post No.253 Unexpected and Creative

Loving all of this color and creativity!   above : Artenica’s new flower bottle stoppers + a sea of envelope liners by Mr Boddington

post No.252 Fall is Golden

Right about this time every year, I feel like fall and the Thanksgiving holiday get suddenly fast-forwarded.  I always want to savor fall until the very end, and put a blinder up to all things December until November has fulfilled its duty. This task is completely impossible for me since I have a retail store, but the sentiment is there.  Below are some amazing stationery + art pieces with some warm golden fall tones.

step by step wedding stationery by chewing the cud • kyoto wedding invites by studio on fire • alexis invitation by sub studio • pen and ink bird drawing by Tegan White found on this amazing blog  •  prepetual letterpressed calendar by orange beautiful

post No.251 Chewing the Cud *Give Cheer* Fabric Wraps

New reusable fabric wraps from Chewing the Cud will be arriving at Urbanic any day! I am really excited about this “Give Cheer” collection for the holidays.  The wraps are so full of sprite and cheer…  hence the name!

* If you want to pre-order these lovelies, let us know, we will be shipping these out as soon as they arrive!*

post No.250 Friday at the Shop – (pops of purple)

We are sort of transitioning into Holiday around here at the shop, so I have  purple on my mind. (also I am wearing it today which was admit-ably part of the inspiration!) Hope you have a great and adventurous weekend my friends.  *A

(product credits coming shortly)

* all pics taken by me *

Post No.249 Utterly Engaged issue 005

A few days ago the latest issue of Utterly Engaged came out and I have been glowing ever since, because Urbanic was featured as a Hidden Gem!

Click here to read!

A special thanks to Lucia, Henny and Eva over at UE for including us in this issue!

If you haven’t been to the Utterly Engaged site yet, you should definitely start with issue no.001 and work your way up to 005! The whole e.zine is packed with inspiration and is complete eyecandy.

post No.248 Brooklyn Rehab

I am experiencing a bit of coolness overload, now that I have discovered Brooklyn Rehab. It is a line made of vintage and found objects reclaimed to perfection. I love love love (and want) these numbered napkin rings!  Oh what I would do with these little stylers for Thanksgiving dinner – if I had a big long table!

Also pictured: the NYC souvenir, a ceramic owl, walnut wood key, and the whale plaque.  You can find more of their line, right here.

post No. 247 Candy Colored Fun

Since I am surrounded by so much candy after Halloween, (our little bumble bee raked it in this year!) I was inspired to post about some candy colored favorites around here!

pic. 1 felt stationery from here • pic 2 adressed thank you card envelopes from my b.day • pic 3 hearts wrapping paper by Waste Not • pic 4 PaperDoll Parade Notecards by Suzy Ultman/ Chronicle. – (pics 2-4 all in stock at Urbanic)

post No.246 Friday at the Shop

Today’s Friday at the Shop Post is going to have to be minimal. I’ve been super busy with all things Halloween around here at the store and also with our little bumble bee’s social calendar for the weekend. Today we received a series of different “mapnote” city cards by Maptote and I am especially loving this Los Angeles tag.  So original!

Happy Halloween weekend friends!

*A

post No.245 Cute Things on my Desktop

This morning I gathered some favorite earthy and natural pictures from my desktop.( I really need a bigger desktop by the way!)

pic No.1 Postcard banner found here. (I want to do my next store window like this!) pic No.2 Speciman Calendar found here + here pic No.3 moss covered monograms found here- (I couldn’t resist! they are Joshua and my initials)  pic No.4 french burlap pillows found here

post No.245 Give Studio

I first discovered Give Studio at the NSS in New York and have really enjoyed having their line in at Urbanic!  Part of what is so unique about their collection is that they write it how they say it!  Some of my favorites that we have in shop say things like,  “you are fun”, “nice job”, “i am thankful” and “hey superstar”.

Post No.244 3D is Fun.

