Party Pictures!

vsheaffer — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:26:11 +0000

Hello tootsies. Guess what I did yesterday? Watched our dining room chairs get a coat of primer and become the hot muthers I knew they could be. I will talk more about this later, but my parents own an antique store, and they have a spray booth in the back where they repaint and repair awesome old furniture. I know, you totally hate me, right? You should. I’m a lucky a$$hole. Anyway, they are painting our chairs and I want to DIE. So cool. I’m going to recover the seats too, in something awesome, but of course they are super complicated cushions. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Anyway … I will for sure show you the end product next week when I collect them, but in the meantime ….

Wanna see pictures from the Fall 2012 Presentation?? Check this out:

That’s me! In front of a dang window that has my name all giant-like. I was/am pretty thrilled with the way it turned out – with feathers scattered around in the back. It was pretty rad, I’d say. And that’s the dress I made for the party. And my makeup was done by fancy Chicago makeup artist Allison Attwood.

And here’s the actual presentation – doo doo doo. Looking pretty fancy, right? My interns and I made special dress forms which followed the neckline of each gown, taking inspiration from the Rodarte exhibit, and I could not have been happier with the effect. Here’s a closer look:

I loved ‘em. And I really loved all of this:

Incredible food by local chef Ian Brannigan and his amazing assistant Kim Turley, gorgeous florals by Heather Shouse of Bottle and Branch and lots of truly awesome people. AND all of this was captured by Monika Pawlak – a totally sweet and lovely lady who also photographs weddings. !! There are lots more where these came from – be sure to check out the full gallery here.

P.S. I have the coolest friends.

[Images by Monika Pawlak]

Anniversary Pics

vsheaffer — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:09:42 +0000

Okay so I’ve mentioned in the past that I was never really thrilled with the way I looked in our wedding pictures and was pretty disappointed in the images of Keith and me together (which *ehem* is the whole point of wedding pictures, but whatever). I don’t entirely blame the photographers, because it was 900 degrees that day, but they could have maybe directed us a bit more. Or at all. But that’s life. To make up for it, Keith and I made a pact that every year around our anniversary we would have a little portrait session. We’ll put the images in an album devoted entirely to anniversary shots and we’ll have the span of our marriage – good times and bad – documented. It’ll be kinda neat to see our faces and bodies change. Or depressing. Whatever.

Anyway . . . we had our first session this year, photographed by our awesome and talented friend Martha Williams. Remember Martha’s wedding shrug? And her adorable blog, Bike Fancy? She’s the cutest – I love this girl. And look at the adorable photos she took for us!

Aren’t these the cutest?! I’m SO EXCITED to start our album off with pictures of us in coordinating jammies. And did you notice my awesome makeup? My friend, Allison Attwood, came over and did me up. P.S. Allison is also available for bridal makeup, waxing and facials and she is SWEET and HILARIOUS – you should go see her (there’s an awesome coupon on her website!).

I’m so lucky to have such amazing friends. AND doubly lucky to have a husband who is at all willing to do crazy stuff like this for me. Thanks for humoring me!

[Images: Martha Williams; Makeup: Allison Attwood]

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Party Pictures!

Anniversary Pics