Afterglow...and afterglow photoshoot

I couldn't have imagined a better wedding day than Saturday; with all of my best friends and family present; gorgeous weather after a stressful weather report for the last week; and the most amazing wedding photographer and friend by my side through all the stress, smiles and tears.

And after a day of fun, we set out for a (very short) day of work yesterday for an afterglow shoot without the wedding nerves present. I had to laugh at this shot we planned for the invitation details: I've definitely never art directed a shoot so decked out before!

Is it too late to get a real wedding cake?!

I've been in the cupcake camp for my wedding dessert since the first day of planning, mostly because I'm usually that girl crowding around the table full of extra slices, and that's plain awkward at your own wedding. But today I found something that makes me want to turn back the hands of engagement-time and take a mulligan:

Miniature wedding cake replicas!!! 

Jessieraye, you may be the coolest designer around. My champagne glass is tipped to you.

Throw in a donut, and it pretty much sums me up.

Thank you, Mike, for my birthday goodies and for not only loving my quirks but finding birthday presents that support them.

I heart Steven Heller, who hearts miniatures too.

 

read the entire book on The Daily Heller

Saturday night, it hit me

I realized where my obsession with miniatures came from: The Incredible Shrinking Woman!

Miniature photo gallery, take 3 (literally this time)

Anyone who knows me knows my love of miniatures. And this time at the Furniture Market, I was able to combine my passion with a practical application: showcasing the details in our furniture for my ongoing photo gallery exhibit.

I'm including a few of my favorite shots and the brilliant write-up that Anna wrote for the exhibit. Since she knows my brain so well, she was able to bridge the gap between my (sometimes) wacky ideas and getting others to understand them as well.

P as in Perfect

The good, the great and the really expensive from NYC this weekend

The good:
-Art Nouveau typography on one of my old stomping ground streets. I suppose I was always too focused on Paper Presentation to ever look up.
-Apartment 48 and their innovative sign-hanging techniques. If only there was a little bird perched on that branch...

The great:
-Italian cookies (as always) and miniature black and whites!
-The BUST magazine craft fair that my friend and I stumbled into, and the best. company. name. ever.

The really expensive:
-$18 Baked Alaska at DBGB... ironically a similar hue as the $1.00 rainbow cookie from Brooklyn. Daniel Boulud, I'm onto your inspiration.

A great trip and amazingly warmer than the Southern weather that I returned home to.

My first 2010 Christmas decoration!

First, tiniest, sweetest...the perfect holiday trifecta.

Sssssssssssnap bracelet love

On a recent trip to a tourist shop in the Outer Banks, I fondly recalled my love of snap bracelets. What I'm curious about, though, is whether snap bracelets are back in fashion or whether the store's inventory is actually from the 1980s (along with the shark teeth, hermit crabs and tie-dyed visors I also saw).

He knows me, he really knows me!

My fiancé Mike went to Chicago for the weekend and came back with gifts that were SO me, that I can't help but smile.

Obviously, a man created this cake topper

Because (just a GUESS) I think my mom (and mom-to be) friends might disown me if I dared put this cake topper on a baby shower cake.

(if the photo isn't clear from this angle, she's standing on a scale)

Apartmenttherapy, take note

Most creative use of bathroom tile: Zada Jane's Corner Cafe (Charlotte, NC)

It looks like someone had too much to drink

Well this eliminates the whole "stork" possibility

Perhaps one of the creepier antique store finds (even for me). I'd love to pick Darwin's or Jesus' brain and see what they would say about this.

Pooh la la!

My miniature-loving brain went into overdrive this weekend thanks to Dana's amazing Winnie-the-Pooh collection. Seriously, how avant-garde is Grape Pooh!?

Beached whale alert!

Lemons most certainly become lemonade

Thanks to my new birdy lemon squeezer I got for my birthday. Thank you, Jen–you know my decorating scheme so well!

3 is a collection... $3 is a steal

I so wanted to introduce him to some long-lost brothers at home... but I withheld. 

For now.

Lobster Girl, 2.0

I've been cleaning off my 1st Gen iPhone in preparation for my long-awaited FedEx package of "Dreams Come True" and came across one of my many antique-shopping-regrets, this one in Brooklyn.

Sigh.