Alesia Zorn Calligraphy

Love the love quotes!!

 
Every once in a while a bride will ask me to letter a bunch of quotes that she'll use around the reception as decor.  LOVE that idea! Chris & Greg, one of this year's superstar couples, askd me to do some quotes for their Tahoe wedding.  A million thank yous to Vernon Wiley of Wiley Photo for getting this gorgeous photo to an out-of-towner!

Getting literary!

I recently did a calligraphy piece for a birthday present. My client had a pen & ink drawing of Mark Twain's home in Hartford, CT. She found a quote about "home" in his autobiography and wanted me to do a calligraphy piece using that quote to accompany the drawing, preferrably in Mark Twain's handwriting style.

Mark needed a penmanship lesson or two! I'm sure he had such brilliant things to write he couldn't take the time to write neatly. Here's one of the samples I used to construct my version. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the finished piece and it should come up in a pop up window.

I did clean it up a little bit, but I tried to keep the general flair of his writing.  I have a long way to go as a forger!

Chalkboards

I'd like to share my Walgreens Photo Center photos with you. Once you have checked out my photos you can order prints and upload your own photos to share.

More chalkboard love!

I really love doing chalkboards for special events!  First, they're eco-friendly, v-e-r-y Oregon.  Second, it gives me yet another opportunity to play with color and design elements.  Third, it's a special, fun client who chooses chalkboards and who doesn't love to work with special, fun people?  There's some exciting news brewing on the chalkboard front, I'm so psyched!  Stay tuned!

This wedding had such wonderful elements - an Anthropologie theme, ambery yellow and purple for colors... so, so lovely!  It was coordinated by Soiree , the photography is by Altura Studio and I'm thrilled they shared them with me AND got the wedding featured this week on Style Me Pretty's Blog*.  You can see the gorgeousness here.  Big thanks to Theresa at Altura Studio for getting the photos to me lickety-split!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The top photo is one of the chalkboard styles that I own and rent out.  (The other chalkboard has a light wood stain frame.)  The bottom photo is of a beyond-fabulous sandwich board/chalkboard that you can rent from Soiree Boutique.  It's two sided, the other side had the couple's names and wedding date.  Please do rent it SOON and call me, I'm dying to work with it again!!

Postage Stamp Love

No, not a postage stamp that says "love" - this is about my love of postage stamps.  U.S.P.S. really has it goin' on right now, especially since they've increased the number of "forever stamps!"  Let's take a look at a few now!

 

A wedding cake really does, in a very subtle & elegant way, shout "wedding."   This is a lovely stamp for mailing the invitation, conveniently the post office also has the Wedding Roses stamp for RSVPs.  The two look so pretty together! 

 

 

 

 

For the more adventurous, there's the Garden of Love stamps and I adore these!  Yup, I've made this big, I want you to see the detail!  It's like a puzzle from "Highlights" magazine - "How many hearts do you see?"  I'm going to suggest bucking the etiquette rule that says "only one stamp per envelope" and say if you need more than 44cents, double up on these lovelies!

Just a few pieces of advice - don't assume the amount of postage you'll need to mail your invitations, check and double check how much postage is needed.  Don't forget that the postage is determined by more than the weight, if you have square envelopes or french flap envelopes (oooh, I sense another blog post in the making!) you'll need to add extra postage.

If you need a large number of the same type of stamps, order directly from www.shop.usps.com  The nominal shipping amount will be far less expensive than you spending time and gas running around town.  You have better, more bride-y things to do!

Now I'm going to look at postage on-line for a little while longer, really, just a little ;-)

Passport to Sellwood this weekend!

It's going to be a beautiful weekend - while you're out and about you definitely need to go to Sellwood's big bash on Saturday!  Make sure you stop by my Southeast home, Soiree Boutique, and check out all the great vendors represented!  The Boutique is at 7080 SE 16th Ave.  Hope to see you there!

 

Floral Seating Cards

Oh-so-pretty!  Earlier this year I did seating cards for one of Marilyn of Portland Wedding Planner's brides.   The cards came from The Wedding Cottage - as did the invitations which had the same cherry blossom floral element.  Such a pretty graphic element to tie everything together.  The names are in different colors to let the servers know what entree to serve each guest.  Big thanks to Artistique Photographie for the beautiful photos!

Outdoorsy much?

Geez Louise! Where did the time go since the last post?!?  LOTS of envelopes, place cards, table markers, signage - there's a small pile of items waiting to get on the blog.

Today, we're talking about slightly larger - and fuzzier - items.  Slices of log, complete with bark and moss and fabulous textures!  I was contacted by Jordan of Blum, Design in Flowers about writing on these pieces that she prepared with chalkboard paint.   They'll be placed next to their respective items at a garden wedding.  So cute, unexpected and fun!

 

 

Soiree Boutique - the good times never end!

Wednesday, May 18th another chance to have a great time at the Soiree Boutique in Sellwood!

 

Shake it up! Colors and lowercase!

One of my brides this year had great imagination, especially when it came time to letter her envelopes.

She chose an invitation suite that also included save-the-dates so her theme was consistent throughout.  Everything was very crisp & modern.

Since all of the lettering on the invitations was upper case, we decided to do all lower case for the envelope addressing, in brown to match the save-the-date ink.

 

 

 

(She ordered her things through The Wedding Cottage, so the samples here are addressed to Petrel, the owner of The Wedding Cottage.  The samples will be in the mail today and will take up permanent residency with Petrel.)

 

We saved the big wow for the invitations - purple, all lowercase script.  It was very fun to do, but hard to remember to keep everything lower case!