It is great to feature in the March edition of the Wedding supplement. We have featured in both the Vintage(paper love heart garland) & Cool Britannia  (Strawberry Fayre invite and name tag) sections. It is really exciting to see your name in print! We absolutely love their ideas and stylised themes and must concur Wedding publication really is a fantastic read, a pioneer of trends and advocate of helpful advice.

Here at The Happily Ever After Project we love everything about print and use battered, vintage book finds as inspiration for our designs. We are ashamed to say that this interesting and beautiful book was destined for a friend at Christmas, but we were unable to resist its charms. Instead, we sent an email to our friend entitled….’here’s what you could have won’.

When we flicked through this book it is inspirational and literally takes the breath away, wedding stationery should be a similar experience, once you find that special invite.

The Happily Ever After Project is interested in a creating stationery for all sort of events; the most recent being a Vintage Tea Party, with a black and gold theme. The result was stationery with a hint of decadence and an acknowledgement of the days of vintage glamour. The Vintage Tea Party included vintage crockery, muffins, a story board and name tags with personal messages.

The Art Deco vase is a beautiful shape with it’s sinewy handle and bulbous base - inspiration is all around us - the vase courtesy of the local Salvation Army shop. The challenge is to transform this vase in to a new stationery design. Watch this space!

It is possible to theme contemporary weddings with panache and style. The underlying theme should be simplicity, with a dash of elegance. The soft grey design suggest silver, subtlety should always be the ultimate aim, if you are looking for a stylish gathering.

It is possible to acheive a fabulous romantic theme for your wedding without statements of pink and frilly…. as you may be aware, The Happily Ever After Project believes less is definately more. With this in mind, the lace stationery teamed with the soft pink type can be adapted to suit a thoroughly modern wedding or a rather more vintage themed wedding. The lace stationery is set in a vintage table setting.

The Happily Ever After Project has featured the Lovetype Two design in a lime and olive colour scheme. The design features as part of the Style Editors Choice in the April/May edition, page 67. How exciting…….. Watch this space for further editorial!!!!

I love this Retro Stamp Collection from Royal Mail. The images are quiessentially British with a stylised aesthetic. After seeing the collection it dawned on me I might be tempted to start collecting stamps (only joking).

I do love vintage and there is a really interesting shop full of vintage postcards in Keswick. There are a few tattered boxes, full to the brim with old postcards. I really like the sepia images, and the way in which the old-worldliness of a place is captured. If you look closely at the Biarritz postcard, the essence of glamorous 1920’s society is exemplified perfectly by people eating al fresco at the Hotel Metropole.

I just had to let you know of my most recent thrifty bargain! I was standing in a dusty ‘Aladdin’s Cave’, when I happened upon the coolest desk light ever conceived - it is a beautiful, elegant; industrial engineering success! It has lots of weighted joints, springs and metal. And it cost me £3!