I am thrilled to announce my latest collection of original artwork: hand-painted Heart Charms! These little wooden hearts have been such a delight to create and I am so happy to finally be able to share them with you. Last month, I felt the pull to create and offset the winter blues with little floral pops of joy for Valentine’s Day…
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Lately I’ve been feeling the pull to create just for the sake of creating. Usually after the holiday season, it takes awhile for my creative spark to return but this year I’ve felt a desire to make lots of things. Perhaps it’s my mind’s way of regulating my nervous system in these especially volatile times. Or maybe it’s in an effort to ward off the winter blues and make our home more cheerful. Either way, this extra dose of inspiration is a welcome change and I’m hoping it continues. If you’re in a crafty mood too and are looking for something delightful to make, might I suggest these lovely, painted paper hearts turned into festive Valentine’s Day garland…
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Today marks ten (10!) whole years since I made my big leap into the unknown, quit my full-time fashion design job and embarked on a journey of creative entrepreneurship. It feels only right to mark this momentous occasion with a blog post – the very thing that started it all. There have been many evolutions of my business over the past decade and while I haven’t been the greatest recently at keeping up with everything here on the blog, it really is still a record of all the phases this creative journey has taken me through. I just went back and read this post where I made the initial announcement that I’d quit my job and this one I made just two days into self-employment, LOL. In many ways I feel exactly the same as I did when I wrote those posts – uneasy about the future, hopeful for possibilities I can’t yet wrap my head around, but excited to be able to create for a living.
I’ve been thinking a lot about all the firsts…
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The Holiday Shop has officially arrived!! I’m thrilled to share four BRAND NEW glitter ornament designs along with two new gift wrap patterns and a festive new grosgrain ribbon design inspired by Christmas in New York! If you can’t wait a second longer to see all the sparkly goodness for yourself, click the button below and hop on over to the shop!
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I still get butterflies just typing out those words! I’m thrilled to share that my New York City inspired notepads and stickers are on their way to all five Anthropologie stores in Manhattan! Back when I first officially launched my illustration business in 2015, it was a dream of mine to have my illustrated products in a store that I’ve long admired. But imagining my work in Anthropologie back then was just that – a dream…
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