Stelie Designs

Bold. Simple. Clean. to the Point. You can find this double sided save the date here .

Meet Ava, a new 2012 design.  These invitations are a bit out of my comfort zone, in their princessy / girly / fair tale kind of way. I'm not (nor have I ever been) a girly kind of girl.  Yes, I played with barbies & dolls when I was young.  All  my barbies had cute short hair cuts, by yours truly.  Anyway, I had this idea about a fairy tale and put a modern touch on these whimsy save the dates + invites.  "The Fairly Tale continues" for the save the dates & "Our Happily Ever After" for the wedding invitations. Changing the colors would up the modernism of these, don't you think?

I'm thinking of making a visual change to my shop  because A.) I have way too much extra time on my hands or B.) I love change. If you chose A, then you are craaaazzzy...I have 4 kids, a husband, a home, and a business.... If you chose B, then you are the winner!!!! The winner of self satisfaction for guessing correctly. Now onto business. I'm thinking of changing up my first photo. See my plan below. or you can see how the test looks in the screen shot below of my actual shop. now that you've seen the proposed, what do you think? Yes or No? I only have 174 items in my shop to change (easy though time consuming.) Wondering if it's really worth the effort. I appreciate your input!

 is a new design added to my 2012 wedding collection!  Ribbons floating. She is listed and ready to be part of your special day.  You can find her here.

 A new wedding design for 2012!  Perfect for a spring or summer wedding!  As the saying goes "the grass is greener on the other side"  it popped in my head as I was adding text to this sample and just had to add it.  Obviously as a married woman and someone who's main business is about getting married, I want that portrayed even if I personally believe in any case the grass is just different on the side.

In late October, Julia from the "Thank You" Project  contacted me about this incredible idea to collaborate on a calendar project.   I can't tell you how glad I am.  It has been heart warming to read all the thankful comments Julia collected on her blog, and hard to narrow down to just 12!    Each month features 'thankful' quotes by real people from all over the world that Julia collected along with illustrations added from me.  Every time you look at your calendar, you can't help but be reminded to give thanks and focus on the positive and put a smile on your face.   I can't decide on my favorite quote! Can you?  I really hope you follow Julia's blog .  It full of positiveness.  get your own here  or here . A GIANT thank you to Julia and all those who's quotes we used. 

 I'm working on my 2012 wedding collection. Here is one of them. All about hearts and love. The love of a couple. The love of family and friends who support their relationship. As a matter of fact, I just packaged & mailed these (well not THESE, but you know what I mean) to a wonderful couple in Australia.

the kids had 11 straight days off from school, my husband had 10 straight days off & I had lots of plans for us....first up was going downtown Minneapolis to the Macy's 8th floor auditorium + a santa visit. this year was a day in the life of an elf. [poor quality cell phone photo] then because Paxton was all about skyscrapers!  The kids were in the city in March but acted like they'd never seen skycrapers before. Slightly embarrassing but also exciting. We wandered the skyways listening to a quartet play xmas songs, then decided to do a touristy thing...go to an observation deck. I moved to Minneapolis the fall of 1990 for college & lived there until 1.5 years ago when we moved to a tiny town in the middle of nowhere.  I also worked downtown in college & 11+ years thereafter, suprisingly I've never went to one of the observation decks.   It was my first time in an elevator with my kids going to the 30th floor.  I was a bit nervous+uneasy. What if somethi

 After an early fondue dinner, we rang in the New Year with London!  Kids were sound asleep by 7:45 & Jer & I were in bed before 11. It's been wonderful having Jer & big kids home for 10 straight days! I had lots of family time and very little Stelie work time, it was hard to fit it in between all the celebration, fun and migraines.  I am hoping to get back into the groove once my big kids head back to school tomorrow. Hope you all had a safe and wonderful celebration and are looking forward to an even better 2012!