i CANNOT believe that today officially marks my 5 year blogiversary! seems like yesterday that i started sharing my life, and work with you all. to celebrate this milestone, and thank you for visiting, i’m hosting a little giveaway of some of my products. first up is an 8×10 print from my etsy shop (or [...]

if you read my blog regularly, you already know about my fresh snapped photos mission to help the orphans of haiti. (which runs until february 14th) 100% of profits made from our etsy shop will be donated to hope for haiti’s children (don’t forget: as our gift to you for supporting the cause, we’ll throw [...]

last year i made a long list of huge goals for 2009. while i accomplished a lot of them, many didn’t make it to fruition. i think it was a case of high expectations rather than lack of trying. there just wasn’t enough time to complete them all. i’m not too disappointed about this. i’d [...]

3 days only! black friday (and weekend) sale on now! 20% off EVERYTHING at both shades of violet and fin+roe. ALSO: buy 1 get 1 free on all prints over at fresh snapped photos!

i want to thank everyone who came to our open house this past weekend. it was a rousing success and i was pleased to meet some new people along the way! for those of you who weren’t able to make it to the open house to take advantage of the discounts, i’d like to extend [...]

for this week’s marzipan monday i thought i’d share some of this year’s favorites from both of my companies: marzipan inc. and fin+roe. if you’re shopping for a more traditional card, how can you resist this dashing snowman from marzipan inc.? seriously, a mustache, vest, tie, AND a top hat! he is one dapper dan. [...]

here’s a sneak peek of the latest designs for marzipan inc. stay tuned for their official release at shades of violet and stores near you!

a quick sneak peek of a few of our holiday designs for 2009! stay tuned for their official release at shades of violet! 

for my first marzipan monday i thought i would tell you all how it started since i’ve had people asking that a lot. it might not be glamorous, but everyone has to start somewhere…. actually it was really purely by accident. i never planned on owning my own business. not in a million years. i [...]

we have some big sales news to share with you!after much deliberation, i have decided to draw my focus in at marzipan inc. to one thing…. while it’s nice to have an array of products, i want to return my focus where it all began…..greeting cards. because of this i’ll be offering 50% off all [...]