Do you have a flag?

A couple weekends ago,  a friend contacted me to help her out with a wedding shower she's throwing for her sister-in-law and SIL's fiance.  Since this blog is seriously lacking in "Ink" posts, and I needed a fun graphic project to distract me from life, I jumped at the chance to help her by making some supercute cupcake toppers for the tower she's constructing.

The theme of the shower is a tailgating/stock-the-bar shower, so I felt that school pennants were in high order to decorate the cuppycakes.

Ok, not only do I love, love, love the way the pennants turned out, but can I just say that if you have an iPhone, please go spend $1.99 and download the "Hipstamatic" camera ap rightnow?!?!  It is SO SO SO much fun; you can spend extra money to buy new "films" and "lenses" and "flashes" and if you have the iPhone 4, then it is probably even MORE awesome, but even on my old fashioned phone it has been a joy to play with.  I do have a great love for photography and wish I were more learned in the technicalities of taking photos.  But maybe it's a good thing that I'm not a great photographer, because then the blog would just have to be bigger and include more, because then I'd want to include food, so I could share things like the apple butter I made on Friday.   But I think that maybe it would be a little overboard to have a blog called "With Pen and Ink and Lens and Food."  Yes?

ANYWAY - Back to the cupcake flags:

Here is a photo of all the different options guests can choose from when they pick of up their cupcake of choice.

Although I do not currently have any pre-designed cupcake flags on my etsy shop, I will be happy to create some custom orders for you if you want to request them via the "alchemy" link on etsy.  At least I think that's how it's done.  So if you have a party coming up and are planning to go the cupcake with flags route, but don't find what you're looking for anywhere else, let me know and let's work something out!  I was able to put together this order of 30 toppers for just $25 plus shipping. 

Hm.  Now I want a cupcake.

And now for some ink...

Right, so this is supposed to be a journal about both my sewing AND my stationary exploits, but so far it's been decidedly sew-bloggy.  Let me just shake that up right now.

A few years ago, I started to offer a line of personalized stationary called "House Notes," because it features a complete vector art drawing of your home.

I. Freaking. Love. This. Stationary.

But no one has ever bought any!

Yes, it is more expensive than your run of the mill stationary, but how can you not love it?  How do you not want to send people a "hi!" note with your cute little house on it?  How do you not want to buy this for your friend who just bought their first home, or their dream home?  How have I not already gotten this to Oprah or Ellen!?!?!

You just have to see for yourself:

COME ON!  LITTLE VERSION OF YOUR HOUSE!  THAT I DRAW!!

So these are definitely going into the etsy shop this weekend, because I would *love* to make some for you or your friends to give as Christmas gifts.  I can do them as a "you print" option, where I send you a .pdf set up to print on your own home printer for $60, or I can have quantities of 50 printed for you starting at just $105 including shipping.  Want the image alone to do with as you wish?  For just $50, I can create a vector art version of your home, sent to you as a .pdf, .jpg, and .eps file so that you can use it in any format you'd like!  Check out the etsy store to order!  Please contact me at withpinandink@gmail.com if you're interested in smaller quantities of printed cards or if you have any other questions, and I can set up a custom listing just for you!