Books. Cakes. Design.
From the outside, this book looks pretty unassuming. But to my sister Arica and her friend, the title and the contents it will hold mean everything.
Arica’s dear friend is headed off to flight school and Arica is going to miss her terribly. When trying to come up with a good parting gift, Arica found this [...]
My uncle Gary asked me to make a journal for a co-worker of his…a gal that’s expecting her first baby around the same time as me, in fact!
I was excited to try an idea I’d had brewing for a while: a paper-wrapped cover with a bookbinding paper spine. Here is the result:
The cover paper was [...]
Not long ago, I found the cutest fabric in Hobby Lobby:
After my mom and I spent some time hashing out ideas, she created this cute maternity top for me:
And it fits The Bump and I perfectly!
Tomorrow, I will be 33 weeks pregnant. If my mom’s prediction of Baby’s arrival time (read: early!) turns out to [...]
When my friend Fallon told me she wanted to have a journal made for her sister, Amber, I was so thrilled to hear the reason: Amber had recently accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior.
Fallon wanted Amber to have a special book in which she could journal her thoughts as she developed her relationship [...]
A while back, Kendra, an old co-worker, found several books that she wanted turned into journals. They all had such awesome titles, so I was excited to redo them for her.
Here’s a photo montage of each title and its inside facing pages. My main goal was to match colors and, if possible, theme.
This last one [...]
**We interrupt our regularly scheduled posts to bring you something entirely different…a mere announcement.**
Things are crazy at Z as in Zebra lately (due to things being crazy in our life right now). I’m still growing a baby in my belly and creating projects for clients, etc…but on top of all of that, I am traveling [...]
My mother-in-love found this old hymnal at a thrift store and immediately knew I could use it to make a repurposed journal.
Old books are so awesome because the covers feature different variations of embossing or debossing. So neat!
Since this was an old hymnal, I used sheet music scrapbook paper for the inside paste pages.
I also [...]
It’s not very often that I get to make journals for kids, so I was very excited when my friend Anne contact me regarding her nephew’s upcoming birthday.
Teddy will be turning 4 this month, and in Anne’s words, “he would love a personalized field journal to write down ‘observations.’”
How cute is that?! Anne did some [...]
This post is about dreaming up experimental ideas and seeing them through to completion.
I’ve been wanting to design a book like this for a long time (several years, if I’m being honest) and a couple weeks ago I decided to just bite the bullet and make it.
Besides, I had this amazing retro paper that needed [...]
This may seem like an astounding number, but I know 40 women (besides myself) who are pregnant right now. FORTY. One of them is my college buddy, Sara. She and her husband Jay live in Georgia and are expecting their first baby. Like us, they are not finding out their baby’s gender (we are definitely [...]