treasuring

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Here it is! The finished painting that I showed you a piece of a couple days ago...

I whisked it off to Gregg Irby Fine Art yesterday, so it's ready to be scooped up and put on a wall that's begging for some bright color. This one is seriously bright.

I dropped off the painting yesterday after having lunch with my second cousin (my dad's cousin), who I didn't even know lived in Atlanta until about a month ago. He was googling someone else in our family and my name came up, so he ended up on my website and then saw that I lived in Atlanta. Shock of all shocks! He emailed me to see if he was crazy or if we actually might be related, and when we determined that we're in fact second cousins, we decided to meet up for coffee last week. And he's AWESOME! I'm so sad that no one told either of us that we both live here until now, just weeks before Ryan and I are moving away to Portland. So we had lunch yesterday, and Ryan and I are going to meet he and his wife for dinner next weekend. I'm so excited.

Don't you love random little surprises like that in life??

GIVEAWAY: 'everything is going to be ok' notecards

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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A box full of these sweet little boxed cards arrived the other day, and I want to give one to YOU!

Based on the huge success of the book Everything Is Going To Bo OK published by Chronicle Books last year (which had 6 of my illustrations in it, yay!), they decided to turn it into a set of 20 notecards as well-- and they included 4 of my images in the set!

And I'm in great company-- Gemma Correll, Jen Renninger, Danna Ray, and more. The cards are all about positivity and encouragement-- right up my alley!

So I'm giving away one set of cards -- all you have to do to enter is leave me a comment and tell me who you'd send one of these cards to and why.

You can get one extra entry, too, by liking my page on facebook! (Just let me know in the comments that you did so...)

Comments will close on SUNDAY MAY 20th at 11:59pm, and I'll randomly choose and announce the winner on Monday morning!

Here are my 4 cards that are in the set:

Hope you like them, and good luck in the giveaway!!

UPDATE 05/16/12 11:30 am: For those asking, I justed listed some of the cards right here; there are only 7 sets, so scoop them up quick if you want them!!

polka dotted bird feathers

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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I'm working on getting a couple of new paintings done for Gregg Irby Fine Art before I move away to Portland in a couple of weeks, and I painted this little birdie last night.... the eye i s a little scary so far and needs work, but I'm kinda digging it so far! Not sure what's going to happen with the rest of the painting, but I'll be working on it today, so we'll see!

I also wanted to let you know that the online moving sale yesterday was a massive success! I sold almost everything. If you missed out, I'll likely be adding some new stuff to the sale section over the next week or so (as we start packing and I find more stuff that needs to go), so keep checking back!

ONLINE MOVING SALE!

Monday, May 14, 2012

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Happy Monday! I'm kicking off the brand new week with an online moving sale. Fun, right?

Ryan and I are moving to Portland, OR in 17 days (eek!!), and I have lots of stuff accumulated in my studio that's got to go. I want to set up my new studio without all the clutter that's in my current studio!

Which means: I have lots of art to sell on the super cheap! I'm talking original paintings for $25.00 cheap. Seriously.

Head on over to check it out! You can find the sale RIGHT HERE. There's only ONE of most items, so if you see something you like, scoop it up quick!

Here are a few things you'll find:

UPDATE 05/14/12 10:30 am: Things are going fast!! About 40% of the stuff is gone already after just an hour and a half. Scoop it up quick!

i love a good pile of new fabric

Friday, May 11, 2012

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I think I get my love of fabric from my mom. She always had piles and piles around when I was growing up (she was a doll-maker!), and I loved looking at all the different prints and bright colors. So it's pretty cool now that I get to CREATE those prints and bright colors!

This is my brand new Molokai fabric line. I picked it up at Blend last week, and I need to make something out of it! It's seriously bright.

What would you make?

I'll have some fat quarters available in my shop soon, too, as soon as I can get around to photographing it and setting it all up.... let me know if you want some now, though, and we can work it out!

Have a good weekend!

paper wreaths for decorating

Thursday, May 10, 2012

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I stumbled upon these adorable little paper wreaths this morning on pinterest (originally from A Subtle Revelry-- great blog!) and can't wait to make some! I have a gift to wrap up soon for my husband-- who is graduating from med school next weekend!! -- looks like i'll have an excuse to make some of these. Yay!

