tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61201916456008569102024-03-12T23:33:35.542-05:002BSquared DesignsMusings, inspirations and daily design blog. 2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.comBlogger308125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-46164950836239396642013-05-12T10:29:00.000-05:002013-05-12T10:29:13.380-05:00Reboot. Rebrand. Rebirth. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are three things I love in life, my family, good
coffee and pretty paper. But I have to be honest with you, lately I have been
having a really hard time keeping up with them all. Trying to balance between
my kids, my marriage and my business... not to mention some semblance of a
social life. It's been really hard and well, I am kinda falling down on the job
over here. So after considerable thought, maybe some hair pulling, okay a lot
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First change is the end of this blog. Let's face it. Blogging is hard work and well... I am just not all that good with it. Second change well... head on over to <a href="http://www.thatgirlpress.com/" target="_blank">That Girl Press</a> and see for yourself. </div>
2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-50739464680187634412013-04-28T07:39:00.000-05:002013-04-28T07:39:02.431-05:00The University Iowa scores another one!Recently my sister-in-law asked me to create graduation announcements for my nephew. I of course was honored. Made me sad too. So hard to imagine this little guy all grown up and headed off to college. He's following his brother to University of Iowa so there is some hidden humour in the announcement and of course a Hawkeye!<br />
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2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-39610918568649363092013-04-27T14:57:00.001-05:002013-04-27T15:22:49.347-05:00West Elm and Minted<div style="clear: both;">
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I've been itching to try my hand at photography and the latest opportunity over at <a href="http://www.minted.com/" target="_blank">Minted</a> was the perfect chance. Check out my art prints <a href="http://www.minted.com/design-rating/87351" target="_blank">Clouded in Mystery</a> and <a href="http://www.minted.com/design-rating/87426" target="_blank">Branchin Out</a> styled with some <a href="http://www.westelm.com/" target="_blank">West Elm</a> goodies.</div>
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<a href="http://www.minted.com/board/1328683?utm_source=embeds&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=board_embed" style="color: #8aad3a;" title="Organic West Elm">Organic West Elm</a> board by <a href="http://www.minted.com/designer/2bsquared?utm_source=embeds&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=board_embed" style="color: #8aad3a;" title="2BSquared Designs">2BSquared Designs</a>. See more <a href="http://www.minted.com/art-prints?utm_source=embeds&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=board_embed" style="color: #8aad3a;" title="Minted art prints">Minted art prints</a></div>
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Is is just me or does something about gingham make you think CUTE? Perhaps it's my Southern roots but show me a gingham bow tie and it conjures images of slightly fidgety, bordering on unruly but incredibly cute boys. Big ones and little one and most definitely Southern ones. So when I found these stupendously awesome classic <strong>gingham bow ties</strong> from <a href="http://www.bourbonandboots.com/store/products/gingham-bow-ties-and-pocket-squares/" target="_blank"><strong>The Cordial Churchman</strong></a><strong> --</strong> I thought, I know what somebodies wearing for Easter. Sadly the youngest has flat out refused but the eldest rocked his last weekend for a school function. I won't lie, I was one proud momma. </div>
2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-16828558026898491372013-03-16T07:41:00.001-05:002013-03-31T06:18:53.864-05:00Inspiration Board: Rustic Wedding<div style="clear: both;">
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<br />2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-88837559201991550532013-03-15T17:41:00.002-05:002013-03-31T06:16:06.230-05:00Inspiration Board: Modern Prep<div style="clear: both;">
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<a href="http://www.minted.com/board/1295930?utm_source=embeds&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=board_embed" style="color: #8aad3a;" title="The Big Match">The Big Match</a> board by <a href="http://www.minted.com/designer/2bsquared?utm_source=embeds&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=board_embed" style="color: #8aad3a;" title="2BSquared Designs">2BSquared Designs</a>. See more <a href="http://www.minted.com/wedding-invitations?utm_source=embeds&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=board_embed" style="color: #8aad3a;" title="unique wedding invitations">unique wedding invitations</a></div>
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<img border="0" height="1" src="http://www.minted.com/board/log?uuid=76d92336a5a449348928a9ff32df2097&id=1295930&name=The%20Big%20Match&search_term=unique%20wedding%20invitations" width="1" />2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-79598052251409691182013-03-01T06:05:00.000-06:002013-03-01T06:05:01.024-06:00Font Friday: Kids EditionA little spring cleaning yielded some beloved childrens books. Kids reread the books. I eyeballed the fonts. So for font friday...
