Project: Oikon has been a diverse management company since its inception in 2005. Today, the company’s strength and focus lie in managing commercial real estate assets and enhancing value for small businesses. Oikon wanted a fresh face for the company, one that enhanced all aspects of the company. Anna Reynolds of Whitespace Studio and I created their logo, business stationary, and website.

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Client: Marietta Facial Plastic Surgery
Website design and development: A collaboration between Kelly Housholder, Sara Cannon, and Ryan Roenigk

Project: Design some killer stationary for David White. These business cards and notecards are letter pressed and duplexed. Letterpress super hero, Patrick Masterson, did a beautiful job.
Other projects for David White: Website and bookcover for “A Stroke of Genius”

Thoughts from David: “Kelly Housholder is one of the most intelligent, efficient, and hard-working people I have ever worked with. I have written four books and Kelly has worked with me on the last two. Her work is flawless. Kelly and I started with our work on my third book. She developed a beautiful, thought-provoking web site that stood out and added so much value and credibility to my work. We have continued to work together on my fourth book and she has kept on adding value to my product. I feel lucky to have her.

Kelly has developed my twitter page, my website with the various aspects of it–the books page and the home page. And she also designed my postcards, letterhead, business cards and envelopes. Her work is flawless and beautiful aesthetically.

Kelly is the consummate professional and I have been lucky to work with her. I want to continue to do so. Her kind, personable, happy and diligent nature are also characteristics that make her so appealing.

I highly recommend Kelly for any artistic endeavor you wish to pursue. She is a first class professional and person.”

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Client: Blue Title, LCC
Website Design and Development: A collaboration between Kelly Housholder, Anna Reynolds, Sara Cannon, and Ryan Roenigk

Moss Rock Festival, Gold Addy in the Arts and Sciences category: This promotional campaign employed sustainable ideas and included branding, magazine ads, online ads, social media strategy, event promotional materials, invitations, signage, apparel, and a website. Creative Director: Kelly Housholder, Designers: Paul Halupka and Anna Reynolds.
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The business stationary for Oikon Inc won a GOLD Addy award in the Stationary, Multiple Process category.  Creative Director: Anna Reynolds of Whitespace Studio, Art Director: Kelly Housholder, Letterpress: Patrick Masterson. See the Work.

We are thrilled to be a part of this extremely talented Birmingham Community!!

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What a fun idea! Photo courtesy of kimcreativestar.com. You can see her photos, recipe and how she matched the colors here: kimcreativestar.com

The smell of these rolls, fresh out of the oven, floods back memories of being a kid, playing with my cousins, helping my grandfather with his latest carpentry projects*, and our annual family “walk” around the neighborhood after Thanksgiving lunch – the one where my cousin Margaret and I somehow always got lost. Papa’s rolls were written up in the Hartwell, Georgia, newspaper and made for church functions, neighbors, and friends. Despite their local popularity, I like to think that these Papa rolls were just for us. The family. Several years ago my Papa passed away, but his kindness, goodness and memory of his rolls live on.  So now, Papa, I make these rolls in your memory. I love you! And thanks for leaving us the recipe. It’s a bit vague but after a couple years I think I’ve got it pretty close to right…

This Thanksgiving (yes, I am behind on blogging), I documented the dough making and baking. Below is the recipe and photos… enjoy!

*Speaking of Papa’s carpentry projects, in these photos I’m using his invention for perfectly rolling out the dough. A 12in circle complete with tic marks so you know where to make the cuts! Patent pending…

Ingredients:

2 pkgs of dry yeast
1/2 cup warm water
8oz sour cream
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 eggs slightly beaten
1/3 cup sugar
1 tsp salt
4 cups unbleached bread flour

Directions: (In Papa’s words)

Dissolve yeast in warm water, let stand 5 minutes.  Place sour cream in small saucepan, cover over low heat 105-115 degrees.  Combine sour cream, butter, eggs, sugar, salt in large bowl, add yeast mixture and stir well.  Gradually stir in flour.  Place dough in refrigerator (in well-greased bowl, turning to grease top).  Cover and let rise in regrigerator at least 6 hours.  May leave in regrigerator up to 24 hours.  Does not double in bulk, rises very slightly.

Divide dough into 4 equal parts.  Roll each part into 12 inch circles on a floured surface.

Cut each circle into 12 equal pie-shaped wedges.

Roll up each wedge tightly and place on well greased baking sheet with points down (roll from wide to pointed edge).

Cover and let rise in warm (85 degree) draft-free place 30-40 minutes.  An ideal 85 degree draft free place is the oven with the light on.  Bake at 375 degrees for about 12 minutes.

After removing from oven, brush with melted butter.  This enhances appearance and taste.

Remove from baking sheet and place on rack to cool.  This prevents sweating.

And there you have it.  My Papa’s Papa Rolls.  I hope you enjoy them as much as my family has over the years.

Goal: To not create or purchase any new materials for Christmas wrapping.
What we did:
-Used boxes that we a)already had b)creatively wrapped sans box! No new cardboard boxes purchased for gift wrapping.
-Re-purposed newspaper and used it as wrapping paper. We’ll encourage our families to recycle the wrapping after opening gifts.
-Used leftover string and paper from other projects to complete the wrapping.

Last year we made kahlua, and bottled with new bottles:

This year we made 5 different homebrews and we’re bottling in re-used (and sterilized) bottles that we collected from friends and the recycling center. We hope that our friends will continue to re-use the bottles or recycle them. We did purchase cardboard 6-pack carriers and I hope to brainstorm a more sustainable/re-used packaging for next year.

Merry Christmas to all!

Kelly and Andrew

I’ve been busy crafting stamps and logos for Andrew’s line of homebrews, House Brews, and EMBA. The stamps arrived early this week and we’ve been putting together cardboard 6 packs and stamping away! Here’s a few pictures: