This weekend at the market, I spotted these mini eggplants. I’d never heard of them before, so I picked up a few to try. They are so tiny – only a couple of inches long!

For reference, the dish I put them in is the same dish I used for the donut peaches.

We recently completed these custom house sketch moving announcements. Drawing the cacti was fun + a first for us!

How was your weekend? Mine was pretty good. My family was in town and we had a wonderful visit. We enjoyed breakfast at my favorite breakfast place. For Mother’s Day, I got this sweet card from Em. It was handwritten by her [with my husband's help]. And the sweetest part? When I told Em, “I love you,” she responded all by herself + without being told what to say, “I love you, too.”

Looking for a quick + easy Mother’s Day card? Hop on over to Hellobee to download a free DIY handprint card for Mother’s Day + Father’s Day. Enjoy!

Hope you have a great weekend!

Like last year, we handed out letterpress printed wish cards for Em’s second birthday party. Guests wrote down their words + wishes for Em. And like last year, after the party, we really enjoyed reading them and tucked the cards into Em’s memory box for safekeeping.

We hung two huge lilac balloons behind the dessert table. We ordered a two tier cake from Polkadots Cupcake Factory. The bottom layer mimicked purple crayon scribble.

There were purple macarons from La Pâtisserie. And, there was pie. Lots of pie. There were all nine kinds of pie pops that Emily loved best.

Her fabulous party hat was custom made from Dainty Couture.

We reused the Starbucks bottles from her first birthday party. And, after many, many unsuccessful tries, we finally found the perfect purple drink and popped in purple straws.

I picked up several purple, lavender + magenta flowers from a local grocery store and arranged them in white vases we either already owned or we had thrifted.

For the decor, I sketched a similar scene from the book and framed it. To add a little 3-D element, we fashioned the hot air balloon from magenta yarn and a spray painted kraft container. In other areas around the house, we hung Em’s monthly pictures and an art piece Em drew using multiple shades of purple crayons. We also hung a happy birthday banner that we revised to fit her color theme.

In a kitchen drawer, my cousin happened to find a vintage cupcake topper with two purple crayons on it. Fate, right?! We used it for Em’s slice of cake.

For the kids, there was lots of coloring. On a long roll of white butcher paper, I drew out several scenes for them to color. We also played the Pilot episode of Harold and the Purple Crayon on the tv for the kids to watch.

There was also a purple moon pull string piñata filled with purple crayon erasers, purple bubbles, purple bracelets, purple dinosaurs, purple frogs and sparkly purple stickers.

All in all, the party was a success! A big thank you to everyone who came to her party + celebrated with us. Em is a lucky little girl to have you all in her life!

These beautiful + genius mini ombre cakes are from the same brilliant baker behind the pink ombre swirl cake I blogged about last year. The genius part? These minis are made with cookie cutters!!

photo via Glorious Treats

Inside, an invite and a little white envelope were bound together with lilac and orchid twine. Using a white mini clothespin, her second birthday picture was attached to the twine and all the pieces were placed inside a purple crinkle paper filled box.

We letterpress printed the invitations in two colors – a beet purple, like the color Harold uses in the book, and a soft, pinkish purple which we used to mimic drawing on the invitations.

Along with the invitation, we included a washi taped envelope that contained two purple crayons. The invitation invited everyone over for cake + coloring.

So, there you have it. Em’s second birthday party invitations for her purple crayon party!

Loving these sweet Doodle Pants on Zulily today. It’s bittersweet knowing Em is too big to fit into them. My little girl is growing up!

It’s here! Our new website! Over the last few months we’ve worked so hard on it. Not only designing it, but implementing the site design ourselves, too – something a bit out of my comfort zone as a print designer. However, we really wanted to tackle it on our own so that we could update it more frequently adding more pictures and swapping out old ones as we design + print new fabulous projects.

On our new site, you’ll notice we have a new logo. How do you like it? Plus, we added new content like an about page and a more thorough contact page.

To celebrate the launch of our new site, you can use code LAUNCH2012 to take 12% off your ready-made order in our etsy store until Friday, May 4. Enjoy!