO much more fun now that we figured out her stomach issues. We discovered her milk and soy allergy around 12 weeks....that was quite the challenge to overcome! She was very cranky for a while but now that milk and soy are out of my diet she is a very different baby! It's amazing what we went through for 3 months. I wish we would have known sooner. I'm thankful we even figured it out, i'm convinced most people don't.

This post was supposed to be about all the clothes I was to make her while on Maternity leave. Right. That never happened. In fact, nothing happened while on M leave. I fed her and slept, that was the extent I was able to do. If she wasn't eating or sleeping she was crying. (thank god for happiest baby on the block) Poor little bug. I felt terrible I didn't figure out the allergy sooner. Anyway! I'm going to try my hand at sewing sooner than later and I'll post those clothes soon!

Turns out daddy is a writer. He started a great blog for us as well!
http://livefromwrigleyville.com/

Here she is!




Olivia with her CW Designs owl on! Happy girl in her Combi. She slept in that for MONTHS. Nothing could beat the vibration station.




Olivia with her cousin Maddie for the first time in Dallas.
This is still her cranky phase...can you tell by the look on her face?!



Loves bathtime!



Olivia on her first day with her (2nd) nanny! She loves her!

Our Baby Girls Nursery!



Jeremy, Lulu and I finally got around to getting our little ones nursery started Halloween weekend. I was so exhausted from the day before on our little Halloween excursion to Andersonville we decided to start the nursery on Halloween instead of going to our parade, which is outside our door...I was THAT tired. With the crazy parade going on outside those two windows we got it all ready with our little helpe, Lulu. It's been so much fun getting everything ready and this room is going great and we are so excited that in 6 weeks already we will have her here with us! We live in a one bedroom condo right now, so the baby's nursery is going to be in the dining room. I've been a little embarrassed about this, but what the hell, we, like most people, can't sell our condo so what are we supposed to do?! She'll be in our room with us for a little while but then it's off to the dining room she goes!

The owl designs I did a few months ago when we found out we were having a girl are on her burp cloths (on changing table) and her hamper. They are also on some of her onesies! They turned out great! We are not painting the room again so this green will have to stay for now. I would love for it to be gray to calm the room down a bit but I'll do gray curtains to help that along. We still have a few more finishing touches to do but can't seem to find the time to get around to it when I'm so tired on the weekends! Curtains, mattress and a partition are on the to do list.

The yellow dresser is my mothers old dresser we had refinished by Crystal at Chic Antique Chicago. She did a GREAT job, I love it!







Baby Sully is smiling already!
My baby is getting big at 34 weeks. She's now around 4.5 lbs and about 18 inches long already! We are so amazed that she's due already in 6 weeks on New Years Eve, we are SO very excited to meet her! I will also post her newest 3D ultra sound picture from 3 weeks ago at 31 weeks!
The top of her head looks a little crazy but it's only because she's really low in my tummy. Can't really get an ultrasound that low, but we were told many times how lucky we were to get these (and 45 other) amazing photos of her so late in the game when she's already so low.