Savannah’s Satchel is a Superb Shop!

Imagine if Designing Women (minus the shoulder pads and big hair) moved to Savannah and updated to a fresh look in 2012, and that’s the world of Satchel- a boutique leather goods store in the heart of Downtown. SCAD alumnae, Elizabeth, Char, Mahala, and Lexi, have been hand-crafting beautiful bags, amazing accessories, and lovely luggage sets for 5+ years. Whether you have an old piece that you’d like to re-create, or the perfect idea for clutch, Satchel is the place to go. The touches of hand weaving, braiding, and branding add so much interest to the designs, and truly make each piece special. When they’re not helping customers, these ladies are sewing away on the in-house machines (in view behind the counter) to create the latest and greatest. Oh, and did we mention horn handles from South America?

This unique store is filled with adorable stories of bags with even more adorable names. One of their top sellers, the “Dad’s Jacket” was originally designed using a reconstructed Pilot Jacket. And most of the products are named after friends and family. Pick from a variety of quality, leather samples and hardware to create your own version of a bag, or just buy one right off the shelf. If you’re looking to create a bag from scratch, the entire process will take about 4-5 weeks and will run you anywhere from $80 to upwards of $1000 for large garment bags. But at the end of the day, you have a one-of-a-kind bag from a one-of-a-kind store. At least, it’s the only place we know of that sells leather beer koozies!

We can’t imagine a cooler birthday present or corporate gift for your next event. (Can we say branded, leather iPad cases?) So call them up or walk into their splendidly styled showroom for a little leather loving.

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Bringing the Hanging Gardens Inside

Remember how much we loved all those vertical gardens from a while back? Well, here is a our new obsession via Hungarian designer, Gabriella Asztalos. Babylon doesn’t have a thing on these hanging gardens!  These floating, pill-shaped baskets may very well be the next wonder of the world. Clearly, we’re obsessed with new and interesting ways to display our green friends. What other objects could you showcase in these canisters?

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Rennie Moran Celebrates 70 Years of Being Amazing!

If anyone deserves a fabulous birthday party, it’s Rennie Moran. She’s the most vivacious 70 year old you’ve EVER met, and we were absolutely honored to help plan and design her birthday at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Thanks so much to our friends at Newberry’s for the beautiful flowers placed in vintage silver vessels. Take a look at the photographs below (more on our Facebook Page) to get the full picture of this celebration. And oh, by the way, that’s HER art on the walls!

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Busy Busy Busy

Phew…. This month has been intense- and we’re only half way done with our events for March. You’ve probably seen some interesting photos on our Facebook and Twitter pages about all the WM Events adventures lately. Last week, we produced an event at GA Tech Engineering students with the help of Intel and the White House. It was such a blast! Then, this past Sunday night we threw a 70th Birthday Party for Mrs. Rennie at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. We’re not slowing down any time soon, that’s for sure. Be sure to keep following as we finish out March with a bang!

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X-Ray Vision for Floral Design

We all know that flowers are beautiful. But, it turns out, the inside of a flower is equally as beautiful! Singapore based photographer, Brendan Fitzpatrick had a brilliant idea for a subject. He took these colorful floral x-rays at a radiography lab, followed by a few rounds of image editing and color correction in Photoshop to reach the final results you see here. You can head over to Society6 to pick up a few prints of your own. It makes me wonder what else would look this wonderful through an x-ray.

 

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WM Events LOVES Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day!!! We hope you and your sweetheart are having a fantastic February 14th. Flowers, cards, chocolates, candles- even the Google Doodle for today is love themed. We can’t help but remember that wonderfully heart-felt occasion we planned a few years ago. What are you doing tonight on this day that celebrates all things love? Leave your comments in the section below.

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How To: Lighting Your Event

Let’s face it. It’s a lot more fun to visit your Caterer or Cake Designer for an afternoon tasting than to visit some hidden warehouse to talk about gel colors, gobos, and  fresnels. What are those things anyways? We can complain about cold chicken any day of the week, but developing a lighting design is a complex, multi-dimensional, exercise that takes talent, skill, and a discerning eye. Yet, despite these intricacies and mood-altering affects, any event’s lighting budget is usually the last to add on and the first to slash.

Sometimes breaking the vocabulary wall in the lighting world can do wonders in the eventual success of an event. So, let’s put the spotlight on some commonly used terms.

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1. Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight (Leko & Source Four)

These fixed lighting instruments collect and direct light through a barrel that contains a lens. ERS instruments come in all shapes and sizes. While each particular model of ERS has its own set of characteristics, every one contains a) an adjustable lens that can change the focus (softness or hardness) of the beam of light projected by the unit, b) a set of brackets on the end of the lens tube for the insertion of gel frames, c) a series of four shutters that allow for precise shaping and sizing of the unit’s beam as lines, and d) a slot for the insertion of metal gobos.

2. Gel

Lighting gel is a transparent thin sheet of polycarbonate or polyester that is placed at the end of a lighting fixture in order to color the light. There are a few different companies that manufacture gel, each using a different code to signify the color profile of each piece (like Rosco 39 and GAM 841. Swatch books (as seen above) give lighting designers a better idea of the end result, just like interior designers use paint color pallets. Also similar to painting, it is best to use smaller combination of colors or stay in a color family when lighting your event. Too many oranges, blues, purples, and yellows, and your lighting concept will appear muddled and fight with your decor.

