happy weekend!
really loving
this tape holder from DWR
last days of summer
How we spent the last days of summer…horses, favorite urban park (with the cutest couple getting wedding shots taken, her dress and hair just killed me), watched the swifts, yummy lazy breakfasts, soccer and more soccer…
Now I’m ready for fall, are you?
early stages
blue bottle
For Seattleites, I now have some select prints and several originals available at Blue Bottle Gallery, an art gallery and boutique in the Capitol Hill district. It is owned by the husband and wife team, Adrea and Mathew Porter and its focus is handmade art, craft and design. If you’re in the area check it out!
weekend
shout outs and another giveaway
Thank you to everyone who has posted about my work lately! It really does make my day. Also, another giveaway over at Crooked Smooked that includes my Pink Day print.
Can you guess what we will be eating a lot of? Happy weekend!
popptalk - be sure to take a look at the poppytalk handmade market while you’re there!
giveaway!
I’m just popping in to let you know about a great giveaway happening over at poppytalk. Two winners will win a Plywerk Bamboo Artist Panel each of their choice from fawn and forest. You have until Sunday to leave a comment to enter, good luck!
I’ll be back later today with a another post.
feeling fall
The last few mornings have had a very fallish feel to them here. I really love the cooler temps (and even the rain). I love turning on lots of lamps, a few candles and getting to work. With the kids in school, I have tons of projects running around my brain waiting to get out. Thinking these are warmers are going to be my uniform once the cooler temps hit for good.
at sock dreams
quiet house
First day back at school for the kids and I am basking in the quiet of the house. I am giddy having an entire day to work. The kids were super excited to get back, as well (first day nerves aside). Currently catching up on shipments, listening to music and smelling my favorite new candle, must go stock up.
available here
doing what you love makes you smile
Monday is my new favorite day of the week. After years, and years, and years of dreaming of getting back to my first passion (some may say childhood obsession) I am once again riding horses (and maybe when I get my legs back under me, jumping). It took years of begging when I was a kid to get my parents to agree to let me take lessons. I rode for years and can’t really remember why I stopped, but it has always been there. The thing that someday, when the time is right I will do again. And now I am! And my legs hurt, like really hurt. I love it! What makes it even more exciting is that my daughter has started as well, so now we can bond over riding.
image via jaytatone
team effort
Wow, September! The last few weeks I’ve been finishing up a few things, making a much anticipated return to a past passion (more on that soon) and enjoying the last days of summer before the kids go back to school. Also, I’ve been working with fawn&forest to plywerk some of my paintings. They are now available there along with some great selections from many other artists.
Happy weekend!
Small Magazine
So delighted to see the new issue of small magazine in my inbox this morning! I contributed several paintings to the issue and it was so fun! All the paintings will be available as prints in my etsy shop later today as well as the original paintings. Be sure to check out the entire issue. It is, as always, full of good stuff!
art in real life
I so love seeing my art in its new home. I spotted my fabric eared bunny print in this crazy beautiful nursery the other day. Talk about crazy beautiful, follow the jump to see the beautiful little one it was created for.
via estate of things
indulge me for a moment
If you visit me here regularly you may have noticed I am mildly obsessed with painting our hardwoods white. I am 99% sure I would love the result (hubby not quite as much). Talk of this is sacrilege to some and I’ve never seen it done in anyones home here despite our grey winters to which white floors seems a common remidy in Scandanavian countries. So, should I say, Ha! to convention and just deal with any possible consequenses if we ever sell, or play it safe?
oh and that bench in the middle with those great legs is from an old high school locker room, here. Anyone in Seattle want to drive it down to me? (images via the gorgeous blog emmas blog)
what’s for dinner
I have just discovered my favorite cooking blog, eat make read. The recipes all look really, really good, but also really simple. I made three things from here this past weekend and can’t wait to make more. Deciding on dinner ideas in this house is like pulling teeth so I thought I’d share!
Surprise balls
The easter bunny brought the kids surprise balls a few years ago and I loved the concept but had sorta forgotten about them until I saw this post over at Uppercase this week. Brilliant. So while we were at the craft store the other day the kids found the cutest little wind up toys and my first thought was that they would be perfect in a surprise ball. The hunting down of all the little treasures was probably the most fun. Here are my finished surprise balls, now making their way to my three cute neices. Hope they like them! You can buy yourself one here, and they look to be very generously layered with goodies.
i like cookies
but I love Cookie magazine! My Girl in the Yellow Suit painting is featured in the new Cookie magazine in their desk features. Yay! So excited!
Oh and I now offer several of my prints in a larger 13″x19″ size. If you’d like a larger print but don’t see the one you want, just let me know, I am happy to offer any in that size!
lemon
My new favorite afternoon snack is lemon curd on toast. It’s like instant dessert! And for dessert tonight, lemon curd blueberry tart, yummm.
i’ve been eyeing this
nearly convinced…
at design public