"A Good Friend Knows Your Best Life Stories....

...a best friend has lived them with you."

This quote couldn't be more true for me.   

Kellie, Me, Angie--Halloween, Sophmore year.

 

And this is where I get all sappy about my best friends. Meet Angie and Kellie.  We've been through it all together.  Through elementary school to highschool we were practically joined at the hips. We were there for each other through everything, together we experienced all of the fun and trials of growing up.  Many, many of my fondest memories involve them and I love these girls like family--always have, always will.  One of the best parts is that not only were they examples to me growing up (some good, some bad--but hey, we had fun and have great memories!) they've grown up to be incredible women that I truly admire.  I'm so grateful to have them in my life.





While time and "adult life" has allowed less time for us to be as inseparable as we once were, do you want to know what I love most?  I love that when we get together it was as if I just saw them yesterday...like we never missed a moment.  We still get each other.  Even after not seeing one another for months, it seems like we always pick up right where we left off. The second best part? That somewhere inbetween all of that, Kellie always ends up laughing so hard that she cries, and we get odd looks from by-standers.  Everytime.





Angie, Me, Kellie--YW Camp 2000 (ish?)

 Kellie and I are now married, and tomorrow it's Angie's turn...which brings me to the reason for this post (aside from my nagging need to be sappy about my awesome friends).

 Angie deserves the best ( I would know, I was joined at her hip for the majority of her life, remember?) & I'm so glad she's found someone to give her that and make her happy.
 

I was so excited to get to design Angie's wedding announcement and get to be a part of her big day in that way.  Of course, having beautiful wedding colors--purple, green and ivory--makes my job easy.

So, with no further a-do, here it is.  Best wishes to Angie and Clay as they start their new journey together!

A Quick Catch-Up

It's been quite a long time since I've blogged. Since starting my full-time job doing graphic design it seems time flies by quicker than ever before. I am really loving my job --who knew you could LIKE a job?!--and have been learning so much in just the few short months that I have been there. It's been crazy busy there and already I have designed 30-ish book covers, a cookbook, and currently working on a party ideas book...among others.

Even with being so busy at work I have found some time on the side to continue a few freelance projects, which is fun because the creativity is entirely up to me.

I recently designed a logo for "Yakity-Yack", an online company that advertises local business. The company owner, Laurie, was great to work with and had great ideas to use in getting the logo design started. I love the retro-like feel of the logo. The colors are eye-catchingly bold and definitely have an "advertising" appeal to them.

Another project was a baby shower invite. The shower was for my friend Heather's sister-in-law. We did a blue, green, and brown color scheme to match the party details, and threw in a couple of fun zoo animals.

A t-shirt design has been in the works for an LDS Stake in Colorado. It's based on the poster design I did for 2012 YW theme, and the stake young women will be using them for their Camp shirts this year.

The other t-shirt design I've been working on was for Easter Fest 2012. Easter Fest happened this past weekend and was an ATV riding shin-dig put on by some of my family in Blanding. It was a ton of fun and we're hoping to make it an annual thing. Of course, no event is official without a t-shirt. (Back of shirt shown).

Also in the works is a wedding invite for one of my very best friends, but it deserves a post all of it's own...to come soon.