Newest Logo for Bottled Sentiments

Lovin' this logo Bottled Sentiments approved this month —

First Day of Autumn!

To acknowledge the first day of autumn, we broke out our Pear Ginger Tea from Eastern Shore plus took a gander through some of our old photos. We thought the perfect ones for such a dreary day would be an equally dreary October Graveyard. Enjoy!

New website launch!

Recently we launched the new website for Waste Masters: headquartered in New Castle, Delaware. Slideshow, auto scrolling features,a much improved SEO and more. Check them out:

www.wastemasters.com

Bay Country Landscape - Website Launch

We're thrilled to announce that Bay Country Landscapes website redesign has launched! We made sure they were covered with a refreshing new logo and business cards.

Visit them online @ www.baycountrylandscape.com.

New Launch!

Check out the new site for a local Delaware window, door, siding, and garage contractor, Newark Door & Window...

www.newarkdoor.com

Freshly Launched!

So excited! We just launched the new website for SSD, a Delaware IT Firm. It boasts 100% custom design, css3, and font-face, which allows the use of unique fonts.

Check it out...

www.ssdel.com

Latest Launch!

Check out our latest website launch for the lovely Dr. Brenda Fairchild. She specializes in Chiropractic care for Women, Pregnant Women, and Children.

www.doctorfairchild.com

Like them on Facebook!

50 Clever Logo Designs

I am completely in love with this logo featured in Joshua Johnson's article on 50 Fantastically Clever Logos.

Take a look at the other clever logos here...

Super Cool Comic: FREAKANGELS

I know it's been a little while since I last posted. (Sometimes I'm a terrible blogger. What can I say?)

But, TGIF!

Since launching a website for my client Icons Comics & Games, I've been taking a peek at more comics lately. Check out this pretty amazing free, ongoing and weekly comic FREAKANGELS, written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield.

Waiting for permission to post some of the illustrations, but check out this super cool comic @

www.freakangels.com

MS Walks Saturday, April 16th

Calling all Delawareans! If you know someone with MS, now is a good time to come out and support them.

Walk MS is a rallying point, a time and a place for us to stand together and to be together — to help raise critical funds that support cutting edge research, drive change through advocacy, facilitate professional education and provide programs and services to help people with MS move their lives forward.

On Saturday, April 16, Two MS Walks are happening.

Wilmington Riverfront (Starts 8 A.M.)

Historic Dover Walk (starts 9 A.M.): 

We will be supporting good friend and Creative Image Associates Designer Lindsey McCloskey in Dover:

Historic Dover

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Starting Location: 

Tatnall Building, 150 William Penn Street, Dover, DE 19901

This walk kicks off right on Legislative Ave in front of the Tatnall Building.

Time: 

Registration and Walker Check-in opens at 9:00 AM. The walk will begin at 10:00 AM.  

Parking: 
Parking is available in the Tatnall Building lot and several other lots within walking distance of the walk kick-off.  Handicap accessible parking is adjacent to the Tatnall Building.

Number of Walkers: 
We are expecting between 400 and 500 walkers at this site.

Length of Walk: 
This walk is approximately 2.7 miles long.

Rest Stops: 
Rest stops are located on North State Street and Washington Street. These stops will be fully staffed with Walk MS volunteers and there will be bananas, water, and crackers at each stop. 

Route Markings:  
The walk route will be denoted with orange arrows and Walk MS fact signs.  Follow these to the finish line!  

Entertainment: 
Tom-FM will be providing music at the start of the walk.  Also, the Steppin’ Seniors will be performing at lunch.

Lunch: 
Be sure to save room for lunch!  We have several awesome lunch sponsors this year, including Chick-Fil-A, Tony’s, & Herr’s! 

Volunteering:  
If you have friends and family that cannot walk, but would like to join you on event day, let them know there is still a place for them!  They can contact Ainsley Hertrich, Volunteer Coordinator at 302-655-5610 ext 129 or ainsley.hertrich@nmss.org to sign-up as a volunteer.

If you cannot make it but still wish to show support, please feel free to make your donations here.


See you there!

                                                     

Highlights from Shenandoah, VA

I'm baaaack! We went to the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in Virginia with some friends. From snow, to rain, to 80 degree weather, I feel like we've been through all the seasons in just 4 short days.

