Nailing Blue

 Blue Rebel from Chanel

It's officially fall and that means a new nail color has captured my attention - Blue Rebel from Chanel. Go get it ladies - it's fabulous! Men - stick to NO polish please. Warning, the color is addicting and will replace your previous darker shades in the months to come.
Love, love, love!

And, while we are in the midst of blue, take a look below at the nautical theme of a recent Orrganics invitation. The invitation suite and the event were branded with a ship's wheel and lots of blue. Another love.

Invite done with Luscious Verde

Goodies using the ship's wheel done by Kim of Kim Rosen Events.

And, as an added piece today,

Come Sail Away - back to the 70s with Styx. I think the pant silhouette is now back in style. Enjoy!

Green

Color. If you have been reading me for a while you already know how I feel about color. I love it.  I love how color can set a tone. I love how color triggers emotion and reaction. I love that color can effect your mood. Color is so powerful.

And, as noted previously, different colors have come to "represent" certain things. Of course, how one feels about color can be very personal and tends to be rooted in personal experience and cultures, i.e., in the west we view white with innocence/purity.

This week the color green has taken on new meaning to me and to so many others in my hometown/community. The green I am talking about is a bright green and it is being worn in my community this week to honor the life of a brave 15 year old, Ethan, who lost his long battle against cancer just a few days ago. Ethan's favorite color was green. Some say this green was the color of his type of cancer. I am not sure which it is - maybe it's both - but I prefer to think of it as Ethan's favorite color.

I have always liked green, I like that the color represents nature, life and vegetation. (It has other associations as well.) However, until this week, I did not pay much attention to the color green. I remember the bright emerald green earrings worn on the red carpet in Hollywood (I watch E!), I might wear green or notice it on St. Patrick's Day, and this fall season, green has been touted as a popular color in fashion. But, I had no real emotional reaction to green until now.

Now when I see someone outside the local coffee shop in a green t-shirt, I smile. I see bleachers full of kids and parents at our high school football game (our school colors are blue and gold) and I am touched with emotion. I see kids everywhere in a uniform of green. This mass of color is SO powerful. Now, to me, this particular green = love. Supportive, unconditional and happy love.

Using a color to show love and support for a brave young man has changed the way I will forever look at this green*. This is what I call positive color cause and effect.

*Exact pantone color unknown at this time but there is likely a range of greens that would trigger in me the emotion and reaction I have described above.

Become an Actionist

I am back from my month off. It was some needed time away - filled with travels (which I will talk about next time), relaxation, some work and getting ready for back to school. The time went fast!

I am thinking now of all my friends and others who are currently combating huge rainfall, floods and power loss. And, of course, I am thinking of 9/11.

Our friend Kenny Dichter (Marquis Jet Founder), along with Tim Armstrong (AOL CEO), is co-chairing a "joint effort among corporations, individuals and non-profit corporations committed to both honoring those affected by the events of September 11th and unifying the county through positive action." It is taking a negative action into a positive one. For more info, go to http://actionamerica.com/.

No action too small.

Okra on Vacation

Oh, the summer... we are taking a break for the month of August.

But, before I go - just tried it - and I LOVE fried okra ( just saying).
Enjoy the long days and come back soon!

Pleasure to The Senses

 So much fun to visit with Suzie, Christina, Holly and Serge at one of our favorite vendors - twig & fig - last week in Berkeley, CA. We love the shop, so appreciate the studio tour and peek at all the rockin' new designs (love the white acrylic and croc wedding invite with a huge zipper). And, special thanks Suzie for answering all Chloe's questions about choosing the names/addresses!

Entrance to the studio

1 lb. jars of custom paint colors 

Serge showing Jackie (me) how the proofing process works

Loading it up - 1 piece at a time
metal, wood, leather - not just paper for this baby!

Some of the loot I bought at the shop

All the work made us hungry - lucky there is a cupcake shop next door
Love at First Bite

twig & fig is located on Vine Street in Berkeley, CA.

One of the recent invites we did with twig & fig - a lucky boy got a beautiful letterpressed invite with antique skier medallions and the accessories pieces were flat printed in bright green. I would love to do something using reclaimed barn wood... anyone looking?

Cow Camp

Last week my daughter and friends were at cow camp.

Did you know that baby calves (redundant) can stand up just a few hours after they are born? I did not.

This little fashionista and Belieber (believes in the Biebs, as in Justin) was shaving, grooming, milking, feeding and playing with the cows. One day she did her cow's hair and then set it with hair spray - who knew?!!

Camp ended with a cow show; the culmination of a week's worth of cowhand experience. Take a look.

From Midnight in Paris to Today in Hollywood

1920's literary giants in Paris. Disheartened Hollywood writer played by Owen Wilson. Time Travel. Woody Allen sensibility. Smart. Whimsy. I can't stop thinking about it since I saw it a few weeks ago. A must.

Title/opening credits roll. White typography on a black screen - it has to be Woody Allen. That old familiar feel; whether nostalgia or mere fetish, it's certainly brand establishment. 

Font/Type: Windsor typeface, circa 1905. Woody Allen's go to/signature typeface. He has used this type in the opening credits of just about all his movies since the late 1970's. It appears first in 1977 with Annie Hall.

image credit to kitblog.com

Others before me have certainly written about this - for more to this and for more title sequence images, go here.

Oh, and Windsor in Hollywood -  Kate and Will arrive there today.