it's a cookie swap party

Member the awesome designer I touted in this morning's post? This. is the awesome project she was working on.

We feature different design tips on our website and Nellie's latest creation is a Cookie Swap party. Everyone here was ooogling over this party invite and idea ... we wouldn't leave her alone. I love everything about it!

Thank you Nellie ...

winter wedding favors

I love {in a strictly professional way of course} my graphic designer and her intern {Nellie & Katie, respectively}.

Brides.com contacted us for some winter wedding favor ideas they could feature.  We didn't have any in the store, so Katie started whipping some up {while Nellie was working hard on a project I will share later today}.  Nellie joined in when the other project was complete.

I love these favor ideas!  And I love how these creative minds work ... seems they can pull creative ideas out of their booties {can I say that?} and put something awesome together.  If it were me, I'd still be sitting at the drawing board.

Or ... I would've given the project to Nellie.  :)

nellie's inspiration

BWP's very talented graphic designer, Nellie, has a little thing for navy & white and all things nautical.  She was all juiced up over my recent post and suggestion of doing my future office in navy & white.  So I decided to pull a little inspiration board together in honor of her.

She's recently married {07.07.07 ... yeah, cuz she's that cool} and had a completely nautical theme.  Everything was designed and hand-made by her.

Location | a Lake Club

Save-the-dates | a boat sail

Place cards | paper sailboats

Wedding favor | a small pail of swedish fish

Bridesmaid dresses | navy with small white polka dots {jcrew}

Cake | white tiered with navy ribbon

The wedding was beautiful and not a detail missing ... check out the 'thank you' for the musician.  And because she's our designer, we got to use some of her pieces in our marketing materials {yay us!}.

And now for my inspiration ... Nellie painted the living room, of her recently purchased house, in navy!  This room looks so cozy!  And toy-free ... for now!  Hint, hint Nellie ...