Our weekend involved a lot of biking, a lot of visiting friends and a lot of web work. We headed to Rockport, MA by bike on Saturday, as one last training ride ahead of our 65-mile endeavor to support Bikes Not Bombs next weekend. Sunday saw us settled in (despite more sunshine) to put finishing touches on an outstanding site redesign project, and also making up this snazzy flier for our Bike-a-Thon bid.

How was your weekend?

April has come and gone, and we’re still trying to keep up. What have we been up to?

Per usual, plenty.

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Our weekend was a delightful melange of St. Patrick’s festivities, 90′s night, long runs and one very productive Sunday at home.

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Perhaps empty isn’t quite the correct term; certainly we’ve been preoccupied, as the minimal posting here shows. It’s primarily my fault – I’m running the Boston Marathon for charity in April, and over the past few months training, fundraising and eating have become my primary concerns; Jack is a bit shy about blogging, so things have laid fallow here.

That doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy! We have several projects underway in the new year, and plenty going on. Coinciding with my marathon training, though, we’ve also received a handful of inquiries as to whether or not we design websites. (This has made us realize that perhaps we need to make our offerings more apparent.)

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With the holidays a distant memory, sharing the cards of 2010 seems long overdue. It’s a safe bet that all invites and holiday greetings have been received by now, so this is not a spoiler post – just a peek at one of the projects that occupied many of our December evenings.

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We’ve been working on some substantial changes to the Union Jack Creative site, including a pretty drastic switch from dark to light and some added features to make our content easier to navigate.

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We recently had the pleasure of working with local jewelry designer Anne Keane to design placecards for an upcoming wedding shower. Anne’s earrings were to be used as favors, and she wanted to incorporate both the colors and the feather theme from the shower invite into the card design.

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When I first started seeing slab tables pop up in design blogs and home magazines in the past few years, my mind went immediately to the coffee table that has graced my parents’ living room for the entirety of my life – a veritable half of a tree, finished to a deep reddish glow. My father owns a carpentry business, and I knew from my years working by his side that there were several more slabs like that table, air-drying for decades, in the family warehouse.

And so, of course, when we moved into our Fort Hill space last fall, I set about making plans for a modernized slab of my own.

Though we’ve shared pictures of it previously, I felt our coffee table was long overdue for a feature all to itself. It’s a favorite, and with more and more pieces in this style popping up, it’s high time that someone point out that you can, in fact, make such a marvelous conversation starter yourself. (Alternatively, we would be more than happy to make one for you.)

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Jack and I do not have TV. We don’t have cable, nor do we own a physical television. For our friends, this is an accepted fact, and they have kindly put up with our pop-culture ineptitude for years. (Thanks, guys!)

We do, however, have Netflix. Some time ago, on the repeated advice of friends, we started renting old seasons of Mad Men. (Eventually, sometime just after getting through the first season, Jack acquired every episode of Mythbusters ever. We were sidetracked for quite some time.)

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I’ll admit a love affair with quality, wool felt. It’s so forgiving, so easy to work with and much more durable than its polyester, craft project counterpart. Seemingly ages ago, I came across a tutorial from a book by Anne Kyyrö Quinn for making a “pillow with rosette clusters”, and vowed to make my own. When we moved to Fort Hill and I set about making pillows for our couches, I only had square pillow forms on hand; Anne’s design featured a long, narrow shape.

I used Anne’s guidelines, and adjusted the process to create the square pillow shown above. Despite Jack’s initial dislike, it has become quite popular among guests to our apartment, and many have asked me to share the details of my method. Ximena, this how-to’s for you! Read more