Well, he's finally here.  He was over a week late, but our baby boy finally came into the world on Friday April 3rd.  Our lives have not been the same since.  I've been learning to sleep in 3-4 hour increments, but I could not be more in love with this cutie.  I managed to add on two big projects right before he was born, which I'll be sharing soon.  Meanwhile, I am trying to balance working and taking care of this boy.  I have about 4 more days left with my husband before he has to go back to work.  Frightening!!

This Saturday I will be selling my illustrations and polaroids at the West Elm Pop-Up Shop at Atlantic Station.  Super excited they contacted me to be a part of this!  I've been wanting to try Malvi Marshmallows for awhile.  they look so yummy!  If you're in the area on Saturday please stop by!

Well, I was supposed to have a wonderful relaxing beach trip to Amelia Island this week, but it got cut short and made very unrelaxing when I had a very unfortunate incident with some large rusted nails and both of my feet.  I won't go into the specifics, but let's just say it is hard to enjoy the beach with swollen feet that you can't walk on.  I always seem to get hurt or sick when I go on vacation lately.  At least I got a week off work with my husband.  I finally did some painting today too.

On my way to work the other day, I passed by this area on the side of the road that was covered with Queen Anne's Lace.  So the other day I decided to go out and stop at every area I lust after on my drive and cut wildflowers from each place.  I got enough to make a lovely (free!) arrangement.  Those artichoke blossoms are prickly little buggers!  Wish I had gloves when I got those.

It all started with this bottom image.  I was bored one night, and started playing around with some old ink drawings and then made a wreath out of gouache.  For some reason, I had never thought to use something to make a perfect circle instead of just freehanding it.  So I used a vase that was nearby and everything changed.  I felt like the biggest idiot for never trying it before.  So then I got inspired by this gorgeous yellow and gray vintage textile I found on pinterest a while back and created this wreath pattern.  I did the second one yesterday afternoon being inspired by another vintage textile.  So I went through etsy, google, and pinterest and found a whole slew of textiles and wallpapers to be inspired by.  Still working on my other series though.  Just finished a seahorse drawing and

I feel like I am having so many things come up all at once!  I am happy to announce that I now have my work available through Juniqe.com.  Juniqe is a German-based company and they ship their goods to Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, France, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.  I am very excited to be working with them!