My wedding!

I keep meaning to update but my wedding took over all our lives, but it is now done and we have lots of projects for Mind-Speaks for 2013!!

All three of us worked really hard on the concept and aesthetic for my wedding. Please take a look, we made over 100 pinwheels, pompoms, placemats, buttons, koozies etc.

It was an amazing day and I really do thank my sisters and my best friend who all stood by my side as my bridemaids and helped with making everything out of paper!

Photos by Ethan Avery Photography

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MIJA VERA - (view all posts by Mija)
Mija has been a designer for the last 15 years. She is a paper obsessed fiend and loves working on new projects while listening to her kids and Maine Coon cat chatter around the house. You can email her at mija@mind-speaks.com

Save the Date!

A year ago when my guy proposed I had an idea that maybe….perhaps maybe – I could design my own save the dates and invitations to the wedding. After my hiatus from an office job I decided to start working at a lovely store called Paper Source in my city. Soon after I started to teach brides to be how to make inexpensive, creative invites using our paper and products. Oh boy its one thing to tell ladies that they can make their own invites but when I started to make mine I was lost!

I don’t really design much for myself, you see when you freelance you rarely get to the time to design for yourself!! I first had to come up with a color theme. I always tell brides to consider the season of their wedding and the location. We picked October and the reception is in a green house, garden wedding sparked the idea of using creams, blues and organic paper bag.

Since my wedding invitations will be more formal I decided that I should have fun with the Save the Dates. I printed the cover on paper bag, and in the inside I printed on soft white cover. The outside is perforated so the guest could tear it open. And I sewed it shut. Well – Kim did the sewing portion.

Photos 1-5 are of the save the date. Last photo is of my process of my wedding invitation.

Advice: If you do make your own invites, its helpful to have a supportive bridal party. I had lots of help constructing these, I love my bridesmaids and my man. <3

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MIJA VERA - (view all posts by Mija)
Mija has been a designer for the last 15 years. She is a paper obsessed fiend and loves working on new projects while listening to her kids and Maine Coon cat chatter around the house. You can email her at mija@mind-speaks.com

New blogs for the sisters

This past Christmas we all decided to make crafty gifts – Kim knitted us gifts and I promised to redo Kim’s and Kat’s personal blog layouts.

Lets start with Kim’s: she had her layout since 2008. Even though at the time she liked vector-y green foilage she has been begging me to make something that was more her style. Kim is our knitting/sewing machine so I wanted to capture all of her craftiness with a hint of vintage style. I would like to point out little details like the button images near the comment links. Or the graphics on the quote box and comment box… this layout was seriously fun to make.

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MIJA VERA - (view all posts by Mija)
Mija has been a designer for the last 15 years. She is a paper obsessed fiend and loves working on new projects while listening to her kids and Maine Coon cat chatter around the house. You can email her at mija@mind-speaks.com