AuTour Du Monde

On Monday December 10th I planned and hosted two events. Both at an Ethnic/French Cuisine Restaurant in Clinton Hill called AuTour Du Monde.

Autour Du Monde is French for 'around the world'. Considering the menu, I would say 'around the world' is quite fitting. To obtain a sense of what niche the chef wanted to fulfill, he offered me his signature Duck Quesadilla smothered in Zucchini Tomato Salsa. It had a unique yet comforting taste.



Champagne glasses ready to go, YUM.



Council Member Letitia James was in attendance along with PACC to lend their support to ATDM owners.



AuTour Du Monde is located at 860 Fulton Street at the corner of Clinton Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant. They are open daily at 8 a.m. and serve breakfast, lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch. Email me for a pdf of their menu or for media inquiries.

Corporate Holiday Invites

Opinions?

My First Boarding Pass.

In the spirit of one of my favorite past times, traveling, I created an
airline boarding pass shaped Birthday card for my mom. Living in London
during the British invasion, she is an avid Beatles fan. I am looking
forward to seeing the The
Beatles LOVE Show. Using Publisher and Adobe Acrobat,
creating the template was sooo easy. No really, anyone who is skilled
in MS Office can do it...Designing each page (colors, uniqueness) was
something different though.

The first page is the cover:



The second is the accommodations page:




The show that we would be visiting Sin City for:




The Itinerary:




I have designed a jacket
for the ticket using the background image from the MGM Signature
website. For design info or to buy the template, please feel
free to email me or comment.

Tyese and Craig Day

On September 15th i had the pleasure of being the "day of" coordinator for Tyese and Craig. The theme, "A Match Made in Brooklyn". Everything was out of this world on a classy and sophisticated level. Tyese shared some pictures with me, I chose to post the ones with details I had a hand in:

The invitations made by moi:




The cake set in the distance is the actual cake (yes that is a cake with the Brooklyn bridge attached to it!):



The menu cards that doubled as reception programs at each place setting (view the scan here:



Honorable Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn borough president was invited and in turn sent over a proclamation that it was "Craig and Tyese" day...i will try to get the groom to take a picture of it for me.

Allison take 3

another spin on the project for Allison and Tobin

Tamborils

Whoo Hooo, let me tell you! As an event planner the most favorite thing to do is to get complimentary tastings and goodies from vendors. Today i went to Tamborils right here in Brooklyn.

It was a "taste explosion". I asked the Chef, Yvette, to marry me.

I had cod fish fritters with a tamarind dip, Crab cakes with roasted peppers sauce, Salmon with a coconut tomato paste...Simply amazing and creative food combinations. The fusion element is definitely present. I am currently trying to schedule a holiday Christmas party there. email me for more info.

Lovie

I don't really delve into my personal life to much as i want it to be clear; I prefer only my crafts to be blogged about here. But, shortly after I did the Mike and Juliet Show, I got a job offer as the Press and Events Manager at a non profit organization. One of my new coworkers is throwing a baby shower and requested my help. heres a draft of the invite.

Allisson take 2

I am always up for a challenge...I thrive on challenges. It is with great pleasure that I may have come up with something for Allisson and Tobin's skyline invite. After i sent her the image, I realize that reminds me of the intro to Frasier. I am crossing my fingers, that this alternative is a "go".

My prior design may have been a bit unbalanced (see below).

test

::tap:: ::tap:: is this thing on?

spell with flickr

Joeys monogram...

Joey requested some monograms for her upcoming wedding planning. the colors are Merlot, Aqua, and Coral.







Blogger is not cooperating with the upload...click here to see the rest on my monograms page.

Artsy Style Bridge Invite

So I am putting together an invite for a Beautiful Couple that contacted me. It has been really challenging as they are requesting something so unique! I am always up for the challenge. this is the draft version of the sample and I will be aiming to perfect it over the next day or so.



with the details:



Their colors are aqua and chocolate. They like the brooklyn bridge theme and wanted to incorporate the manhattan skyline as this sums up the locations of their wedding and reception. the skyline is pure my drawing but the bridge is a rendering from a picture. trying to merge two different elements so they fit just right has been interesting but i think im getting closer...I think the aqua borders help to blend the images. what do you think?

Tyese and Craigs Wedding!

Last Saturday I had the opportunity to be the Day of Coordinator for the most beautiful state side wedding i have ever been to! I don't have much details from the actual day because they are in Paris on their honeymoon. When they come back, we can hopefully put some of their proofs of the details up.

Heres the reception menu cards that i designed, which doubled as a program. Tyese really dressed it up, this scan doesn't do it justice:



The Bride and Groom wrote each other poetry throughout their engagement which was fashioned into a book and I encouraged them to "autograph" it.
(pictures will follow shortly). In the meantime, here's a link to Craig's last haiku before they said their vows. They are so sweet on each other : )

"Our Wedding Day" an entry from The Snap Clap

A Monogram for Breianna

Breianna and Keith are getting married in Cancun. The Bride is looking for a couple of monograms with different "feels" to them. She and Keith are incorporating stargazer lilies with rose and sage but first lets see if she likes the schematic of this one. Hope you like Breianna!


with more punch to the color:

Nicole needs a monogram...

...So we decided to go with something playful in a pool and tangerine color scheme. When I create a monogram I like to make it so that it can be used on a favor tag for cute and funky things or even a letterhead for stationery and dainty thank you notes. Here are the two I came up with:

Formal version, which can be used for a letterhead, return address labels, etc.



The playful monogram, which is similar to the sunset at the palms invite I did is a nice touch for save the date logos, website graphics, favor/gift tagging:

Link to the Mike and Juliet show from Thursday.

Alot of people from the online communities haven't seen the show. heres the link:

http://www.mandjshow.com/videos/left-at-the-altar

some stills from the episode:

hmmm people are looking...

A few guys that have seen the show, approached me and would like to know if I am single...

Also I ve been getting a few more hits, well i shouldn't say a "few", view for yourself:


I really appreciate the love. I think i will retire now it is a quarter to 6. had to give props where they are due.

Seahorse for Landra

This evening I helped out a friend. Landra wanted to upgrade her wedding monogram. She is getting married in Jamaica (MoBay)...I have to take my vacation soon.

Before:

After:

Same idea but with the original horse:I hope you like Landra!! I am building up the portfolio in an attempt to reconstruct the website. Please don't hesitate if you want your monogram made by me.

my invite template

here are the ones that started them all...
these are images of the invites that went out for my wedding. these are make overs, not from the original batch.

the save the date:

Its a tea length (#10 envelope) canvas panel with ribbon and backed with handmade lilac floral card stock. inserted into a handmade mini pocket. It kinda resembles a plane ticket, no??






The invitation:

This is a 5 and a half inch pochette, hand made of course. with a canvas panel backed with floral paper. This invite closes like an envelope and ties with ribbon.




Gorgeous aren't they!??