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3.Gobo

Derived from the phrase “Go between”, a gobo is a thin, round piece of metal with patterned holes placed in front of a light source that controls the shape of the light. The gobo stops some light from passing through, while letting the cut out pattern continue for an interesting effect. Situated at the instrument’s point of focus in a holder (as seen above), the gobo can be crisply focused for logos and details, or softened for patterned breakups or geometric designs. Perhaps you might want to add stars to your venue’s ceiling, or a tree pattern (with green gel) for your jungle themed party. Brides, corporations, and guests of honor can all benefit from having a customized gobo cut for around $100.

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4. LED Lights

The items detailed above have been around for a long time, but developing technology seems to be focused in the world of LED lighting instruments (mainly because they have high light output with lower power consumption). LED instruments can contain a number of different colored LEDs, often Red, Green and Blue, and different light output colors can be achieved by adjusting the intensity of each LED color group. LED instruments have a long life relative to other options, without the expense of color gel or replacement lamps. The three types of LEDs are a) Round PAR cans that house a round circuit board of light, b) Strip lights that use a long, narrow source of LEDs, and c) Intelligent LED lights that can move positions around an axis.

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Check in for our next blog post with lighting experts, Todd Finch and Julian Bradley.

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WM Events

WM Events Plans Chipotle Holiday Party

We’re no stranger to planning a certain amazingly delicious Mexican Grill’s Holiday party. There is a bright spot on our calendar every December for this fun, exciting corporate affair. This year, we decided to play off of Chipotle’s recently announced Southeast Asian concept, Shop House, and create a unique experience employees would enjoy. Director and Co-CEO, Monty Moran offered a warm welcome and thanks, while guests partied the night away.

We’d like to offer a special thanks to all our vendors that made it happen: Four Seasons Denver for a great venue and suburb food, Newberry Brothers Greenhouse & Florist for the beautiful arrangements, Charming Chairs for the comfortable lounge furniture, Julian Bradley at  ESP for a spectacular lighting design, Starkey Productions for entertaining dragon dancers, DJ Rex Buchanan for his outstanding mixes, and Indigo Sky Productions for a delightful decor job! Check out David Wegwart’s stunning pictures below and on our Corporate Services page, and tell us what you think!

 

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A WM Events 2011 In Review

*YAWN* Now that we’ve finally woken up from our holiday hibernation, it’s time to take a good look back on what happened this past year. 2011 was certainly a year for celebrating absurdities (read: Charlie Sheen’s Tiger Blood), and incredible changes (Lybia, anyone?). But let’s scale all that happened down to our two favorite categories, Entertainment & Events. So let’s dig in to the interesting events that made 2011 a year to remember.

Entertainment

In the Music World, we had a strange start with the introduction of Rebecca Black’s YouTube phenomenon, “Friday“. It’s been covered by everyone imaginable- from the boys on Glee to Stephen Cobert, but it’s silliness was more than most could handle. Then Nicki Minaj won our hearts and the award for most “featuring” spots on just about everyone’s number 1 singles. But it was her super hit, “Super Bass” that really won us over this year thanks to Taylor Swift (not to mention the smaller version, Sophia Grace Brownlee). And lastly, with over 5 million copies sold world wide, the whistling intro of Moves Like Jagger was all I needed to start dancing like a maniac! Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera really knocked it out of the park with this infectious tune. Take me by the tongue and I’ll show you!

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The movies of 2011 were less than exciting- that is, of course, unless you’re a Twilight fan or 3D movies don’t give you headaches. So let’s skip over all those Bridesmaids, pretend you actually sat through X-Men: First Class, and move right on to the best TV Shows we waited for each week. It was quite a year for Modern Family, Mad Men, Big Bang Theory, and Community. All of these shows did excellent at the Primetime Emmys, and are slated to do equally as well at the Golden Globes in 2 weeks.  And as far as the guilty pleasures go, there’s nothing quite like a marathon of Real Housewives of Atlanta (Congrats Kim!), The Biggest Loser, and Extreme Home Makeover.

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Events

Without a doubt, the most exciting event for me to watch this year was William and Kate’s Royal Wedding. The attention to detail, the extravagance, and the world attention (nearly 2 billion tuned in) were altogether fascinating and inspiring. If you really want to know what I thought, read my post for MyWedding.com here!  Speaking of weddings, how about a congratulatory hoo-rah for New York state in their legalization of Gay Marriage! Kitty Lambert & Cheryle Rudd became the first same sex couple to wed in NY at Midnight on July 24, 2011. And then, of course, the world grew 6 Billion strong on October 31 (at least, approximately). It was kind of a big year.

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There are a few things we intentionally left out- Osama Bin Laden, the Casey Anthony Trial, and that whole Rapture thing that never happened. But let’s not dwell on those events while we look forward to a great 2012. Afterall, this is the year of a 29 day February, the London Summer Olympics, the Presidential Election, and the end of the world (thanks, Mayan Calendar). What could be more exciting than that?!

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WM Events

WM Design Find: ART Arils Removal Tool

Pomegranates are delicious. (Pomegranates dipped in chocolate are even more delicious). Extracting all those magnificent morsels is NOT delicious. And now that it’s finally that time of year to partake in this fantastical fruit, we wanted to help you avoid those stained counter tops and worn fingernails by introducing Shoham’s ART. Short for Arils (the seed casings) Removal Tool, the ART is a brilliant concept that anyone can use. The directions tell you to Cover. Hold. Strike. and Eat., but we suspect it’s a little more complicated than that. At the very least, it’s by far a more exciting way to prepare the seed for your Sparkling Berry Punch and Pomegranate Cheesecake. Visit their online store to pick one up and see for yourself.

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