Be Our Guest - Room

Well, welcome to our guest room! Aka basically my college bedroom. Being first time little homeowners it wasn't practical to buy a whole bedroom set and new bedding for our guest room so this is the precious little leftovers room. I think I spent a total of $10 on this room since we moved in. But I still love it and hopefully it's a comfy little retreat for our guests! 

Chuck hates empty frames. I love them. They are cheap, easy, and a unique way to decorate a wall. I wanted to have a "gold and silver metallic" theme in this room and these little babies help a lot! 

The bedding - a little Anthropologie set that I had my junior and senior year of college! I still just love all the colorful embroidery that looks modern yet vintage...

The BED- oh the bed. Special back story - my grandparents gave each of their children a beautiful brass bed when they got married as a wedding gift. When Charles and I got married we got to pick out a bed for our bedroom as a wedding gift. My parents just bought (for the first time since they were married 25 years ago) a new bed! So that means we got this fabulous heirloom that you can't even buy at a store anymore. It was so perfect for this room and I love having both our beds in our house from my wonderful grandparents! 

A little tea and reading for when you come to visit! 

This sewing table was my desk last year and now transformed into a little vanity for our guests! Obviously it was spray painted metallic silver and paired with this precious little gold brass vanity stool! 

This little side table was also in my college room and I've loved it since day one! I had it made/painted at a store in Abilene and will have it forever probably, even though Chuck hates it. The lamp - thrift shop find that I spray painted and paired with a little chevron shade (gasp! hailey has chevron in her house!) 

We love our little guest room and when you come visit it's all yours! For now it will constantly be used for housing my 3,895,139 dresses in its closet, and a dumping ground for clean laundry until it can be folded. Oh the life of a barely used guest room. Please come visit!

Branding Hailey Berry Design - New Year New Look

Alright folks here it is! For months now I've struggled with not having a "brand identity" for this blog, for my etsy shop, just in life. As a ad/pr major who runs a small business I was breaking a lot of fundamental rules and creating a definite brand look was a must. So I started with inspiration from brands I loved, colors that made me happy, and fonts that made me want to type all day. I researched popular brands, scowered etsy and pinterest, and finally started creating what is now Hailey Berry Design. This little shop is my creative outlet, my "go-to" stress reliever, and genuinely makes me so excited to help design paper goods that make people happy.

I might be slightly obsessed with this new look and rightfully so, I put long hours and lots of outside advice/suggestions into this and I am finally ecstatic about how it turned out and to share it with you. I feel so proud of it, and mostly because I was able to do it all on my own. There are thousands of companies that will "help" you with your brand, there are even etsy sellers who will charge you $500 for a branding "concept." Obviously I can't afford anything close to that and even more honestly I don't think that anyone else could have captured all the ideas in my head for what I wanted it to be.

It's not perfect and will probably still change slightly with trends and new findings but for now it's exactly what I needed for my little shop. It helped completely re-invent every item in my shop and create the "cohesive" look that all brands desperately need. It will help me create future projects, designs, invites and personalized stationary. There's lots ahead in 2014 and so excited to see what's in store for Hailey Berry Design!

 

Stay tuned this week for daily posts of new designs and fun happenings with the new brand! 

Happy Monday! 

- Hailey