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Craft Gawker : Another great resource for inspiration
As you know I spend a lot of time surfing the web for event inspiration. I’m looking for projects I can do, color combinations I love, themes I think I can implement and more. Well, Craft Gawker has exactly what I need! It’s a collection of projects and such from all over the web.
Here are just a few of the ideas that I love so far!
Filed under Crafts, General, Inspiration, Party
StumbleUpon Sunday: Rainbow Party
It’s been a while since we’ve featured our fun finds from StumbleUpon, but here we are today! I’m really loving this bright party idea. Check out the full post here
Filed under Crafts, General, Inspiration, Party, StumbleUpon Sunday
A Baby Celebration
I’m sure you’re dying to know where in the heck we’ve been! 
(ok maybe not, but I’ll tell you anyway!) as you know we have a shop on Etsy. Well we spend a lot of time trying to come up with new items for the shop. The rest of the time is spent fulfilling orders.
Recently we’ve received several custom order requests. These Baby Shower Tags below are just one example of those. A special thank you to mom-to-be Mariachristina for sharing these images with us!
Filed under Baby Shower, Crafts, General, Inspiration, Party
Wedding Wishing Tree
Ok one of my newest favorite things is the Wedding Wishing Tree. I’ve gathered a bit of inspiration for you here, as well as show you below our new Wishing Tree Tags.
Our new tags
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Happy Valentines Day!
So I’m a bit late in the day, but Happy Valentine’s Day! Can’t believe the year is going this fast.
Filed under General, Uncategorized
Birth Announcements – Free Design Exchange
Happy Sunday!
I know normally I post my StumbleUpon finds on Sundays, and I will try to do that a bit later today. My cousin had a new baby this weekend, and I started working on the birth announcements, and I remembered that I wanted to add these to our Etsy Store as a product offering. In order to do that I need some product to showcase. To prevent me from having to go buy lot's of cute baby photos, if you have some that you would like to see converted into a design, let's chat!
Here's what I'm offering, design of your baby's Birth Announcement, absolutely free, in exchange for the opportunity to use that same design for display in our Etsy Shop. If you've been pricing this, that's a $15 freebie!
Email me at deitra@expressionsplanning.com for additional details. See below for a sample of what we're creating.
Filed under Crafts, General, Inspiration
Grown-up Prom?!
Wow I spent forever coming up with this fun post earlier today about having Grown-up prom, and it's disappeared, but let's try this again…
So here in the new year, I'm thinking it's time to stretch my creative thoughts. Really today's thought just comes from a personal desire. And that's to have more of a social life in 2012. Every year I vow that I am going to be more active with my friends, have a dinner party or two, and just get out and live a little bit. BUT I fail to do so every year. My husband and I have 3 little ones, ages 7, 5, and 2. It's pretty "busy" at our house. Really it's just boys running around hitting each other, wrestling over stuff, and being really loud.
But it hit me. I don't have to start big, I can take baby steps, and by baby steps, I mean maybe just one or two events during the year. And what better event to get started with than a Grown-up Prom? Seems crazy at first, but it's such a fun idea, and a cute way to get a bunch of grown-ups like myself, who are looking for a reason to get out of the house, together. It could be complete with the Limo Rides, Dinner Out, fun but now sophisticated photo ops, party favors and more. We even had an awesome horse carriage ride opportunity at ours.
So I think first about my high school proms (no there will be no pictures of that coming!) I think the theme my junior year was "Captured in a Hawaiian Dream". Now it was pretty cheesy how we pulled that off, completed with a balloon waterfall, and your standard inexpensive grass skirts on everything. But I think as a grown-up this same theme holds some appeal. And I think my senior year it was something like Masquarade Ball. (OOOOHHH now that one I can work with for sure)
But any ways, I'm going to spend some days thinking this over, and coming up with some fun ideas, that hopefully someone out there will be inspired to take the leap and put together a party like this. I know the idea was getting some press back in May or so, but let's bring it back, and better than before in 2012.
Stay tuned I already have a few fun ideas in mind!
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New Favor Boxes Coming Soon
So as you know we've taken the shop down for a few days to spend some time with family and work on new items for the shop. Well we've definitely been very busy coming up with new items for your special events.
Here are just a few of the boxes we've come up with so far: