THE JOURNAL

Exciting news!!! Today Seattle Bride Magazine announced their Best of 2016 Finalists (top 3 in each category) and Songbird Paperie is a finalist in the Invitation Design category! This news sure brightened up my day, especially since I’m feeling under the weather today! The two finalists with me in the group are amazing stationers that […]

Note: I had originally desired to post this blog on Thursday, March 12, but I had a HUGE multiple project deadline that captured my attention for the most part of the day. Luckily, I’m into grace, so no biggie! Here it is! There are some things in life you just can’t simply do without. You […]

Hooray! It’s Songbird Paperie’s very first Giveaway Wednesday! Once a month I will be hosting a giveaway here on the blog and I am SO excited to present this huge giveaway celebrating the coming of spring, which is NEXT WEEK! Woooo!  Here is what is included in this fabulous Spring Forward giveaway: One tabletop-sized chalkboard hand […]

Weddings weddings weddings! My life is all about weddings these days and I LOVE IT! I mean, don’t get me wrong, I know it’s quite the stressful task in planning your dream wedding, but when you’re on the other side, somehow the magic multiplies over and over again, and it’s fantastic! OH! YEAH! That other […]

Pictured: Me in my wedding dress on my wedding day! It’s sort of the first day Songbird Paperie started, but I didn’t know at the time! :o) I get this question asked quite a bit: “How did you end up doing design/stationery/calligraphy/the stuff that you do?” I get SO excited when people ask that because […]

It’s been about a month since the Northlake Wedding & Events Show, and I’m excited to announce that I just received the fabulous pictures from my venue! The photographers were amazing and are from Seattle Flashing Lights Photography.  View fullsize The theme for our venue, Hotel Deca, was “Rendez-vous a Paris”. Think Roaring Twenties meets […]

Hip hip hooray! It’s Wedding Show Season! It’s that lovely time of year when the traditional wedding season winds down, and the inspiration season sets in, with all sorts of shows, inspiration shoots and blogs (mmm that sort of happens year round but let’s just throw that in for good measure), and so much more […]

Hi! It’s been a while. Like way too long. A whole summer has passed since I last blogged and I miss you guys! I had a great summer 2014 wedding season, though! It was one for the record books. I’m looking forward to the off-season (still getting used to that — being from sunny California, […]

When chatting with clients about wedding invitations, there is always one question that never fails to come up: “How did you do your wedding invitation?” It’s a pretty fun question that I love to answer, and there is definitely a story behind it! Here’s the story… of a lovely lady…  Kidding. We shall not be […]

Remember when I said that I would blog every day? Shhhhh.. I have a secret… it’s not happening every day like I thought it would! BUT… I just downloaded a blogging app on my iPhone, so hopefully (fingers crossed) it kicks my blogging fingers into gear. :o) Today I’m going to share with you all […]