In the spirit of my travel digital-only workload, I am featuring my latest map creation: a digitized DIY request for Frankie and Stephanie’s wedding in Massachusetts. They will be printing it themselves and inserting them into little favor bags for their guests -what a sweet gesture!

...in a pink dominant color scheme

Stephanie wanted me to create a map from her list of wedding-related venues in my watercolor style. Apart from sharing that she loves the color pink, the slate was pretty much left up for me to fill!

Blue-black vintage-style ink, whimsical script and pink tone color palette…on thick 300lb hot press watercolor paper.

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Re-fresh

Hello my dear readers!

Some changes and goings-on have been brewing under the hood of the studio for awhile and now it is time to bring it to light! I will be away on a one-month travel + re-inspiring session.  There is a long list of juicy changes, inventory update and revamp to be expected during this hiatus which I am excited about and can’t reveal too much right now.

For the time being, please be aware that I am only accepting print-your-own or digitized artwork commissions between now and August 25th. Advanced bookings for future events beyond September are welcomed, of course.

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Bliss...

It is no secret by now that I have a lifelong love affair with trees!  Well, we now have our very own canopy tree in our (new) backyard- a lovely low hanging tree with the perfect umbrella shade and hundreds of large, golden lemons hanging like lanterns from it. Perfect!

Our little slice of heaven.

I cannot stress enough how such a simple little piece of garden space make our lives so much richer, calmer and inspired! [click to continue…]

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Atelier Tuesday : Fine Bone China?

Hello everyone, I apologize for this long silence but the studio and house move and recent visitors have thrown me off my blog schedule! I promise that there will be lots of juicy posts to come on what’s churning behind the scenes here at my new mint green studio!
There is so much to share about [...]

June 29, 2010

Atelier Thursday: Part 2: Painting the Bay Wedding Treasure Map

Follow-up post to Part 1 here and mention here, slight change in thematic direction.
Words cannot describe the beauty that is the North Carolina Core Banks and to be able to work on a special (treasure) map for a special couple on location was a tremendously wonderful experience. Giant oak trees, boat rides, beautiful shells (Inspired [...]

June 10, 2010

Sometimes you just have to let life take over…

…we need a little seabreeze
a little sunshine,
a little big tree
for the little muse
that’s parched within us.
Its been an exceedingly wonderful but busy few weeks, and I haven’t really had time to venture outside my studio. But here’s a little secret: we are planning a trip back East for a mini vacation and I am going [...]

May 27, 2010

A Manifesto Experiment

Feeling a little playful and thoughtful today so here’s a little note in my own hand-writing font!

May 18, 2010

Illustrated Friday: Theatrical Seeded Invitations with a Southern Flavor

When I first read Andi from Tennessee’s charette entry, I felt a pang of familiarity and melancholy for having moved away from the South! Andi, an actress and non profit organizer, and Drew, a public defender and musician are both steeped in the performance arts but have a steadfast fondness for the South, where Andi [...]

May 14, 2010

Atelier Tuesday: Digital, Paperless but Touchable?

I wanted to design a wedding set for Janine (the Green Guru creating waves of change with her non-profit Green Wave , follow her on twitter here), that showed her steadfast commitment for a waste-less environmentally-conscious wedding without compromising on her taste for the tangibly rustic and earthy!
I didn’t want Janine to miss out [...]

May 11, 2010

Illustrated Friday: Invitations with Great Gatsby Glamor

This week’s charette comes from a very excitedly engaged Erin, whose fiance surprised her with a hilltop picnic and a beautiful ring that inspired her wedding theme-glamor and sparkle!
Erin wanted invitations with a Great Gatsby sort of glamor (to go with her ring), in the colors Fuchsia, white, champagne gold and lots of crystals and [...]

May 8, 2010