Holiday Open House & Calligraphy Workshop

This weekend I kicked off the first Holiday season of the shop! For starters, thank you to everyone that came in, shopped and attended the calligraphy workshop. You all made my weekend and I was so excited to share my holiday paper goods with you!

These are just few sneak peeks at the fun items available in the shop for your holiday entertaining and gift giving. I also invited a couple other creative locals to join me for the weekend. Gretchen with p.ink creative brought her new invitation books we are now carrying and holiday cards. Both definitely worth checking out because she is very talented! Second, I had the adorable Rachel join me with her line, Lindeman Carte. She is the mastermind behind the hilarious cheeky cards I keep on the front desk. She also is hosting a Faux Calligraphy Handlettering class December 4th that you all need to sign up for! See more details here. 

The other fun part of Saturday was Caddy's visit back to Wichita for another round of calligraphy workshops! She always does a great job and it was fun chatting dream jobs with her. We picked some fun wrapping paper from my holiday selection for her place mats and she did her usual workbook setup. The first class was in the afternoon, with the second one following in the evening. Students learned everything from letters to numbers to envelope addressing while enjoying a class of wine and treats. Great way to spend a couple hours on a Saturday!

Missed the chance to stop by this weekend? No worries, you can come by during the week now!

That's right, if you haven't heard (which you probably have since I screamed it from the rooftops), I am going full time shop girl! Decided it was time to give it a go and give you all more time to shop!

Thanks again for kicking off my holiday season and giving me a jump start to my now full time dream job! 

Lots of Love,

Annual Halloween Party

Another year, another Billings' Annual Halloween Bash. To be honest, I wasn't sure if I was going to do a blog post on our party this year. Mainly because I had to quickly turnaround and start decorating for Christmas, so I had put Halloween behind me. However, I decided to do one for myself because I enjoy looking back each year and seeing how we decorated, what goofy costumes we wore and what costume my brother pulled off better than anyone else - you'll see what I mean! Plus, my husband did a pretty awesome job at our outdoor decorations again this year and he deserves some credit.

Also, special shout out to Jax & Co. that let me use her decor items from the Little Shops of Horror event. I had fun mixing them in with my own. I always like to spook out our living and dining rooms to make it fun for our guests. Since it was so nice out this year, we actually spent most of the time on the porch handing out candy. Dustin made his delicious chili and we had some other snacks, plus the usual "Mangria" and potions.

Now, onto the costumes of the evening. I only managed to snap pics of the family, but they were pretty good...

My favorite of the night - Mikey in his Bill Lumbergh get up. Pretty spot on, mug included!

Dustin decided to go as his life role model, his dad! Turned out pretty good, except he couldn't keep the mustache on like Doug can. I went out in true 90's fashion as a Lisa Frank unicorn.

Our favorite trick-or-treater? Super Girl Leni of course!

I mean look at that chocolate covered face! :) She was very helpful passing out candy. Thanks Kelly for bringing her by!

Hope you all had a frightfully good Halloween! We definitely enjoyed spending time with some family and friends and even had the 1000+ trick or treaters stop by again. Thanks to all our party guests for spending the evening with us!

Lots of Love,