Good day everyone! As promised we have some BRAND NEW SUPER FREE Alice in Wonderland Invitations that I’m leaving you with before I head to Ireland this weekend.

While I was immersing myself in all things Alice (umm, except the movie, I suppose, because we can’t leave our pup at the moment- stitches, long story) and I came across some illustrations by Katogi Mari and really liked the idea but I wanted the flowers to be made of the suits of cards* and (obviously) there to be room to write so yada yada yada I turned it into an invitation for y’all. And by “yada yada yada”, I mean I’ve spent the last 3 days at my computer drawing drawing drawing.

So. If you download these you need to take the following oath:

I do solemnly swear that I will tell someone who: is engaged, planning on getting engaged, recently married, planning a party, having a baby, moving, or requiring a designer about The Future Mrs. Darcy.

Excellent.

These come 2 to a page and have spaces for you to fill in: “arrive promptly at:” time, “we’re all mad here:” location, “curiouser and couriouser:” for what and any other infomation and “the adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time” for RSVP.

For you very own download here: Alice in Wonderland Invitations #2!

And there’s a slew of more Alice party stuff for you to download here and here.

Also to keep you occupied for 5 minutes of the week I’m gone:

Photo by One Love Photo

I came across this LIBRARY WEDDING on Snippet and Ink in my monthly skim of all wedding blogs and I don’t even need to mention how much I love it, do I? It’s a freakin’ library wedding. I want to store everything in old card catalogs. Make sure to also read Linda’s (the bride) Planning Tips at the end. Linda, you rock, I shall drink a Guinness in your honor next week.

photo by Pam Sattler

Secondly, I came across a color palette on one of my design blogs and how freakin’ lovely?! Also it’s “Color Happy 68″ which means there are 67 other ones for you to peruse.

Images: dried flowers by Elizabeth Messina, long table by Small Masterpiece, calligraphy by Kathryn Murray, floral by Adebond

Lastly, Jane. Austen. [Pretend.] Wedding. Okay so it’s an inspiration post but I was fooled for like 10 seconds and they were good 10 seconds and good inspiration so soak it in kids. I think doilies are a little much but don’t give a crap what I think, it’s your wedding after all.

Go forth. Have a great week and a half. Be 110% Irish tomorrow and pinch people who don’t wear green.

*And yes, I do realize (now) that making a spade into a flower starts edging into the line of phallic but we gotta do what we gotta do and from what I hear, I think Lewis Carroll would have liked it that way. And what a great hen party** invite!

**Have I mentioned that I plan to use the English “hen”/”stag” party instead of “bachelorette”/”bachelor” party? Sounds so much cooler their way.