i'm on print & pattern this morning

Just a quick note to let you all know that my designs are featured on Print & Pattern this morning! I'm so excited-- pop over and have a peek!

Also, did you know the Print & Pattern book is coming out next month? It's going to be super.
(And yes, I have some designs in there, too-- big thanks to Bowie for all her support!)

Indie Craft Experience (ICE) this weekend!

Tomorrow officially kicks off the holiday season for me, with the Indie Craft Experience here in Atlanta. This is one of my very favorite shows ever-- it's like the Renegade Craft Fair of the south!

If you are in the Atlanta area, this show is not to be missed. 100 vendors, crafty goodness, a sweet dj, all day long. Come on out!

{Click over to the website for details and a list of vendors.}

brand new website: art wall

I am so so excited to introduce you to this brand new website called Art Wall this morning, not only because it's a fantastic concept, but because I created all the illustrations for the site! Katie Stephenson, the mastermind behind Art Wall (and she also runs Save Gocco and a lovely etsy shop,) contacted me back in June, and we've been working together ever since.



I also created this little animation trailer for the site. I love how it turned out!

And here are a few shots of the website pages. You can click on each frame to get a bigger view of the piece of artwork and read a description of it and the artist, and also to purchase. And my oh my, there are some wonderful artists involved!

HUGE congrats to Katie-- I know how hard she's worked on this project, and I can only imagine how thrilled she is that it's up and running this morning!

Please take a peek at the site and let me (and Katie, of course) know what you think!!

AND, you can become a fan on facebook, follow Art Wall on twitter, and check out the Art Wall blog. All the bases are covered. :)

Enjoy!

Gocco giveaway at Share Some Candy

Morning! I wanted to let you know about a big gocco giveaway that's happening over at Share Some Candy right now that I'm a part of-- 13 artists and 13 giveaways! It's pretty spectacular.

There's an interview with each artist, as well as lots of photos of amazing gocco prints, and all you have to do is leave comments on each artist's pages to enter the giveaways. Easy!

I love gocco, I love free stuff, therefore, this is awesome. Plus, Share Some Candy is amazing no matter what. Check it out!


{this gocco is by Kate Pugsley. I love it.}

Candler Park Fall Festival THIS WEEKEND!

Just a quick note here to tell you that I'll be at the Candler Park Fall Festival here in Atlanta this weekend!

If you are in Atlanta, please come by and visit me! It's going to be a fun weekend, and I'll have lots of goodies to sell. Coasters, calendars, prints, oh my!

Have a great weekend!

Calendar love

My calendar was featured on Print & Pattern on Monday!!

Check it out. It's one of my favorite blogs.

society 6

have you all heard about society 6 yet? i just discovered it yesterday, and boy am i excited! society 6 is a vibrant social networking platform for artists to promote their work and connect with unique opportunities. it's a verycool concept-- you can create studios within your page to showcase different bodies/styles of work, follow other artists, promote other artists' work on your page, and connect with fellow creatives all over the world. plus, they have a crazy awesome artist grant program, where organizations/companies/individuals can offer grants to artists, and the society6 community nominates who they think should receive the grant. and the grants are really amazing! (you can check out the full list here.) i found out about society6 through threadless, who are offering a grant to design an exclusive t-shirt for their select series and $1,000!

anyway, i thought you all might be interested since many of you are artists, and we're all always looking for new ways to promote our work and connect with other like-minded folks. (i started a page and am in the process of getting some work uploaded and starting to follow people and their studios! so much fun.)

