I don't know where Tony finds this stuff, but sending me links to shit like this from the other room works in its attempt to make me laugh.Thanks darling. You're awesome.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Monday can't be all that bad
I don't know where Tony finds this stuff, but sending me links to shit like this from the other room works in its attempt to make me laugh.Thanks darling. You're awesome.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Indie Wed, part deux
There were just too many kids too cool for school at Indie Wed to tell the world about in one blog post, so as promised, here is a part two recap on the fabulous show in Ravenswood that happened last weekend...
Logan Square Kitchen! I've heard so much about this venue and was really excited when Zina came up to our table and introduced herself and then immediately told me about the Pastry Market party they are hosting on February 13th. It was too good to be true... meeting another green vendor AND the promise of chocolate and pastries, seriously? My head almost exploded.
So in summary, the LSK is an awesome green venue that you can rent out for your event using their kitchen and suggested sustainable catering, or bring in your own. As Zina puts it so elegantly on their site: We’ve worked hard to create a space that honors our past, celebrates our present, and stewards our future.
City Provisions... speaking of sustainable catering...
It was great meeting the folks with City Provisions at the show and officially having a "green" caterer that I can recommend to my lovely brides with a green heart. The telling thing was when I was visiting their table they were CLEANED out of food samples! Tony said he helped and it was delicious. Check out their website and fall in love with their approach and message like I did.
Love, Lulu Mae... this is a vintage accessory lovers dream. Head pieces that are custom and divine. Go ahead and feel girly when you peruse their site (I know I did... as well as felt a little sad at the fact that I didn't know about them 5 years ago when we got married... sigh).
Windy Weather Bindery...
So my friend Aileen will say to me smartly when I start to get cocky about projects I want to do, "how's my bridesmaid book coming along Manda?". It shuts me up pretty much instantly. A book maker apparently I am not (although as Aileen reminds me, I had illusions of such 5 years ago when I proclaimed that I was going to MAKE a book for each of my 6 bridesmaids). Had I known about Windy Weather Bindery and her gorgeous books, perhaps I would have swallowed my paper-lovin pride and paid HER to do them. Love her work...
And lastly... I am a sucker for hand made anything, so enter Hank and Tillie, hand embroidered heirlooms. Have you ever tried to make a French knot? It's hard. Ask my sister Mary, she used to bitch and moan to my mother that she couldn't do it when she was trying to make ladies out of us and we tried embroidering stuff. But these pillows are beautiful, and would make a lovely addition to any wedding with a vintage and carefully crafted flair.
And yet still... there are more to mention. Please visit the complete list of vendors from Indie Wed here. Cheers!
Logan Square Kitchen! I've heard so much about this venue and was really excited when Zina came up to our table and introduced herself and then immediately told me about the Pastry Market party they are hosting on February 13th. It was too good to be true... meeting another green vendor AND the promise of chocolate and pastries, seriously? My head almost exploded.
So in summary, the LSK is an awesome green venue that you can rent out for your event using their kitchen and suggested sustainable catering, or bring in your own. As Zina puts it so elegantly on their site: We’ve worked hard to create a space that honors our past, celebrates our present, and stewards our future.
City Provisions... speaking of sustainable catering...It was great meeting the folks with City Provisions at the show and officially having a "green" caterer that I can recommend to my lovely brides with a green heart. The telling thing was when I was visiting their table they were CLEANED out of food samples! Tony said he helped and it was delicious. Check out their website and fall in love with their approach and message like I did.
Love, Lulu Mae... this is a vintage accessory lovers dream. Head pieces that are custom and divine. Go ahead and feel girly when you peruse their site (I know I did... as well as felt a little sad at the fact that I didn't know about them 5 years ago when we got married... sigh).
Windy Weather Bindery...So my friend Aileen will say to me smartly when I start to get cocky about projects I want to do, "how's my bridesmaid book coming along Manda?". It shuts me up pretty much instantly. A book maker apparently I am not (although as Aileen reminds me, I had illusions of such 5 years ago when I proclaimed that I was going to MAKE a book for each of my 6 bridesmaids). Had I known about Windy Weather Bindery and her gorgeous books, perhaps I would have swallowed my paper-lovin pride and paid HER to do them. Love her work...
