Seeing as today is the shortest day of the year, and many of us are vaguely irritated with the dreary winter weather, I thought it would be an appropriate day to share this real wedding which took place at the Inn at Spanish Bay, in Pebble Beach (don’t you wish you were there right now?)

Katie was such a sweetheart to work with – her infectious smile lit up our entire studio every time she came in for an appointment. We had such a great time working with her on a classic, tailored wedding invitation suite including invitation, rsvp card, and website card letterpressed in chocolate ink on thick, luxurious cotton paper.Her chocolate envelopes with offset return address printing complemented the suite perfectly!

Additionally, we worked with Katie on a reception package including programs, menus, place cards, and a large seating chart, each item featuring Katie and Dave’s monogram. Everything came together beautifully!

Katie and Dave’s wedding photographer was so gracious to provide us with these stunning images from the wedding itself – they are too beautiful not to share! Many thanks to Scott Campbell Photography in Monterey – visit his website here.

Whenever we prepare to travel I am reminded of some of my favorite items from Knock Knock – organizational brilliance and irreverent fun!

{ Available at knockknock.biz }

la cucina :: culinaria spain

Anyone who knows me well knows that I love cookbooks – I love reading them, looking through their gorgeous photography and/or illustrations, cooking from them, and I love admiring them on my bookshelf. There are so many gorgeous books out there simply dripping with inspiration – an hour or two in the cooking aisles at the bookstore and I come away wanting to pull out the sketchbook as well as my All Clad.

I Know How to Cook :: The Patisseries of Paris (cover design by the uber-talented Jessica Hische)

Complete Thomas Keller (The French Laundry Cookbook and Bouchon) :: Vefa’s Kitchen :: The Country Cooking of France

all images from barnesandnoble.com

We will be visiting my family next week in Sacramento and we look forward to enjoying some much needed R&R. I’ve been anticipating this trip for months and it’s almost here (yay!) While there, we plan to sneak away for some time in Napa at a few of our favorite wineries; a visit to Old Sacramento is a must (my favorite part of the city and also where Jonathan and I got married); and I’m hoping we can also get away to San Francisco for a day. I’ve been enjoying sfgirlbythebay’s coverage of playing a tourist in her own city for the SF Convention and Visitor’s Bureau website – her posts have me itching for a visit to the bay!

A must visit spot should we make it over there: The Curiosity Shoppe, where I’d love to pick up one of these 49 Mile Drive linoprints by Eric Rewitzer (above) – if we don’t happen to visit, at least I know I can order one of these from their online shop (my pick is the orange one!)

Even our furry friends deserve well designed products.

Doggie dishes by these creatures, found via Oh Joy!

The ridiculously low temperatures today in Seattle have me dreaming of warm, woolen cozyness. We will be heading to Chicago in three weeks, where it’s sure to be even chillier, so I’ve been doing a little online browsing for cozy coats and booties. Hmm…it may be prudent to stock up before we leave…

ski cap candle and sweater sleeve candle :: anthropologie
coat :: anthropologie
leg warmers :: urban outfitters

coat :: old navy (I posted this coat last year too but couldn’t resist posting again because it’s so darn cute! maybe I need to buy one while it’s on sale)
cable fingerless gloves :: forever 21
ice flower brooch :: banana republic
booties :: nordstrom

A friend of ours recently sent us a link to these Photoshop magnets from Think Geek with the message “you need these!”

I think she may be right, especially after the many weeks I’ve recently spent in Photoshop designing websites for various clients and working on the giant re-design of our own site (soon to come)! This would be a great gift for any of your design geek friends out there.

This is pretty clever.

Serif tote bag, available here.

Last week Whitney posted about our wish to attend the Renegade Craft Fair this weekend, December 5-6 in Chicago. She mentioned a few artists we admire and ended her post with a teaser that I would post a few can’t-miss artists as well. I know you have been waiting with baited breath (haven’t you?), so without further adieu, here are few I would enjoy checking out in person:

First up a perennial favorite of ours: Ork Posters

We love their typographical renditions of city maps, including the Chicago poster which happens to grace the entrance of our home.

We also love their new Brain poster. This, along with the heart poster, would be great for our studio as these are two things that are used to create each of our designs.

Next up: Tugboat Printshop

I love these Deep Blue Sea woodcuts. The illustrations are great and the colors used are beautiful.

And finally: Delicious Design League

We’ve been fans of Delicious Design League since we saw them last year at Renegade. They design and screen print all of their posters and create stellar design and illustration work as well.

Two great Fleet Foxes posters (a favorite of ours!). I love the use of white in the second one.

I had to show this one as it displays two of our favorite things; David Bowie & Flight of the Conchords. Gotta love it.

These are a just few of my picks – there will be so many great artists at Renegade this year so it was hard to pick. It’s definitely a great show – if you’re in Chicago, GO!

(all images from papermojo.com) from top to bottom: asian lattice print, peacock damask print, lustre print, rossi manuscript print, spirograph print, midas touch lotka print

When in need of a little inspiration, one of my favorite things to do is to swing over to one of our local stationery boutiques to browse large sheets of patterned paper. It’s no secret that Jonathan and I are serious paperphiles, and the danger of seeking inspiration at said local stationery boutiques is that I typically come home with far more than I actually need.

Online paper browsing is far less dangerous for me. Papermojo.com is one of the best online sources for fine papers from a variety of sources, and it never fails to inspire. The patterns shown above are some of my current favorites (and the gold/neutral color palette is exactly what I’ve been loving as of late).