Sarah Hearts

Today’s home post concludes my final roundup of favorite vendors from Crafty Bastards. Below are my favorite vendors that make great home decor items!

If you are looking for a unique serving bowl or little gift, Pinkkiss Pottery is just the thing! Beautiful clay dinnerware with block printed imagery.

Craft Chi had bold, geometrical screen printed textiles. I love all their tea towels!

Home Sweet had gorgeous block printed textiles. They even had a printing plate to give you a sneak peak into the process.

Arcane Arts creates intricate mixed media work. The drawings were available in prints and pillow covers.

This weekend I went over to Washington D.C. to visit my good friend and old college roommate, Jen. On Saturday, we went into Adams Morgan and went to Crafty Bastards 2010. We spent several hours there scouting out cool vendors and getting a head start on Christmas shopping! Below is a roundup of some of my favorite vendors from the show. {Thursday I will feature my favorite home decor vendors}

Brainstorm has awesome screen printed posters for sale. I wanted all of them!

Funky, one-of-a-kind apparel by B-Kao.

Screen printed and stitched headbands and barrettes by Candy Thief.

Floral and folk inspired printed apparel by Maryink.

invitations:

 

our invitations were completely diy. again we ordered the folders, cardstock, envelopes and labels from paper source (i absolutely love that store, i wish there was one in florida). i created them in adobe illustrator and then we hand screen printed them at kevin’s office. they were definitely a labor of love. the probably took around 15 hours to print… but we love the results! we both love the screen printing process and i was adamant about not printing these on a inkjet printer. we did use an inkjet printer to print the labels that sealed the envelopes and for the address labels as well.

 

detail of the invitation.

 

reception card.

 

response card.

pocket folder. 

centerpieces:

  

 the wedding is just 16 days and i am running on full speed! we’ve tried to do as much diy as we possibly could for two resons: to save money and to have a unique wedding. i’ll feature some of the diy projects that we’ve done thus far: we are not having a sit down dinner. only hour’dourves, beverages, and dessert. so were only having a few large round tables (for elderly guests) and lots of tall cocktail tables without chairs. i purchased beautiful michael miller fabric (which ironically is from the farmer’s market series and the reception is at the farmer’s market) and made table runners for the round tables and scalloped circles for the cocktail tables.

vases for the centerpieces inspired by martha stewart.  my mom found glass vases at the dollar store that fit perfectly in a white paper lunch sack. I cut paper bags down to 8″ tall and then used a martha stewart whole punch to scallop the edges (purchased at michael’s). then i tied a 1/2″ satin ribbon around to cinch the bag a little bit and used a hot glue gun to keep to bow in place. we are going to put bunches of marguerite daisies in them (fyi: purchasing cut flowers directly from the florist saves lots of money, you don’t have to pay for them to arrange them).