And lastly... I am a sucker for hand made anything, so enter Hank and Tillie, hand embroidered heirlooms. Have you ever tried to make a French knot? It's hard. Ask my sister Mary, she used to bitch and moan to my mother that she couldn't do it when she was trying to make ladies out of us and we tried embroidering stuff. But these pillows are beautiful, and would make a lovely addition to any wedding with a vintage and carefully crafted flair.And yet still... there are more to mention. Please visit the complete list of vendors from Indie Wed here. Cheers!
Monday, February 1, 2010
Indie Wed Lovin.
Boy oh boy, we were feeling the Indie Wed love this weekend. 
We laughed, we cried, we ate some sample organic food... it was a fantastic event that we are so excited to have been apart of with our gracious friends at Green Paper Company! It was a beautiful demonstration for us... This is Green Paper Company, they make gorgeous post-consumer waste recycled papers, and hi, we're Spilled Ink Press, we USE their papers to make your lovely invitations! I love balance, symmetry, it's the architect in me.
Tony was pretty excited too because he was able to come out from behind the curtain and not... well, scare anyone. These brides were hip, their fiance's were cool... a big hairy dude chattin them up about their invitations didn't ruffle any retro hair piece feathers in this crowd!
So a quick recap on some of our faves...
First of course the Magnolia Photo booth folks (see our fun pics above!). Who can't resist a funny hat and an anonymous camera... I'm ready for my close up Mr. De Mille.
Lynn from Pollen was great to meet! An organic florist, perfect!
Jennifer from Foodie Registry was super cool, and what a great idea! Register with restaurants and save the oxo spatula and matching tupperware for your mom on Mother's Day!
I love seeing Something Beautiful at shows, Marcie makes fantastic soy candles in vintage tea cups (plus she and her husband come from the land of Architecture as well, we have a lot in common!).
There were just too many vendors to list here... in fact, let's be efficient about this and circle back to all the fabulous people we met in blog posts to come.
Next time, on Spilled Ink Press blog..... Logan Square Kitchen, City Provisions Catering, and much much more!
Friday, January 29, 2010
New Salesman
It's time the third employee of Spilled Ink Press started contributing a little more. Maybe our cat Sheridan should be our new salesman. If this cat can do it, then she can too.Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Do NOT try this at home...
2 things to know for this story to make sense:
1. I've been told that it's super easy to make cake with a simple can of pop. For some magical reason, it's supposed to work- just pop and the mix. Chemistry, magic, voodoo, whatever it is, it works. See, I'm not making this up, it's on the internet and everything.
2. We're in the process of revamping our Daily Grind line of greeting cards. We've got a card that makes a joke comparing cupcakes for your class to shots at a bar (it's a birthday card, it's very funny, just trust me on this one). You may or may not realize, but we take our own photographs that appear on our cards. It's just another reason why we're 'special' (read "poor"). Fair warning, you may end up on one of our cards (yes, those are mine).
So enter tonights unfolding events...
Recipe for disaster:
1 cake mix
1 can of Dr. Pepper
1/2 bag of mini marshmallows
1 over confident, slightly stressed out, self employed invitation designer
Mix ingredients... then go ahead and mix some more, it's just a carbonated beverage and some cake mix, what can be the harm in that, right?
Bake for 19 minutes. Pause the DVR and rush to the kitchen when you smell something similar to burning chocolate and an overshook Dr. Pepper.
And THIS is what it will look like:
click on this second image for a pretty accurate representation of what it was like pulling these out of the oven:
The weird thing is when you try to pull it out of the cup cake tray, it kind of deflates on itself, like an exhausted little guy that just couldn't find the will to live. >pooooof<
I should have known better when I walked into the pantry and realized I only had 4 cupcake cups, that was a sign to just walk away... just walk away.
