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How to Make Ads With an iPhone, a Napkin, and a Lamp

What do an iPhone, an IKEA lamp, and a napkin have in common? They were all imperative in the creation of Greenvelope.com’s latest wedding imagery.

So how did we do it? With just 5 simple steps, you can go from chaos to chic with minimal investment in both time and money.

Get Inspired.

Gather a wide variety of beautiful things – fresh flowers from the market, gold-rimmed vintage china, art deco-inspired jewelry – with varying yet complementary textures, colors, patterns, luster, sizes, and shapes.

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Welcome to Our New Office!

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What better way to announce our new address than to host an open house party!  Our new address was not the only milestone we’ve reached recently. For the first time, we used Greenvelope to send our invitations and collect RSVPs. Until this point we’ve used Greenvelope for personal events like birthdays and dinner parties, but we’ve never had the opportunity as a business.  We had a great response and nearly everyone showed up!

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Alt Transportation: Look Cool While Saving the Planet

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Congratulations on the success of your under-sink composting ventures! Your color-coded recycling bins mark you as a real 21st century environmentalist. But what else could you be doing?

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Teeny Tiny Square Footage, Big Dreams

Small space design

We read an article about a professional Portland, OR couple building a teeny tiny house in the city. While we like Earthships and Tumbleweeds, we like living in the city too. We wondered: is there a way to take the practical elements of these itty bitty homes and incorporate them into apartment life? read more…

Super Bowl Weekend

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Book of the Month: Fledgling

Fledgling Book Review

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Up-cycling your Glass Mason Jars

Everyone loves almond butter. After you’ve finished scraping the edges of the jar for your wheat toast and blueberry jam, you just toss the jar in the recycling bin and call it a day, right? Wrong. Glass jars are the perfect repurposed solution to home organizing!

We like things that are utilitarian and cute (not to mention environmentally-friendly). Go get a jar of almond butter and get started! There are about a million other ideas that we missed, so feel free to get creative!

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