I like beautiful things

May 10, 2016May 10, 20161 Comment

The time has come for the big logo reveal!!!

The hubby says I should share with you all about the logo, what it means, how it happened, yada yada, so here goes…

I read tons, and I do mean TONS, of information from anywhere and everywhere I could on how to create a logo. I talked with entrepreneur friends, and marketing friends, and graphic designer friends. I then followed as much of their advice as I could. I tried a bunch of different things, bought design elements and fonts and put stuff together all sorts of different ways, came up with a font and color pallet.

After weeks of attempting to design my logo I was frustrated and discouraged. So I gave up! Then, I was writing in my journal and suddenly found myself doodling gems, and I had found my inspiration.

I wanted a logo that looked like a piece of jewelry itself, something that was beautiful in it’s own right.

What can I say, I’m a sucker for beautiful things!

No seriously, I kind of hoard them, it’s a real problem. I collect business cards, and invitational post cards for businesses and things I have no intention of ever using. I tear pretty pictures out of magazines and paste them in a journal, I have even been known to keep the sales tag off of a shirt because it was just too beautiful to toss.

I wanted to create a logo that would make an impression, make an impact. I want people to remember it, because isn’t that the point of a logo, but also I wanted them to remember it because it made them feel something. I’m not sure about you, but it definitely makes me feel something.

So, that’s the abbreviated story behind the birth of Frippery House’s logo. It took a lot of time but mostly it was a lot of fun to make, and I know I’m bias, but I love it!

Thanks for joining me on the journey

Katie

My AWESOME business cards from Pikake Press…thanks Leslie, I LOVE them

Drum roll please…

April 26, 20164 Comments

Late night typing and editing the big name reveal.

Today’s the day! Now is the moment! It is finally time to share my business name with the world…drum roll please…

Frippery House Designs

Frippery, is at it’s simplest defined as finery. It is all those things in life that aren’t essentials, but they add so much beauty. Jewelry and artwork, scarfs and home decor, china and picture frames…this is frippery.

It’s all the little things that make an outfit your style and a house your home.

As for the house in Frippery House…a house is more than just a place to live. To me it’s a symbol of family, of warm food, of laughter, and messes. It’s a place of growth…and of love. It’s the place where life happens, the place where we are our most honest and true selves, where we have the most influence.

Currently, the Dizon house sleeps 5 permanently, a few more if it’s only temporary. There is so much room in this house for gatherings, for life…but, we are out of room for children. Our first goal is to finish the basement and create more bedrooms, the second to adopt more children.

My heart in starting this business is to create beautiful, lovely, unnecessary, but oh so wonderful things…but to create them with purpose. I want to be intentional about making each piece of jewelry special and unique. I want people to know that when they purchase from Frippery House they are growing our house, and that they have become a part of our story. I want customers to remember when they wear their pieces, that it’s not just jewelry…it’s a story. I’m hoping in some small way, that through this purchase, through my blog, through our stories, to see people’s hearts open to adoption.

Frippery House Designs will begin by focusing on jewelry, and hopefully expand into all the other things I love to make…hand lettered signs, refinished furniture, and other pretty things.

I am so excited! I feel as if I am taking what God has placed in my hands and doing what He asked me to do with it years ago.

Logo coming soon…so keep an eye out for it.

Thank you for joining me on this journey

Katie

Frippery House: intentional beauty

Organized chaos

April 10, 2016April 11, 2016Leave a comment

Organized chaos is usually a state I thrive in. I have always had a messy room, a messy locker, a messy work station…organized, but messy. It’s as if my brain needs the mess, all those colors and textures and shapes and patterns all falling and tumbling into one another, it’s in those things I find my inspiration. I saw a book recently on organization that was geared towards the creative. I flipped through it and I was impressed, it seems there are others like me who live in this state where messes seem to be required in order to create.

Currently, my system has collapsed! It is no longer organized chaos…just chaos! I never set up a work space for me in the new house and it seems life turned into a cyclone lately and it’s left my house in a state. So, I find myself working amidst the mess at the kitchen table, carting jewelry supplies in and out of the garage…creating in the center of the chaos.

SO uninspiring!

I keep reminding myself it’s just a season. There’s a desk facing a window that will be perfect once it’s no longer an unorganized mess. I just need to organize it, and come up with storage, and…

I never knew all the silly little daily challenges that would go into starting a business…or owning a home…or being a wife…or being a mom. Funny how I once thought I knew it all!

It begins…

March 15, 2016March 23, 2016Leave a comment

I have been spending MONTHS working on a blog…just to scratch it all and start again. 3 steps forward 2 steps back. That seems to be the pace of my life currently. I come up with a design, put it on paper, start making it and then have to remake it three times before I can get it done. Sometimes that’s just how my creativity works. Sometimes I can read how to do something, watch tutorials and get it done, sometimes I can just think about it and sit down and make my idea come to life. But, sometimes, I have to jump into it, fail, jump again, and repeat until I get it right.

“Mistakes are proof that you are trying” or so the saying goes. But, it just seems that I’m trying (and failing) a LOT!!! I’m making mistakes all over the place. It’s been a discouraging time. I just haven’t felt like I’m achieving much or really making any progress towards this goal of starting a business. I just keep reminding myself I am making progress. And then today…a little gift from Heaven arrived…a snow day! A day that allowed me to catch up on teacher stuff, design jewelry, take ornaments off the Christmas tree (don’t judge), and oh yeah, I have a blog now!!! So, I am making progress, I still don’t have a launch date for the business, don’t even know for sure how I’m going about this business thing anymore (not sure if Etsy is the place for me). But, I am making progress, and today it is tangible. Yay!

thedizonlife

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