My Season of Miniatures
fresh baked polymer clay “cookies” – plates measure 23 mm by 23 mm Hi! It’s been a while! Sometimes life takes unexpected turns, and sometimes, they’re even nice ones. Like, for instance, when you discover
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Spring Vacation, Toad Designs
April has been exciting this year, with a lot of regular-life stuff, but I’m returning this week from my little spring vacation with my finished toad art designs! The mixed media piece I’ve been working
Toad Goes Home
American toad – illustration in progress I’ve put a little thought into what designs I want to make for my Etsy shop this spring, and one of them was “a good toad”. This lead me
Sweet Shop Stickers
Today I finished my second sticker sheet design since I got my new, working cutting machine. I got to celebrate by using a whole sheet myself. It’s incredibly satisfying, and I’m happy with how this
It’s Lips
a whole sketchbook page of lips While I’m working on the next sheet of stickers and a floral alphabet, I had a day last week where I just wanted to practice drawing something a little
Cottage Garden Alphabet
watercolor in progress Practicing with happy art is making me happy, and snow is making me think about spring! That’s where these botanically-designed capitals came from this week. Today’s piece is a sketchbook exercise that
Sweet Shop Pop-Up
I’ve been playing around with the idea of a popup storefront card for a while, and while I experimented with a prototype over the holidays, this sweet shop greeting card is the first store-front style
Folk Hearts Design Collection
Finished product prototypes – the Folk Hearts stationery collection Last week, I posted the original artwork that I used for today’s designs-just as they were, pretty much right from my sketchbook. In the week since,
Florists Bench
gouache sketch, work in progress The past week, most of my days were spent doing a lot of editing and fussing around with art in Photoshop. In the mornings, or at the end of the
Folk Hearts, Berry Shades
folk art heart motifs in colored pencil Happy New Year!!! It’s been a relaxing one for us this year. I’ve been preparing for 2024 by doodling some folk art hearts under a nice cozy blanket.