The Hunt for Minty Fresh

The Hunt for Minty Fresh

So this outfit is kinda inspired by this sneak peek. Minty greens, grass greens, and sea greens are going to be very prevalent in my wardrobe soon... well maybe not my wardrobe but some of my friends. That's right those are the colors I'm going for for the wedding. So I have to ask you guys, know of any green chiffon/organza dresses lying about? Please please show me!!! :D Here's the sneak peek.



Ohs and ahs!

So back to what I'm wearing. The day dress I have on may be a little too blue-green mint, but as you will soon see I'm becoming completely obsessed with the colors. I even looked on modcloth, and they had some nice dresses with beautiful colors, but WAY too short for bridesmaids, I think their knees will all be covered :). Do you look at a lot of the lengths? Most of those dresses are minis, but I'm really happy they list the length, a lot of places don't...




Anyway of course when you are planning a wedding there are so many ways you can do things, so many color combinations, so many wedding dresses. I've discovered my first pains of this after allowing myself to look at the Vera Wang collection just released by David's Bridal, and I know I'll feel the pain again when Anthropologie's new company BHLDN is released on the 14th(it's all bridal). But I have to remember that the dresses I've gotten for my girls and my wedding dress are off beat. Not saying that David's is bad, but mass production is just not my thing. The new vera wang line is nice, but I have a feeling that the next season of weddings are all going to be those dresses. Nothing is wrong with that, I mean Vera Wang is the most well known bridal designer, and the dresses at David's are "affordable" (not really for me, but a $1200 dress is way more affordable then her regular $5K and up prices). So I just have to keep telling myself that I chose to go off the path, and I'm sure I'll find something with the new BHLDN company, but I need to remember that I'm sure the prices will be quite steep and I couldn't ever allow myself to have my girls buy $200+ dresses. That's what I'm telling myself!



So my outfit, nothing special! Just back to the grind of work. I'm happy that I was able to get to the gym this morning, and soon I'm working on a feature that is the brain child of Nicole, from Employed Panache. I'm really excited about it. And I have two Art to Outfits coming soon! I know I know I've been very lazy with that feature.

{ 30x30 Materials Used }


Plum Sweater } Gap Outlet
Mint Dress } Vintage, via Lost & Found
Black Boots } Enzo, were my mom's
--added--
Neckace } F21
Tights } HUE, via Kohls
Socks } Target

Huggles,
Lauren

PS: Goodbye glasses, I just ordered new contacts!

What Storm?

What Storm?

So we only were hit with a few inches of snow. I don't know how everyone else is but the "Storm of the Century" was pitiful. We've had more snow this century already... Well the good news was that Kevin and I both had the day off which consisted of eggs, art, snuggles, and stew. I finished our save the dates and now we are waiting for them. No great outfit because really it was a snow day... who dresses up? haha

For those of you who don't know, I majored in Illustration at school, and I currently am a freelance illustrator/web designer and gallery director, my fiance, Kevin, is a product designer... so we are doing a lot of custom art stuff for our wedding. And it really helps to have all of your friends from art school around :D

I really want to include you guys in our planning, if you don't mind. So here are a sneak peek (digital mockup) of our save the dates, and a cutesy little watercolor I did. When I get the invitations done I'll show you. We are doing a limited edition screen printed poster and a digital print version as well. I'm also working on our website now... Yay! Oh and just so you know I also signed up for some new art shows and may do an artist residency in France this summer. :D




I really love doing illustrated invitations and such, so I started making some cards for a stationary portfolio. I'll show you when I'm done. So if any of you know someone getting married and they want custom invitations email me!! sparrowandurchin {at} gmail.com And to check out more of my paintings (not very stationary like) check out my portfolio, www.laurenmoyer.com.

Huggles,
Lauren

YAY!

YAY!

I got my dress! AH I'm so excited, I want to pet it and hug it and wear it. But sadly it's safe and sound at Kevin's parents house where the dog and boy can't get to it. The dress even has a name!!! AH!

Oh and since when did The Limited get bridal? http://www.thelimited.com/bridal

On the 4th Day of Christmas...

On the 4th Day of Christmas...

