6 New Pocket Notebooks in my shop!

I am stoked about the way these turned out. I'm loving kraft paper more and more because its good for the planet and ink looks beautiful on it. Each book has 32 blank pages of recycled paper. These make awesome stocking stuffers and I hope they do well over the holiday season.

Pocket Full of Posies Pocket Notebook


Worker Bee Pocket Notebook


The Traveler Pocket Notebook


Shattered Pocket Notebook


Penguin and Polar Bear Pocket Notebook. This design is a collaboration between myself and diskgrunt. Yay!

Black Friday Handmade Holiday Virtual Tour

Diskgrunt and I have been running the pop up shop for the past two days. I want to give a quick and dirty virtual tour of our handmade goods. This was taken with the iphone so excuse the bumpy filming. If you haven't made it in yet, please stop by on Sunday or shop from Etsy.

Embroidery Cards

My embrodiery cards were featured on apartment therapy. Very cool!

2010 Desk Calendar has Launched!

After many weeks of frozen pizzas and long hard hours on the printing press I am thrilled to announce that my 2010 calendar is for sale in my Etsy Shop. They will also be for sale at the Black Friday Handmade Holiday Popup Show at Tribute Gallery if you live in Portland and want to see them in person.

My main inspiration for the illustrations was nature + geometry. As with alot of my work, pattern is a heavily used element. I absoutely love sitting down and making patterns so it was only natural for me to have several in my 2010 calendar. I also tried to keep my line work feeling free and I really tried to embrace the little imperfections. Sometimes its hard to predict how your illustrations will change when they go from paper to computer to print, but I'm getting much better and smarter with the way I work. The ink selection has such a big impact on the final print. I think I was even suprised how changing one color can totally change the emotional response to a print. In the end I hope people enjoy the prints and can get some bit of happiness by seeing them on their desk.





I have learned so much the past two weeks while printing. I want to give a huge thanks to diskgrunt for all of his help printing the calendar. It would not have ever happened without him. Also, if you know of any botiques in your area that would be a good match for my calendar, please let me know.

Calendar Process Photos

I am soooo close to finishing the 2010 calendar. It should be up in the shop by Friday. Woot! I wanted to share some of my process photos.

My Neck Warmer

This is a project I finished up recently! I bought this beautiful yellow yarn in Vancouver and was inspired to make a neck warmer. I used funky vintage buttons and alternated the placement to give it some interest. I really like the way it turned out when it is just laying flat, but when I wear it it doesn't look like quite right. I think I will have to mess with the pattern to get it just right.

Black Friday 3 Day Art Event at Tribute Gallery

Get on over to Tribute Gallery Black Friday Weekend and support independent artists!

I am very excited to announce that Diskgrunt and I, are having our first ever handmade Popup Show at The Tribute Gallery for 3 days of handmade arts, crafts, apparel, comics, bags and more the weekend of Nov. 27-29th.

So heres the scoop. We will be having Free demos every day at 2pm

Friday @ 2pm I will be teaching the basics of how to make fused plastic, a versitile material that can be used for a variety of projects.

Saturday @ 2pm Diskgrunt will be teaching how to prepare your artwork for silkscreening.

Sunday @ 2pm Diskgrunt will show how to coat and expose a screen. This is great if you are a newbie to silkscreening.

Sneak Peak at 2010 Silk Screen Calendar

I'm printing this years calendars again with the assistance of Diskgrunt over at his independent silkscreen press "The Pull" in North Portland. It is awesome to see my ideas come to life. I am deep in the production process of getting all of the calendars printing. It is fun and intense and so different that my normal day of 8-10 hours in front of a computer. My back isn't happy with me but I'm enjoying myself. So far I have 4 months printed so I'm a 1/3 of the way done. Woot! Stay tooned for more updates.

Also, if you ever have a project you want to silk screen, make sure to contact Diskgrunt. He is a very talented illustrator and runs a nice silkscreen shop.