Category — fun

our good friends at haute papier were recently on fox 5 DC, the local DC news station, showing off their fabulous store in leesburg, virginia. and one of the products that made it on air was our very own lucite tray! you can go here to their blog to watch the full segment; you’ll also get a virtual tour of their store, and a peek at their letterpress in action. if you’re in the DC area, definitely go and visit them in person! thanks for the mention, ladies!!

xoxo,
dabney lee + crew

it’s no secret that at dabney lee we love a good monogram. well, a drop cap is only one step away from a monogram, and that’s why we also adore the blog daily drop cap! each day, typographer and illustrator jessica hische creates a new, fun letter that can be used to spice up your blog. it’s also a great place to go for inspiration, and we can’t help but wonder how the dabney lee logo would look with some of these fabulous letter forms!

xoxo,
dabney lee + crew

when i think back to when i found out we were having triplets, i remember pure shock, then pure joy, then i realized i had to have a fabulous nursery. that’s right, i said TRIPLETS! good thing i had the help of my BFF at rock paper scissors and her amazing hubby to help us with our nursery two weeks before our little ones arrived! it was really great they were there since my hubby isn’t very good at this sort of stuff and proceeded to paint the wrong wall. he really tries, but he’s much better at giving us the scores of the games and keeping us fed + hydrated!

many of you know that i have an obsession with shelter island. after all, it’s where my husband spent all of his summers growing up and it’s where we were married. since our babies will grow up going out to the island, we just knew they had to have a shelter island nursery!

how we created the nursery in ONE day…
-it all started with the zig zag walls… {disney paint, blustery day}
-we hung three amazing shelter island posters that i had been collecting for years
-we found a great sea urchin lamp from williams sonoma home
-our godson and goddaughter gave us our fabulous trellis rug from pottery barn kids
-to make things PERFECT, my BFF gave us a pillow with our shelter island ferry image {from our stationery collection} that she had made for us

xoxo,
dabney lee

ps- it just so happens that our babies arrived on january 16th, one day before my shower that my BFF was hosting. i am guessing they heard there was a party and didn’t want to miss the fun! oh babies!

we are lucky enough to live and work in DUMBO, brooklyn. it’s a very very funky little ‘hood in brooklyn nestled between the ever cool brooklyn and manhattan bridges. in fact, our street is pretty darn famous and has been spotted in lots of movies and commercials.

if that weren’t neat enough, we are blessed every sunday with the brooklyn flea market. a glorious mix of vintage and new finds and lots of really YUMMY food! for those of you who know me, you know that my hubby and i are semi-foodies. so to have these delights right down the block is simply irresistible, hence the walk every sunday to the market to grab our fav snacks.

so much inspiration and food to fill our bellies as we create… just thought i would share what takes up our weekends.

xoxo,
dabney lee

pastries, tortilla soup, wood oven pizza, cupcakes, coffee

you are in for another super fun treat today… lauren at rock paper scissors has done another guest blog for us today! i can’t wait to make these and hang them in my apartment!

xoxo, dabney lee

For someone who doesn’t like to get dressed up for Halloween… I sure do enjoy the day! What is it about Halloween that has me counting down the hours? I certainly don’t enjoy the spookiness of this time of year. Heck, I’m still mentally damaged from Blair Witch Project and that was years ago. I don’t know… maybe it’s all the little delicious candies that I deprive myself of 364 days a year. There’s just something about that tiny confectionery heaven called a Kit Kat that has me already weak in the knees 6 days before Halloween. It truly is surprising there is anything left for the kids when they ring the bell! Maybe it’s because I always find the best costumes for my dog every year… ever see a 32 lb. dog dressed as a lobster? I have and it is freakin’ adorable!

After creating the trick-or-treat bag template for all of you on Friday, I decided you might need a little something to decorate your house too. Voila!… cute bat Halloween garland with Dabney Lee’s super fab zebra print. I know… I know… a zebra bat??? It could happen!

download bat template here

i have been living in new york for a little over 5 years now and i like to consider myself a new yorker. i grew up in southern california, just outside of pasadena and while one can argue that the weather all year round is fabulous, which it most definitely is. one can also argue that new york is the most amazing place to be in the autumn.

growing up, we never really experienced the change of seasons. yeah, we’d throw on a “coat” in decemeber, but it was always a lightweight excuse for a coat. how i dreamed of needing to own a real coat, one with a lining for extra warmth, one that had amazingly thoughtful details like fitted sleeves so the wind dos not blow up your arms + a pocket for your subway card. obsessed with autumn, i flipped through the pages of the j.crew and l.l. bean catalogues picking out what i would wear if i lived someplace that requited more than a heavy sweater for an evening out. the boots, the gloves, the tights, the cashmere sweaters… i was in love!

now that i am a new yorker, i have to say that when autumn rolls around i am simply giddy. i get to dig my favorite boots out of the closet {thank you grandma!} along with my favorite finds from the j.crew + l.l. bean catalogues i had drooled over as a child and i get to put them and beam with delight.

some of my favorite autumn traditions are making cupcakes for halloween {yeni, in our studio especially loves this tradition… her record is 8 cupcakes in a single day}, putting on those boots i was telling you about with a pair of argyle knee high socks, walking a block to starbucks for my first pumpkin spice latte of the season {it’s sinfully yummy} and walking through central park to see the leaves change and feeling the crisp air on my face.

what are your favorite autumn traditions? xoxo, dabney lee

cole haan boots
pumpkin spice latte
arglye socks

ok, so i am not much of a bike rider. i prefer to walk, walk and walk until i can’t walk any longer. i really want to be bike rider. the cute dresses you could wear while riding your bike, the fun accessories you could add to your bike… it kind of makes me giddy. but let’s be honest here, the thought of riding my bike in the city scares me silly. i would, however, consider riding this bike in brooklyn to and from the grocery store, the green market, the pharmacy, everywhere. i would even ride it on shelter island to get a scoop of ice cream in the summer.

don’t you agree this is the bike to have if you only want one?

madsen bike

we hope you are enjoying this beautiful day as much as we are!

xoxo,
dabney lee + crew

ps- we are busy working on a new website for all of our stationery… stay tuned for some funky freshness very soon!

howdy! welcome to the dabney lee blog! if you’re reading this blog it’s either because you know us, you like our products or you are addicted to blogs like we are. we also know that in our first blog, we are supposed to tell you a bit about us, so here goes…

we are dabney lee… a stationery design firm located in brooklyn, new york. technically we are in d.u.m.b.o., and if you are a new yorker, you know all about d.u.m.b.o*. it’s the most artistic, funky and fun place for a stationery company to be. we see inspiration out our windows every day, we see it walking to & from the subway, we see it when we grab lunch (or chocolate from jacques torres) … it’s everywhere! *(d.u.m.b.o stands for Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass and is located in a small triangle where the brooklyn bridge meets the manhattan bride)

dabney lee {the company} has been around for 4 years now. it all officially began in october 2004, when dabney lee woglom {yes, there really is a dabney lee} walked into brooklyn heights to obtain her business license from the county clerk’s office. with a passion, more like obsession, for paper, dabney knew she was getting into something fun… but she had no idea how good it could be!

our blog is where we will show you our obsessions, our new ideas, our take on design, our recipes, our life and soooo much more! we hope you’ll stick around for the ride… it’s going to be a fabulous year!

to celebrate our new blog, we are offering free shipping on all AT HOME orders now through april 1st, 2008.

xoxo,
dabney lee & crew