{Pugs in Design} The Shelter Pet Project

  This ad, featuring our favorite smooshy faced pooch, is a billboard by The Shelter Pet Project, a wonderful initiative founded by the Humane Society of the United States, Maddie's Fund, & the Ad Council  to encourage potential pet owners to adopt from shelters. 

This is Bandit the pug, an adoption success story :)

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Merry Christmas from the Warrens!

Photo by Tish Mackay Photography, Card Design by Tiny Prints

Eric, Meagan, Atticus, & Sylvie would like to wish you and yours a very merry Christmas and Happy Holiday Season!! 

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The Biltmore Wine Experience Part 1: Wine Finds

    Back in June, we mentioned a little honor of which we are quite proud: Meagan being chosen as the design winner of the 2011 Biltmore Christmas Wine Label. After months of anticipation, we have finally been able to see this label in all its glory. It seems like everywhere we look it keeps popping up! Our first encounter was at our local wine superstore: Total Wine (from whom we ended up purchasing three cases!). Next, we found it at our local grocery store: Harris Teeter. From there it spiraled out of control showing up at Ingles, Target, World Market and of course Biltmore itself. 

   One of the biggest surprises was that the label actually mentions Meagan on the back and displays her quote she created for the contest:

“Like Biltmore, this label inspires magical memories

of Christmases past, present, and the wonder of those to come.”

   Being a small husband and wife team, we are so extremely proud to have Meagan's work featured on a bottle that is sold all over the country. Her skill and artistic work are showcased beautifully and we are so happy that she won the contest!

 Here is the finished product as seen on this year's Christmas at Biltmore wine!

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   Through a bit of serendipity, we came across this Wine blog on Biltmore's Facebook page which gives a nice overview of the taste and aromas of the wine itself while subjecting it to the critique of a wine enthusiast. Click to read the blog and find out what he thought! (hint: it isn't bad!) He also mentions Meagan, yay!

Click here for the full review!

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{Freebie} Thanksgiving Recipe Card Printable

  Thanksgiving is right around the corner & we wanted to give you a helpful hand in preparing those yummy holiday foods!  We have so much to be thankful for so we wanted to incorporate that into a fun Thanksgiving design!  These would make cute gifts & are a great way to keep those loved, special recipes for Thanksgivings past, present, & those to come!

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 *Files are for personal, non-commercial use only

   Here's a recipe to get you started!  It's a fun twist on the classic Pumpkin Pie, called Paradise Pumpkin Pie!  We love that this recipe combines the best of all worlds! This is a yummy triple-decker pie that has a cheesecake layer on the bottom, pumpkin custard in the middle, and a pecan streusel layer on top. Paradise!  We hope you enjoy these recipe cards... happy cooking & have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

(Click here for a printable version from tasteofhome.com)

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Something Wagging This Way Comes...

Happy Halloween from our two office assistants, Atticus Finch & Sylvie Grace.  Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn, and cauldron bubble... something wagging this way comes! 

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Every Album is a Wonderful

   
  Just picked up the new Coldplay Album, Mylo Xyloto, & wow! These guys just keep knocking it out of the park!  The artwork, done by Coldplay frontman,Chris Martin, and Paris, is outstanding! The packaging is extremely well done and carries out the colorful theme throughout.

  Take a trip to the land of awesome, a.k.a. Coldplay's website, and you can get your own initials personalized Mylo Xyloto style!  Great fun to be had :)  Here's ours!

   And if you ever need something to make you smile, check out their latest video, Paradise.  We guarantee it will do the trick! :)

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Back off Man, We're Scientists.

    When there is something strange in your neighborhood, who do you call? One of our favorite Halloween traditions is to pull out the well-worn copy of Ghostbusters every year and laugh ourselves silly. However this year we had an extra treat, our local theater just happened to be playing it on the big screen for one night only! We love this movie so much we bought tickets five days ahead of the actual showing and it was soooo worth the wait! The movie holds up tremendously after twenty-seven years and shows little or no signs of aging (unfortunately the same cannot be said of our Ghostbusters VHS!) So here is to Venkman, Stanz, Spengler and Zeddmore, keep bustin' guys, we'll never stop watching!

 

And if that wasn't cool enough, we actually, by crazy luck, got to meet the one & only Dan Aykroyd the next day!  He is currently traveling around promoting his new (& wicked awesome) vodka, Crystal Head.  

He seems like such a nice, genuine guy!  And we can't wait to try this vodka, sounds amazing, & get this.... is filtered through diamonds!  Love it!  Check out the bottle, a skull designed by artist & founding partner, John Alexander, based on the legend of the 13 Crystal Skulls...

Can't wait to try it out! There are some yummy recipes on the Crystal Head website.  This one looks good for dessert tonight! 

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