Planning a wedding?

Every now and then I get an inquiry about wedding designs and products. I rarely design anything specifically for weddings. However, there are so many talented designers on Zazzle.com who create lovely, wedding themed, customizable stamps, save the date cards, stationary and more. Here are links to a few shops that I highly recommend for anyone who is planning a wedding.

Two Hearts Wedding Shoppe™ offers a simply elegant selection of custom wedding postage, save the date cards, wedding invitations, envelope seals, wedding party buttons & favors, cute bridal party t-shirts and other keepsakes for your celebration.

Here's just one example of what you will find there:

Victorian Romance Save The Date Announcement by twoheartsshoppe
create invitations at zazzle

Kustom by Kris Bridal Boutique - Coordinate your wedding on a budget, but without compromising style. From Save the Date cards and Invitation sets, to address labels and favor cards your big day will be perfectly matched with your budget.

Here's one of my favorites from this shop:

Royalty Save the Date by KrispysKingdom
Browse Royalty bridal suite from kbk Postcards

Ujean's Whimsical World - This collection of wedding designs is truly unique and wonderfully whimsical.

I really love this design:

Two Hearts: Save the Date(modified version) by daphne1024
Browse Save the date postcards Postcards

I am confident you will find just the right designs for you in one of these outstanding shops but if you want to see even more, there are many, many, many more to choose from. Just click here to go to Zazzle's main wedding page.

And if you want to check out the few items of mine which are wedding related, click here.

Congratulations and best wishes,
Victoria

When I Paint...

"My Soul Is A Rainbow"
Print available at Zazzle.com/victoriart

When I paint there seems to be only a tiny part of me that knows what I am doing. Some quiet spark that I am barely aware of dancing in the back of my mind, in my gut, in the corner of my eye. It is very certain about what it wants, very confident that if I follow its instructions there will be some worthwhile outcome. The rest of me isn't so sure. A big splash of red there? Really? Well, okay.

There are numerous reasons why I started painting but I keep painting because I want to know that part of me better. I hope that by doing so I will learn to recognize it, listen to it and trust it in other areas of my life.

Always Make New Mistakes

I have a large magnet that hangs on the magnetic dry erase board above my easel that reads, in bold black letters, ALWAYS MAKE NEW MISTAKES. I bought it years ago and I'm not sure I anticipated what those words have come to mean to me now.

As a self taught artist, I make a lot of mistakes. Some of them I come to see as happy accidents, others are just accidents. When I make one of those kind of mistakes, it is easy to get discouraged. I have made a few of them lately, so that is just how I was feeling earlier today. Then I saw my magnet. ALWAYS MAKE NEW MISTAKES.

I did a quick inventory, were these new mistakes? Since I am working on a new project with different mediums than I am used to it was not hard to conclude that they were. Reflecting further, I was able to see how each mistake I have made has taught me how to better work with these mediums. It made me realize that making new mistakes was more or less an inevitable part of trying and learning new things.

In life, as well as in art, we are sometimes afraid to try new things for fear of making a mistake. ALWAYS MAKE NEW MISTAKES is a wonderfully liberating "SO WHAT?" in the face of that fear. ALWAYS MAKE NEW MISTAKES is a command that can remind us that as long as we are trying and learning new things, we are successful. In other words, as long as our mistakes are new, they are well worth making.

I Will Only Nurture My Finest Thoughts

I don't think anything limits us human beings more than our own fearful and negative thoughts. At the same time, I don't believe in policing our thoughts to the extent of eliminating all but the prettiest ones. There will be weeds in every garden no matter how vigilant we are. Trying to thwart them all just robs us of the energy we need to plant the positive seeds and nurture them to their fullest potential.

"I Will Only Nurture My Finest Thoughts" By Victoria Lynn Hall - available on a poster, full bleed print or greeting card at zazzle.com/victoriart

Wine Women Designs

Wine Vixen Simply Wicked When You Can't Win, Wine Shirts by Victoreeah

Create unique personalized photo t shirts from Zazzle.

 

My Wine Women Designs line now has it's own home at WineWomenDesigns.com.  There you can learn more about my friends the fabulous Wine Diva, the divine Wine Goddess, her royal highness, the Wine Princess and the wonderfully wicked Wine Vixen and many of the other wine loving characters I have created.  Also, be sure to visit The Wine Vixen's Blog for more wicked wine fun!

 

Cheers!

Victoria