I am officially on blog hiatus (my posts through next week have been set up in advance), but I had to thank my fabulous designer, Elisabeth of Salt Life Designs (she’s Anne Harwell’s sister, so you may have seen her featured on Annechovie) for my gorgeous new header and button!The header is a series of china patterns that I love. Several of which I considered when registering for my wedding. I have always loved beautiful china and I took this task VERY seriously. I almost passed out in Michael C. Fina from the stress. And I’m only half kidding.

My button features the pattern I selected for my dessert plates. As much as I loved it, I thought it was a bit busy for a dinner plates, and while I was looking for a more simple dinner plate I realized that my top choices were not Limoges. Which means that they were more cream colored while my beautiful dessert plates were more of a blue white. I have a memory of holding two cream colored dinner plates while the room spun around me.

If you are thinking I sound like a lunatic, you can commiserate with my husband. He lasted MAYBE ten minutes before refusing to have anything to do with me until we left.

Don’t worry – it all worked out in the end. I selected a lovely Limoges pattern for the dinner plates that just happens to be the exact same china pattern that my mother has. It was discontinued for years, but was only JUST picked up again by Mottahedeh the year I got engaged. It was meant to be. For me. Not so much for Chris. He was just happy that he didn’t have to listen to me hyperventilate over yellow versus blue undertones in china.

But enough about my fond Bridezilla memories! Grab a button already…

…and tell all of your friends about Salt Life Designs. If my china pattern angst gives you a clue as to what kind of design client I am, you can just imagine what a saint she is. I couldn’t be happier.