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Charm & Fig — watercolor

raquel's hand-lettered & watercolor baby shower invitation

Lauren Covington baby gender neutral hand lettering hand-lettered shower watercolor

raquel's hand-lettered & watercolor baby shower invitation

 I first met Raquel when I was in college, and have gotten to know her more and more over the years as a smart, sweet and creative person. When her friends asked me to create her Summer Soirée baby shower invitation, I wanted to make it as joyful and bright as Raquel.  The background image was hand-painted with bleeding blue, green, yellow and peach watercolors, mixed in with saturated marks to create some fun movement. I hand lettered the names and reversed the text to keep it light and summery. To finish it off, I had it printed on a textured paper and paired it...

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grapefruit moving announcements / homage to the rosemary salty dog

Lauren Covington announcement blue charm & fig coral grapefruit moving new home paper recipe stationery watercolor

Our biggest accomplishment of 2013 was finding a place to call our own. After some aggressive searching and saving we found a great little 1938 bungalow in Houston's East End. During our search, one house we visited had an amazing grapefruit tree and although the house wasn't right for us, we were hellbent on planting a grapefruit tree in whichever house we ended up buying. We found our house, we planted the tree and even though it bears no fruit, it was only natural that we celebrated our new ouse and tree with rosemary salty dogs. Good gin, fresh grapefruits...

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