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.

Since we’ve been spending a lot more time at home than usual, we’ve taken the opportunity to slowly make some updates to our apartment decor. And it wasn’t long before this desire to refresh our space overflowed to my little home studio…

Since my first collection of original artwork will be launching soon, I thought it would be helpful to put together a list of the best resources for finding frames. I highly recommend getting original artwork custom framed so you can ensure the materials being used are acid free and of archival quality to preserve your original piece for decades to come. Here are a few places you can get artwork framed.