I think I'll also need to make some fun decorations to have around the house. I want it to feel festive and fun when his family gets here!! It'll be a weekend full of celebrating!

I think these little wreaths might become my go-to embellishment for gift-wrapping now. Quick, easy, and so charming!

a special collaboration with le animalé!

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

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I am soooo excited to announce something very fun and special this morning: my collaboration with le animalé to create out Tribal Adventure Totems!

Laura emailed me a few months ago to ask me if I wanted to collaborate on some special one-of-a-kind totems, and she got an immediate YES from me. I am completely in love with le animalé-- Laura's totems are insanely adorable, and I even had her create 2 custom totems of my cats for my husband for Christmas! (He loved them, by the way.) The likeness that Laura can capture of an animal's personality is amazingly spot-on. Such talent!

Anyway, we create 10 totems together -- 5 totems and 5 necklace totems -- Laura sculpted them and I painted them. I'm completely in love with how they turned out. I never realized how hard painting tiny things is! I had so much fun working on this with Laura, and I hope you'll love these sweet little critters, too!

The Tribal Adventure Totems are all about inspiring summer fun and adventure. And they're obviously about living color to the max (you know that's my motto!)

I have 5 of the totems available for sale here on my website, and the other 5 are available over at le animale. There's only one of each, so if you see a favorite, scoop it up!! Because once it's gone, it's gone for good.

Maybe a happy little bird to celebrate summer sunshine?

Each totem will arrive with a card describing its particular stats-- you see, each totem has it's own little personality and character traits. Infuse your life with your animal's special powers!

You can find the totems RIGHT HERE. (And find the other 5 on le animalé's website!)

I'd love to hear which one is your favorite! Mine's the fox, I think..... or the squirrel necklace!

+plus modern skin care

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

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I had to share this with you because I just think it's so wonderful-- my old family friends, Ann and Nic, are creating a brand new non-toxic skin care line called +plus modern skincare (inspired by Ann's successful battle with breast cancer), and they're raising funds on indiegogo right now to make it a reality!

Ann is my mom's great friend, and I used to baby-sit Nic when I was a teenager-- isn't that adorable? And now he's all grown up and starting a business! I love it.

Go check out their campaign!! Their products are going to be amazing, and you can get in on the ground-floor and be the first to use 'em.

back from NYC (did I even tell you I was going?)

Monday, May 07, 2012

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I'm back!

I don't actually even think I told you I left. Haha, oops! I went to Brooklyn, NY for 4 days to work on a project with my dear friend and Declaration of You cohort, Michelle Ward, and it was sooooo good to see her. She's been going through boob cancer and the ensuing treatment for the last 5 months, and I'm constantly amazed at what a champ and an inspiration she is in dealing with it. I was so happy to finally be able to give her a big huge in-person hug-- living apart from your friends sucks. Not being able to be there when your friends are going through something tough and painful sucks. But I'm grateful that we got to spend 4 days together, and I'm happy to report that she looks fantastic and is doing great! She wasn't just faking me out every time I talked to her on skype. :) We had a blast (and we actually got some work done, too!).

But now I'm back and it's time to play big-time catch up today. Want to see a couple of paintings I finished last weekend in the meantime? These are now available at Gregg Irby Fine Art in Atlanta....

These are big ones -- 36x36" -- much larger than I normally paint, and I'm loving it! I'm going to have a bigger studio space in our new house in Portland (where we're moving in 3 weeks! Eek!), so I'm looking forward to working bigger on a regular basis now.

And these babies are bright bright bright, as usual. Why do I love fluorescent color so much??!

mother's day rain boot sale

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

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Between now and Mother's Day, when you buy a pair of rain boots (for your mom!) you can get a pair half off (for yourself!)

Just use code MOMSAREAWESOME when checking out.

Or if you are a mom and you want to sneakily suggest to your family that they buy them for you so you get to keep both pairs, that totally works, too.

Look cute adorable Michelle and her mom are in their matching rain boots:

Awww.

Also! I made this rain boot lookbook and forgot to show it to you:

So you can get some ideas about how to look your cutest wearing your boots. :)

When you pop over to buy the boots, don't forget to use code MOMSAREAWESOME when checking out-- you'll get $40 off the price of the second pair of rain boots you buy, but only until Mother's Day on May 15th!