Calling all Chicago readers!  Tara from In This Instance alerted me to a must-see this weekend – the quarterly DEPART-ment gift market.  All handmade goods and only for three days.  Here’s the info:

the holiday DEPART-ment is this weekend! 

please join us for the next DEPART-ment, just in time for the holidays! we have everything you’ve come to love, plus new …

Thank you to Abby over at Style Me Pretty for mentioning Elizabeth Anne Designs in her post today on Reader’s Wedding Blogs.

You can find the post here – please take a look… and read the other amazing blogs that she’s highlighting!

We are so flattered!

Christmas is the one time of year I think about jewelry (until next year that is when bridal jewelry will be first and foremost in my mind for a few weeks I’m sure).  We have cocktail parties to attend and gifts to buy.  And we all want to wear or give something unique. 

Kincaidesigns fits the bill.  Holly makes lovely handmade …

Today we’re featuring PaperFish. Kirsty sews up adorable kitschy gifts. My favorite are (of course) the bride and groom pins. They come with ribbon to easily transform into glass markers. Perfect for a shower or party.

And some more….

Enjoy browsing!

If you’re in the Southeast, it is sometimes hard to find a photographer willing to go outside of the “now stand with your mother and father, a little to the left, there you go. no we don’t give you electronic copies of your photographs” type of wedding photographer. Enter, Jason Wallis Weddings. He’s willing to play it up a little, …

I love making mini albums and other types of books using chipboard.  Most of the time I use pretty scrapbook papers for the cover and lining, which works very well and makes very crisp, precise corners.  But there’s no substitute for bookcloth!  After being very frustrated on a recent project by finding bookcloth that a) wasn’t incredibly expensive and b) exactly …

My Gocco, that is. I need a project to break it in – any ideas? Best idea receives 10 free sets of whatever I make, including envelopes! The only rules – it has to be a single screen, since it’s my first project, and less than 4×6 in size. You can either send designs to elizabeth at elizabethannedesigns dot com …

I found Michelle Doll Cakes today and thought I would pass it on. I’m loving this black and white creation.

And these are some of my other favorites…

Searching for a photographer has by far been the most frustrating and difficult decision for me in planning my vow renewal. I’m sure this is because my one regret about eloping the first time is not having photos of us with our friends! So obviously I have been scouring photographer’s blogs and websites and here are some of my FAVORITE …

Rebecca from White Aisle is sponsoring a fantastic project to aid women working in Cambodian brothels.  These young women were forced to enter the sex trade industry at an early age and have the freedom to leave but have no money.  Rebecca has partnered with a training facility in Phnom Penh to give them a chance to earn income and hopefully a …