Die-Cut Square Business Cards

As I was preparing marketing materials to send along with various auction donations last week, I realized I was out of business cards. How did that happen? I have been using my general cards for a while and forgot all about my Urban Bliss cards. I made some new ones on the fly and they [...]

Inspiration is Everywhere: A Peek Inside a Designer’s Mind

What inspires you? For me, the answer is both simple and complex: everything. I think most people may say the same thing, but I’ve been asked this a lot lately so I thought I’d visually share a little bit into how I get the inspiration behind the work I do for Urban Bliss. Let’s take [...]

12 Days of Printable Giveaways-Day 4: Holiday Party Invitation

Day 4 of my 12 Days of Printable Giveaways features a wintery invitation that you can use for your New Year’s Eve parties, for New Year’s Day parties, or for fun girls’ nights, playdates or birthday parties in January. Printable Giveaway #4: Urban Bliss Lattice Winter Party Invitation Winter is a great time to host [...]

2011 Printable Calendars

I love cupcakes. Who doesn’t? I think buttercream frosting should be its own major food group, but that’s just me. Now you can enjoy 12 months of guilt-free, fat-free cupcakes with these 5″ x 5″ square calendars! Here’s a view of the whole set: My 2011 Urban Bliss calendars are now available in the Urban [...]

DIY Wedding: Jones-Martinez

DIY weddings can be a lot of work, but also a lot of fun to create. I adore how you can really feel a couple’s love in all of the little details. It’s truly the individual touches that help make any wedding unique. Our {savor} vegan contributor, Jake Martinez, recently celebrated his marriage to his [...]

Urban Bliss Life Back-to-School Guide 2010

The anticipation of September has always been pure giddy bliss for me: the return of fall fashion, still-sunny days with milder temperatures, autumnal meals of chowders, root vegetables and roasts, and the always-exciting back-to-school shopping.  Even now, although my children are still very young, I find myself eagerly pouring over back-to-school catalogs and soaking in [...]

Positive Happiness: The Urban Bliss Life

I’m usually fascinated by trends but there’s one that’s been bugging me since I started blogging in 2004 and I say it’s time to bring it to an end: it is apparently just not cool to be in a regular state of happiness. Expressing giddiness, evidently, is a social crime. Open admissions to actually (gasp!) [...]