Minted

Part of my new sewing station - I put my thread on push pins into a cork board. Works great and looks pretty cool too.

My new bag, also available in my shop

I purchased Washi tape from here and I'm having so much fun with it! It works just like tape and whatever you put it on looks freakin cute people.

Revlon anticipated my new color obsession with their new color "Minted".  I then proceeded to dump the whole bottle all over my phone.  Don't try to clean up your phone with nail polish remover - it just doesn't work okay?  But I love it enough to go buy another bottle. 

There is a definite trend with my favorite color of the season. Minty.  I. Can't. Get. Enough.  Pastels and little bits of neon in general are in my current love list but minty green beats them all.  You'll be seeing more of it from me.  That's a promise I intend to keep.    

I've got a four day weekend ahead of me thank you Mr. Presidents.  I've been working hard on a makeover with my Etsy shop, not only photos but coming out with a new product line. And I gotta say I'm kinda crazy about it. So my goal is to get a big chunk of the items on my to do list for that done by Tuesday.  The makeup bag seen above is one of the products I've been working on.  And I've decided that I need to make that one mine.  

I'm going to see The Vow tonight and I can't wait!  I think I should sneak in a hike this weekend too.  And of course yoga is on my daily agenda.  I hope you doing something wonderful for yourself :)

Pattern Play

So I'm thinking bringing some more patterns into my room could spice it up a bit and I'm smitten with the stencils from Royal Design Stencils.  Especially this one...

So patterns are on the brain lately.

From Lotta Jansdotter 

From Liz Korutz

be present

i love the design layout and concept of this brand by matchstic for one of their conferences with the theme "Be Present".

lotta jansdotter

So if I could be anyone when I grow up it would be               Lotta Jansdotter.  She is a textile and print designer living in Brooklyn.  She is just so creative and inspiring and has beautiful designs. Whenever I feel in a rut and need some kind of jump start creatively, I look through her designs and always get inspired to start something new.  She has great projects that either a beginner or someone who feels more advanced could try!

Check out a video here 
and her website is here.

Custom Guest Book

One of my favorite projects to date was this custom wedding guest book.  She wanted personalized sayings throughout the book making it so special.  I LOVED how it turned out!  I used my transfer technique that I mentioned in an earlier blog post.