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Love the fonts? Me too! Love the illustrations more? Yeah, I hear ya screamin! Check out more of Kyle Jones amazing work <a href="http://work.justkyle.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-64388133606522298802013-02-27T12:11:00.000-06:002013-02-27T12:11:26.705-06:00Laughter is the best medicine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="userContent">Created these for a friend because sometimes the only answer is to laugh so it doesnt hurt. </span>2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-79082957685823339632013-02-26T12:04:00.001-06:002013-02-28T06:06:57.898-06:00Design Sneak Peak: Seaside<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am tired of waiting for summer so I created a little piece of my own. Introducing my newest wedding suite <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/124797814/seaside-wedding-invitation" target="_blank">Seaside</a>.2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-77979827264787360882013-02-21T15:35:00.000-06:002013-02-21T15:35:21.369-06:00Hello beautiful<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>photography courtesy of</em></span><a href="http://www.littlemoonphotography.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em> little moon photography</em></span></a></div>
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My first bride to baby experience! Loved them as a bride and groom and so honored they came back to me to share their little one with the world. </div>
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2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-68865818514775865002013-01-20T09:01:00.001-06:002013-01-20T09:05:11.838-06:00Txtng and drvng = noSo it finally happened. I drove and caved into the unfathomable notion that I could text while driving too. Now for the average person, that's toying with danger. For anyone who knows me and my driving skills, that's like lighting a match in room full of gas. It's going to blow in your face and its not going to pretty.
Thankfully I DID avoid creaming the car in front of me but it was close--really close --and by the single digit consideration I got from the driver he saw what I was doing and didnt like it one bit. Sigh. So not cool. Know what is cool? The graphic inspiration from Fiat's Don't Text and Drive Campaign to not ever do it again!<br />
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2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-80762944425562510522013-01-19T08:46:00.001-06:002013-01-19T08:46:26.794-06:00Not your average dress<div style="text-align: center;">
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Yes, a dress made of balloons. Japanese artist Rie Hosokai of <a href="http://www.daisyballoon.com/" target="_blank">daisy balloon</a> builds elaborate dresses by custom 'knitting' white balloons to gradually build a fragile but totally wearable frock. Not for everyone but still very, very cool. </div>
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2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-77804381739686737222013-01-19T08:32:00.000-06:002013-02-21T13:35:39.010-06:00Up Up and Away<br />
Happy Belated New Year! I know. I know! I meant to do this great send up of 2012 but well... I hung out with my family, ate too much of my mother in laws fantastic cooking and drank alot of vino instead. Trust me. It was way better for both of us. <br />
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2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-38977654044640551322012-12-17T07:24:00.002-06:002012-12-17T07:26:31.089-06:00A not so very merry<div style="text-align: center;">
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Okay so my mailbox is starting to stack up with lots of pretty little envelopes filled with impossibly gorgeous photos of families exclaiming<em> </em>Joy, Merry Merry and Peace and Goodwill to all. As a greeting card designer... you'd think this would not illicit sweaty palms, panic or cold sweats. Ordinarily you'd be right. But you see this year... I fell a little behind. OKAY! I fell alot behind and didn't get to my own cards until super duper late. And because I was operating on design fumes this year, my cards are not only not overly inspiring in the design department, I sorta also forgot to put a very merry of any kind on them. <br />
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So dear reader if you happen to find, in your mailbox, a lovely picture of an oddly matched but not unattractive family of four at the beach minus a warm holiday hello. Please flip that baby over for a hastily dashed but a warmly sent very merry. </div>
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2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-41834252599296192792012-12-14T12:47:00.002-06:002012-12-14T12:47:43.168-06:00The Case of the Traveling Pants<div style="text-align: center;">
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December is the craziest month of the year in my house. Aside from the fact that, I always feel like I am still stuffed from thanksgiving, lo and behold suddenly my days are supposed to be merry AND bright. Seriously. Wasn't Thanksgiving like yesterday? And just in case I am not quite one black Friday away from shopping overload it's also happens to be both my sons and my nephews birthdays. So it’s not only crazy, it ridiculously expensive. And just in case your wondering... nope we didnt even space all that shopping goodness out. The birthdays fall just days before and days after Christmas. Throw in a blooming little design business with last minute wedding and holiday orders ( all while prepping for a 10 hr road trip over the hills and thru the woods to Grandmas house) and by mid December I'm so broke, tired and foggy, a major meltdown of epic proportions is only a roll of forgotten wrapping paper away. </div>
