you are seated at :: custom chalkboard escort board

Welcome your guests with this over-sized custom chalkboard.

This easy to spot escort seating chart can substitute traditional escort cards.

Arranged by table and easy to read, this is the perfect decor to your wedding day, 

whether the affair is a black tie night or vintage mountaintop high.

Sized at a generous 2 feet x 4 feet, this beauty can be flipped over 

(yep - chalkboard on both sides) 

after your guests are seated and act as an interactive guest book with chalk included, 

or provide a huge note of thanks as your friends and family depart for the night.

 Available from Express Yourself here on Etsy,

with option of local Denver, Colorado pick-up or shipping within the lower 48 states.

hello :: new collection of mini emergency bags available

We have all been there at some point. 

When we could use some FIRST AID.

Too many drinks the night before.

Sore muscles from skiing/hiking/biking too hard.

Altitude sickness and dehydration.

A case of the travel tummy.

That's where we come in.

Meet the Mini Emergency Kit Collection 

by theHELLOtote and Express Yourself.

IN SICKNESS + IN HEALTH mini emergency kit bag

RECOVERY KIT mini emergency kit bag

OH KIT, WHAT HAPPENED?!? mini emergency kit bag

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE... mini emergency kit bag

TAKE TWO AND DON'T CALL US IN THE MORNING mini emergency kit bag

GET YOUR KIT TOGETHER mini emergency kit bag

CUSTOM mini emergency kit bag

High Altitude Helpers.

Hangover Kits.

Morning After Magic.

The Post-Party Pack.

Travel Tamers.

Call it what you will - it's perfect for destination events.

Seven great new designs and more coming soon.

Custom options available as well.

Stuff with your own goodies.

Or let us do that for you!

Consider these for your wedding.

Because we don't want your guests stuck in their hotel room.

We want them out and about.

And at your wedding, preferably.

how inviting :: ann hannah + patrick

photo: provided by client

We love follow-up from our clients. And we especially love photos from their events that show our custom designed wedding invitations, party invites and paper goods in action. This one is from a bride and groom for whom we designed a custom BBQ invitation. The colors are still on trend a year later - a bold green and navy blue with neutrals. How inviting.

on the go :: map making

custom first anniversary map by express yourself

There are times when we need to call on our longitude and latitude skills to set up a custom map for an event or occasion. Whether it's a wedding timeline or a group scavenger hunt around town. Or even a map to chronicle first year travels for a newlywed couple or to locate our own favorite Aspen spots, each map is certainly unique. We've started branching out beyond Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley into other cities and states - New York, Boston, Manchester, Chicago. Our clients have moved and traveled (sometimes far) beyond Colorado.

Starting at the end of May, we'll be embarking on a four week map making class to help broaden our horizons and look at topography and geography from a new persepctive. Does the thought of map making in a class setting get you excited too?! If so, join us here at Skillshare for the Map Making: Learning to Communicate Places Beautifully class. We're thinking of a mapping out a great trip we took through Spain! Whether or not you join us, we're sure we'll intersect with most of you at some point. Oh, the map puns could go on an on...

:: safe travels ::

on the go :: summer in aspen

We are fortunate to have the best of the Roaring Fork Valley right out our front door. One of those 'bests' being Aspen. As winter eases into spring we eagerly await the arrival of summer in town. And we prepare for days full of festivals and music. Hikes and camping. Shopping strolls and dinners on the patio. Good food and great wine. Weddings and sporting events. Hot air balloons and gondola rides. Friends and family visiting. And tourists - yes, we look forward to the visitors from afar. After all, this place is too great to not share. For those that can't make it here this year, at least this time lapse video from a local Basalt-ine will give you a few minutes of what we look forward to enjoying all summer long.

Aspen Timelapse from jason dewey on Vimeo.

This Week In Store: {BASH}

In lieu of an in-store feature today,
we are happy to feature something much bigger and better!

Join us this Saturday, June 11th all day as we celebrate
{BASH}in Basalt!

There will be a downtown block party with cold drinks, music and entertainment and fresh food from 3 to 9 p.m. Stop by during the day to view our Sidewalk Sale goodies! Too many good shops to choose from, great restaurants and cafes and a plethora of wonderful businesses. What is not to love about Basalt this summer!?! Visit town  - we hope to see you around!

And don't forget to mark your calendars

for the upcoming Second Saturdays in Basalt!

July 9th

August 13th

September 10th

{see you soon!}

Napkins on Etsy!

With party season almost here, we are happy to offer napkins for purchase on etsy with our (or your) custom design, motif or monogram. Yeah! Perfect to leave an impression on your guests - order extra for after your event! Contact us for more details or visit the etsy store online.

Our New Addition

http://www.thehellotote.com/

We have always worked with brides, and grooms, and mother-of-the-brides and event planners and corporate coordinators. We have always done welcome bags. We have always delivered. But...we have never done it quite this well. Quite this cute. Quite this charming. Quite this organized.

Finally, after seven years and enough prodding from each other, we have developed a customized and creative solution to the welcome bag.

Welcome to theHELLOtote! Welcome to hand-picked and hand-delivered goodies delivered to your guests for a memorable destination event. Cures for high-altidude woes, midnight munchies and goodies to steer your guests in the right direction all weekend (or week) long.

We source out some of the best items and focus on offering goods locally made in Colorado. With an office in Denver (hello! Erin) and a store in Basalt (hey! Amy) we are capable of serving the entire Rocky Mountain corrider.

We are so excited. And yet, we still have so much to do...

Passport to Town

Here is a custom welcome letter for a Bar Mitzvah that takes everyone on a journey around the world, without ever leaving the beautiful town of Aspen. The perfect passport to what to do, when, where and why! A custom job by Express Yourself and EKS Events.