This will be my 11th year creating sketches for my illustrated Favorite Things Calendar and it’s become a fun challenge to envision an overarching theme for all the months! For the 2025 calendar, each month is inspired by a different print or pattern. And the year before that featured a different grandmillennial pastime on each page. It’s a bit tricky to look well ahead into the future and imagine what will feel fresh and inspiring months in advance. But as I was brainstorming ideas for the next calendar, a quote kept coming back to me from one of my favorite movies, Under the Tuscan Sun. “Never lose your childish enthusiasm.”

I recently added this bookcase to my studio space for extra storage and to create an additional working surface for my Cricut machine. But as I was putting the bookcases together, I knew that I’d eventually add one of my wallpaper designs to the back of the shelves for extra charm. I placed an order for my Rose Trellis pattern in the Peel & Stick wallpaper option from Spoonflower this is the pistachio and blue combo in the larger scale and got to work.