Save the Date – before batch 1

Before Batch 1 of Save the Date cards, there was actually another try on black paper Save the Date cards.

Here they are:

The design is almost the same for all of them. I have variations of the color of the pen and usage of transparent paper or not.

Save the Date Batch 1

The first batch of Save the Date cards that I made were completely manual (no computer skills involved). I wanted basically to try out colors, shapes and embelishments on them. The colors that I chose are light pink, pink, white, dark pink and black.

Here they are:

For this one I used a light pink carton cut with the special cards straight cutter. The pink flower I bought in Panduro (hobby shop in Denmark) and same for the velvety black lace which sticks to the paper. For writing the card I used a special gold pen.

 

 

The next one is made from a white paper, with the same velvety lace and pink flower but also with some white lacey paper stick to the bottom.

The next ones are some trials with a darker shade of pink.

And this last one was my favorite – similar to the first one but more lace and more flowers.

Save the Date cards

Today I made another batch of Save the Date cards. All DIY.

They are modern with a bit of twist to the old as well. I like them very much. Probably I will just choose one of them, multiply and give it to my friends. Still don’t know which. This batch was much better than the first one where I didn’t use a computer at all. For this one I mostly used the MS Office Publisher.

I am yet not decided about my wedding theme or colors so I’ve created the cards in as multiple colors as possible.

Here they are. The pictures and cards are under my copyright.

 

This first one is a simple one with just a flower embellishment on the side. I kept the text simple as well. Actually the text is simple and not very formal on all cards as they are meant mostly for young friends of ours.

This one has dark blue flower embellishments on both sides and most of the writing is also same color. For the date I used a coral color (Thanks to Pantone and MS Office Publisher) and glued a small paper flower of the same color. The print is glued to a coral base as well.

The next one is glued to an ivory carton base. The flowery embellishments and main writing are dark blue. The date is written in red. 

This one is all purple and yellow on a nice bubbly yellow base carton.

The next one is similar to the previous one just that the main writing and flowers are black, the date is written in red and the carton base is black.

The next one is one of my favorites. It reminds me of rococo and a modern story line. The colors are black and reddish-pink.

This one is very fairy-tale like. The colors are again dark blue, coral and white.

This one is using the same nice yellow carton as base as above. I used a black velvet lace ribbon here on the upper left corner which I removed in the next shot.

This is the same as above just with the black velvet ribbon removed. I think it looks better actually.

 

This is it.

Glam glam

Atelier Aimee wedding dresses

My favorite wedding dress designer is Atelier Aimee. The designer is Lucia Zanotti and she has more than 25 years experience. Her husband bought the atelier more than 25 years ago and after that with her designs brought to life, the rest is history.

The dresses are very romantic with fine and expensive fabrics, a lot of embellishments (flowers and ribbons) and color.

Although romantic and flowery, you cannot say about their dresses that are old-fashioned. I think they are very sophisticated and modern. If I had the money, my wedding dress will definitely be from this designer.

They have 3 ranges. The first one is Atelier Aimee which is the most expensive range and prices start at 4000 EUR. The other two are Eme di Eme which is the range for young brides and is less expensive than Atelier Aimee (prices start at 2000 EUR) and Pret a Porter which is for the brides that look for simpler designs. I don’t know exactly the price range for this one, but I believe it should be the same as Eme di Eme.

I am pasting below my favorite dresses from Atelier Aimee and Eme di Eme collections. With time, I will probably add comments about most of the dresses.

Glam glam!

Multiple languages - the world is so stupidly complicated

Why do we have to have 15k languages all over the world and then more than that we have to have not only one alphabet but so multiple types of writings. More than that, even nations that share the Latin alphabet for example, have to add a few additional letters, just to make it their on. Arabs chose to write from right to left, Chinese have their own symbol for everything, Russians and Slavic like nations use Cyrillic alphabet and so on. Not to start talking about sounds and grammar rules!

Why can’t everyone just speak English, plain English. It’s probably the most expressive language, the easiest to learn and with the easiest grammar anyway. Every time you do anything for more than nation wide use you have to translate it, spend money and time on that. Localize programs, translate web pages, translate legal documents. More than all these time and money wasting, there are other things that you can avoid if everyone speaks the same language: get lost in a foreign country because no one there speaks a common language, make friends from other cultures for some it means less access to information and so on.

And why is that? Because people think that their identity resides in the language they speak. No. It doesn’t. It resides it what they say and not how they say it. If everyone would speak the same language, then everyone else would understand them. It would be easier for us to discover real talent and intelligence when you don’t have the language barrier. Cause that’s what it is: a barrier.

One of the reasons that Americans have the most accomplishments when it comes to film for example resides also in language. They speak the most understood language.

Younger generations, the majority speak English along with their mother tongue language and others. They don’t speak it correctly as in some cases they might not have learnt it in school but just by watching movies. But they do speak and understand it. So probably in the long run, the world will evolve to a unification of languages. And I think it’s going to be English.

Glam glam.

Jimmy Choo for H&M

 

I’ve never owned a pair of Choo’s, because I don’t live in NY and there’s no particular Jimmy Choo or Louboutin store in Copenhagen (where I currently live). And they’re so damn expensive!

But now, H&M has shoes and bags designed by Jimmy Choo. With the collection they’re also introducing accessories and clothes which are designed by the H&M designers but so that they integrate with the Jimmy Choo bags and shoes.

The prices are higher than normal H&M prices but the products are also much nicer and still so cheap for compared to the Jimmy Choo items you would buy from the designer store.

Some of the items…

I like the whole electric blue outfit. It’s daring and interesting.

The shoes are beautiful although they are probably as uncomfortable as beautiful

Cost around 100 EUR.

I love the dress – suede – I like odd fabric and color choices

And the belt is so Sex and The City – The movie.

The earrings below are again such and odd, interesting and daring choice. Love them.

Other items that I would buy:

* This cool pair of show off red heels

* The bracelet is an amazing combination of glitter and punk rock

* Another cool pair of choo’s

* Zebra print choo’s

 

Can’t wait to fight all the other fashionistas on the 14th :)

 

NB: All pictures are from the H&M site. http://www.hm.com