art | Collar Pattern

Sometimes, you wait days for something to inspire you. And then some other times, you're watching Sex and The City with a pencil in your hand, and Miranda Hobbs is wearing some obnoxious collar on her shirt, so you decide to make a pattern out of it.

pattern | THREE

Valentine's Day is the one day of the year that {my favorite color combination} is perfectly acceptable.

This pattern was created to celebrate that fact. And according to my high-school notebooks (that I finally cleaned out of my closet), I've always been pretty partial to hearts as well.

{Image credit: 1, 2, 3, 4)

art | Fern, Please

Patterns are a challenging thing to create. It is a very calculated construction of shapes, repetition and creativity which can get very tedious, very quickly.

However, I enjoy the difficulty sometimes and use these projects as way to experiment and reinvent common subjects. The piece above is the first of a series of patterns I'm creating. Eventually I would like to turn these pieces into fabric, but for now I enjoy the editing process of creating a bunch of different ideas and editing it down to ones I really love. This is one of the top contenders as of right now.

What do you think?

art | Marmalade

This piece is inspired by this book I picked up a couple of weeks ago, {Design*Sponge at Home} by Grace Bonney.

The book mostly features interior design ideas and D.I.Y. projects, but I couldn't help but notice all of the fun and colorful art hanging on the walls of these stunning homes. The rooms would be very minimal, and then there would be a huge canvas covered with a hot pink print or a modern graphic. It would add a punch to the room and it really said something about it's inhabitants.

inspiration | 21

{Graphics} on the right | {Florence Broadhurst} on the left