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Or in this years case. You single handedly manage to purchase, wrap, unwrap, repurchase and wrap the wrong pants, not once but twice. Whose got that kind of skill? Apparently, this girl. *cue the jazz hands* UGH. This month of all months, should be filled with joyous celebration, instead it's ripe with vicious paper cuts and gift woes. Next year. I am starting early. Like Easter. </div>
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So I have a confession to make... I have most recently come to the conclusion that my creative juices may have come to a screeching halt. I am not sure when the tap may have actually turned off but after careful review of my last entries in the <a href="http://www.minted.com/winners" target="_blank">Perfect Match Minted Challenge</a>, I'm pretty sure it was just about....there.</div>
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What I had hoped was inspired was questionable. What I had hoped was modern looked half finished. My attempt at watercolors looked like a third grader gone wild with three very angry crayons. My very very retro seemed well just plain weird. How did I not see that BEFORE I designed them? How is it that I am only able to recognize how awful they were after I am dumbstruck by the absolutely stunningly, gorgeously and ridiculously creative works of the very talented around me? Where does that kind of creativity come from? Can I order that from Amazon with overnight shipping please? </div>
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You know I have this fear that what it takes is the studious application of copious amounts of time and energy spent trolling pinterest, voraciously reading twenty blogs a day, daily ripping editorial pages from a stack of magazines waist high, weekly visits to art museum's and gallery openings, learning the art of using my smart phone to catapult me to creative genius thru instragram and tweeting my every creative thought real time. For the love of all that is holy, please someone tell me that's not true. Because if it is I see an epic fail coming on. Where does all that free time come from? Am I just not doing it right or is it as I fear ... I used to be creative and now I am just not. I tell you dear reader, the worry is great that the well has gone dry. Or as my husband says...maybe you just need a vacation and bigger glass of vino. Not sure just yet I hope sincerely you will stay tuned as I try to figure it out.</div>
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Because into everyones life must fall a doodle or two. Remember math class? C'mon I wasnt the ONLY one not listening to the square root of pi. So to honor the doodlers. I present <a href="http://www.pixelpixelpixel.com/2012/10/dooodleista-font-family/#more-1139" target="_blank">Doddleista</a> from <a href="http://www.fsahin.com/" target="_blank">Filiz Sahin</a>. Once again, from the kindness of a typographers heart - it's FREE. <br />
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I am in love. There are no other words for how I feel about <a href="http://www.joelfelix.com/index/#/citizen-slab/" target="_blank">Citzen Slab</a> font. I want to put it on EVERYTHING. And the creater <a href="http://www.joelfelix.com/" target="_blank">Joel Felix</a> says - the very kind soul that he his- that you can have it for free. Get it <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4vmkl5tn5p7j1gm/S6Tv8-v5hT" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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2BSquaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14399096948915404868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120191645600856910.post-12788831193821664702012-11-12T06:28:00.001-06:002012-11-12T06:28:05.017-06:00Designers Care: It's not just pretty paper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I want to share something wonderful with you that I am very proud to be a part of. After Hurrican Sandy hit, Jackie Mangiolino, the Long Island designer behind Belive Notes, decided she wanted to help the local communities devastated by the storm. So she reached out to all of us in the design community and asked if we would be willing to donate designs to be turned into stamps and then used to create small art cards. The answer. "How fast do you need it?"</div>
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<span class="userContent"><span class="userContent">On this day and every day we honor the the </span></span><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent">monumental sacrifice of sons and daughters everywhere. We shall always and forever be grateful. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent">Photo credits: <a href="http://seniors.brookedanielsphotography.com/" target="_blank">Brooke Daniels Photography</a> ( my amazing neighboor)</span></span></span></div>
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