Book Theme Wedding Invites

14 Feb


Happy Valentine’s Day peeps! Love is in the air. Well it would be, but I fell flew like superman across an intersection the other day, so life pretty much sucks right now.  The last time I felt this crappy on Valentine’s Day, Miguel pulled a ring out of his pocket and my cold was miraculously cured. I’ve asked him to do it again….

But that bring us to today’s post: book theme wedding invites!  A couple of years before the wedding, I had been taking graphic design classes and making random cards for my friends. Then I started to dream about being a wedding invite designer and in my head I thought that would be the best job ever.  I still do, btw. So, 2 years ago today Miguel proposed and pretty soon my dream came true: I was designing wedding invites! MINE! haha yes, I was also happily in lurve and couldn’t wait to say I do. But still. Invites. Yes!

I’ve mentioned before that I’m a book lover/book hoarder and I’ve always thought that a romance novel would be a great theme.  Romance novels kinda evolved into just plain old books, and then libraries and typewriters and then pretty soon anything  ”book” related.

So here are the invites… I made 3 “chapters” or pages for each part of the invite. The first, Chapter One-The Wedding, was the formal wedding invite with all the details about the ceremony. Chapter Two-The Celebration detailed the reception and Chapter Three- The Response, was the rsvp card.

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Fairy Tale Wedding Invites

I wanted each page to look like it was printed on top of a real book page. At first, I was just going to use real text from a real book or story but then I thought, why not just write something?  I wasn’t going to write a whole story just words, but I couldn’t bring myself to just write random words. So it is an actual story. A fairy tale to be exact. I was watching Once Upon a Time as I wrote it so that was pretty much the inspiration. That and that movie Stardust.

I tied everything together with a ribbon threaded through a book mark. I got the idea from this invite, which I absolutely adore. And I bought a custom return address stamp that looked like typewriter keys from 2impress on Etsy.

Then because I couldn’t stop there, I used the same template to create a Mad Lib and a Quiz for the reception.

Book theme Mad Lib & Quiz

Book theme Mad Lib & Quiz

But that wasn’t it! I also made table numbers and glued them onto books. I bought some books from library yard sales, but most of them were books that I already owned.

Book Theme Table No.

Book Theme Table No.

And done. Sorta.–there was actually more signs and more book pages things I made. I don’t know how I actually made anything, just writing about it is making me tired. Anyways, Hope you all enjoy your V-day. xxxx

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Valentine’s Day Inspired Facebook Covers

12 Feb

So I tried to make 3 facebook covers, but I only had time to make 2. Just click on the image, save it your computer and then upload it as  your fb cover pic.

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Enjoy!!

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Quarantine!!!

11 Feb

The USAO needs a quarantine asap.  I think it was a conspiracy.  Get this: last Sat me and my fellow coworkers gather for a birthday party. We all sit at one table. And WE ALL GET SICK! Coincidence? I think not. And then the one day I drag myself into work, my attorney comes in and announces that his kids have lice. oy. So anywhooo I was pretty much out all week with a horrible flu: fever, chills, coughing. The whole nine yards. No lice, thank god.

But it’s a new week and I’m feeling better! I have a couple of things to show you guys.  First up is the lovely thank you card I designed for that fateful birthday party that took us down. My coworker’s daughter turned 3 and I made her some thank you cards to hand out. Her daughter’s a cutie so it made it pretty easy.

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This design will sooooon be offered on our Etsy site. Soon soon soon, promise! But if you want something like this now, just send me an email and we can work something out.

That’s it for today but stay tuned since it’s love week–I’ll be posting up some cute fb cover photos, and the story behind my wedding invites.

Happy Monday Everyone!

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Wednesday Obsessions: Justin Timberlake

31 Jan

I’m technically writing this on Wednesday even though today is Thursday so it still counts as a Wednesday obsession. And its JT!! AND it’s his birthday! It’s a very fitting post.

Anyways… I’m ridiculously in love in Justin’s new song “Suit & Tie.” I just want to get up and start doing a choreographed dance every time I hear it. I want to put on a bow tie. I want to play it over and over. Which I did today because the official lyrics video is up on his website. And I’m in loooove. Check it.


Several things: I’m in love with the 20/20 concept.

Since I’m practically blind, I feel like I know that chart pretty well.  It also makes me mad again that I didn’t get a customized eye chart for our wedding. Not exactly sure where I would have put it or if it would have even matched. But whatever. Still mad.

Custom Eye Chart.. Perfect for Girl That Wears Glasses

Custom Eye Chart. Perfect for a Girl That Wears Glasses

Second.. listening to “Suit & Tie” made me want to listen to other Justing songs.  Specifically “My Love”.  And that reminded me that I wanted me and Miguel to break out into a flashmob type first dance experience to that song.  He vetoed that idea. Hmmph.

This could have been us… :/

Third…I want to throw a fancy schmancy dinner party soon (like in April soon, so pretty far away actually) and I feel like JT has just written a song specifically for me. Thank you very much Justin.

Finally, suits and ties remind me of bow ties and bow ties remind of Miguel.

I be on my suit and tie

I be on my suit and tie

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New House New Habits

28 Jan

Is our new motto around here. I sat down and had a little chit chat with my fat baby.

