Unidentified, 1950′s, dry lakes. ’29 roadster. Looks like a movie still, doesn’t it?

And here is a lady that is less interested in chatting and more in driving… it looks like she is just starting her project. via The H.A.M.B.

Silversmith, Victoria Delany, designed these set of candlesticks in silver and lacquered wood. The central wooden parts are interchangeable making an endless number of interesting and colourful combinations as well as allowing you to make them as tall or short as you would like.

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Well, it’s official!!  These two love birds are finally married!  We had an absolutely incredible two weeks on Saint Simons Island, GA preparing for our little DIY affair and with lots of help from friends and family, we were able to pull off our perfect wedding.

The days before were incredibly hot & sweaty, filled with more than a few Jurassic Park bugs, and we ran into some major bumps in the road, but when it came down to it, I don’t think we would have had it any other way.  The love we felt that day for each other, our close family, and amazing friends was irreplaceable and will be remembered for a lifetime.  We are blessed!

We’re planning a big post of details coming up in the near future, but we need to first edit through a major amount of photos.  Our incredibly beautiful and talented friends, Jason & Rebecca Walker photographed the wonderful day of, and we are just dying to see the magic they worked.  Until then, thank you for the warm wishes now back to your regular scheduled programing!

photo courtesy of Carla Cox

Well the time has finally come, dear Thersians!  We are leaving for Georgia today (a little over a week before the actual wedding) and are really looking forward to spending lots of time on the beach eating BBQ with our friends and family..

We’ll try to post here and there when we can, but regular scheduling will properly resume when we return, August 25th.  We’ve got some big plans this upcoming Fall (no, not babies, Mom) that we are excited to share with you in the coming weeks!  Until then, have a lovely 2 weeks and thank you for your loyalty!

xo,

Kiersten + Wes

cheers!

I kind of like this chair because it appeals to my very inner minimalist (I swear it’s in there somewhere!) and my slightly outer pack-rat..  Created by Stephan Schultz, this wire frame chair can be recreated into whatever the homeowner would like it to be.  I personally would love to add wooden planks to it, transforming it into a jungle gym for my lazy cat who needs to loose a few pounds.

Things have been pretty chaotic around here recently, made especially so with the endless DIY wedding projects we’ve been working on.  I don’t know what crazy frame of mind we were in when we decided to take all of it on, but here we are finding, baking, printing, and constructing everything from our invites, to lighting, to our decorations (w/ the help of dear friends & family, of course!)

Since we’re paying for it ourselves, we are trying to stay on a very tight budget.. So when any possible creative freebies come along, we don’t hesitate.  We decided to pass on a professional florist and keep things simple with a mix of Georgia wild flowers and a couple of our personal favorites.  Instead of buying 100 + vases, we decided to take what Brooklyn itself was offering.. free glass bottles from the 1900-1950s!  Want to find out how?  Keep reading..

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This is so pretty!  And surprisingly, it doesn’t look too hard to recreate yourself..  Created from silk flowers, I think it would be cute on one wall of a room, as a sweet pop of color and shadow.

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With the printing all complete, it was time to move on to the cutting, folding packing and sending..

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The tears being tears of joy that we actually finished these babies!  We’ve received a few emails from friends & family asking us how we created our wedding invites, so we decided to do a little (and by little, I mean long) post on it.  Read on below:

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We received this great little tip-off from Miss Caroline of Looks Good to Me a few weeks back, and boy, was it a good one!  We Make Carpets create temporary carpets in various settings with unconventional materials.  The end results are pretty amazing, no?

Band-Aids

Cotton

Coffee Cups

Hear Ye, all Thersians, it’s summer SALE time!

In an effort to clean out my Etsy shop by the end of summer (need to make room for new Fall and Holiday items!), I’m having a summer sale on all drawings and paintings.  Since I’m getting married mid-August, I’d like to try and have things cleaned out by the end of July.  Here are some of the details:

**All original drawings, now $35 or 3/$90

**All paintings $50-150 off original price

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It’s been so hot in our place I’ve been feeling almost sick.  We have a tiny window unit, but it only keeps an area of about a 3 ft radius in front of it cool, and that’s usually taken by our cat, Bruce.

So late last night Wes decided to create an A/C condom-tunnel contraption that carries the cool air to where we are sitting.  It’s pretty hilarious..

Take THAT MacGyver!

I have admired this cabin for a while, and seen it on numerous blogs in the past, the trouble is, I just can’t forget it.   There are a lot of similarities between the shack at Hinkle farm and the Permenant Camping project by the Australian architects, Casey Brown that we posted on recently.  I really admire the simplicity and the off-the shelf nature of this structure.  The garage door is an attractive and practical method of keeping the space light and focused on why you are there.  I can see myself building this pretty easily. Bet this is in use this 4th of July weekend!

So we opened a letterpress factory in our studio this past weekend, printing what seemed like 1,000,000 of our wedding invitations.. but we’re still not done.  Since we have multiple colors and 10 different printing plates, we still have a long way to go.  Despite it being scorching hot in the studio and the work extremely tedious,  it was also really satisfying seeing them come out. We’re definitely still letterpress newbies, but I’m kinda proud of them so far!

To be continued..

It’s 9:30am and it’s already 90°.  Since I’m always desperate to find new ways to stay cool, I would definitely try these ice straws.. even if they only lasted 5-6 minutes.

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