MaeMae is Hiring!

MaeMae is hiring in Minneapolis! MaeMae Paperie is a unique stationery and design studio from Los Angeles, California relocating to Minneapolis, Minnesota. We are so excited to bring some fresh talent to the MMP studio. There are two positions open:

DESIGN ASSISTANT / download the application here / We are looked for a seasoned designer who can manage custom projects, assist with the growth of the business, and client relationships. This is a full time position. To be considered for our openings please send an email entitled “Design Assistant Application” with your .PDF portfolio (no more than 10 MB) resume, cover letter + answered questions (next 4 pages) to megan@maemaepaperie.com.

Design Assistant duties will include:

+ project management (work with clients from start to finish on custom projects)
+ creating new wedding stationery and social stationery products
+ styling and photographing product for website and line sheets
+ website updates
+ inventory management
+ updating social media
+ managing advertising and promotion of MaeMae to clients and others in the industry

Required Skills:

+ extensive experience and mastery of Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop
+ proficiency in Word, and Excel
+ works with confidence and swiftness
+ mastery of type design, composition, and color theory
+ takes initiative on projects assigned and generates original ideas generated on his/her own
+ takes instructions well and remembers how to complete tasks
+ takes criticism well and learns from it
+ respectful, great communicator, works well with others, exemplary work ethic
+ tidy + organized

DESIGN INTERN / download the application here / We are accepting 3-6 month internships (non-paid) for those interested in the design + stationery industry. School credit preferred though not required. After completing the internship, paid positions for further design work may be considered. To be considered for our openings please send an email entitled “Internship Application” with your .PDF portfolio (no more than 10 MB) resume, cover letter + answered questions (next 2 pages) to megan@maemaepaperie.com. You can retype the questions or print, write + scan them to the studio. DO NOT answer the questions in the email body.

Design Intern duties will include:

+ illustrating
+ fulfilling online orders
+ fulfilling wedding collection orders
+ text proofing
+ prepping files for print
+ packaging + shipping
+ quoting + invoicing

Required Skills:

+ proficiency in Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Word, and Excel
+ great understanding of type design, composition, and color theory
+ consistent availability
+ open to new ideas + learning
+ respectful, great communicator, exemplary work ethic
+ tidy + organized

This position is still open and the start date will be the 2nd or 3rd week of April! No calls please!

All of the gorgeous photos above are by Charley Star for my studio feature in Utterly Engaged that launched today! Check it out for a sneak peek of the new collection! The whole collection will be unveiled on the site tomorrow!

Posted on 03/20/12 | Studio |

The Trunk Show

Saturday was one of my biggest dreams - EVER - realized. Audrey - thank you so much for taking the time to meet with me three years ago and for encouraging me since then to push my craft, inspiring me to make a wedding collection, and for hosting such a fabulous party for MaeMae. This is huge. Thank you Elizabeth, Courtney, and Kay for making the day so smooth and to Maureen for stopping in to see it too :)

Thank you so much to everyone who came out (even during the rain!) and for all my friends and family who supported me from afar with letters, emails, texts, and tweeets :) My supportive family and Whit came all the way from Arizona (and Colson from Moreno Valley) just for the day and I know many of you drove long distances throughout Southern California to make it. I so appreciate it and will never forget the day. Thank you to Summer for making everything gorgeous and tasty and to Lindsay for assisting with all that beautification. Thank you to my assistant, Caitlin, for pulling such long hours with me the past few weeks! Also - anyone in the San Diego area that is looking for a designer email Caitlin! She will be moving there soon! Thank you my sweet, Jae, for hauling box after box and for forcing me to eat that bagel egg sandwich and OJ (sorry Whit for spilling it on you.. oppsie!) while we were all just throwing stationery, flowers, and punch into the air hoping it would all land and the store would look perfect. Thank you also for napping curled up like a little baby in the corner of our couch because stationery is literally covering every inch of half our home. You know I can never do anything without you.

All of these stunning photos are by Lehua Noelle with the help of Jenna Bartlo. I spent all Sunday just telling Jae how much I loved them.

Time to cook up some more dreams now... Oh and find a new home, pack, and move.

Photos of the collection coming Wednesay morning!

