Lately with TLB

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Laurel at THE HIVE

I’ve had a couple of really fun custom projects over the past month or so for The Lovely Bee that I thought would be fun to share with you! I had a blast with all three of these and would love the opportunity to get to do more fun custom stuff like this for any of you in the future! 🙂

(1) Metallic Mustaches!

A very nice Italian guy contacted me via Facebook and requested some custom metallic mustache confetti to give as a gift to a lady friend of his who has a thing for ‘staches! As I continued talking to him, it turns out this lady friend of his is currently in Japan for some reason or another and he wanted to make a letter to her just a little more exciting with the confetti. I thought that was SO sweet of him to go through such trouble… If I had to guess, I’d say this lady probably has more than “just friends” feelings for him after that lovely show of affection! 🙂

Anyway, here are the tiny gold and silver ‘staches! ❤

(2) Cool ‘Staches!

While on the topic of mustache confetti… A very sweet lady contacted me via Etsy to find out if I could do a custom mix of colors with the mustache confetti for her daughter’s “mustaches at midnight” themed party. She asked for a mix of cool blues, purples, and greens. Easy!! 🙂

(I would also like to throw in that if I were ever invited to a mustaches at midnight party, I would SO be there. How FUN does that sound?! What a cute theme!)

(3) “Just for you, my deer!” Baby Boy Thank You Notes

My sweet, darling, wonderful sorority little sis just had her baby boy and I could not be more excited for her and her adorable husband!! Before the tot was officially here, she asked for some deer head cards with her son’s name on them to use for thank you notes from her baby showers! I was so excited to get this project underway for her. I love anything to do with babies, and the deer head design is definitely at the top of my list of favorites!! 🙂

They turned out pretty cute and she loved them, which was the most important thing! 🙂

I’ve got another custom job formulating, which hopefully I can share with y’all soon, and have a few fun ideas up my sleve for future designs! So you’ll definitely be hearing from me on those in the near future!

(If you haven’t visited my Etsy store in a while, feel free to head on over there! I’ve added a couple of items recently that you just might love!)

Moustache Mania!

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Laurel at THE HIVE

Well, yesterday was spent in the midst of MOUSTACHE MANIA! I’m in the process of getting the Etsy store current again (the past couple of months have been so crazy that I kinda let it fall by the wayside) and yesterday was “update some of the moustache listings” day. The two I worked on mostly are both new and I’m so excited to introduce them to you!

Drumroll please…

THE SUNNY ‘STACHES

I’ve been obessing over bright colors lately, I think because I’m sooo ready for Spring to just hurry up and get here! It seems like every time Spring starts setting up shop, Winter just blows right over him again 😦 SO, these Sunny ‘Staches are my winter combatant!

And since mustaches/moustaches (however the heck you spell that word…) are so much fun, I carried out an idea I had a few weeks ago…

MOUSTACHE CONFETTI!

So fun, right?!

Each ‘stache is about 7/8″ wide, so they’re a great little size. And each bag comes with about 360 pieces!

I sort of want to throw a Lipstick and ‘Staches party and use these as decor. I’m thinking about making some lip confetti too, which would be really fun to use at little girl birthday parties or bachelorette parties or something! Anyway… Just thinking out loud… 🙂

To buy the SUNNY STACHES or MOUSTACHE CONFETTI, just take a visit to my Etsy store! (And I PROMISE, more inventory is coming soon!)

Introducing… Make Your MARX

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Laurel at THE HIVE

After getting a little feedback from you guys, I’ve decided to make the moustache pattern, Make Your MARX, a permanent pattern in The Lovely Bee’s repertoire! It started off as sort of a random weekend, “hey I wonder what a moustache on a card would look like” project and turned into something really fun!

There are currently two styles of staches: Monacle and Captain. Monocle is the name of the stache with the curled up ends. I just picture an old bald man with this moustache and a monocle in a tux at a big fancy ball. Might be a little far-fetched, but whatever!
Captain is the simpler of the two, because it makes me think of an old Confederate captain from the Civil War in his uni and cap. Again… far-fectched, but I don’t care!