croutons seasoned with love

As you can tell, by the lack of posts lately, we've been quite busy. It is the season, I believe, and we're feeling it and loving it. In a year of economic turmoil, it's surprising that we're having one of the busiest seasons of blue skies and daisies' almost 6 years of life.

I'll be posting some of the work we've been creating for couples getting married in the near future but for now you'll just have to believe my words. They are BEAUTIFUL.

Speaking of beautiful, did you know you can send someone a voice message and also video message through email? Dana showed me. It's called voicebeep from voicebeep.com

We'll chat soon.

Music to listen to

Today I'm gonna post a few female singer/songwriters. They do have such lovely voices.

1. Liz Durrett - Myspace


2. Hanne Hukkelberg - Myspace



3. Rachel Goodrich - myspace

Freedom Art Therapy with REINE

You may have heard a thing or two about Reine Mihlta, the extraordinary photographer/artist. If not, you should! She's quite brilliant.

Albertine forwarded me her latest venture called Freedom Art Therapy. She will bring out your inner creativity and instruct you on how to do it and do it well. If I was in Vancouver and could afford it, I'd be all about it. The best part is, you can accomplish art therapy with your friends! I love it.

New Addition to the Family

Her name is Peerless Gem and she's new around these here parts. It took 18 hours to get this paper cutter settled in from Calgary to Fernie and lots of hours discussing how we're going to take this 1000 lb, 100 year old paper cutter off the back of Rod's truck.

We woke up Sunday morning to this outside our window and kinda wanted to cry...


Rod and I looked at each other absolutely baffled and confused.

"HUN!"

Finally, we called a few strong bulls over to work with us as a team. It worked flawlessly, other than the 30 minutes where we couldn't find one of the wheels that Rod had mysteriously put down somewhere. We found it though, sneaky Rod!

And that's when the real excitement began. I've never seen twenty-something year olds SO excited about a paper cutter. It was like Christmas for them and all they were doing was cutting a phone book into many many pieces and then cheering...like a dog with newspaper.

OHHH I did loved their excitement! It made all the stress worth it. It's a fairly rusty machine at the moment but I'll be putting in some elbow grease time to transform it from a 1910 to a 2010 model. People will see it and be like "ohhh is that a new Peerless Gem? I didn't think they were making them anymore"

And I will smile inside.

you gotta see this wedding dress...

I'm not sure how I got into regularly checking Jasmine photography's blog, which doesn't really matter, but a few days ago I was looking through her recent work and saw this dress! It's such a cool wedding dress! The beautiful wedding photography only makes it look even more sexy and beautiful. I think my mother would be proud to know that I even noticed a dress and called it beautiful.

For more of Lucia and John's wedding photos, and to check out Jasmine's other amazing photos, take this portal.

blue skies and daisies around the world

Somewhat hidden on our website is a page where we post fun comments from our couples (we tend to leave the pretty rare not so nice comments extremely hidden) and a little map about where those couples are from. Most people assume we work only with couples in Vancouver but the truth is most of our couples are from all over North America and a smaller percent are international. It's pretty cool working with people living on different continents. We've even been invited to a few weddings outside of Canada. How cool would that be!? OHH to be an international wedding photographer! Now THAT would be fun.

Dwight "Slippers" Schenk

My big brother recently recorded a solo album and I can't tell you how proud I am of him. His music is so inspiring to me, not just because he's my brother, but because he writes songs that are 100% Dwight. He didn't hold back or wimp out on any of the songs on this album. I know it took him a long long time to finish this, maybe close to 2 years, and you can tell that he put a lot of care into it.

Myspace - Dwight Schenk, Natural Disasters

This is a solo album but he didn't shy away from working with others. There are a lot of contributing musicians and singers on the album. Have a listen.

featured bsd wedding : february : carrie and bradley

The Details
Location: The Woodlands, Texas, USA
Venue: The Woodlands Waterway Marriot Hotel
Photographer: K&C Photography
Our involvement: Custom invitations, wedding website, place card stickers, menu cards, program cards, guestbook cards, decorative craft paper.

Carrie and Bradley worked with us exclusively via email back in 2005 (wow that seemed like yesterday) and the world wide web. It worked perfectly and we wish we could have had the opportunity to meet them as they were a hoot (as my dad would say.)

The stationery order just got bigger and bigger over time, which happens often when couples get a better grasp of what we are capable of doing. What I appreciate most is working with people who believe in our work and trust us enough to know and believe in their heart that they WILL receive their order when we're done and it will look beautiful. Carrie and Bradley believe in us.

... read more here