happy valentine’s day!

Hope your Valentine’s day is filled with love… and some chocolate :) Have a great day!

font friday 58: homsley and hollis

Today’s Font Friday brought to you by the letter “H”…

Oh, and the letter “S” too because they’re both on sale- the charming Homsley and Hollis are under $25 each for a limited time. We’re in love with that unique “O” from Homsley, and well, Hollis is about the cutest thing we’ve ever seen with those botanical details woven right into the letterforms!

Type samples from My Fonts

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Welcome to our little type lovefest! We’ll be posting some of our favorites on Fridays, along with Lauren Elise Crafted, Steph from Bubblerock, Chelsey from Chelsey Emery , Jen from Blush Printables, Kerry at Super Swoon, Jenny from Hank + Hunt, Lauren from Palm Papers, Brancoprata, Alison from Alison Owen Design, Laurel from Go Against From The Grain,Vicki from Vicki Designer, Catherine from Design Editor, Wendy from Weswen Design, Allie from Honey Bee Invites, Anna from And Everything Nice and Cécile from My Paper Lounge. For even more type inspiration, check out the Fontophile Files from the Aerialist Press, and Font Love over at the Knotty Bride.

valentine’s day collection :: free printable

Less than 10 days until Valentine’s Day! Free printable below :)

We borrowed one sweet girl for a little mini shoot to introduce our valentine’s day collection:

We really love these “passing” valentines- they’re the perfect little treat for classrooms, and come with candy (you can choose M+Ms or Skittles). So cute!

In addition to the valentines up in our shop, we also created a free printable oversize valentine (prints onto an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper for an XL 7 x 9 card) for those really really special someones. They look sweet on their own, but we think it would make dads and moms (or granddads and grandmoms!) really smile if there was some crayon customization from their favorite little artist.

Happy early Valentine’s Day!

font friday 57: funkydori

Happy February! The first month of 2013 just flew by in a blur- we had some amazing news (we won a Wedding Wire Bride’s Choice Award and were voted a finalist in the Capital Style Bridal Readers Choice awards!* Second year in a row for both!), one big wedding show, awesome new client inquires + some branding projects we’re super excited about… January was pretty good to us! It was around the first week that we started thinking 2013 was really going to be our year- and it hasn’t lost its shine yet :)

Onto the real star of the show- our pick this week comes from Laura Worthington:

So fun and charming- and just love this from Laura on the inspiration for Funkydori: “I am a child of the Seventies. I grew up rocking the rainbow striped bellbottoms, decorating my room with posters of Unicorns and watching ‘The Electric Company’. Funkydori is my nod to the groovy and far out days of this decade.” Even these eighties babies can get behind that.

PS If you haven’t checked out Creative Market yet… what are you waiting for? We’re obsessed- great font finds and don’t even get us started on the super cute graphics. Vector bundles for under 10 bucks = our new retail therapy (lasts longer than a lipgloss too :)

Font samples from Creative Market

* We said this last year too… we’re honored to have reviews and votes from our grooms too- someone needs to get on renaming these!

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font friday 56: trend

Are you sitting down? This font deal is almost too good to be true- in fact, I was scared it would disappear!

Latinotype. 21 styles. 88% PERCENT OFF. Hello, Trend.

So excited about the fun we’re going to have with this one- so many layering possibilities! Plus a set of awesome ornaments!- it’s kind of silly. Grab this sweet deal before it’s gone February 18.

Type images from MyFonts

weekly loves :: edition 2

- Update from last time- it’s a boy! So so excited. True to my prediction, the bedding sets we like best look like this one from New Arrivals (love love love!). Soft neutrals with sweet details, like the tiny blue bows and the polka dot sheet. Basically, I want this whole nursery. That chair!

- Genius tip from Lovely Little Details: don’t just lay those gorgeous bouquets on the cake table, put ‘em in pretty vases! Awesome way to make the most of your florals.

bouquet wedding tip from lovely little details

- “It started with a blog post about a bride-to-be choosing a day of service over a traditional bridal shower. It was followed by a tweet, from a photographer to the blogger, saying we should host one ourselves with other wedding vendors.” Say hello to At Your Service DC, a wedding pro day of service and networking event. Awesome giving back idea from Capitol Romance + Maggie Winters Photography.

