Try Me!

Every now and then I receive an invite that makes my tummy churn and reminds me why this website exists.

I don't so much mind receiving hotel invites. If a couple can't be bothered, they can't be bothered. There's not much value to add to that.

But when an invite includes an insert that could've looked SO MUCH better, I wonder why they didn't try me! I sure hope the couple didn't pay someone for the design 'cos I could've done something much more elegant for the same cost or LESS.

Photostated ceremony programmes, flimsy disorganised sheets of paper containing transport/parking information... that's why I'm here. To eliminate all of that. If you can accept those things mentioned above, you will be happy with my work. It's a fallacy that nice wedding stationery means breaking the bank. You just have to find someone with a love for pretty stationery who can work within your budget constraints. Someone who cares more that the stationery looks presentable than about getting your $$$. Whose reward is that you trusted her with your stationery in the first place.

That's me. :)

New Logo

Finally found the time to update the logo. Finally found a way to work around the limitations of a home business to create a logo like that. I'd love to try Adobe Illustrator, but haven't got the capital to splurge on it yet. :)

I'd also love to have a printer with water proof inks or a semi-professional printer... that's where all the returns from my projects are going (if there are any returns at all! P)

Anyway, the logo is supposed to represent two hands. Do you see it?

Weddings in December!

A wedding in earthy tones! More pics on facebook!

Weddings in December!

Birthday Boy

My little boy just turned one!

Dottie dots

Trying to see what I can come up with with the most basic of shapes. There is so much one can do with just dots.

More pics on facebook!

And more weddings!

So I've managed to convince a couple more friends to let me handle their wedding stationery. Hurray! Hope to have more products to display on this website in the following months before I'm back to work and then this website goes quiet again. :P

I've also launched handmayde on facebook! Be a fan! Haha.

Marcus & Adriel - 4 July 2009

Hurray for this lilac wedding!

Only after the wedding did I realise I should have taken pics of the finished products being used on the day itself! But my hands were full carrying our little boy around and my mind preoccupied with ways and means to keep the little boy entertained. I hope the professional photographer took some! I don't have a pic of the wedding programme! Point to remember for the next wedding...

More pics on facebook...

Thank you, you two, for letting me be a part of your wedding! :)

Final products: 2 Angpao boxes, Church invites, Wedding programme, Bridesmaids hairpieces, Wrist corsages, Unity candle

Suggested products: Bookmarks for wedding favours

Love

"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it." - Harold Hubert

Weddings

Did I mention that I love weddings? :) And it's always much easier when I'm not the bride! That way I can really focus on the part I like best - conceptualising the wedding stationery.

Watch this space for a romantic lilac/purple wedding coming up in July...