I do like a greenhouse hothouse experience and always imagine I am going to be greeted by monkeys swinging through the lush foliage and florals at every turn. That was my inspiration behind the design I created for this week’s Spoonflower challenge- Hothouse Florals.

Tropical Monkey Floral

Surfing was my immediate thought when coming up with design ideas for the beachy Boho Spoonflower challenge and this is what I came up with.

Surf Camp

I’m working on a collection, work in progress but here is one of the designs

A few years ago I lived in rural Pennsylvania and had access the best Farmers Market you can imagine. I gave up shopping in grocery stores and bought all our food from this magical market. I bought a pull along shopping trolly I named Dolly!

I got to know the stall owners and they each had their own specialty. I bought my lettuce from the lettuce man, my celery from the celery woman and my strawberries from the strawberry lady. They each had passion and pride of their produce.

Here lay my inspiration for the Farmers Market challenge!

Strawberry Market

and of course I created a little collection to go with my design

Strawberry Harvest

I sometimes wonder if Spoonflower thinks they do not have enough floral designs on their site, as so many of the challenge prompts point towards creating yet more florals. The last challenge “Craft Maximalism” resulted in a good 70% of the entries being floral. I’d love a challenge where no florals are allowed!

This is what I came up with

Country Farm

I’d love a vote if you can bear to trawl though another glut of florals!

I also rustled up a little collection.