Amy and Bill recently passed on photos of their escort card project. I calligraphed the names and the word "table." They filled in the number. Originally they had in mind a rainbow of neutrals but plans fell apart with the (inevitable) last-minute seating reorganization. I still love this jumble of white, cream, gray and black and the inventive, classy way they chose to hang them.
All of the photos from the India series (including some red not show here) will be posted in the portfolio section of the website as well.
I've been in England on and off for the last few months. I'm headed back to Philly soon and I'm already dreading the adjustment. Here it is a pleasant 67 degrees. There it is 96. Here when I wake up in the morning I say hello to the two horses who graze outside my window. There I have a direct view at the air conditioner. Here I work at the Bodleian's Duke Humphrey's Library where this is my view. There I sit atop a weak fan and stare at a jar of Sharpies. Most of my dread is climatological and aesthetic, I realize. But I've come to love Oxford and the country surrounds. Here's to hoping it becomes a more permanant Neither Snow summer home.
These stunning photos just landed in my mailbox from my dear friend Mark. They were taken by Courtney Dudley, who did a spectacular job all around. Mark and his sweetheart Diana were married at The Foundry. Is there a more perfect place to get married in New York? I doubt it. And is there a more awesome couple? Definitely not. Mark and Diana occassionally appear on Adam's fantastic Amateur Gourmet. Indeed their culinary engagement was chronicled there.
I'm so happy to be featured on Oh So Beautiful Paper! today -- one of my very favorite blogs. There you'll find photos of a recent project I did with Colleen over at Clean Wash Letterpress in addition to a few other new ones.
As an update to this post I just wanted to acknoweldge the bride and my client, Rachel, who designed these stunning invites. Well done!
I tried to organize what I saw by color or topic. Here: red. The top photo is embroidery from vintage sarees which we found at a vintage fabric shop in Hauz Khas village in Delhi (more photos in different colors coming...). The lengths, which you have to buy in their entirety, are prohibitively expensive but they might be the most adored textile I've found on any of my travels. Which is saying a lot.
All of the photos from the India series (including some red not show here) will be posted in the portfolio section of the website as well.
Here is a little backstory to my three week trip to India: I traveled with five of my dearest friends from childhood. We went to the same elementary school and I've known them since second grade, when I arrived on the scene with purple coulats and tangled hair. It is an inexplicable feeling, to love people so deeply for more than two decades. In celebration of this, and of all turning thirty, we set off by plane, train, rickshaw and taxi to Delhi, Agra, Varanasi, Jaipur, Kerela and Chennai. We sweated and got sick and laughed the entire way. The photo above is the Parthasarathy temple in Chennai, and it pretty much sums up how overwhelmed I felt. At a certain point, I had to pick a few organizing principles for what I was going to look at and photograph. I still question my approach, to seek order and patterns in the chaos. But over the next few weeks I'll be sharing inspiring finds I managed to unearth from the heap.
While Alyson is off getting hitched (hooray!!) she asked me to contribute a guest post to Unruly Things, which I was honored to do. It focused on some of my favorite, wedding-y finds in India.
It's been a while, I know. Since the last post I graduated in NYC, packed up our house in Philadelphia for the summer, flew to England, decompressed in Oxford with Andrew for a few weeks (where we found feathers in our eggs) and traveled with my 5 dearest girl friends to India for three weeks. And now I am back in Oxford starting to plan for a busy fall back in Philadelphia. I still think about the year in semesters, with the hope of summer off. Do you too?
These last few months it has been hard not to yell from the rooftops that Neither Snow will be appearing in Martha Stewart Weddings' June issue. But now I can finally say it. And I couldn't be more thrilled with how the story turned out.
I'll post more information soon. In the meantime, do be sure to check out the feature online, right over here and pick up a copy from newsstands soon.
