Hey everyone! Our studio will be closing a bit early (Dec 14th - 27th) in order to catch up on holiday orders as well as spending some much needed time with our family and friends. 2009 has been an absolutely wonderful year for Truly Smitten. We've grown a lot and had opportunities to work with such wonderful people! Thanks so much for your support and hope you all have a safe and toasty holiday. Be back on the 28th!

(illustration by Truly Smitten).

russell + hazel

Check out this GORGEOUS "One Day at a Time" notepad set from Russell+Hazel. Absolutely LOVE the yellow edging! Happy Friday!



image via m Bennett Schneider

'Tis the season to feed

This year, in addition to sending out holiday cards, I will be mailing out batches of homemade cookies as well! Feeding people makes me happy - especially around the holidays =)

I designed this holiday card last year but got carried away with the amount I had printed. I will be reusing them again for this holiday season.


And some cookies with labels to go with it:



I would post a downloadable link for these holiday card + label templates if I could but I am not sure how to do that here. So if you guys are interested in these templates, email me (trulysmittenstudio@gmail.com) and I will email them to you!

What a mess!

The ol' grocery lady was right after all....look at all this white, cold mess! WHERE are the plowers?!?! I'm trapped inside my house and my poor dogs refuse to step out after almost drowning in all that snow!

busy in the kitchen...

We are due for a MAJOR snow storm. In like, a few hours...or so that is what the grocery lady tells me while she was bagging all my macaron ingredients.

The nice ol' grocery lady: "are ya stocking up for the major snow storm?"
me: "err...what snow storm?"
The nice ol' grocery lady: *GASP* "young lady...haven't you been watching the news?"
me: "um...no. I haven't"
The nice ol' grocery lady: "Is this what you are stocking up? Just baking ingredients?"
me: "well, I..."
The nice ol' grocery lady: (pointing back into the main part of the store) "you better get your fanny back in there and stock up on some REAL food! You'll need flashlights, batteries and lots of water too"
me: "ok. I'll be back in an hour"
The nice ol' grocery lady: "Atta' girl! Aren't you so happy that school's out?"
me: (sooo confused...) "what?"
The nice ol' grocery lady: "Aren't ya a student over at West High School?"
me: "I will be 29 next month!" I stammered.
The NOT so nice ol' grocery lady: (Cackling at me) "HAHA, oh my dear, you look like you're a high school student!"
ANNOYED me: "you look like you are going on 310!" (Nah, just said this to her in my head).


Ugh, reluctantly, I did as I was told. I stocked up on groceries for this "MAJOR" snow storm. I can't believe I got sassed my an old grocery lady...and she said "fanny". I haven't heard that word in a long, long time.

But in the meantime, I am going to be very busy whipping up these for xmas care packages for my dear friends and family. Will post final result pictures. This should lift my spirits...

Sugar Paper's recipe box

I've taken a major fancy to this gorgeous pink lacquered recipe box from Sugar Paper! Oh, won't you be under my Christmas tree this year?





and this beautiful gift tag too!

Truly Smitten on Style Me Pretty

Thanks Style Me Pretty for the lovely post! You totally made my day =)

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Truly Smitten website up and running...finally!

I have put off finishing my dear own website for a very long and lazy year. Just the very thought of putting it together brought spasms of headaches and just about looked for any excuse to avoid it. Why you ask? It's because I hate dreamweaver and html coding to my very core. Hahaha! I know, these days, a ton of graphic designers know how to tinker with html and javascript thingies... But not me. I am a stubborn print designer. How very lazy of me...yet I refuse to pay a few grand to get my bloody website done. So, after 10 hours of changing, tweaking, updating, and uploading, I would like to present to you, my Truly Smitten website! Hooray!




Check it out and let me know what you think =)

Vintage Chandelier Suite

This wedding suite I designed arrived yesterday and I absolutely adore how they turned out! Love the tiffany blue + espresso color combo!

afternoon tea party invites

Hope everyone had an awesome and belly busting Thanksgiving weekend! Honestly, I'm a bit sick of eating all these leftovers. I think I'm going to start my new year's resolution a bit early and hit the gym asap! Anyhoo, I've finished up this invitation for a lovely girl who's throwing her best friend a surprise afternoon tea (birthday) party! What a dear friend!




and the envelope address label to go along with it: