Back to the Magic Gardens?

At this time last year, I had just moved to DC. I made several stops on the drive down from Vermont, and spent a few nights in Philadelphia with not much of a plan and plenty of time to explore. While I was wandering around I found the Magic Gardens, a South Philly landmark, and what turned out to be one of the most inspiring places I have ever been. The entire building is covered in mosaics, inside and out from floor to ceiling. The entire thing,...

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I'm on Poppytalk!

Starting today, I am featured in Round One of the Holiday Market on Poppytalk Handmade! Poppytalk is an online market where you can curate a "table" for a month-long market, so for the next month you can stop by and take a look! Artists are rotated on the front page, or you can take a look at my page right here!So take a look, It'll be up there for one month from tod...

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Ink, Ink Everywhere

Yesterday I spent the day at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria using the printing press. I do most of my printing by hand in my apartment, but for the big things like tea towels, they really need to go through a press to come out right. At the Torpedo Factory (and places like it around the country) you can rent out the press for the day and you get to use all their inks, rollers, solvents and all the other expensive materials you need for printmaking....

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Scenes from this Weekend

After the non-stop fun and exhaustion of last weekend, this weekend was a much needed rest. On Saturday, we drove out to the arboretum, or "DC's Best Kept Secret" as it is otherwise known. Nestled between a car-repair shop and several carry-out restaurants are hundreds of acres of trails, themed gardens and picnic spots. We had planned to go for a bike ride, but Saturday was incredibly windy, so the bike ride was downgraded to a picnic. We found...

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Eastern Market this Sunday!

This Sunday will be my second-to-last time at Eastern Market for the year now that Holiday Shows are starting up! So come by from 10-5 to check out the new stuff, and I highly recommend getting a breakfast burrito at the place across from the food market. What a way to start a Sund...

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Sewing on Paper (or Spandex)

Have you ever seen Romy and Michele's High School Reunion? The clothes! The comedy! The fact that they make every outfit themselves, including the feisty business suits they wear at the end! In my opinion this is the best movie ever made, and at the wee age of eleven, it inspired me to make an entirely new wardrobe that looked something like this:I wish I had a photo handy of what that looked like, but you will just have to imagine it. It was this...

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New Peony Print!

Yesterday I found out that my Christmas card designs blew off the roof of my car somewhere on the Pennsylvania interstate. To deal with it, I curled up in a ball and watched old episodes of 30 Rock (while wearing a snuggie, just to stay with a theme). After an hour or so of self indulgence I snapped out of it, grabbed my sketchbook and started again. So today the first of the new prints is ready! It's not very Christmas-y, but it is a new print that...

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The Rush is Just Around the Corner

This morning I looked at my well-loved planner and realized that the first big show of the holiday season is just three weeks away, and it feels like time is about to start flying. So it's back into power-production mode, as I try and make enough to get through the holiday season. Since this is my first Christmas season doing a full schedule of shows, I'm still trying to figure out exactly how much to make. I think the only way to be prepared is...

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Red Sunflowers

These sunflowers remind me of a craft project in one of those old-school craft books I had when I was younger, where you put white flowers in glasses of dye, and a day later you have a rainbow of color. I looked up red sunflowers and they are bred to be this color, but I still like to think the florist had them sitting in a bucket of red d...

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New Items are Up!

After a few weeks of power-production, I finally have some new items up in the shop! New cards, tea towels, bags, journals and coin purses. Now I can get going on some new designs for the next few months of shows!...

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