22 weeks: pictures from new year’s eve

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by Princess Lasertron.

On New Year’s Eve we went to Goo, a dance party hosted by The Slowdown (where we got married in 2007).

I was going to wear my favorite Karta dress and I was elated that it still fit me, but after I got my hair and makeup done and Dave came to help me zip it up, the zipper split.

While Dave worked hard googling “split zipper” and trying to fix it, I moped for half an hour or so because I couldn’t find anything else that fit and was remotely formal. But I think I did a good job of prettying up this big tent-y dress from Ryu. And luckily it was comfortable.

Dress: Ryu
Belt: Kimchi Blue
Tights: Forever 21
Shoes: Etienne Aigner

The theme was “masquerade” so we went as kitties.

What did you do to ring in the new year? Quiet and relaxed or crazy and wild?

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my projects from silver bella

Posted on 17. Nov, 2009 by Princess Lasertron.

This is how I started my weekend. This is the first thing I was greeted by.
Max the Cat made by Jennifer Murphy sat on my table during her snowman clip ornament class. I am so in love! Look at his sweet face. I wanted to take him home, but someone else beat me to it!

This is me with Jennifer after her class. This is also me awake at 9am. For maybe the 3rd time in my adult life.

Pam Garrison’s Holly Days Countdown wreath class was fun–she spread out ALL these vintage materials and supplies on a front table for us to run our hands over and pick through. It felt like kindergarten.

Pam also passed around two of her inspiration journals and each page was so awe-inspiring. This was my favorite so I snapped a little photo…I felt like a little thief there shyly snapping one photo of this page and then dropping my camera in my bag. I wish I could draw like that.

In my last class of the event on Saturday afternoon, I was with Jennifer again making a little pom pom bird in a shadowbox. Here are all of the projects from our work table…

I sat next to Meg Duerksen

Things I don’t have photos of because I figured I’d just nab some off Flickr later:
…Jo Packham’s keynote speech that brought me to tears. I wish it could have been about 30 minutes longer and I wish we could have had time to ask questions.
…Kaari Meng’s expert jewelrymaking class
…All of the bella swaps, where the ladies created handmade items ranging from charms to books to aprons to share with their friends
…The opening class hosted by Fiskars
…The generous swag bags made of vintage fabric and stuffed with amazing goodies!

Finally, here are some final pictures of the projects I made:

xo

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a celebration with friends

Posted on 08. Nov, 2009 by Princess Lasertron.

A few weeks ago, my mom said that I ought to have a party with my friends to celebrate everything that has happened this month–the baby, the house, the website, and the magazine–and I answered that it would be fun, but I had no time to plan an event with my customers this month and Silver Bella fast approaching (this week! ahhhh!).

And my mom said, “Well, I can take care of that.”

And she put together the most fun, casual, on-the-fly party ever. It was so cute!

My cousin Sally owns The 1020, an awesome restaurant in my neighborhood. Sally and her waitstaff were wonderful and they made my favorite snacks–homemade potato chips, tiny sandwiches, and pizza!

My mom decorated with little scalloped tablecloths, gigantic balloons, and some blown-up pages from the Where Women Create magazine layout. All in Princess Lasertron blue.

The perfect mix of friends, family, and well-behaved little angels.

Most of these pictures were taken by my friend Nick and his sweet wide-angle lens.

Thanks to all of my friends and family who came –some from very far away!–to have a drink and a snack and a chat.

I owe all the thanks to this guy, Eric Downs. Thanks for the cool website, thank you for buying me pancakes at 3:30am like seven times, and thank you for be my fwend.

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an indian summer day

Posted on 07. Nov, 2009 by Princess Lasertron.

We are finally getting back into a little bit of a routine. Even though this routine now includes yard work! I started out helping but it was too much for my fall allergies.

So Turbo and I sat in the screened-in porch and worked. There are lots of new pets to meet in this neighborhood–other dogs and cats that we haven’t been introduced to yet. Turbo paces along the windows, alert for any unfamiliar barks or wayward cats. I think he’s pretty overwhelmed.

