The 2011 Twigs & Honey Collection

Posted on | Thursday, February 10, 2011 | 10 Comments

View more HERE.
credits and thank you's go to...
photographer and stylist: Elizabeth Messina
hair adornments and accessories: Twigs & Honey
location: The Leftbank Annex
backdrops: Drop It Modern
hair & makeup: Madeline Roosevelt
dresses: Ann Taylor, Kate Towers, and Holly Stalder
(and vintage gowns from photographer’s private collection)
lace shrug: Holly Stalder
lingerie: Lille Boutique
model: Skye Velten

Also, a special thank you to Kim Bamberg of Junebug Weddings!
More details to come!

NEW Twigs & Honey online store is LIVE!!!! :: I am thrilled!

Posted on | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 | 15 Comments

Do you know how many hours I have slept in the last 55+ hours? 3. Three hours!
Totally and completely worth it.

The NEW Twigs & Honey online shop is now live! There is a lovely assortment of some of my favorite pieces ever! I admit to not having as much inventory up as I wanted for the grand opening, but I did make it a point to include some gorgeous and truly unique pieces... some of which may be making special appearances in upcoming wedding magazines this summer. ;)

I've started a new bridal/special occasion mini hat line that I will be expanding on, but for now, I've listed a couple in the shop. I've also listed some great headbands and flora/fauna pieces. I had meant to have a bunch of customizable pieces up also, but all the nuts and bolts of getting an online shop going took MUCH more time than expected. I used Zen Cart, which is an open source online store program. It is very powerful, but very time consuming and not user friendly. I think that building the website from scratch was easier than using Zen Cart. All the forums/reviews talk about how cumbersome a program it is and how you really should hire a programmer to make it "pretty" and purposeful. Alas, I figured it out. Mind you, it is not 100% perfect yet and I will continue beta testing it this week to work out any remaining bugs. If any of you clever ones saw it already today, you may have witnessed the "bugs".

I will start listing to the new shop frequently and should have a batch of customizable goodies up soon (hopefully by the end of this week). Check out my labor of love for all the lovely people...