Alibi Interiors x Social Print Studio x Peet's Coffee

 Social Print Studio.

If you haven't heard of them, type this URL into
your address bar NOW: http://socialprintstudio.com/#home

They are a standout print shop, specializing in printing
your Instagram photos, and are building the next
generation of web and mobile apps, along with many
other mind blowing products.  From Save the Dates, to
mini desk calendars, to massive framed prints {i.e. see below}-
this upbeat & ambitious start up company is on the move.

A collaboration with Peet's Coffee & Tea in San Francisco
lead us to a collaboration of our own with SPS, with the
finished product below.  Alibi Interiors built two massive
frames to compliment the printed photos of Peet's Instagram
feed.  If you're in the neighborhood, check out the work and
support your local businesses !

Retail Therapy

Reclaimed wood is getting ever more popular,
and I'm noticing just how many retail stores are
utilizing it for product displays and shelving.

Alibi Interiors has teamed up with a few local
shops around Santa Cruz, building display tables
and other pieces to help emphasize and showcase
product.
Check out the photos below for more of what we're
talking about, and happy shopping!

One of the loveliest vignettes found at DIG on Water Street.

Their displays are right on time for the sweetest of days,

Valentine's Day.  Glassless shadow boxes showcase 

beautiful jewelry, perfumes, and the best cards in town.

A reclaimed wood farm table sits pretty at Old School Shoes downtown

Santa Cruz.  They're moving towards a recycled contemporary / 

old school {duh} look for their interior design, and doing a great job at it!

This circular table mimics a 1950's diner style table where waitresses 

wore roller skates and served milk shakes, so old school.

Stripe on Walnut Avenue downtown Santa Cruz designed this beautiful shelf for their children's display corner of the store.  Alibi Interiors brought it to life  using old wood from a bait tank that floated for years off the coast of southern California.

Stripe's eye for stylish retro is by far the best in town!

Contact me at paige@thealibiinteriors.com if you or your shop / restaurant / spa / whatevs 

is interested in custom built furniture or home decor pieces. 

We're up for anything! 

Monday Escape

Alibi Interiors was signed on to build the furniture for Bonny Doon

Tasting Room, at their new and renovated location in Davenport.

We delivered the heavy, cumbersome, and extra long benches to 

the tasting room this past Monday, and were rewarded with wine

and great company.

The drive back to Santa Cruz was a reward in itself- the sun setting

while the moon was rising felt otherworldly.  Check out the photos

below- and if you're in the neighborhood, stop by, have a glass of

wine, unwind and enjoy the lovely farm furniture brought to you by

yours truly, Alibi Interiors.

x

Our Monday escape: wine tasting in the good company of 

Bonny Doon Vineyards and their wonderfully relaxed staff.

The sunset in Santa Cruz.  Something that will  N E V E R  get old.  

And it's equally stunning other half, la luna.

Enjoy the full moon tonight,

S H I N E  O N !

Enjoy Cowgirl Winery in Carmel Valley

So many festivities to look forward to!

And one more to add to your iCal THIS Saturday
is the Alibi Interiors Holiday Trunk Show at
Cowgirl Winery in Carmel Valley.
Enjoy the day after Black Friday drinking
wine and calming those shopaholic nerves..
with perhaps more shopping.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

x Paige

Craft Fair Season

The holidays are near and we've been working
like crazy in the studio to fulfill all orders and
prepare for our craft fairs.  This season we will
be attending four fairs, and would love for you
to come enjoy them with us.  These events are
THE BEST places to get Christmas gifts, and
a fabulous place to be inspired by.