I don’t drink beer, but this is my favorite beer because it has the prettiest label. It’s called Lucky Bucket Lager and it’s made here in Omaha. A local company, Archrival, designed the branding for them too. I love how much marketing and branding is changing now–every new product has such interesting and beautiful packaging. I’m glad this is finally a priority for so many companies.

This is one of the swaps I finished for Silver Bella. I’ve never done a swap before at all, and this year I signed up for two–I think it was a little more than I could handle, but I got them done. This one is for a swap where 26 participants each made 26 cards decorated with a letter of the alphabet. Then we all trade and have a full alphabet deck.

I picked Z.

I chose this swap because I thought that I could attach the cards to a huge canvas and it would be a beautiful art piece for my baby’s room. I’ll show you how to make the little pinwheels…I used vintage crepe paper which makes it easy because crepe is less stiff and easily workable.

Finally, happy birthday to my friend Justin. Last night we had about 10 people over to celebrate and hang out and he brought his new girlfriend. I loved it because I saw them smiling and flirting and being nervous and I remembered when Dave and I were like that. When he invited me over to meet all of his friends, who are now my closest friends.

For so long I just wanted to be Dave’s friend. I just wanted him to smile at me. Then I just wanted to hang out with him and his friends and be part of his life. I just wanted him to laugh at my jokes. And as we passed each milestone and our friendship developed into romance, it all went by so fast and now I am here carrying our baby and we are going to be united by this child as a family forever. It is exciting to see how live moves and how far we come.

xo

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Sneak peek photos of the Lorsung-Tvrdik wedding from Minornite

Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Princess Lasertron.

Last weekend, two of our oldest friends, Jon and Sarah, got married at the beautiful Western Heritage Museum downtown. After the fantastic job that Minornite did with their engagement photos, I knew that the pro wedding shots would be to die for.

This is one of the first weddings in my real-life “friends group,” so it was really exciting for everybody. It was so great for us all to get together and celebrate our friends who we love so much.

Jon is a designer for a leading digital software creation company and independent filmmaker, and Sarah is a photo stylist.

Here are the boys…either Dave or I has lived with most of them at some point.

Sarah was so beautiful in a couture gown designed by Joi Mahon of Dress Forms Design. (Also peep that ring! It’s the most gorgeous thing ever! They need a better picture of it…)

Here they are with their puppy, Howard, who we all love.

The table settings were so cool, and everyone loved the masks! The wedding party had fancier, gorgeous handmade masquerade masks of their own.

A shot from the ceremony that shows the beautiful old train station that served as a wonderful art deco backdrop for the event.

Little Lux the flower girl, her mother holding her tutu, was a little hesitant to walk down the aisle.

Throwing in one of me and Dave.

I love my friends Jon and Sarah! Their wedding was so beautiful and unforgettable. We danced so late into the night and didn’t make it to the afterparty at the Hilton, but Cloris Leachman was there…so random.

Some cool news for you is that Minornite, the company that did all of this awesome photography, is giving away a wedding package this year. All you have to do is follow them on Twitter! So get on board with that.

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an evening with hilary

Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by admin.

Hilary McHone is a Ford Fiesta agent who was chosen to take part in this innovative and creative social media experiment, traveling the country, taking photos, and documenting her adventures along the way through her blog and flickr site.

Every month, all of the Ford Fiesta agents receive a “mission,” and Hilary has been achieving them in the most amazing ways. In July, she fulfilled the “design” mission by planning her wedding using only independent artists and vendors found online through social media, which is how she found me, which is how she got her bouquet for her July wedding!

Another one of Hilary’s goals is to travel to every state and stay overnight at someone’s house who she met through social media. This weekend she is staying at my parents‘ house (my mom actively follows her twitter and blog) and I drove over this evening to finally meet her!

We made homemade pizzas, and Hilary made a cool stop motion video:

And she set up her fauxtobooth backdrop and took some pictures of us!

Tomorrow she is going to visit the #1 Ford dealer in the country, located in my little hometown!

Meeting Hilary was making a connection to someone amazingly creative and talented, and laughing and joking and eating and watching movies with her tonight was such a privilege because I admire her success and accomplishments so much.

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