The Sketch Book

xoxo

So you've probably already seen these, but if you are not on my email list or a facebook fan or a twitter follower (shameless self-promotion! yipee!) then you might have missed them. So here they...

hydrangeas

Good morning! Some flowers for you... What are your thoughts on this as a new card? Would it benefit from some of my usual black pen sketching or does it stand up with just paint? and perhaps wi...

loosen up/good old days

yes, i know, its another beach-lounging lady with a book two days in a row. #whitegirlproblems i just found this one in a digging-through-old-stuff session. this was from august of '07. i like h...

happy 2011!

better late than never... i meant to post this on the 1st but i was entertaining some lovely new years house guests, which at the end of the day is always more important than blogging so here it...

don't forget to write

hello. i am here to scold you. you see, on christmas, as in every day of our modern lives, there is much emphasis on giving and getting but very little focus on the ritual of thanks and reflectio...

first snow

it happened it happened! it snowed!!! for 20 whole minutes!! i was flipping through a pretty snow flurry filled spread in W (that was inspired by chronicles of narnia - l,w & w!!) when it sta...

what i've been up to

guten morgen! i thought you all might like to see a commission i just finished up for REYER, an austrian clothing company... they will use this illustration to announce online shopping for their wi...

National Stationery Show 2011

Hello everyone, guess what!!! I am officially among the esteemed and chosen few vendors (probably more like clamoring masses) at the 2011 National Stationery Show in New York City scheduled for thi...

monday

hope everyone is surviving this soggy monday! i seem to be drawing a lot of strange crouching poses lately don't i? i found this one on Le Fashion

NYFW... Some Favorites

You may have noticed that a recurring theme in this blog - how much I enjoy talking about how frumpy DC is and how predictable life among the frumps (as one of the frumps) can be. So, yes, I am goi...