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Is he just humoring me??

No more jumping on counters. No more eating food out of the trash can. No more throwing our stuff on the ground.  No more  opening cabinets. No more leaving his clothes all over the house. Oh wait…. that’s what Miguel does. Lol.

But seriously,  I want to leave behind our messy ways and start some new habits. Is this wishful thinking? Does anyone else wish they can start all over with a new clean house?

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Book Lover or Hoarder?

18 Jan

I finally finished packing up all my books for the big move.  Want to guess how many boxes it took? 10!  And that’s not counting the two boxes of library donations, the giant bag I gave my co-worker, or the box in the trunk of my car (yeah the car thieves were kind enough to leave that).

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I’m not entirely sure where to put all these books in the new house, but I CANNOT bring myself to give them away. What if I have a burning desire to re read “A Pirate’s Love”? (Real book title btw, and if you’re wondering, it’s in the donation pile.) I have driven myself crazy in the past searching my bookshelves only to remember that I gave it away.

So you be the judge: book lover or hoarder?

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Mandy v. Painting

14 Jan

If you saw me right now you would think that painting kicked my booty.

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But in fact…I think I won. Putting in our new flooring, on the other hand, took Miguel down hard. In his own words: “I never knew my butt could hurt so much.”

Im going to rewind to December, though, and show you what we’ve been up against. First, our house needed major rewiring and updating. Rewiring = lots of holes in walls.

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Imagine this hole all over the house. Not pretty.

Second, we wanted to get rid of the popcorn ceiling in the bedroom. Easy peasy his brother said. So easy peasy the whole ceiling had to come down and new dry wall went up.

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Richard, Mr. Easy Peasy himself, with his Captain America shield, as I call it.

And last but not least…. we wanted to put in new flooring. A. I didn’t like the crazy fake parquet flooring in the front room and kitchen, and B. the bedrooms had dirty carpet.  So, really new flooring was the way to go.  But honestly, it’s been a pain since the beginning: taking off the vinyl required unused muscles, renting a sander (costly), levelling it (also costly).

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Jose manning the floor scraper tool. Arm muscles were requirement for this job.

We were finally able to start installing the new flooring this weekend. Installing new flooring = 2 days of doing squats for Miguel. Booo. But also YAY because they look awesome. The floor, peoples, not his buns. Get yo minds out of the gutter! ha. ha.

And that’s it for the house updates. I’m going to try really really hard to put up another house post this week so you can see our progress, because we’ve come along way baby.

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Happy Late New Year!

9 Jan

Its still January right?  I feel like I’m in February already. But happy belated new year’s everyone! Last month was crazy, this month is still crazy. But our house is FINALLY taking shape. The holes are all patched up and the paints being slapped on.

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Sneak Peak! More to come later….

In other news, Whale Design Studio has its first customer! I can’t show you the invite yet because it’s super top secret but it’s really cute.

And since it’s still Jan… I’ll tell you my resolutions. Actually, I’ll just show you.

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Focus Board… Miguel didn’t make one but I made sure to include him on mine, see the hot air balloon.

My mom and I made focus boards so that we can visualize all the things we want to accomplish this year. As you can see I want to be both Catwoman and a Princess.. it could happen. Don’t kill the dream. Lol.

Did anyone else out there make a focus board?

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Covina Here We Come!

18 Dec

Guess what !?? Miguel and I bought a house! Here’s a pic.

Casa Hernandez

Casa Hernandez

We are officially home owners! Woot Woot. We got the keys on Saturday. It’s exactly where we wanted to be: walking distance to the Crashdown Cafe..err I mean Downtown Covina. We really are super excited and super tired. Yesterday was day one of d.y.i home improvments and we’ve gone a long way to go! In case you were wondering… the house warming party is probably not going to be for a long while. Right now our house is full of holes, while Miguel’s Dad rewires the house.

Holey Walls

Holey Walls

We also to want to say thank you again to our agent and friend Cynthia Flores for finding us such a wonderful home and being the best agent EVER! She was so fantastic through the whole process, guiding us step by step, and fighting to get the best deal. We wouldn’t be celebrating this moment if it wasn’t for her.

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Dude Where’s My Car?

14 Dec

So I finally decided to fix my car up. Why? Because it was stolen, and returned to me without a dashboard, or a radio (stock, o.g. circa 2000 with cutting edge compact disc technology).

Miguel and I did the real life version of “Dude Where’s My Car” last week.  When we got to the parking lot after work, my car was M.I.A. We actually looked at each other for a second like, umm, did we really drive here today? Maybe we teleported ourselves to work and our car was at home? Yeah, no. It was stolen. Adios Honda Civic. We filed a police report, of course.

Sheriff: Does your car have any distinguishing characteristics?

Me: Yes, the hood is dented. It looks like a giant person sat on it.  (I said that last bit in my head.)

So yes, it’s definitely time for some upgrades. And this what I have in mind.

All Tricked Out

All Tricked Out

Flames just say married and all growed up. Don’t you think? Also, I like the winged Aztec warrior detail on the hood. Classic.

P.S…. haha can one write P.S. in a blog? I was almost going to post and then I found THIS. If only!!

Happy Monday.  Stay tuned, because we’ve got an announcement tomorrow morning. :)

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