the Creative Thursday blog

it's holiday time!

happy festive weekend!

embroidery hoopsies! + a few announcements

It's that time of year when I promise myself that I will move through it with ease, peace and enjoy every second of it. Because I LOVE it.

For those of us in the making of things, particulalry the making of 'giftie things', it is especially fun {and a little busier than usual}. It is also that time where I put my creative hat on or in this case I have put it on a few times over the last several months, to prepare special, one of kind of a kind, creations for you. I get the chance to flex my creative muscles so to speak like in the embroidered illustrations in the hoops featured above ;)

So this is your official invitation to join me for the 3rd annual holiday shop update next Thursday, December 9. Time to be announced. I'll probably give you some sneak peeks of what will be featured in the update over the next week here on the blog. Also! tomorrow December 2nd registration opens for my e-course "In the Fish Bowl :: Life as an Artist Online".

I'm also preparing for Renegade San Francisco for the first time this December 18 + 19. This means that all online orders for the holidays need to be placed before December 6 for International and December 14 for Domestic. Please drop me a note and let me know if you need it in time to give as giftie, as I am turning orders around as fast as I can with the holidays in mind.

hope you are having a peaceful, happy start to the holiday season this December 1st!

an unexpected guest + an art wall

I'm visiting over at Victoria's blog today. I LOVE her unexpected guest/home tours series. Don't know about you, but one of my favorite parts of this whole creative blogging world is the chance to peek into other artist's homes. It must be the interior designer left over in me. I'm a sucker for an inspiring interior space.

Which reminds me, I don't think I have shared the beginning stages of my art wall with you yet? Earlier this year we let go of a very large armoire in our entry/living room and replaced it with my favorite yellow chest. Guess what was created? *space* and the perfect place for my 'art wall'. You know how eclectic collections of art all on one wall are all the rage? I've been wanting one for a while and would've chosen my sunroom studio ~ however  ~ it's proven to be rather challenging. First since it is a sunroom there are more windows than wall space and second, it was literally added on to the outside of the house, and the walls are actually the original exterior of the house which means they are made of some serious cement. I've finally given up on trying to hammer or screw anything into them and have resorted to sticky back velcro squares to adhere art. This means that the art can also fall at any given moment...oh who am I kidding? I've pretty much used up all my wall space in the studio, and my growing art collection is spilling over and needed a new home. Voila!

Here are some of the artists featured from top then clockwise

Outi Harma

Amanda Blake

Camilla Engman

Matt Adrian aka the Mincing Mockingbird

Michele Genele

Mavis Leahy

Lizzy House

my work

and my crazy "maps to the stars home" vintage sign I found in Silverlake when I first arrived in L.A.

Thank goodness this art wall is attached to a 15' ceiling...because I cannot wait to keep adding to the collection...