SCHEDULE OF CRAFT FAIRS:

Saturday, November 30th
Cowgirl Winery Trunk Show
25 Pilot Road
Carmel Valley, CA 93924
12pm - 5pm
FREE to attend


Saturday & Sunday, December 7th & 8th
Bizarre Bazaar Holiday Show
Concourse Exhibition Center EAST HALL
620 Seventh Street (at Brannan)
San Francisco, CA 94103
11am - 6pm
FREE to attend


Saturday & Sunday, December 14th & 15th
Renegade Craft Fair Winter Market
Los Angeles State Historic Park
1245 N. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
10am - 5pm
FREE to attend


Saturday & Sunday, December 21st & 22nd
Renegade Craft Fair Winter Market
Concourse Exhibition Center
635 8th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
10am - 5pm
FREE to attend


Below are a few exciting photos to get you in the mood.
They are from our past booth / set designs from the summer
craft fairs we attended.

Come.  Be.  Inspired.

This booth was for the Poppy Farm Fair at the Aptos Native Revival Nursery.

We listened to folky bluegrass music all day and enjoyed the company of dreadlocked goats.

The 4x4 frames (above) are just the piece to put your 4x4 Printsagram photo in.

If you haven't heard of Printstagram, you are sorely missing out.

Check em here: http://printstagr.am/

One of my favorite craft fairs yet, 

this set up was for Square Headquarter's 

grand opening in San Francisco.  The

event was complete with all the wine

you could drink, the best ahi poke I've 

had since I moved from Kauai, and a 

fifteen piece brass band.  SUPERB.

 

Renegade Craft Fair stole my heart.
It is truly Pinterest in real life.. you've
never seen anything quite like it.
With vendors traveling from as far as
New York, and everything hand made /
sewn / printed / crafted, this event
will blow your front door open.
Or knock your socks off.

Branded!

Super excited about our new

branding tool.  Now we can

sign all of our work and let the

business continue expanding :)

Thanks to everyone for your

support and enthusiasm, it

means the world to us~

xo Paige


P.S. May you only have good
luck this Friday the 13th !

O F F I C I A L

These Beautiful Doors

I've never loved an old piece of wood as much

as these rusted patina boards.  Chris salvaged 

the marine wood from an old bait boat that was 

destroyed in the tsunami off the coast of Japan.

Its been sitting in our yard, waiting for a project

worthy of its beauty, until I realized they would 

make perfect doors to lead into our front yard.  

The orange and blue compliments are to die for!

Another project complete, brought to you by The Alibi Interiors. 

LinkedIn Collaboration

We've been very blessed to team up with
LinkedIn, and this is our third project
we've collaborated with them on {a fourth
project is underway!}.  We've designed
and constructed a reclaimed wood wall
for the cafe at their headquarters in
Mountain View.  We additionally worked
alongside an expert in vertical planting
where we fabricated reclaimed wood
borders for year round plants to live in,
and act as an art piece.
LinkedIn's staff has been absolutely
lovely to work with, especially my
friend Lauren Ng Pinkerton, whom we
owe this opportunity to!

Check out the photos below, and stay
tuned in for our next project with
LinkedIn.

Measure twice, cut once.

The wood borders are an exclamation point to the already 

highlighted living walls.  The red plants came together to make a beautiful 

chevron design, which will change with the seasons {i.e. poinsettias during Christmas}.

Chris happy and surrounded by his wood element.

Notice the light green moss on the lower left boards, 

complimenting my green jacket of course..!

A panoramic of the finished product,

and we're very happy with the turn out.

x Paige

Summer Succulents

Our succulent boxes are
back in stock, and the
colors are more vibrant
than ever.  Available
via email contact at
our website:

www.thealibiinteriors.com

The Alibi is LIVE !

The Alibi {Interior Creations}
is now live and alive with a
website!  Visit us at:

www.thealibiinteriorcreations.com

Renegade Craft Fair // LA

The Alibi is excited and happy
to announce that we are now
part of the Renegade Craft Fair!
Our first show was in Los Angeles
and we came home with a new
found knowledge of retail and the
art of craft fairing, a boost of orders,
and a pep in our step.  Our next fair
is this weekend in San Francisco.
If you're in the city, come by and see
whats crafting.  It is honestly like
Pinterest in real life.  No kidding.