*you can also read more about society6 over at cool hunting-- they wrote a great post about it!*

i'm back!

hi friends! i'm back from rhode island, and goodness, it was such a fun weekend! my show opening on friday night at yes gallery & studio went marvelously-- you can see some shots of my work hanging below, and the photo above is the outside of the gallery. isn't that building amazing?

this is a photo from the opening-- i am in the middle in the gray dress, and next to me (in black & white) is leigh, the gallery owner. she is too wonderful for words! the other 2 women are georgia (left) and judith (right), who work in the gallery.

i was in love with the shadow that the sign on the window made-- it would just make me happy to see it on the floor every day! such a positive reminder.

i'll post more about the gallery later today and some of the fabulous work there-- it was such an inspiration.

a teeny blog break + a show!

my dears, as you read this i'm on my way to the airport to go to providence, rhode island where my show "connect/intersect" is opening at yes gallery and studio this friday night!!

if you are in the area and would like to check out the show, i would love to meet you! the opening is friday june 19th, from 6-8:30 pm.

it'll be a little quiet around the blog until i get back on monday afternoon-- but please feel free to dig through the archives, as there are some real gems buried in there!

hope to see you friday night!! and if i don't see you, have a fantastic weekend, and i'll meet you back here next week. deal? ok, good. :)

my free desktop wallpaper at kindred

my dears, i've been excitedly waiting to tell you about this, and now today i can, because holly and ez (of decor8 and creature comforts, respectively) unveiled the kindred summer edition yesterday-- and i'm thrilled to tell you that they asked me to create one of the 10 free desktop wallpapers!

if you don't know, kindred is a collaborative site between ez and holly, and they invite a select group of artists each season to create free desktop wallpapers, which are free for the world to enjoy!

here is the wallpaper i created:

isn't it summery and fun? it just makes me think of fruit! (and if you want to know a secret, that girl on the right is drawn from a photograph of myself...)

you can click here to download mine and the 9 other gorgeous wallpapers by verrrrry talented ladies. believe me, you're going to have a hard time choosing which one to use first- they're al beautiful!

*big thanks to holly & ez for inviting me to participate-- i'm honored and thrilled to be there!*

interview at orange alert

this is just a quick note to let you know there is an interview up that i did with chicago-based orange alert today-- check it out and you can learn a little more about yours truly. ;)

Indie Craft Experience this weekend!

good morning, my friends!

first off, THANK YOU for all of your unbelievable comments about my animation yesterday-- you truly made my day!! i'm so glad you enjoyed it. our invitations are being sent out today, so hopefully everyone who gets the silly little movie in the mail will like it, too. :)

secondly, if you are in the atlanta area this weekend, you will not want to miss ICE (the indie craft experience)! i have a booth and will be selling all my goodies, and this is seriously just a fantastic show that should be checked out of at all possible. be prepared to spend some money, though--- it's impossible not to with all the amazing things people make and sell there! it's like the renegade of the south. YES!

i hope you have a marvelous weekend, and i'll see you here on monday!

parasol magazine: issue 2

oh happy day, it's friday. it's been one heck of a week, hasn't it?
here is something to add to your weekend reading list: parasol magazine's second issue!

it's a good one, bursting with gorgeous images and fascinating interviews (there is even an interview with little ol' me on page 11!)

i'm just floored by yasmine's incredible talent and what seems to be endless energy, so i think you'll really want to check this out. (also, if you don't already read yasmine's blog, a print a day, that's another one to add to your blogroll. it's a goodie!)

enjoy!

art show this weekend

i'll be exhibiting my work at the inman park spring festival this saturday and sunday, so come on out if you are in the atlanta area! the weather is supposed to be PERFECT (low-80s..... i *love* springtime in georgia!), and i'd love to meet you if you stop by.

i'll have prints, resin covered prints, original paintings, necklaces, coasters, napkins, and more! and i hear there is a crazy parade that galavants through the festival, so that should be fun to see.

here's wishing you a stupendous weekend! i'll see you monday morning.

giveaway alert!

i'm excited to tell you that there is an earth day giveaway going on over at indie fixx that features my work! cat from polarity and i collaborated on these awesome necklaces (part of her etsy artist locket series) that she creates using recycled car parts-- so the giveaway consists of one of cat's necklace sets featuring my artwork, and a matching print from me as well!

head on over to indie fixx to see the details on entering the giveaway, and feel free to tell me your plans for earth day this year in the meantime!

