We Heart It 2014 Recap

Remember those two warm days we had this cold winter?  Luckily one of those days was during our “We Heart It” open house! It was an evening full of inspiration!  Our vision was to create a fun night for vendors, brides-to-be, and anyone who enjoys parties to have delicious food, drinks and experience something new to get a fresh idea for their own event.

We partnered with Diane, of The Vintage Type rentals, and were lucky enough to use her lovely rentals throughout the entire showroom.  Located in downtown St. Paul, it was the perfect place to provide inspiration. Thank you Diane! 

Chowgirls provided the delicious food that people couldn’t get enough of, especially the Arugula wrapped in Prosciutto and savory coconut curry macadamia nuts!

Kelly’s husband Matt was able to create the stunning pallet wall backdrop for the bar where our friend Marco of Bittercube poured amazing custom cocktails specially created for the evening. The floral garland was made by Jen and added the pop our bar needed!

Heidi from HLP photography spent the evening capturing all of the little details in her talented way.  

Menus and place cards on our harvest and sweetheart tables were created by Rock Paper Scissor and they completed our tablescape perfectly, thanks Kate!

   

Oh Dier’s handcrafted wooden signs & cake toppers could be seen throughout the space, and we were only able to showcase a handful of what they do!

The true showstopper was Acowsay Designs’ Slow Motion Video booth!  Something different than your traditional photo booth…this is a little more involved for the guests…and a lot of fun to be a part of.  Check out the finished product!

Thank You to all of the vendors who participated and made our evening shine and to all who came out experience it. We truly appreciate you coming!  We hope to do it again soon! 

Event Styling and Floral: Maven floral & event styling | Vintage Rentals: TheVintage Type rentals | Slow Motion Photo Booth: Acowsay designs |Photography: HLP Photography | Food: Chowgirls Killer Catering
Drink: Bittercube of Eat Street Social | Desserts: A Bakers Wife | Custom Signs: Oh Dier | Paper Goods: Paper Rock Scissor Invitation Studio

"dreamy" baby shower

A few weeks ago now one of my bestest of friends had her first baby.  She is the most beautiful, full- head-of-hair, gorgeous baby!! Getting to hold this little pumpkin I remembered I hadn't posted any pictures of the shower we had thrown for her mom a few months back.

There are so many cute baby showers ideas, sometimes it is hard to decide what to do, but I had seen these homemade clouds from a few different blogs and I really wanted to build the party around these!  So a dream/cloud theme was born.  My invitation queen Kate of Paper Rock Scissor did the adorable invitations that compliment everything so nicely! And thanks to Heidi of Heidi Lynn Photography for taking these pictures!

 the doily wrap and scallop edge on the address wrap helped introduce the clouds 

wild rice soup, bread & fresh salad was on the menu

of course we needed some actual clouds in the room.  thanks pinterest for all the how-to's!!

all the desserts had some "cloud" quality to them

etsy is so great for finding those finishing touches like these cloud straw decorations...

                       

aren't those baby cups the cutest!!!

my first go at royal icing on sugar cookies.  I definitely want to make these again!

overall these were some of my favorite flowers I have worked with...the peonies, cotton and astilbe all went so well with the clouds

we requested guests bring books instead of a card.  Everyone was a fan, especially the pretty mama who has a good start on baby's library now!

Can't wait to see baby Teegan grow up!!

winter styling

The other day I had the opportunity to do some holiday winter decorating over at the Paper Rock Scissor studio.  Kate wanted something she could keep up after the New Year so we steered clear (mostly) of the classic holiday colors. We both had seen some dipped pinecones on Camille Style's blog and loved them, so I did some mixed metallic pinecone garlands in the window.  I also made my first wreath...I think it looks awesome on the brick wall!  We added that little bit of color with some red felt ribbon along the front of the bookcase. It adds a festive accent that is easy to remove right after Christmas and the evergreens and pinecones can be left to enjoy for the next few weeks of winter. Here's a few pics I took of the space. Doesn't PRS have the cutest studio?!! 

Love this time of year!!