Pink & Green

I designed these wedding invites for a friend of my sister, who is planning a large and beautiful wedding for June.  Her theme is "Enchanted Garden" with lanterns on every table.  How pretty does that sound?  The colors she chose were a pale pink and bright green, gorgeous!

The invitations were so fun to design.  A super cute design with a little hands on work too.  They come in a green metallic folder, tied with a silky pink ribbon.  A lovely surprise for all the guests to open in the mail.

It was fun to work with you, Sara! I just know your wedding will be amazing...down to every detail.

Cake Toppers

For our Wedding back in October, I wanted to do something fun and "us" for our cake toppers.  I had seen some cute ideas on Etsy of clay figurines to top the cake, but thought they were outrageously priced and "I could probably make those myself."  So I did.

I created Justin with a guitar in his hands because it truly is another limb on him.  And I made a MacBook Pro to sit on my lap.  Being a designer, I am seen with this thing all. the. time.  But it was a little glimpse of us perched on top of our cake.  We loved it.  Had a lot of compliments on it that day as well.  We went with a whole little dessert table instead of serving the cake. So fun!  Being in the Fall, we had mini apple pies, vanilla and pumpkin cupcakes, cinnamon apple trifles, and the table turned out adorable. Thanks to our dessert caterer and good friend, Carrie.  Here is her blog: http://atasteofjoy.blogspot.com/

I made pumpkins for us to lean up against. Again- fall theme.

We also had apple cider. Yum! That was a big hit.  This makes me miss our wedding day, I love reminiscing of it and the perfection it was. 

So for my best friend's wedding she asked me to make clay people for her and her fiance's cake toppers.  I had so much fun with this one!  Lance was a stud athlete in high school so naturally, he wanted to be featured with a basketball and football in hand.  Kassi, wanted her little doggie, Harper by her side.  I loved how these turned out too. It was so fun to depict them for their big wedding day. They had a spread of all different kinds of Cheesecakes instead of a wedding cake.  It looked so cute all on display.  Late into the night, Kassi's nephew (4) stole Harper and took him to play at his table.  Kid's love clay, what can ya say!

They had a theme of "trees" so they leaned against stumps. So cute.

These are a really fun way to personalize your wedding day.  I have an order in now for a couple of birds for a cake topper. Should be fun to do something a little different.

I will eventually get these up on my Etsy site for future sales.  Until then, let me know if you or anyone you know would like this for their special occasions!

How sweet it is. Happy May!

Etsy Shop is open!

Anyone interested in purchasing some of my art or design? You can now go to my Etsy shop!

Click here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/rinndesign

Have fun browsing! More to come soon.

Some things you will find are:
pottery
paintings
line drawings in pen & ink
pencil drawings
greeting cards for various occasions
craft projects
wedding material design
wedding props
wedding cake topper design

You can also request a custom item if there is something you've been wanting. See if i can make it happen, just ask!

These are just a few examples of what is on the site! And it's not everything...there will be more items posted. So keep checking back.

I'm so excited to finally have some items up. I've been wanting to do this for a very long time. I feel a little more accomplished now that I have gotten this up and running.

Happy Sunday!

April 15th

Usually April 15 is an intense day for many. Tax day! Even as I write this, I sit in a room writing where another meeting is happening.  A woman is meeting with her accountant talking about her taxable income, non-taxable things, and a bunch of other jibberish that is way over my head. One thing I heard her say was "Lord, have mercy on me."  I pray he does, lady!

This day for me is very different ever since last year, it is the day my husband (then boyfriend) PROPOSED! One year ago today I was getting on an airplane in South Bend, Indiana going to see my boyfriend in Minneapolis for the weekend.  A fun trip.  But many of you know how crazy the story gets!
If you'd like to read about the story check it out at my old blog here: http://rinndesign.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/were-getting-married/

Anyway, just wanted to reminisce of that sweet day "April 15" that no longer will have a bad connotation in our book.

We have been married 6 months and have been through a lot, but seen God's hand through it all.  It makes me so happy to see the joy on our faces in this photo!

Hope this day can be a little brighter for you all.

Making an apartment a home.

Justin and I, before we were married, both lived on our own in 2 bedroom apartments. After we got married, we thought it'd be fine to move into a 1 bedroom apartment.  Ha!  We were busting at the seams! But after 6 months, we're getting used to it and have gotten rid of a lot we didn't need.

One of the things that I love and hate is the open floor plan. I really like how the kitchen, living room and dining room are all in one giant room. It makes it feel very big and open.  But it makes it really hard to arrange all that furniture in such a small space. Especially when we have 2 couches and had 2 dining room tables.

Our furniture gets rearranged probably every month and half because I just haven't decided which way feels good.

Here's how it looked when we got back from our Honeymoon and our gifts were EVERYWHERE. I know, it's such a mess.

We were pretty excited to open a Keurig! - Just had to throw that in there. 

Here it was at Christmas time, festive and happy.

Now it looks like this:  fresh and clean for Spring time. With a few new touches.

Things are starting to come together and we have really enjoyed living here in our first year of marriage!

Lake Michigan

One of the things I miss most about our hometown is Lake Michigan.  (some may think it's an ocean if never seen before)  It was one of my favorite places to go when I was little, I called it Michigan Lake. Oh I was so cute.

So on our roadtrip back to Minnesota, we just HAD to stop and see this gorgeous body of water.  Here's some photos from our pit stop.

I love my husband, he's fun to vacation with.

Best Friend's Wedding

One of my bridesmaid's, Kassi got married this weekend!  She was in my wedding, and I got the honor of being "Matron" for her wedding. We met in high school and have gone through many of life's milestones together. It has been a beautiful friendship that I treasure.

I got the chance to design their Save the Dates, Wedding invitations and the programs for the ceremony.  She did a great job picking bold and beautiful colors for Spring. Purples, blues and greens. It turned out wonderfully. I'll share some photos of my work and then a little fun from the big day!

I came up with a logo for their wedding.  They wanted to theme of trees and their last name is Nine.  So they wanted the number everywhere! So cute.  I came up with this logo (in green on the invitations). They ended up using it also in the decor at the reception.  You'll see a photo where the logo was cut out of material with it being lit from behind, it turned out awesome!

 The programs I also designed...