young love

The latest of Sylvie and Nick from happy little heart.

I'm excited to be getting more in the shop once this crazy holiday season is over.

Alexis + Brian

Gosh I love love. And I love weddings. And I love drawing wedding dresses!

I wanted to give a little shout out to Alexis and Brian on their six month anniversary today, woot woot!!  Happy anniversary you lovebirds!! I hope you have a lovely celebration and that today just gets you more excited about all the adventures to come. Cheers!

Kelly + Clint

 

Lately I have been working on getting things ready for my etsy shop, happy little heart. One of the items I've been most excited about offering is custom portraits of couples. 

These two lovebirds, Kelly and Clint, just tied the knot in July! Kelly was a friend of mine in high school that I've been able to reconnect with and I must say our rekindled friendship has revealed the true beauty of social media. Kelly has a beautiful heart and an attitude of honesty that you can see in her blog where she shares the awkward and awesome bits of everyday life :)

I hope everyone's enjoying the change of seasons! I'll be announcing the opening of happy little heart soon soon so keep your eye peeledddd

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The season for weddings has arrived! I get the feeling it's going to continue on for the rest of my life.. which is pretty exciting :)

This September will be the celebration of two friends of ours, Sam + Angel.  These two have such beautiful creative hearts for the Lord and it's been such a privilege getting to know them more over the last few years. I know God has some big plans for them and I can't wait to see it all unfold.

As a way to raise money for the big day Sam and Angel have set up a online store where they are selling limited edition prints of their work and their friends work. You can find this piece and other fun work there. I also wanted to encourage you to check out their beautiful website www.samlovesangel.com. These two worked together to illustrate 'their story' and they did a fabulous job, so go peek!! :)

new series!

Hello hello! Hope everyone's been having a great and glorious summer :)

It's been awhile since I've posted so I wanted to give you a quick late night update:
Twirling Skirts of Magic finished up mid July right before my beautiful sister-in-love's wedding + my birthday + family vacations. The first dummy book has been printed and Esther and I couldn't be more excited!! A big big thanks to everyone who helped make this book a reality. This wouldn't have been possible without you. Keep an eye out, I'll be posting some of the work from the book on here soon! For now here's a sneak peek of my new series "my love for you is..."

boy + girl

something I've been meaning to share!!

Just this week I found out Stanley and I's wedding was featured on the beautiful wedding site Style Me Pretty!

It's such a blessing to have the opportunity to share our day with individuals from all kinds of different places. The wedding was quite an adventure! (and sometimes I say my greatest piece of work so far :P ). The planning was fun and difficult and exciting and a little stressful. But ultimately the whole day ended up being a masterpiece. Better than I could have ever planned. It was beautiful seeing all these people (family, friends, vendors) come together to celebrate our love and get excited about all God has in store for us. 

For pictures from the day from the amazing Kristen Marie, video from the wonderful duo at Lucky Lemon Films, and a bit more wedding ranting from me take a quick trip to Style Me Pretty.

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grounded in love

grounded: mentally and emotionally stable : admirably sensible, realistic, and unpretentious

Marriage was the first thing to come to my mind when I read through this definition of grounded :)

Recently a friend asked me if I will ever get out of this "wedding phase" that I've gotten into since planning my own wedding. 

I don't think I ever will. 

I'm just captivated by the purity and beauty that is present when two people choose to love each other forever.

So for this week's Illustration Friday I chose a bride and groom whose relationship is grounded on unconditional love.

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