Screen Printing

It's always been a dream of mine to incorporate a retail component to my design business.  Worboys Design launched an online shop late last year as a place to find fun prints and cards as well as a holiday subscription box.  I loved working on this with my team but always felt it was lacking that "special" element.  

So, we closed up shop last Friday to spend the day at a private screen printing workshop and I think we're all hooked...

It was an awesome day with an even more awesome team!  Keep an eye out for adult and children's apparel, prints, cards, bags and whatever else we can get our hands on. WD Shop coming soon!!

Launched!

New Year + New Website.  I'm feeling so incredibly proud/blessed/excited to announce that Worboys Design's new website has launched!!  

Sadly, this poor website hadn't been updated visually since 2008.  So I'm beyond excited to see this website FINALLY go live after years of "talk" about updating it.  I'm so proud of the entire WD crew who helped put this baby together.  I would still be talking about it without you.  Well done, team!!

This whole process has really made me sit back and feel extremely proud of what WD has accomplished over the past 8 years.  We've built  amazing partnerships with long time clients, worked on new, exciting projects and helped friends build their new businesses.  And it could not be more rewarding.  It was hard to give in to the idea of letting go of the design work to focus on building the business but I've found the most INCREDIBLE design team that I love working with every single day.

So, if you have a chance, please take a quick moment to click around and see what we've been up to :)

CHECK IT OUT!

Bring on 2014 - I can't wait to see where it takes us all!

Merry, Merry!

Just a quick (and sadly, random) note to say MERRY CHRISTMAS from the de Windt household to yours!  I hope your holiday season is filled with loads of love and laughter with loved ones. 

Let us all be thankful for the massive amount of blessings in our lives!

Sending our love to Bangkok, Leitchfield, Melbourne, Maui, Amsterdam, Simpsonville, Boston, Christiansburg, Rochester, San Diego and everywhere else, while we're cozied up in our home this year :)

A special gift for my love.

The weeks and weeks that I had to wait to give this birthday gift to my hubby were brutal.  So I was like a giddy little kid when I finally got to see him open it...

The wall in our living room needed something special... something a touch edgy to contrast with the traditional feel that we have going on.  So I decided to surprise him with a custom piece that highlighted our wedding day with the amazing photos by Melissa Vossler that we had yet to print in a substantial size - 3+ years later!

I owe all the credit to Miss Jordan, my incredibly talented designer who brought this piece to life.  She worked in photos of the houses we've lived in, our ceremony on the dock, the vows we had written and read to each other on our wedding day, the birth date of our baby girl, the mountains from our years in Tahoe and trip to Patagonia, San Diego's Mt. Soledad cross, the cliffs along the beach where he proposed and lots of other elements that make up our almost 10 YEARS TOGETHER!

I was nervous printing this 36x48 print without his input, but that wouldn't have been any fun and since Worboys Design had created a couple murals similar to this for various project that he's raved about, I went for it.  And luckily, it passed.

It's such a special piece and I can't think of a better reason to put this together.  Love you hubby and thank you for all of the memories that we get to walk by everyday :)

A little bit random.

This should explain how my mind functions these days... all over the place and totally random!

I can't stop staring at these Rebecca Minkoff sandals.  The light grey blue leather with the thick wood heel and gold detail... just gorg.  Do I go for it?!  It's almost my birthday, just saying.

Music on repeat right now... talk about random!

Emeli Sande - Maybe
ZZ Ward - Blue Eyes Blind
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
Randy Houser - Runnin' Outta Moonlight
Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark
Taylor Swift & Ed Sheeran - Everything Has Changed 
Blake Shelton & Pistol Annies - Boys 'Round Here


In a bit more exciting news, for me at least, Worboys Design is finally getting its own office space.  So we've placed orders for some fun furnishings.  It should look something like this...

So excited, I can barely handle it.

:)

Mommas!

To my Mom, Mother-In-Law, Step-Mom, Sister-In-Law and momma friends...

Thank you for being such incredible examples of the mother I'd like to be for Winslow.  I love you all so much and hope you know just how much you are adored, admired and appreciated.  Your support through the most challenging and wonderful 19 months of my life has been amazing.  Thank you for letting me complain about the hard days and share all of the sweet moments I've had with Winslow.  This parenting thing is no joke!

Happy Mother's Day to all of the mommas out there :)  

Just Perfect.

Sometimes all of the "extras" that are added to a wedding invitation takes away from its simple beauty.  I love a thoughtful design that fits the couple's personalities, in one color, on a super thick, high quality paper.   

And that's exactly what we created in this invitation suite for Marie-France and Steven for their wedding this past Winter.  We think it's just perfect!

We would love to help you bring the print work for your wedding or any kind of celebration, to life.  Contact Worboys Design anytime!

Kaua'i Love.

Although they really should have met years before, I watched two dear friends fall in love the moment they shook hands.  It was at a Lady Antibellum concert a couple summers ago and the rest is history.  Seriously inseparable and so beautifully perfect for each other.  I couldn't be more excited for them to get married along the pristine waters of Kaua'i this Spring.

It meant so much to me, to be asked to create their Save The Dates.  Here they are, and as you can see, the images I had to work with made this project way too easy.  Could they be any hotter?! :)

Love you two so much.  Can't wait to celebrate!!

Rustic & Sweet.

I can't believe it's taken me this long to post about this project.  I absolutely loved working on these invitations and am SO thrilled with the way they turned out.   Miss Kylie handled all of the assembling herself (bless her heart), so it was like Christmas morning waiting to get mine in the mail.

It's the perfect combo of rustic, sweet with the natural twine and twig thermography printing...

Do you love like I do? Congrats again Kylie & Patrick!

Sweet Lily's Birth Announcement!

Look at this face!  

We had to keep Lily's birth announcement design fairly simple since the picture made a big enough statement on its own.  I mean, how stunning is this baby girl?!

Pink, cream and white chevron... love!

San Diego Wedding Details.

Dang, September 13th was my last post?!  Yikes.

Anyhoo... I'm so excited to share these photos by Lane Dittoe, from a wedding planned by my ridiculously talented friend and owner of Before I Do Events.  I was pumped to be able to provide all of print work for this stunning San Diego wedding.  It's always fun to see how they're used on the big day...

The blush flowers and raw silk napkins are to die for!  Check out more pics from this gorgeous wedding here.  And of course, CONGRATS to the new couple!!

{ Photo Credit: lanedittoe.com }

Preppy & Nautical

Has it really been an entire month since I last posted?!  Goodness, that's sad.  If I hadn't spent the past 4 weeks house hunting, traveling, caring for a 9 month old teenager and working my butt off, I'd feel like a total slacker!

Much more importantly, my bestie is getting married in a month and I was lucky enough to get to help her design their invitations... 

They're classic, preppy (just like her!), slightly nautical (wedding on the Finger Lakes) and were letterpressed on super thick, dreamy, soft cotton paper.... ugh they're so amazing! 

But first things first... Vegas.  Bachelorette.   (!!!)

{ Photo Credit: laurabeals.com }