Font of the Week: Aphrodite

While Jen has been enjoying the sun and surf in Costa Rica this week I found myself aimlessly wondering around the internet and getting caught up (or caught in) the many blogs that I have been neglecting this past month. Today, I opened my inbox and found an email about "Top Headlines in Design". I clicked on it hoping to get some words of wisdom to jump-start my creative juices. Not really finding the inspiration I was looking for, I noticed a link that directed me to new Wordpress themes, which led to google webfonts, which led to myfonts.com, which led to.... well you get the picture. Two hours later and multiple rabbit holes of links, I ended up getting sucked into endless pages of font eye candy. Some may say this is a waste of time, but as a designer it's pure bliss.

So, I figured I'd share the wealth and direct you to the new font I just downloaded. (Sidenote: I'm truly my father's daughter and tend to bargain shop, even when it comes to fonts, so I hit the freebies and sales first.) Low and behold my cheapness paid off and I found this diamond in the rough on the sale page. This striking font is called Aphrodite. Jen and I both love • love • love swirly opulent fonts that are classy, but not too stuffy or cutesy.


You can find it on myfonts.com and it's only $12.00! (My dad would be so proud.) There are tons of other free fonts on the same site and many of them have a combo deals for text & web fonts. They update the sales pretty regularly, so keep an eye out for our new favorite font next week.

~LGT

Quickie: Inspiration Monday (a few days late)

Fanueil Hall inspired these lovely Boston-themed Save The Dates we recently created for a client. The wedding will be held in Bean Town this summer and the couple wanted an modern, fresh look for the city's landmark.

Inspirational Pic

Final Save The Date

Royal Fun

Just a little something fun we found on the interweb to commemorate the lovely marriage of Will and Kate. Since we are all about invites, paper, and pretty things here at FP, we thought this Create Your Own Royal Stamp on Facebook not only tied into lovely business (even if it is by a really weak thread) but it was too funny and ridiculous to not pass on to others. Besides, we can't take this wedding that seriously, can we?

Once you click on the link you have to "like" people.com on Facebook. Yes, you'll get all kinds of up-to-the-minute gossip about Lindsay Lohan's latest court date and Kim Kardashian's newest diet fads, but we promise (if the pictures below are any indication of the results you'll get) it's well worth getting all that junk in your newsfeed.

Lisa looking so regal.

Jen, a natural Grace Kelly.

We all should feel like a queen for at least one day, so you might as well commemorate it with a stamp you can keep forever.

update alert!

We've been busy and our lack of posting is proving it. Baby announcements, birthday parties, and weddings have been taking up most of our time lately, but on top of all the custom work we've been cranking on, we've also been making some headway with our retail cards. 2 new stores have picked up our cards as of this week: Star Provisions, on the West side of Atlanta and WE ARE 1976 in Dallas Texas! We love, love, love these stores and couldn't be happier that we are in two, really rad places.

Pictures courtesy of taigainfinds.com

Star Provisions is a lovely farm-to-table store/ lunch-y kind of place. They have a bakery, a cheese shop, a butcher, artisan coffees and awesome sandwiches. On top of it, their little store has all hand-made goods from around the area. If you are ever in the mood for a falafel, this is the place to get it.

Pictures courtesy of furfaceboy.com and weare1976.com

WE ARE 1976 is the kind of store we would love to own one day... if we ever wanted to own a store. Vintage wares, local artists and fun toys make this place a treasure trove of awesome sauciness. They have a fun blog and new updates of in-store products online if you want to make the trek to Dallas.

The Wedding Game

This weekend is going to be an exciting one for us ladies of Farewell Paperie. Our good friend, Molly (and author of the Nesting Game), is tying the knot on Saturday! This not only means that Jen and I will be in the SAME CITY for a few days (watch out Atlanta, here we come!), but we'll be witnessing two of our favorite people getting married ... annnnnnddddd, we'll finally get to revel in the lovely wedding decor that Molly has been working so diligently on for the past few months.

This wedding is going to look spectacular because, well, Molly, the style guru and Taylor, the graphic designer, obviously know what they're doing if their Save the Date is any indication of what's to come. Jen and I have ooohed and ahhhhed over those Save The Dates, and couldn't wait to post about their wedding invites, but thought it best to hold out until the week of their wedding so our heads didn't explode from all the gushing. So until we get to the wedding and take countless photos of all their fabu decor, you guys will have to settle with the invites for now - just like we have... but the count down had begun and I'm sure there will be much to blog about after Saturday.

Even the envelopes were designed to the hilt.

I've never opened an invitation that smelled so fresh. What a great idea to incorporate rosemary into the invitation!

The full wedding suite.

The attention to detail was beautiful.

Even the backside of the invitation had a lovely pattern on it!

~LGT

You're Incog-NEAT-O!

You may ask, "Is this mustache craze getting out of hand?". Our rebuttal, "No way, Jose." In fact, we think facial hair is making a huge come back and we love it. (even if it's not actually on anyone's face.)

Photos courtesy of pinterest.com

Take for instance Tom Selleck. Remember when he showed up on FRIENDS as Monica's love interest and he was sans mustache? We thought it was an outrage. And let's not even get into Alex Trebek. We all know he'd be look way more suave if he hadn't shaved his upper lip hair.

Photos courtesy of listoplenty.com

To commemorate our love for the Handlebar, the Fu Man Chu, and the Walrus, we created a letterpress card that helps anyone sport a sweet mustache in 2.2 seconds. Ladies and gents, we present the INCOG-NEAT-O card. Send this bad boy to all your friends that could only wish for a mustache like Ron Burgandy. Or "wear" it yourself and be able to finally spy on your cute neighbor with peace of mind. As always it's letterpressed onto lovely Crane Lettra paper and comes in two different envelope colors - green and orange.

We'd think it would be fun to create a facebook page full of fans proudly wearing their mustache cards. So if you buy one of these puppers, send us a quick pic and we can link you to the page. Don't worry, we won't give out names or anything. You'll be incognito... get it???

Spring Fever

These last few weeks in Atlanta have finally begun to show signs of spring. The days are getting longer, chirping birds are waking me in the morning, and our neighbors are planting pansies in their yards. For those of you living up north, you are probably cursing me right now for even mentioning such things. But as a northern transplant, I'm still amazed every year how early spring shows up in the South and I couldn't be happier about it.

It's also around this time of year that Jen and I are reminded what spring is really about–BABIES. Baby showers, baby announcements, babies' birthdays... If it's about a little one, we are working on it right now. This past week we created a baby shower invitation for a dear friend of ours, who was hosting a couples shower. In typical FP style we used fun fabrics and a new stitch to create an invitation that we thought really captured the essence of spring.







Be on the look out for more FP baby stationery goodness in the next few weeks ANNND stay tuned for a big announcement coming soon!

~LGT