Stonington, Conneticut Wedding!

When the GROOM emailed me about his wedding weekend map 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 their map created. I whipped up their map in no time for their guests hotel welcome bags. This map includes many more locations including the wedding site, hotels and homes than I usually do but we worked it out!

Chicago Marriage & Musical Celebration Wedding!

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!! This map features the wedding site, reception and a couple hotels downtown where their friends and family will be staying.

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!