About

The White Library Story

Bonjour and welcome from the creatives at Sandra Downie.  Just as a brick and mortar library is used as a resource for information, The White Library (TWL) is a daily resource devoted to inspiration for stylish and creative home entertaining, design ideas, diy projects, beautiful celebrations and living a beautiful life.

The readers of TWL are looking for creative ways to tell their story with beautiful and personal touches outside of the norm. This is why we strive to feature content that is inspiring to the mind and chic in style. From party/wedding styling tips to DIY projects,  inspired home living ideas to recipes, we are excited to inspire our readers.

Life is about making memories, so go ahead and stay a while, grab a cup o’ jo , read on…heck even leave a comment or two (we love to know what our readers think about what we are featuring)  and let your creative juices flow and your personal stories bloom!

Meet Sandra: Event/Party Designer, Lifestyle + Entertainment Expert/Writer
With a passion for celebrations and parties, crafting, interiors and living a beautiful life, Sandra has gained fans around the world for her chic style and taste, entertainment/lifestyle writing, photo styling, stylized dessert tables, and creative home entertaining/design ideas. As the owner and Creative Director of Sandra Downie Event Designs, an event design firm in Connecticut, Sandra started The White Library (TWL) blog in September 2010 as a creative outlet to share her love of stylish entertaining, inspired living, desserts/food pretty things and DIY projects. Sandra’s work has been featured on many of the top national and international wedding, entertaining and lifestyle blogs. Sandra lives in a country home in Connecticut with her husband and daughter. 

Things I Love:

  • Weddings & the feeling of falling in love
  • Celebrating life’s most precious occasions
  • Old, time-worn things
  • Comfortable living
  • Thrift stores and flea markets
  • Girly things
  • The color pink
  • Shopping
  • Desserts (to a fault)
  • Anthropologie, Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma, Ballard Designs, West Elm, Home Goods and Michael’s
  • Interior design and decorating
  • Crafting & Scrapbooking
  • Dressing chic and decorating my home chic
  • Most of all my family

Meet Brittany, Food Contributor
Brittany is the owner of Hanle Productions, a portrait photography boutique specializing in vintage inspired wedding photography. She is honored to have the opportunity to capture beautiful weddings, laughing children and growing families. She is currently preparing to launch a fashion and food photography website. 

Brittany has a passion for cooking and entertaining, and is excited to share her discoveries of wholesome organic living, yummy comfort foods, and entertainment with The White Library readers.

Brittany loves chocolate, tea, avocados, natural light, bold colors, soft music, urban spaces, all things vintage and old fashion and knitting.

Brittany lives with her husband Anthony and kitties Captain Jack and Peter Parker in Milwaukee Wisconsin.

Feel free to learn more about Brittany and what she is up to here.

Things I Love:

  • Chocolate
  • Tea
  • Avocados
  • Natural Light
  • Bold Colors
  • Soft Music
  • Urban Spaces
  • All things vintage and old fashion
  • Knitting

Meet Laura, DIY & Crafts Contributor
Currently an editor in the publishing industry, Laura aspires to create pretty little things for inspiring events. As a recent bride, she designed every bit of her wedding and discovered her love for craft paper, Michael’s, and glue guns. During the process, she became obsessed with wedding and design blogs, collecting countless DIY ideas and slowly taking over half of the living room with her projects. She is excited to share all that she’s learned and hopes to inspire others to get their paws dirty with a little DIY. When she’s not editing her blog, You Stir Me, cooking up “masterpieces” in the kitchen, or sharing crafty ideas among friends, you can find her up on her family’s apple farm with her dog, Lilly. Although she currently lives with her husband in NJ, she dreams of one day owning a house up north in the New England countryside 

Things I Love:

  • Ruffles
  • Summer
  • The ocean
  • Peanut Butter & Chocolate
  • My cowboy boots and Red Sox hat
  • Michael’s
  • Anything turquoise
  • Ranunculus
  • Otis Redding
  • A good glass of wine
  • My puppy
  • My very patient husband
  • And of course, all my friends & family

Meet Tamika, Graphic Designer
Tamika is a graphic designer obsessed with pretty things. She has her Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design and loves to design paper products and event accessories that reflect not only your event, but your inspiration and ideas. No matter how big or small an event is, Tamika feels it is special in every way.

Things I Love:

  • Design
  • Cupcakes
  • Fashion
  • Weddings
  • Cookies & Cream Ice Cream
  • The word ‘magical’
  • Animal Print
  • Bows
  • The Celtics
  • Sushi
  • The Feel of NYC
  • Hello Kitty
  • Vintage Finds,
  • My Jewelry Collection