Month: April 2021

Soft pastel sea shells pattern, perfect for coastal decor. She sells sea shells is my entry for this week’s Spoonflower challenge- seashells

Quite lovely for all those beach house bedrooms

I channeled a farmstead in the Wild West for my entry into this week’s Spoonflower challenge, Home on the Range

Yeewhaw Out West is a tessellation of all things cowboy from cattle, guns, boots and booze to chickens, horseshoes and cactus. Yeehaw!

So I have created two entries for this Spoonflower challenge and I am really torn on which one to enter.

My first features whimsical little green men and their out of space plants “Friendly Little Green Men”

A fun design for kids.

For my second I took to my watercolor paint and produced a number of nebulae paintings, throwing salt of my wet paper to make beautiful textures and building up layer after layer of pigment. They were fun to paint and after a bit of photoshop magic, stitched together to make a half drop seamless pattern. I have called it Space Dust

Can you see my dilemma?

I actually posted both designs to a Facebook group and Space dust won the popular vote so Space dust it is!

There is nothing better than an expanse of wild grasses and is something quite close to my heart. I have been volunteering for over 2 years now in restoring an Illinois prairie, back to it’s natural state. The work inspired one of my first collections “Prairie Beauty”

Biological diversity is the name of the game and it was this that I had in mind as I created Blue Meadow for the wild grasses Spoonflower challenge.

I borrowed some design elements and the color palette from one of my other recent creations “Down the garden path” A collection is in the works for this look!