Tony has already added to his to-do list for tomorrow "go to Jewel and get cupcakes".
1. I've been told that it's super easy to make cake with a simple can of pop. For some magical reason, it's supposed to work- just pop and the mix. Chemistry, magic, voodoo, whatever it is, it works. See, I'm not making this up, it's on the internet and everything.
2. We're in the process of revamping our Daily Grind line of greeting cards. We've got a card that makes a joke comparing cupcakes for your class to shots at a bar (it's a birthday card, it's very funny, just trust me on this one). You may or may not realize, but we take our own photographs that appear on our cards. It's just another reason why we're 'special' (read "poor"). Fair warning, you may end up on one of our cards (yes, those are mine).
So enter tonights unfolding events...
Recipe for disaster:
1 cake mix
1 can of Dr. Pepper
1/2 bag of mini marshmallows
1 over confident, slightly stressed out, self employed invitation designer
Mix ingredients... then go ahead and mix some more, it's just a carbonated beverage and some cake mix, what can be the harm in that, right?
Bake for 19 minutes. Pause the DVR and rush to the kitchen when you smell something similar to burning chocolate and an overshook Dr. Pepper.
And THIS is what it will look like:
click on this second image for a pretty accurate representation of what it was like pulling these out of the oven:
The weird thing is when you try to pull it out of the cup cake tray, it kind of deflates on itself, like an exhausted little guy that just couldn't find the will to live. >pooooof<
I should have known better when I walked into the pantry and realized I only had 4 cupcake cups, that was a sign to just walk away... just walk away.
Tony has already added to his to-do list for tomorrow "go to Jewel and get cupcakes".
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Indie Wed
Ok all you groovy brides and bridegrooms... come on up to Ravenswood on the 30th and check out IndieWed! I have a pretty good feeling this aint gonna be yo mamma's wedding show!
Of course you will see our smiling faces with our friends from Green Paper Company. They are our friends for obvious reasons- a) they are awesome for inviting us to share their booth 2) we love their paper, and well, iii) they are kind of championing the way for environmentally friendly papers that are not just the speckled grayish brownish "look at me, I'm recycled" paper stock (although, not that there's anything wrong with that!). We heart post-consumer waste.
AND quite possibly what I'm looking forward to the most is being in the coolest building on Ravenswood Avenue. I have to admit, I am a sucker for those warehouse buildings on Ravenswood. In my past life of taking the train into downtown for my 9 to 5 job everyday, one of my favorite turns on the brownline trek south was passing by that really awesome building with the large glass full height atrium rising above the other warehouses (that is, if I was still awake at this point). This, ladies and gentlemen, is where we will be, at the Ravenswood Event Center. At the time, I didn't know what it was, just that it was an architectural gem. In a way, it's kind of a poetic gesture, a pat on the back.... yes Amanda, quiting your job as an architect to design wedding invitations has many MANY perks- and here's one of them, ata' girl.
See you there Saturday!
Of course you will see our smiling faces with our friends from Green Paper Company. They are our friends for obvious reasons- a) they are awesome for inviting us to share their booth 2) we love their paper, and well, iii) they are kind of championing the way for environmentally friendly papers that are not just the speckled grayish brownish "look at me, I'm recycled" paper stock (although, not that there's anything wrong with that!). We heart post-consumer waste.
AND quite possibly what I'm looking forward to the most is being in the coolest building on Ravenswood Avenue. I have to admit, I am a sucker for those warehouse buildings on Ravenswood. In my past life of taking the train into downtown for my 9 to 5 job everyday, one of my favorite turns on the brownline trek south was passing by that really awesome building with the large glass full height atrium rising above the other warehouses (that is, if I was still awake at this point). This, ladies and gentlemen, is where we will be, at the Ravenswood Event Center. At the time, I didn't know what it was, just that it was an architectural gem. In a way, it's kind of a poetic gesture, a pat on the back.... yes Amanda, quiting your job as an architect to design wedding invitations has many MANY perks- and here's one of them, ata' girl.
See you there Saturday!
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