This week Casey started working for Sondra's Ink. She has only worked one day and I already feel like I am working more efficiently. Casey and I worked together at a preschool here in Holland and I designed the wedding stationery for her January 2008 wedding!
In two weeks Mary James will be maintaining most of the administrative duties at Sondra's Ink, and she will also be handling some of the customer service to make placing orders even easier! I will have a new email address for which I will post once it is up and working. Many of you bride-to-be or recent brides met her at some of my wedding expos. She has been a huge part of the "Public Face of Sondra's Ink" for a few years. Besides being a very organized, detailed, and talented lady, she is also my mother! :-)
More on this later...
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
New Faces (or voices to you out of the area brides)...
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Looking to hire the right person...
Sondra's Ink is growing. I am looking for a special someone to work part time in my home office located near the Holland State Park.
The administrative responsibilities would be data entry, organizing, running errands, and some customer service. The creative responsibilities would be working with me to design new invites, cutting paper, glittering, and all that creative side. Some opportunities to "sit in" with new clients is a possibility.
Mostly day hours are necessary but the right person may be invited to evening client sessions.
The pay rate is minimum wage to start, with opportunities for more down the road. Compensation can also be in trade for your wedding stationery.
Hours are flexible.
EMAIL ONLY!!!! Admin@SondrasInk.com
Serious inquiries only please.
Friday, March 28, 2008
I LOVE WEDDINGS!!
I love weddings! I love everything about weddings! I love the little nit-picky details, the dresses, the colors, the design... and most importantly, the final overall look when all the little things are pulled together for the final day!!
Sadly, I rarely get to see the final wedding photos since I am one of the first vendors a bride works with. But I certainly can envision what it will look like, and luckily I have made several great connections with some of my clients and they email me a photo after the big day.
This brings me to the point of my blog... I am now going to feature some of my finished weddings once the bride emails me her photos after the wedding (or honeymoon)! I would like to include the whole picture- not just the invites.
So, current Sondra's Ink clients, if you would like to see your wedding featured here, please email me and let me know! admin@sondrasink.com
Thanks!
Friday, March 14, 2008
Busy Busy Busy little me...
WOW! What a fantastic wedding season this is starting out to be!
I have gotten the chance to design completely new (and very unique) new wedding stationery, which I will add to my website soon.
I have also sent a few orders out for raised printing, with absolutely gorgeous results!
AND... I have placed a couple of orders with my new "envelopment-like" supplier, Do it With More Options, and I just received my swatch book yesterday!
So far I have met with 43 2008 brides! Thank you so much West Michigan for being such a creative place to work!
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Girl Scout Cookies!!!
It's funny, I have not even remotely thought about a Girl Scout cookie for about 6 years! Yep- that's about the time Lexie, now 15, was in the Girl Scouts and was selling them! She was about 8 or 9 probably at the time.
The reason I bring them up now is that I ran across a bride-to-be who is using them as her wedding favors!! How super cute!! She is splitting them up and repackaging them in little favor boxes with a custom tag. When they are done I'll post a photo. I forgot to ask her what flavors she is using.
Wouldn't they be really cute on a dessert/candy/cookie table at a wedding reception?!! I'd buy a bunch of different glass jars and put a different kind in each, each with a custom label (custom and cute of course)!!
In the meantime... if you find yourself with no Girl Scouts trying to sell you their cookies but this post has made you really crave some, fear not!! Here is a link to the Girl Scout Cookie website which will allow you to search your zip code for locations of "cookie sales"! And although it's not officially Girl Scout Cookie season any longer, they are still available all over West Michigan.
