Every day has a little bit of happy. Follow us as we give tips and ideas for Family Celebrations big and small! Check out our stores for our lovely hand designed personalized china dessertware, little touchstones to your happiest days!

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Thank-you for your support! We've donated....




Thank-you to all our customers for supporting Hull's Happiest Days Designs! Our little business that is growing and growing has been able to donate a total of $70 to a national children's charity and the fight against hunger! We've only been in business for 6 months, so that's quite a coupe! Currently we donate 3% of your purchase price to back to national charities. As our company grows we plan for our donation percentage to grow too.

It was always part of our business plan to create a company that gives back. So many people have very few happy days, and we wanted to make sure that we can help in some way to create more moments of joy with our work! Thank-you for helping us to make that happen.

Thank-you for making this one of my happiest days!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Home is where the Heart is, and I'll be working here too...



Well, my life is entering another chapter. I’ve entered the final grades for my Theatre students at the College where I have been teaching for 5 years. The Performing Arts Program performed Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and they did a fantastic job! It’s hard to believe that will be the last show I’ll direct there. I will certainly miss them and all the drama of a bustling collegiate program, but my life is heading in new directions and I guess, I must follow. Hull’s Happiest Days Designs will be my focus, of course along with my two beautiful girls who will be home during the summer too!



So, hopefully my days will take a quieter rhythm. I am excited to get to work in our home studio developing more dessertware designs and finding new opportunities and partnerships to bring them to others. I really am a homebody at heart and I just love putzing around my own house dreaming up new projects!



The economy is still working hard to rebound and many people are staying close to home these days, inviting friends over to dinner, or home birthday parties, and even weddings! I think having a home full of meaningful objects is important. I can walk around my own home and I see the stone doll house my grandfather made, and the large primitive wooden china cabinet my husband and I got at a resale store close to our first home together, even the butcher block island in our kitchen was originally from my grandmother’s home. Objects have so much more meaning when they act as touchstones for particular moments in life or connect you to important people you love. I love creating our dessertware knowing that usually it’s purchased for important life moments, like moving into a new home. The pictures you see are of our new line of dessertware featuring home! These are lovely little mementos to welcome someone to a new home or just for yourself to openly cherish the home life you already have!



We’ve been at our new (old home – its 250 years old!) for two years now this week. I haven’t yet finished personalizing it yet, there are still projects I want to do. There’s always something to do for a house! I do love it because it’s ours. It’s where our family spends time together, where we have fun, and where we come to be safe. My favorite coffee cup, that I drink out of every day is our Home sweet Home mug. The front door says: Hull Family. That little coffee mug puts a smile on my face because everyone and everything I love most in the world lies right inside my front door!

Monday, May 10, 2010

We have a WINNER!




We have a winner from our Bridal Headtable Suite Giveaway! Kristinia C. will be celebrating her wedding this Fall with Hull's Happiest Days Designs Cake service: one cake plate with glass dome and twelve dessert plates in our SWEETHEARTS Design. This is a $210 VALUE!




CONGRATULATIONS KRISTINIA! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE BEAUTIFUL PICTURES OF YOUR HAPPIEST DAY! THANK-YOU FOR LETTING US CELEBRATE WITH YOU!

Monday, April 19, 2010

Hint of Color-New Design Process



Kevin and I have been wondering how to add color, but still keep in theme with our simplified contemporary yet rustic design aethestic? Plus, it needs to be food safe, microwave safe, be able to go in the dishwasher. So after months of thinking, wondering, pondering and experimenting we've come up with our HINT OF COLOR dessertware.




Above you see our Robin's Nest design. Adorable robin's nest with lovely blue eggs. These dishes can be personalized with your Family's name or some other sweet message. In the coming weeks you'll see other new hint of color designs as well, as our new house design lines coming out as well!

Spring has sprung new ideas here at Hull's Happiest Days Designs!

Monday, April 12, 2010

Bridal Giveaway! Enter Today!



Hull's Happiest Days Designs is sponsoring a Bridal Headtable Suite Giveaway!

Our Headtable Suite includes One 12 inch porcelain china cake plate, personalized, with Glass dome and Twelve 7 inch personalized dessert dishes, perfect for your headtable decor and take away thank-you gifts for your bridal party! This set is a $210 value!




All Brides or friends of brides who would like to nominate a bride must check out our ETSY site either via the My Etsy Tab on our Fan Page or by going to www.happiestdaysdesigns.etsy.com and choose a design you would like to win. Then become a facebook fan of happiest days designs and comment on which designs you like best. Please email us your contact info so we can get in contact with you when you win! Email: happiestdaysdesigns@comcast.net

We will notify the winner by May 1st, 2010! Good Luck!

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Mother's Day is right around the corner...



Suprise Mom with treats you bake and serve them up on a lovely cake plate commemorating her family! Put Mom and Dad in the heart on the tree and then add all the little apples, siblings, grandchildren, etc. (We can add up to 12 apples per cake plate and 7-8 per mug or dessert dish!) It'll show her how much you appreciate her all the year through!




Check out the rest of the set, matching mugs and dessert plates that you can purchase to add to her set for other happy occasions! Really knock her socks with the yummy stuffed french toast recipe below! Serve on the apple tree dessert dishes with matching coffee mugs and you'll for sure be her favorite!

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Home sweet Home....



Spring is here! Lots of cleaning, sprucing up, and some of us even get a lovely new home! Hull's Happiest Days Designs is rolling out several new designs over the next few weeks featuring the comforts of HOME! Check out our new etsy listing!

These designs are a perfect little gift to yourself to remind you of all the happiness of your home! They are also sweet little gifts for friends and family who may be moving into a new home!

Enjoy!

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Thanks for joining us on an adventure to notice and celebrate life's joys, desserts, and the plates they are served on!



So others can celebrate too, we make a 3 % donation of your item purchase price to national children's charities and the fight against hunger in America.

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Shawn and Kevin own Happiest Days Designs a personalized dessertware company that focuses on celebrating all of life's happiest days! Shawn an is a Mom extraordinarre, an adjunct professor of theatre, an outsider artist and a lover of historic houses! Kevin is an accomplished Dad and oil painter. He also is way too involved in math! This blog follows Shawn and Kevin's happiest days, happy days of our family and friends, and we invite you to post your own on our Facebook fan page! We also have recipes, profound ruminations on being happy for the little and big things in life, and discount codes for our etsy store: www.happiestdaysdesigsn.etsy.com Check out our lines of personalized cake plates, domes, dessert dishes, and mugs (dessertware) that are meant as collectible sovenirs from the happiest moments in your life. Life is always better with dessert and they plate its served on too!