- Brand New is one of our favorite reads- their insight behind identity redesign is fascinating, sharp, and often amusingly blunt. Loved the 2012 roundups of the Best and Worst- our favorite is Wendy’s new look (#4 on the Best list).

best identities of 2012 from brand new

PS: We have a really really good Font Friday pick for tomorrow- EIGHTY percent off. And gorgeous.

weekly loves :: edition 1

More and more often lately, we’ve found ourselves link collecting- making lists of bits and pieces from the awesome blogs and websites that we come across- and we thought it’d be fun to start sharing ‘em in a weekly roundup of sorts. So here goes…

- We (fingers crossed!) find out next week if we’re having a boy or a girl- so excited! But I’m starting to think, nurserywise, that it might not matter too much- at least judging from this dream nursery we had pinned THREE times. Pink or blue, we’re thinking creams, neutrals and golds. Well, check back on that.

- Funkytime makes ice cubes gorgeous and holiday ready with edible berries and rosemary.

christmas ice cubes from funkytime

- Speaking of roundups: Friday Favorites from Iowa Girl Eats is my new favorite. I got a huge blog crush recently on this amazing foodie blog (and that’s really saying something, considering that Instagram food pictures are not so good for me anymore- thanks baby!) and Kristin’s Friday picks are a weekly dose of perfection. I mean, baked potato grilled cheese?! That’s a good find.

- Secretly really really looking forward to wrapping gifts and LOVING this white on kraft- and the clay tags!- from Kelli Murray. Plain kraft wrapping paper is the best base- we did gold and silver accents on kraft paper last year and loved how it turned out. We also love dressing up muslin (this is perfect for odd shaped gifts, like a bottle of wine, since it drapes softly instead of folding sharply like paper) with gold ribbon and tulle.

wrapping ideas from kelli murray

- In the spirit of the season: 4 wonderfully giving bloggers have joined together to raise money for the Starfish Greathearts Foundation- and because they are also wonderfully talented wedding bloggers, they’re giving away four styled shoots- one each in the US, UK, New Zealand, and South Africa- to encourage donations and celebrate their appeal.

- The story behind this AddiesJabs tablet charging pouch just proves that necessity really is the mother of invention: “I recently washed my daughter’s Kindle Fire in the washer because she left it on her bed and I didn’t see it when I gathered up her comforter and threw in the wash. Needless to say there was sadness and despair on both our parts. So I came up with this pouch to keep next to the plug next to her bed.” So smart we can’t stand it. Addie has a ton of super cute items in her shop, but this wins for most brilliant.

tablet charging pouch from addie’s jabs

- The best blogging habit you’ll get into for the new year: backing it up! Code it Pretty shows you how.

font friday 55: christmas doodles too

With Thanksgiving less than a week away and holiday cards going up in the shop shortly, we couldn’t resist this adorable font for the season:

We love the hand-drawn charm of these icons, so cute! Christmas Doodles Too also has a big brother, Christmas Doodles. We want them both!

Also- we’re super intrigued by this: SkyFonts, a font RENTAL website in beta mode. Font friends, what do you think of the concept?

PS Missed our big news Wednesday? A new arrival is coming to LBH in May :)

Font samples from MyFonts

the littlest one at little bit heart

So excited to share some big news:

Jenna and Neil are expecting their first baby in May!

font friday 54: notch

Welcome to our little type lovefest! We’ll be posting some of our favorites on Fridays, along with Lauren Elise Crafted, Steph from Bubblerock, Chelsey from Fourth and Folded , Jen from Blush Printables, Kerry at Super Swoon, Jenny from Hank + Hunt, Lauren from Palm Papers, Brancoprata, Alison from Alison Owen Design, Laurel from Go Against From The Grain,Vicki from Vicki Designer, Catherine from Design Editor, Wendy from Weswen Design, Allie from Honey Bee Invites, Anna from And Everything Nice and Cécile from My Paper Lounge. For even more type inspiration, check out the Fontophile Files from the Aerialist Press, and Font Love over at the Knotty Bride.

In case you missed it yesterday: Creative Market launched! We’ve been looking forward to the day they opened the doors to this “handcrafted, mousemade design” marketplace for what seems like FOREVER- it’s such a brilliant idea! Not only is it full of awesome resources (downloadable templates, icon sets, brushes + more), but we love the focus on the “handcrafted” aspect of digital downloads, and their amazing focus on creatives.

All that being said, there’s already an awesome font selection ranging in price from $2 to $15. Naturally, we couldn’t resist picking one of our favorites for this week’s Font Friday:

We LOVE the cool geometric look of Notch by Gerren Lamson- so fun. And, of course, we’re really crushing on that inline version.

Font samples via Creative Market