Chris {on the left} & Brian {of Young America Creative} 

collaborated to make a dynamic duo.  I snapped a shot of

them loading up the Uhaul with the goods. 

The beautiful booth.  The guys worked hard on it, 

and it turned out absolutely perfect.

Do work.

Photoshoot for Square Market brochure.

Yeah Christope!

The Alibi Meets Wedding: LV + DK 2013

          L  O  V  E

This is the summer of love, 

and I'm so happy to collaborate
with as many weddings as we have. Our first wedding was for Lani Virostko and Danny Kent, a pair of good friends of ours.  The celebration was in Murphy's- the sweetest little rustic one-horse town, flooded with incredible local wine.  Below are images of the amazing day, and a few of the products The Alibi supplied.  A very happy congratulations to the new couple!        xx P

Brian Friel of Young America Creative was the ingenious 

mind behind hanging tumble weeds as chandeliers.

It was one of the most impressive design

elements of the wedding!

Each dinner table had three reclaimed wood succulent boxes, which stood for the center 

pieces {stunning and simple}, as well as the guest gifts.  People were thrilled to 

take one home with them, and some snagged more than one!  Flattery.

This was the bride and groom's personal table.  

They sat lookin' pretty under a wrought iron arbor tangled in grape vines.

                                                                                                                           


Champagne chalkboard signage from The Alibi.
The day was hotter than ever, but the bubbles helped immensely.

Wine chalkboard signage from the Alibi.

This might have been my favorite story- 

Rustic barn background, metal cans full of wine with 

an elaborate display of stemware, burlap table runners 

and cloths; a total and complete cohesiveness was created

and it felt good to be part of it.

One of the many charming details of Murphy's:

an antique wagon for prisoners.  I LOVE this stuff.

Another visual feast from Young America Creative.  Brian designed Lani & Danny's guest sign-in as a piece of art.  Framed by The Alibi, the collaboration
was superb.

The photographers, Still Music by Erin & Jeremy Hohengarten, 

set up the ultimate photo booth.  All frames by The Alibi, with

dried flower bouquets and string lights for ambiance, it was 

a picture story every guest wanted to be a part of!

A hundred years of happy marriage and ever
lasting love to Lani and Danny~  xxo

NEW! Alibi Interior Creations

Chris and I have both been busy
with our latest orders, which just
seem to keep on coming.

Check out what we've been up to this spring!

Reclaimed wood farm tables and benches have been on high demand lately!

They are currently selling at Stripe downtown,

or you can place an order with us directly

at thealibi@live.com.

This is my succulent wheelbarrow

that I planted and was so proud of!

We placed it in our front yard and

have received many compliments

on it.  You can plant an edible

garden in it as well- great space

saver with a beautiful aesthetic. 

New shipment of wood!

These old fence boards take hours of prep before they can be used.  

Nails are pulled and each board must be wire brushed.  And, 

depending on what they become (maybe a bench?) they take hours 

of sanding down to make a smooth finish for your bum :)

The best pieces are the boards with moss or vines still growing 

on them.  I lalaloooove the raw and organic feel of these 

ones and have a bad habit of keeping them for myself!

My latest favorite are these bird houses with succulent rooftops.  

We make them exclusively for Hidden Garden Nursery in Aptos.  

I recently gave one to my mom for Mother's Day and she was thrilled!  

We have ours attached to our fence and it make for the perfect adornment.

Our storage shed is close to being complete (with reclaimed 

wood siding, obviously, a corrugated tin roof, old original 

Queen Ann windows from the house, and the same trim 

color as our main house).  Chris tacked this living succulent 

frame up to see how the plants fared.  

We're still experimenting with these pieces; 

and are happy with the way they're turning out!

The frames are for sale at DIG on Water Street- support your local artist :)