We have a fun 3D book at home and have been completely having fun lately watching animals jump out at us. Then over the weekend we went to a 3D movie, and I realized, it didn’t need to stop there because there are lots of adorable paper products with this built in feature!

Check out this clever Save the date by Brown Parcel Press.

Festive for the holidays a Snowflakes 3Dcards by 9 Spot Monk.

Doodle Drawing Pad.  All of your sketches are converted into 3D!

If you have your own set of glasses, you can even convert your own photos into 3D images with a click of the button right here.

post No.243 Friday at the Shop

Details in white.

Have a great weekend!

*A

post No.242 PhotoBooth Love

Here are some of the pictures from the Photobooth we had at the Oh Joy! party Thursday night. I had to share because they are all so rad!  You can view the full set here.

Thanks again to Photo Booth Love!

post No.241 Oh Joy! Party at Urbanic

This past Thursday was the Oh Joy! party at Urbanic. Joy is a friend, as well as an amazingly talented designer and blogger.  The event was a celebratory launch party for the new collection of stationery and desk accessories she recently released for Chronicle Books.

I had a lot of fun working on this party mainly because of the team of talented people that made it all happen.

It was an evening of champagne and cupcakes -  and I am still thinking about the cupcakes!  I had the pleasure of meeting with Stacia Hanley from Frosted Cupcakery in Long Beach.  She brought over 400 mini cupcakes in assorted flavors and I can honestly say I am their new biggest fan. The best news is they are about to open another location in L.A!

The feature activity of the party was a photobooth by PhotoBooth Love. This is a fun and genius business just launched by Danni Hong (from Oh Hello Friend) and her brother. I adore everything that Danni does and was telling them that night how fascinated I was that they just decided one day to build a photobooth and make it happen. … I want one!

Carissa from JL designs adorned the place with flower arrangements and candles.  She went modern neutral with a beautiful mix of succulents and china mums.  I met her at a photo shoot a few months ago and watched her turn ordinary things into works of art. I remember thinking “this girl has got skills”

And finally.. how lucky were we to have the whole event photographed by Max Wanger ?!  Seriously though, he is a total celeb in my book.  You must check out the full set of pictures from the event, right here!

A special thanks to all of you who attended the party.  I so wish I could have chatted with everyone more that night (I was in hostess mode)

Hope to see you again soon,

*A

ps. Photobooth pics will go up tomorrow!

Post No.240 New Blooms from Artenica

I received a bright and colorful email first thing this morning from Artenica about the new bloom card styles just released. We’ve  had these cheerful pop-up cards at Urbanic before so I am excited to get the new ones in.  You can check out a little demo of how they work right here ( just click where it says “bloom”)

post No.239 Wow.

The party last night was amazing!
A special thanks to all of you that came. I am wiped out today, but wanted to give you a heads up that I will be posting pictures next week to recap the whole thing. Until then, have a great weekend!
*A

post No.238 blush pink rainy day

Posting is going to be kind of light this week because Joshua and I have been busily preparing for 3 major events all happening before Sunday … (The Oh Joy Party, The fall festival at Archer High and The Plan A Baby Event at the Roosevelt Hotel.)

Today is my B.day, but I think I am going to try to milk it for the next few weeks since things are so hectic at the moment, plus I love dragging it out into a month’s worth of special treatment!   It’s raining today which is a novelty in L.A.  Waking up to this was a great start to the day. The rain seems to makes things feel more thoughtful.

Below are some faves I am feeling in blush pinks.  ( I can’t believe i found that 1st pic!)

{ treat bags found on Style me Pretty for a little girl’s birthday party  •  sticky note sets we just got in at the shop from Cavallini •  magnet set by Pretty Originals • “westside kate” note flats by SugarPaper we have in stock at Urbanic }

post No.237 Simple Song 2010 Calendar

I have a large list of to-do’s this week, but one of the things on the top of my list is to order these new 2010 wall calendars from Simple Song.

I love, love,love the pretty clean simplicity of each month and especially those scalloped edges!!  I will keep you posted when/if  we can get them in the shop!  (Cross your fingers, they are a limited edition!)