My True Love Gave to Me...

Four Calling Birds!

Ok so yeah that's right you guys get one picture and a detail shot. My camera battery died right after and the charger was at work and then I was really sick. I think I have the flu or something so I ended up spending most of the day in my pjs sleeping. So yeah I wore this for a few hours before going to bed.

The dress as you can see has birds all over it. And I thought the sundress over it would be a great touch, like a birdies belly.

After I slept most all the day I pulled myself together to go to an appointment at Macy's Bridal Boutique... They were having a Lazaro trunk show... and man! Those dresses were gorgeous and it as the first time I ever tried on a wedding dress. Sadly they didn't let Jen and I take pictures and even sadder is the fact that there is noooo way I could ever afford them. But it was fun to play dress up!

Here's what I tried on.

Lazaro 3062. I love the sheer corset top and the low back but the skirt was a little too overwhelming.



Lazaro 3962... I liked this the best on me.

Purdy.

That's all time for sicky girls bedtime.


12 Days of Christmas
December 26th, a Partridge in a Pear Tree
December 27th, Two Turtle Doves
December 28th, Three French Hens
December 29th, Four Calling Birds
December 30th, Five Gold Rings
December 31st, Six geese a laying
January 1s, Seven swans a swimming
January 2nd, Eight maids a milking
January 3rd, Nine ladies dancing
January 4th, Ten lords a leaping
January 5th, Eleven pipers piping
January 6th, Twelve drummers drumming

} Materials Used
Dress } H&M
Over Dress } Target
Tights } Target
Books } Kohls
Hat } Target

Cat's 4 Calling Birds! Here's one but she has three other looks on her blog!

Cat Bird } Midwest Mayhem

Huggles,
Lauren

Computers Hate Me

Computers Hate Me

So the other night I was working late at work and Kevin came by to keep me company. So we took goofy pictures around the gallery and of an outfit I really liked. Well I came into work this morning put the memory card into my computer and nothing. All the pictures we took yesterday, plus pictures of artwork I took during the work day were gone. Vanished. And on top of that my computer is acting up because it doesn't have enough memory. But see my portable hard drive failed so I can't use that, and my disk burner won't burn disks. Which that was what I took my computer in for and they said they burned disks with no problems. So I'm in a catch 22 with my comp, it won't run right because the hard drive is almost full, but I can't burn disks to free space up... grrr.

On top of that I don't know if I mentioned it but Kevin's computer got fried from a power surge we had a couple weeks ago. So we are in the dark ages.

So instead of an outfit I'm posting some inspiration for weddings, since I'm newly engaged. We haven't decided on when yet but it's always fun to gather things.

Dream Dress
Well I'm not going to show my actual dream dress cause someone looks at this blog too much :) But here are some things I love, and are WAY too expensive.

Another thing, I tried on my grandma's and my mom's wedding dresses, and boy was a depressed about it. See they were both pear shaped, small shoulders and big butts, but if you've noticed I have very large shoulders. Kevin says they are swimmers shoulders. And when trying on their dresses my thought was confirmed, my rib cage is about 5inched bigger then my grandma's and 3 inches bigger then my mom's, this is the case with most all vintage I try on. I have found that I'm probably going to have to go with a low back, which is fine cause I love them... But yeah my shoulders and rib cage can't fit into most cuts... grrr. Why must things be made for petite shoulders? Oh well onward.









Of course I love love Vera Wang, she knows how to manipulate fabric so well... And I love the ivy crowns they have, that is a def for me. I want to be like Titania from a Midsummers Night Dream, hehe.. I'm totally growing out my bangs too, cause I want long fairy hair :)

So I've been scouring OnceWed.com and theKnot.com to get ideas for dresses and prices... Any other places I should look?

Ring Pillow
You may not know this but I'm pretty crafty. So I'm probably going to make a lot of my things, mainly the ring pillow. I've made them before and will probably be making them and selling them on etsy soon. Here's one I did for a friends wedding. We used scraps of fabric that matched her wedding party then I made little roses out of felt. What do you think?


If you know anyone getting married I can do commissions of ring pillows too! I need to earn some more wedding money, haha!

Huggles,
Lauren