Jodi and Russel! Its almost here!

Dearest Jodi, only 16 more days! Can you believe it? 2 years ago we were both single and crazy! just over 2 weeks from now we'll both be married and crazy. I've been missing you and thinking about you so decided it was a good time to blog about you, my dear friend, and finally share your wedding invites! Add to the anticipation a little, since I'm sure you're lacking in that area...not!!

I am SO EXCITED for Jodi and Russel!
You may remember their fun (and freezing!) Kamloops engagement session (see the original post here): 

 

Jodi also asked me to design their wedding invites. I have to say, it warmed my heart to be working on these invitations at the same time as I was designing my own. Somehow it makes it easier that due to our wedding dates, neither of us will be able to attend the others wedding. We keep having "Ok fill me in on all the planning you've been doing!" conversations and commiserating about the busyness of working full-time and planning a wedding. Its been fun, even though its been long distance!! 

So here are the invites: Jodi wanted something fun which incorporated their engagement photos as well as a beautiful poem she and Russel found. I have to say, on top of being a fantastic friend and room mate, Jodi makes a great client too :D. She gave me all the right information but also all the freedom to come up with something.

 

After this most special of wedding seasons, I have to say I thoroughly enjoy both engagement photos and designing wedding invites. So future brides...you know who to call!

Laughter 3: Product shot

One of the challenges I conquer each month is displaying product, usually one being offered each month. I try to be creative and make it interesting, but sometimes deadlines or a difficult product gets in the way! But today's experiment was fun and I think largely successful! It did me good to get my hands away from the keyboard and tablet for some classic 'cut and pasting.'

Whats that fowl smell?

 

Today I decided to have some fun and make an illustration based on those kindergarten appropriate jokes, "what do you get when you cross...?" The first one I found did the trick, and was oh-so-fun to illustrate!

Question: "what do you get when you cross a chicken and a skunk?"

answer: "a fowl smell."

What do you think? Anyone have more good suggestions that I should try?

Moustachio?

Lately I've been eating a lot of pistachios because they're delicious and I can eat them in spite of my Naturopath diet. Not that this has much to do with my post, but I've taken to calling them "mustachios" just because its more fun, and once I started I couldn't stop.

The connection is this: I'm working on some concepts for an upcoming magazine that has to do with laughter, and I wanted to create a vector of a laughing "moustache."

I got started and quickly realized it was going to be harder than I thought. The thing about moustaches is that, depending on the size, they can totally obstruct one's view of the laughing face. So I did some visual research via "the internet" and got on the right track! So here is the evolution of a laughing moustache. If it ever ends up in a final design I'll be sure to post it!

sweet sappy love :)

Yup, not much else on my mind lately. I'm getting married in 20 days!! I saw a cute little illustration today and ran with the idea to try and lighten my design mood. Lately I've been getting pretty drained at work, and it helps to have 5 minutes of fun! And I just love my soon-to-be hubby!!

Summer Live! Vancouver 125

This past weekend, we BC lower mainland folk had the awesome opportunity to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Vancouver with a whole slew of amazing concerts, free in Stanley Park! I didn't make it out until Sunday, but that was good enough to see the VSO, Spirit of the West, We are the City, and Dan Mangan: all absolutely amazing acts! The whole experience was AWESOME, besides a few minor distractions (such as waiting an hour in traffic to actually get into the park, and stepping in 2 inches of mud during the dark walk back to the car in flip flops...lol!) I am so proud to kind of be a part of such an amazingly talented city. (lets be honest guys, Abbotsford isn't actually a part of Vancouver...)

Enjoy the photos!

 

(the photos in the dark are Dan Mangan, the others are We are the City)