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Chessie
- Jan 25, 2020
- 3 min
5 Ideas for a Sustainable Custom Wedding. Love and Sunshine.
Sustainable Weddings Tropical Beach Ocean Blue Destination Wedding Invitation
by Just_Fine_Designs Lemon TuscanTile Blue White Photo Wedding Invitation
by Just_Fine_Designs There is a ‘buzz’ word going around, but it is a buzz word with real thought behind it. Sustainability. The word is popping up from travel to the food you eat, and weddings and wedding planning has not been left out when it comes to sustainability. Sustainability is a large topic however the basic meanin
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Chessie
- Nov 8, 2019
- 2 min
The Christmas Candy Cane and Other Sweet Stories.
The Christmas Candy Cane Christmas Holiday Candy Cane Christmas is the time to throw guilt out of the window and indulge in all your favourite foods. Foods that are either too rich or too expensive to have during the rest of the year. However, have you ever thought about Christmas sweets and their origins? Especially the simple Candy Cane. Holiday Photo Merry Christmas Greeting Postcard
by Just_Fine_Designs Every country that celebrates the holiday season will have their own
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Chessie
- Aug 8, 2019
- 2 min
5 Things to do at Your Moon Festival or Mid Autumn Harvest Festival
The Asian Moon festival or Mid Autumn Harvest festival. This year (2019) the Festival will be on September 13th. Different continents seem to have their own versions of the same celebrations and obviously the Asian Moon festival is a version of a Harvest festival. Sort of an Asian Thanksgiving. Legend of The Jade Rabbit There are many legends about the Moon festival however the one that I remember being told is the Legend of the Jade Rabbit which goes a bit like this. “The st
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Chessie
- Jan 24, 2019
- 2 min
Botanical Custom Wedding Invitations: Pomegranates and Lemons
I did start to write about the huge range there is to be found in Botanical designs for wedding invitations but was side tracked by some history of the wedding invite. In the 1700s (when wedding invitations apparently began to emerge) most people couldn’t read or write so wedding invitations were announced usually by the Town Crier. Which meant, of course, that the entire town was invited. The wealthier families who could afford to have a monk write out the invitations in a b
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Chessie
- Feb 12, 2018
- 2 min
There is a Problem. ( A Colorful One)
I have a problem, not saying it is a bad problem but a problem none the less it is a problem, and it is with color. You see I cannot restrain myself when it comes to color in design, (as it is a lot of the design’s colors are pared back). The brighter and ‘fussier’ the better. I could no more create a simple black and white design than fly to the moon. Even the Zebra collection has an added stripe of orange color to include a touch of the African Savannah sunset, it could
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