Movie in the Park

Jamie Bartlett Blog Post LA, Movie, Weekend 1044 Views

We’ve had so much going on this week and so much to post about, I almost forgot to tell you about our movie in the park. Most everybody there were parents with their little kids. I noticed a few of the kids came dressed in there pajamas; it was so cute!  We got there two hours before the movie started to claim our spot in the grass. It was a good thing we did because it got packed pretty quickly. Here a some pictures we snapped before the movie.

We had a lot of fun and Rio turned out to be a really cute movie. I can’t wait for next time!

Pleasant Surprise from Poppytalk

Jamie Bartlett Blog Post Design, Graphic Design, Packaging, Poster 1097 Views

A couple weeks ago Poppytalk blogged about redesigning their site. They were asking for the readers options. If you left a comment you could be selected to win a $25 gift from their handmade market. So of course Jake and I left a comment, but I really wasn’t expecting to win. It seems to me, I’m one of those people that never win anything. To my extreme surprise, we won! So we got to pick something from their market. After much deliberation we chose a screen printed poster by Fifi Du Vie with a quote on it that say “oh darling let’s be adventures. I thought it was cute.

I completely forgot about it and when I went to check the mail there was a cardboard roll covered in old looking stamps in our box. It was such a lovely, unexpected surprise. I loved the stamps so much I took a picture to show you.

I thought it was a nice touch.

Come Visit Traverse City!

Jake Blog Post Competition, Design, Graphic Design, Michigan, T-Shirt, Traverse City 2098 Views

One of our favorite places to buy t-shirts, Threadless.com, is hosting a themed designed competition right now. The theme is “Your City” and you’re supposed to design a shirt that represents your favorite city. Well, Jamie and I have been wanting to design something for Traverse City (my hometown and where we were married) pretty much ever since our wedding. So we took this opportunity to create a fun t-shirt promoting the Cherry Capital of the World!

And here’s what it would look like on a shirt:

It was a lot of fun to design, and Jamie even got to get some good use out of our wacom tablet. I’m always blown away at how naturally shading comes to her.

Normally, Threadless only prints one shirt from their design challenges, but since this is such a specific theme, they’re printing 10 designs. Each designer that is chosen wins $2,000 plus $500 store credit. Their decisions are influenced by user’s ratings, so if you have a Threadless account, please consider scoring our design! Click here to score our design.

A Vintage Birthday

Jamie Bartlett Blog Post Birthday, Decor, Design, Graphic Design, Home Video, Invitation, Party, Photography, Video, Vintage 2299 Views

My birthday has come and gone and I’m yet another year older. Remember back in July when I was trying to think of a theme for my party? Well I had decided that this year I would throw a vintage party! I had such a fun time planing everything. I even sent out invitations in the mail (which I haven’t done since I was a kid). Mail is always fun to get and I don’t think just a Facebook event invitation would really fit well for a vintage party.

We had the party outside at a park. It was a beautiful August day. All my friends came dressed in cute sundresses, bow ties, and button down shirts. We played Lawn games all afternoon, ate homemade Snickerdoodle cake and Butter Button Cookies (made by Jake and I) . We also had fresh watermelon and of course beverages in glass bottles. Here are some pictures my lovely husband took (I took the one of him)

These are the vintage style invitations I designed for my party. I love designing stuff for other people, but there is nothing like creating something for yourself. It can be exactly how you want and you don’t have to worry what anyone else is going to think, just yourself. Jake and I also made mini journal party favors for everyone with printed animal silhouettes on them (tutorial coming soon). 

Jake shot and edited a video of my party too! I love him! It turned out fabulous and really captures the vintage feel and fun time.


A Vintage Birthday from A Pair of Pears on Vimeo
The party was a lot of work but completely worth it. Jake’s birthday is the end of September. Hmmm, better get planing!

For tutorials on how I put together my party go here.

A Pair of Pears Design

Jake Blog Post Design, Gallery, Graphic Design, Website 1178 Views

Well it’s a long time coming, but over the weekend Jamie and I put in about 20 hours of work to officially finish our very first design gallery! You can go check it out by clicking the design button up on the navigation pane, or by clicking here. Here are a few screenshots of a couple of the pages.

Since these pages aren’t part of blogger, I had to recreate the code from scratch. It was definitely a challenge because I’ve never taken any up to date classes on web design. But because I forced myself to get it done and to do it right, I learned SO much in the process that now I want to keep doing it! (Jamie can’t believe I would ever say that).

If you take a look you’ll see that there are a handful of new designs that we’ve never talked about before.  Plus we have projects in the works that we’re very excited about. We are also now offering our design services to all. If you’re interested in having something designed, just shoot us an email at hello@apairofpears.com and we can get you pricing information. There’s just so much new content coming to our blog! We hope you enjoy it!

Featured on August Empress

Jamie Bartlett Blog Post Blog, Design, Graphic Design, Inspiration 1276 Views

Jake and I put a lot of thought into our blog design. It’s come a long way from when we first started the blog and put a banner together in 10 minutes. We’re proud of what we’ve done and we are proud that it was featured on August Empress for the design and color/colour combination. Jo described it as rustic, organic and rich. I think that’s about right. What do you think?

There are 6 blogs featured. Be sure to check them out. They are all really lovely. In fact take a second to mosey around August Empress. I had never heard of it before we were featured, but I think it just made my daily blog list. You can never have too many blogs to read.

Birthday Girl

Jamie Bartlett Blog Post Birthday, Party, Photography 1177 Views

Source: Natalee Rivera

Today is my birthday!!! I think that deserves a few exclamation points. I’m a whopping 23 years old, although I still feel 19. We had my party yesterday. It was such a fun time with friends. The weather was beautiful and everything was just lovely. Jake and his brother Aaron took some good pictures so I’ll be posting some later this week. Tonight Jake is taking me out to dinner and our good friends, Jake and Erika are coming too! My birthday can’t get any better. I’m so blessed.

6 reasons why I love birthdays (all birthdays not just my own)

  1. You’re automatically the winner at any game, or at least people will go easier on you.
  2. You get whatever you want just by saying “but it’s my birthday”
  3. Presents of course
  4. Yummy Cake
  5. A good excuse for a party.
  6. And best of all you feel so loved by all the Happy Birthday wishes.

Finders Keepers: Words of Wisdom

Jamie Bartlett Blog Post Etsy, Finders Keepers, Poster, Typography 901 Views

Source: Departika

It’s the weekend! Do you have any plans? Monday is my Birthday, but we are celebrating it on Sunday with friends. I can’t wait! Jake is going to hopefully make a video and we both will take lots of pictures. I’ll be sure to share them with you sometime next week. It is going to be so fun! Did I mention I love birthdays?

I hope you have a fabulous weekend. Take time to enjoy it! It might even make Monday A little better.

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