Between the 6 of use we've taken well over 1,000 photos. Here are just a few highlights and some of my favorites. Enjoy!

Photos and design by teakettica

Want more Pictures? See more on Facebook.

Philadelphia Skylines

So I convinced my friend Mike Morris @designsophy to let me blog about these pictures he took of his hometown of Philadelphia. They are completely inspiring and the incredible skylines take me back to a time when I fell in love with my husband in NYC. (Unbeknown to me ‪‪— though I think everyone else knew before I did.) I was, ironically, also there on a business trip/cocktail party for Pneuma Books (owned by the awesome Brian Taylor) with Mike, who was my senior designer at the time.

Mike & Brian hired me right out of college after interning for them for a while. They pretty much taught me everything I know about good design and typography. Mike was shocked to know I didn't know what greeking was. I was shocked there was something called greeking. More like geeking.

They showed me the true elegance of the em dash and the importance of kerning.

Hard to believe it's been 10 years.

So, without further adieu ‪‪— ‪check these out. Nice work, Mikey.

Photos by Mike Morris @designosophy

Largest Design Show Yet - Middletown, DE

I cannot wait! I did a search for the house on Google - I think this is it! Gorgeous!

The Designer Show House is returning this spring to Middletown, DE to the oldest house in Middletown, circa 1800s. 12 leading interior designers, including my friend Barbara Pettinella from the Decorating Den, are donating their time and resources to redecorate the house. A total makeover.

This stone house is 7,000-squarefoot, includes seven bedrooms, boasts five fireplaces, has 8-foot-wide pocket doors, a ballroom and original 10-foot fluted Corinthian pillars in the formal parlor.

Details:

The house will be open to the public Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, from Friday, April 8 through Sunday, May 15, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

217 N. Broad St., Middletown, DE

Tickets are $15 and may also be purchased at the door. The house will be closed on Easter Sunday April 24.

The organization will also offer private garden tea, garden lunch, and evening wine tours. To make a reservation, call Barbara Cooper at 302-437-5640 before March 22 for best date selection.

See you there...

New Launch!

We're happy to announce the new website launch for Refine Your Design - check it out below with some new business cards to boot!

www.refineyourdesign.net

Logo for Balanced Wellness

We're lovin' this logo we did for Balanced Wellness. Organic meets Celtic five-fold.

Protecting Endangered Species — Animals that Need Your Help Now

Well, it looks like the WWF (no - not the world wrestling foundation) put the word out that we're interested in protecting wildlife and endangered species. This week we received 4 pleas for donations from 4 different wildlife organizations. All sent free stuff. Maps. Decals. Address labels. Stickers. Calendars. We felt pressured to donate to them all! But we felt our dollar would go farther if we chose one. So, we did our research and chose the organization we felt aligned with our own agenda.

That's why we chose the Sierra Club. They are addressing the animals that need our help now — and they are doing so through land conservation and more than taking donations — they are sending petitions to our Congressional leaders to work with the Obama Administration to restore and strength Endangered Species Act protections. (The free rucksack is a bonus.)

Animals that Need Your Help Now:

• Yellowstone Wolves: The wolves in and around Yellowstone have been hunted, nearly 200 killed who wandered outside the protection of the park. Sierra Club helped reinstall federal protection for the wolves in the region.
  
  
• Polar Bears in Alaska: This threatened species has gone without assistance for over 3 years due to the protection act's inability to stop the oil drilling in their habitat.
  
  
• Florida Panther: Fewer than 100 left due to highway accidents and loss of habitat.
  
  
• America's Grizzly Bears: Previous protection lifted, the bear's habitat is also being destroyed by the pine beetle, which is consuming one of their main sources of food: the whitebark pine. 40% of the grizzly's habitat is without protection, only surviving in the lower 48 states due to the protections afforded under the Endangered Species Act.

For more information or to help with this cause, visit www.sierraclub.org.


(Photos from Sierra Club)

It's February! You know what that means...

It's teakettica's two year anniversary! 

(We know — not as cool as Black History Month, but still pretty rad, right?)

As a special thank you to all of our clients,
we are offering a 20% discount on anything you order this month.

Thank you x 2! 

www.teakettica.com