SK8 or Die IV at Young Blood Gallery

i just finished painting my skateboard that will be part of the upcoming SK8 or Die IV show at Young Blood Gallery here in Atlanta, and I'm so excited to show it to you! I've never painted a skateboard before. It was fun. :)

i think i'm going to call it "in the universe" or something like that. any suggestions? the show runs may 2-31, and 105 artists were invited to participate! what a fun show it will be to see in person. the boards will be in a silent auction on opening night, and then $100 after that.

i wonder if anyone will buy mine? it's sort-of girly. :)

i hope you all have a fabulous weekend! i will be working away on my animation, which is the never-ending project, and i am obsessed with it. see you monday! xoxo

a free twitter icon and an interview!

a couple quick things: 1. see the bird above? i drew it for inspired magazine's social bird project, where they invited 20 illustrators to create twitter bird icons that you can download for free! there are some really awesome ones-- check 'em out and start following all these fine folks on twitter.

(and speaking of that, don't you want to follow me on twitter, too?)


2. i have an interview up over at the shiny squirrel right now. if you want to know a little more about me, this is the place to go today. (big thanks to jessica for wanting to interview me!)

another submission to infectious.com

oh monday. here you are again. did this weekend go as quickly for you as it did for me? i hope you had a lovely easter if you celebrated... we didn't do anything easter-y, but it was a lovely day anyway. i spent about 8 hours working on my wedding animation (this is a seriously time-consuming project!), and ryan and i went on a run in the perfect spring weather in the afternoon. now today it is raining raining.

rainy days= back to work.

anyway, another thing i did th is weekend was submit this laptop skin with my 'love balloons' pattern to infectious.com, which you can vote on now! if it gets a lot of votes and love, it could get chosen to get printed, which would make me very happy! if you get a chance, i'd love it if you would vote for my design. :)

reminder: etsy shop live with heart handmade tonight!

don't forget! tonight is marichelle/heart handmade's live shopping event on etsy!

you can get my set of 4 gocco prints at 25% off with free shipping, too, and there are many other deals to be had during the sale! marichelle has picked a really incredible line-up of artists to be included:

Neawear, blissful images, Joetta Maue, MEENIAK, Whitney Smith, Elizabeth Rosas Jewelry, Caitlin Holcomb, NICE, Savor, Esther Coombs, moop, Holly Stalder, Katie Runnels, enhabiten, astulabee, Miniature Rhino, Heather Smith Jones, Michele Maule, Bailey Doesn't Bark, Abigail Brown, Little Alouette, Whimsy & Spice, Kup Kup Land, Terry Graziano, La Pomme, Decoylab, Acts of Kindness, Aliette, Wren & Chickadee, Hydra Heart, and me!

*WOW*

7 pm, right here. be there or be square! (sorry, i couldn't resist.) :)

etsy shop live with marichelle from heart handmade!

i'm so excited to be part of an Etsy Shop Live event this thursday evening at 7pm! marichelle of the fantastic blog heart handmade, invited me to participate, and look at this amazing selection of artists she chose:

Neawear, blissful images, Joetta Maue, MEENIAK, Whitney Smith, Elizabeth Rosas Jewelry, Caitlin Holcomb, NICE, Savor, Esther Coombs, moop, Holly Stalder, Katie Runnels, enhabiten, astulabee, Miniature Rhino, Heather Smith Jones, Michele Maule, Bailey Doesn't Bark, Abigail Brown, Little Alouette, Whimsy & Spice, Kup Kup Land, Terry Graziano, La Pomme, Decoylab, Acts of Kindness, Aliette, Wren & Chickadee, Hydra Heart, and me!

click here to read more about the event on heart handmade-- and be sure to register for the event! the shop live events fill up quickly, and you don't want to miss this one-- many shops/artists are offering their goods for 25% off and/or free shipping (including my set of 4 gocco prints!), so this is a great time to scoop up some goodies without breaking the bank. :)