Happy Birthday Ethan #2

Happy birthday to my cute little nephew! He obviously had a train-themed birthday...

Cavallini Calendars

I always have a desk calendar at work. This year I picked up a Cavallini & Co. New York City 2012 calendar. I love these calendars because the photos in them are more vintage and artful.

I probably would have gotten the London one if it weren't out of stock everywhere.

What desk calendar are you using this year?

Christmas Cards

In 2011 I had a low schedule with Christmas card designs. For our family photo, I just used the one we took for Stef & Matt's wedding, added a green bar along the bottom, and put our name in it. Easy.

The Morris family already had a lovely photo that just needed a complementary background. I already had an idea for what to do on this one, so the design went pretty fast. It is by far one of my favorites.

Send a Hello

I was perusing the USPS website and discovered that the postal service had issued this set of Pixar stamps (Send a Hello)! Sure they came out in August—but I stopped following stamp trends after we discovered the Garden of Love stamps for Stef's wedding in June.

But these stamps make me ridiculously happy and I just bought 4 sets (don't forget that stamps will increase in January).

Fun with Bokeh {Downloads}

For my Christmas card this year I decided to utilize one of the bokeh photos I took during a Thanksgiving parade in Ashland, Oregon, and use it as a background. And then I decided to share some other bokeh images here. Feel free to click on whatever images you want and use them for your personal use only. Merry Christmas!

Christmas + 3 Coptic Notebooks

Here are three little coptic notebooks I made as gifts this week. They measure about 4" wide by 5" high. Very cute, and I couldn't help but take some photos with awesome Christmas tree bokeh.

Bryant Park & More of Central Park

November 8 was spent enjoying the day at Bryant Park and Central Park. (I love parks, can you tell?) We took the kids over to a cute little French carousel that Jones and Ella just love. The blue tokens give them the rides, and the horses produce the smiles. Ella got to ride the carousel twice and chose the horse with the roses on the front.

Bryant Park had these darling little holiday shops, and one of them was a waffles booth called Wafels & Dinges. What is a dinges, you ask? Summary: stuff. Longer version: you can read the company's blog entry on it. At any rate, this chocolate-smothered waffle was heaven.

The lighting in mid-afternoon Central Park was amazing. We walked down a hidden path (okay, off the regular one) and spent time time dancing among the trees and enjoying the lovely golden leaves. And I caught some beautiful images of my babies.