Posted on 03/19/12 | Studio, Wedding |

Studio Peek

So (as everyone always says..) I want to be more consistent with my  blogging! No! I'm for real! You have no idea how my photos I have taken but never blogged. So sad. Thursdays are going to be my Studio Peek day with a look into what happened during the week. This week has been so incredible. I have never worked as much and as hard as I have the past three weeks but I have also never been so happy to put in a weeks worth of 14 hour days. Loving every moment. That sounds so annoying and cheesy - but it's the truth people. It's always so incredible how much your friends step up and step in when your load is heavy. Today two of my dearest friends, Jocelyn + Ruthi are here at the studio helping me assemble my albums and wrap everything up for the trunk show. My incredibly brilliant and faithful friend Summer saved my day by stepping in and helping me with ALL the food for Saturday (and she already has all these stying ideas for it. typical Sums), and WHIT!!! my oldest and truest surprised me by flying in from Phoenix for this weekend! WHAT! so beyond. Such a gift. Bestest friends ever. And my hubs has been grocery shopping and feeding me this entire time. He makes a mean Ling Ling potsticker. And he still loves me when I don't brush my hair or go outside for three weeks. AND My endlessly supportive and proud parents and 2 little (but bigger than me) brothers (see Colson's site here) are also all coming to see me this weekend. And on top of all that - wait there's more?! - Miss Rose bought a ticket to come visit me in Minneapolis in May. No words.

So take all of that love and then combine it with what was happening on my desk (above photos) as I prep to styling and shot the entire collection and it equals total bliss. The last photos is by the talented Charley Star for the upcoming issue of Utterly Engaged featuring the new MaeMae wedding collection! (that's the wedding album cover that will be in stores!) eeee! Can't wait for you to see the full story!

The end. I go to bed happy. Nite! xx, Mae

Posted on 03/15/12 | Studio |

MaeMae is Moving to Minneapolis!

My dear bloggies,

I am so thrilled to tell you that MaeMae is moving to the Mini Apple, aka Minneapolis, Minnesota! !!!!!! times a million! We are SO EXCITED! BEYOND! My handsome husband, Jason, just accepted a position as a sports reporter at the Star Tribune and we will be moving there at the start of next month. I could burst I am so proud of him and all that he has accomplished while growing and learning as a journalist. We are both so incredibly blessed to be able to chase down our individual dreams and live a life together all at the same time.

We can't wait to find a beautiful new studio, try new foods, navigate through a new city, hang out with Babe the Blue Ox, bike around lakes in the summer and skate on them in the winter, and of course reunite with old fiends and meet new ones. Old friends you ask? I actually grew up in the Mini Apple (well, Bloomington, a suburb) and moved to Phoenix when I was 13. So in a way (although my family doesn't live there) this is a homecoming for me!

I will miss all my beautiful friends terribly here in Southern California but I'm not worried about staying in touch. We are already an hour and half away from each other (and that's the close ones!) so we already know how to Skype. And duh, I'll be back to visit. I will also be continuing to work with all my SoCal clients! I'm always a phone call or email away. And my wedding collection will be at two SoCal stores, Urbanic and Sweet Paper, so you can stop in to see new work as the collection grows.

So there are two things I want to put out there:

1. Come say goodbye at the Trunk Show! Not a bride? Come to the reception from 4-6 PM at Urbanic.

2. MaeMae is hiring! I am looking for a new assistant and an intern. Interested? Know someone who would be the perfect fit? Email me at megan@maemaepaperie.com

Here is Jae after we received his acceptance letter this weekend. What a cutie.

Posted on 03/13/12 | Studio |

Urbanic Trunk Show Invitations

Loving my bright show postcards! Meow. Are you going to be there March 17??

Have a pretty weeekend! Love, Mae

Posted on 02/24/12 | Studio, Wedding |

Nutty Buddy has a treat for you!

Hi, my bloggies! I hope your fall is clipping along famously. Nutty Buddy (yes, the squirrel in the fashionable scarf...) and I wanted to share what's new in the shop and a sweet treat for you all. Type FALL2011 when you check out for a 20% discount! Just a little treat from me to you. Happy shopping! xx, Mae

Posted on 11/04/11 | Social, Studio |

100 Layer Cake Pop-Up Shop!

Hurry on over to 100 Layer Cake for some sa-weeet deals we have cooked up together. What's to be had over there you ask? Does new greeting cards, address stamps, and custom wedding stationery all at amazing reduced prices peek your interest? Well.... HURRY! Limited quantities!

Posted on 10/25/11 | Studio |