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Mom’s day // Photo book & discoveries

May 15th, 2012

This year, I designed a photo book to give my mom for Mother’s Day. I’ve already made her too many pillows & got her too many flowers…the occasion begged for something more permanent. I slowly gathered all of the digital photos I had of her and I, family, and later took some photos of flowers during Easter. Check out little me with skinned knees holding my pet rabbit…I swear she wasn’t that big when I was younger.

After going through the photo archives on my computer, I still needed some more good images. I sneakily dug through the old photo albums in our house, finding a lot of gems. The picture on the cover was one of the gems–my dad, mom, and I on our old swingset.

One of the more recent photos– around 3 years ago?

Here’s another photo album gem I found–I didn’t include this in the book but I had to scan it! One of my parents took this years ago, maybe before I was born–I need to ask them about it. Not sure what happened to the film, but I’m diggin’ this happy accident. The light leaks in the photo are gorgeous, as well as the composition. It’s of Montauk point here in Long Island.

Sunday was spent with the fam of course…shopping around for a new outdoor furniture set, eating italian food, and playing with a puppy we’re currently taking care of. I am now definitely on a mission to take more pictures of my family! Have you made any photo books?

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Closer & closer

May 7th, 2012

Yesterday was spent at a local coffee shop (well not totally local, because I spent the weekend in New Haven, CT..) organizing my laptop files & working on some art. In a previous post I talked about working on an illustration print and posted a little screenshot. I finished up the design yesterday–here’s the result!

I’m super excited about finishing the first print that will be featured in my new shop sometime this year. On Friday I started adding fill color to the design in Illustrator, and it all came together at the coffee shop. Thank you change of scenery for the kick of inspiration. Also, a big shout out to my recently new Macbook that allows me to get more work done!

I was totally giggling over the mug that I received my chai latte in…How great is that?! After spending some time relaxing and enjoying our drinks the boyfriend & I headed downtown. I had an urge to just look at the apartment stuff at Urban Outfitters, but we actually ended up with a few things. I got a Scooby Doo drinking glass & a lovely photo album that was only 5 dollars. The boy got a discounted canvas print. After the unexpected shopping venture we went out for Indian food–It was an awesome day.

How was your weekend?

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making the ‘ugly shirt’ work // what I wore

April 29th, 2012

So I have this vintage shirt that I bought, that I deemed ‘the ugly shirt’ because I couldn’t seem to make it work with anything. While watching the new show Girls on HBO, an outfit Lena Dunham’s character was wearing made me think about my shirt! I won’t talk about my thoughts on the show here, although i’m really on the fence about it until the series grows more. Anyway, I wondered why I haven’t tried wearing my shirt with a pencil skirt and a chunky belt, like her outfit below. I’m not sure why that thought didn’t occur to me before.

Vintage plaid shirt- thrifted
Belt- Forever21
Skirt- Ebay, forever21
Blue tights- ?

Well, I didn’t make this outfit totally work–if I had a plain black or teal pencil skirt I would have worn that instead. That would have definitely worked better than the red skirt; I am now on the hunt for new pencil skirts. Have any T.V. shows inspired your fashion lately? ♥

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things lately, short & sweet.

April 24th, 2012

I’ve been a terrible blogger.
My favorite weekends are the ones that include mini road trips.
Tattoos on the brain like woah.
Removing myself from my comfort zone.
Trying to forget about financial woes.
I always say that receiving flowers is so cliche,
But I have to admit that it’s a really sweet feeling when you get some.
Loving minimalism and organizing my life.
Doing a raw food cleanse this week is just what I needed.
Lots and lots of brainstorming.
Need to stop leaving my camera behind.

-Amie

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Adventures of a misfit librarian design

April 16th, 2012

I recently finished up this design I created for Misfit, the winner of my blog design giveaway. I had so many ideas for her layout! You can see some of the initial ones over on her blog. She requested library related things, pink and white, ribbons, dots, and a typewriter font. My favorite part is the date with a gray background & short format to mimic a date stamp. I’ve been waiting for the chance to use that typewriter key font and it ended up working perfectly in the header. Check her out!

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