Urban Street Bazaar this weekend!

If you didn't get our Fall newsletter, here it is.

We're excited about doing an indie craft fair with other crafter's from Dallas. It's going to be in the Bishops Art District which is a cool neighborhood in the Dallas area.
We'll be featuring some of our new Christmas and Everyday cards so come by and visit with us.

nice write for American Viceroy

Our good friends the foxymorons are at it again, but this time it's in an entirely different product they are putting out. What's an indie-rock duo suppose to do when writing lyrics can't seem to align?....talk about clothing and start a clothing line from scratch for guys just like them. They already products in 2 well known mens fashion stores on both coast (bi-coastal?) and have press from GQ and valet. Yes, they are at it again and it's all about fashion and style, sounds like the foxymorons alright.

read more at the nashville scene article.

Funky Finds Spring Fling 2009!

boy oh boy what a great time we had at our first handmade craft fair. The turn out was pretty good and people came from neighboring cities and states. Thank you to all who visited our booth.





We made many friends with other handmade crafters and designers. It's an inspiration to talk to others who have the handmade bug too and to share in the same passion. I'll list them out eventually, but here are the pictures from that day. Again thank you if we met you and we hope to see you again soon.




We loved these beautiful, delicious (although I wouldn't recommend eating it) soap by Anne's powder room. My favorite were the ice cream soap bars.




Owls,...what's there not to like? Stela Bird makes them even more adorable




Modest ambition makes beautiful yarn art.


ADDITIONAL EDIT: Fuzzy Muffins!! Emily has some incredibly adorable animals. You name it, she has made it, from elephants, owls and beavers so stinking cute! BTW Emily, we still want your stuff!



We were blown away by Pink doe, a handmade handbag company in Dallas. Stylish and well priced too!



If you know a baby girl that's a toddler,....you have to get one of these dresses from Three Yellow Starfish for them.



bags, i'm learning that a girl can never have too many of them. we absolutely loved Cahoots Bags. They were incredible ladies with an amazing line of well designed hand bags...of course we traded goods for one. Hey, why not? If you're going to be a gypsy for a day, you might as well barter like one.




Of course our friend Mia's bags were cute as ever and she makes adorable aprons with ruffles too. Check out her items on Etsy by miamaria.


Here are some unique colorful jewelry pieces by Mia's Mom.


Chicken billy and I had a in-depth conversation on booth architecture and the fine line between being an artist and selling out.

fresh home magazine

whenever i visit a barnes & noble, i find it hard to resist the magazine section of the store. for some reason i go through a ritual everytime, even though i know exactly which magazine section is of real interest to me. my ritual is walking around each aisle of the magazine racks looking at the travel, business, technology, music and home. of course i find aspects of all of these categories interesting, but when you're on a 1 hour lunch break with time expiring, you're left with little time to pick up all of one's favorite magazines.

today i grabbed a wired and readymade, but just as i was about to sit down, a stand-alone rack of fresh home magazine caught my eye. that was the best 20 min break spent on a nice afternoon. a good magazine should take you away from your current worries, atmosphere (even if the coffee aroma and chatter in the background is pleasantly muted) and help you arrive into the magazines world. keep your eye out for it. i will

Heatherly Thank You card giveaway

it's a new year and what better way to start a brand new year than with a giveaway of our beautiful assorted thank you cards. funky finds has a giveaway for the week of jan. 11 - 15. so make sure you enter your favorite heatherly thank you card on their site and we'll make the drawing on jan 15.

update: we have a winner from the funky finds giveaway. the 12 assorted thank you heatherly cards goes to one happy newly engaged girl. her favorite thank you card was the blue bird thank you.
we would like to thank all of those who participated. it was a lot of fun.



some of the more popular cards people selected were the pink script thank you in all languages and the palm leaf.

wanna go to italy?

we watched our favorite travel channel personality in venice and it has our international travel brains going crazy. the people, the beauty, the history and of course...the food...oh the small seaside food...was heavenly. but with a little infant around, maybe it's just best to share pictures from past italy trips and even some from a friend who takes great pictures.

venice



cinque terre


(picture courtesy of Patrick Luscri)

(picture courtesy of Patrick Luscri)

(picture courtesy of Patrick Luscri)

(picture courtesy of Patrick Luscri)

(picture courtesy of Patrick Luscri)

(picture courtesy of Patrick Luscri)

(picture courtesy of Patrick Luscri)

(picture courtesy of Patrick Luscri)

(picture courtesy of Patrick Luscri)

(picture courtesy of Patrick Luscri)
lazy sailor
(picture courtesy of Patrick Luscri)

assisi




spello

2009 is going to be a great year!

Happy New Year!
2008 was an exciting year for us at heatherly. we launched our wedding collection, handmade cards and thank you cards earlier in 2008 and we debuted at our first ever National Stationery Show and it was a big success with press inquiries and new customers from the East coast and West coast. while in New York we took a mini-vacation and visited with friends, explored the west village and dined at some unbelievable eateries (including our first magnolia bakery experience). heather has always loved New York City and I'm beginning to see why now.







on a more personal note we welcomed our first baby and he has been keeping us busy! we aren't seasoned veterans at the whole parenting thing but one bit of advice i can give to soon to be parents. when they say get your rest while you can...they ain't lying!

what can i say...i get sentimental at the end of the year and look to the new year with great optimism. we are expanding with new collections and products that we get giddy just talking about them. if you are on our mailing list, you'll hear about them first!

this year we have plenty to look forward to and we will be updating you on all that happens here.