Newest Art Prints

I'm bringing some new art to the shop, and these are the first two to make their debut.  Both are prints you may have seen before, but they were never ready for printing until now.

Tread Softly is a special one. Many of you, after January's post of the sketch I did of this, were so inspired, and I got so many emails requesting a print. But because it was only a doodle in my sketchbook, it needed to be re-worked and finished.

Remember the poem it's inspired by? I heard this for the first time last year, and still to this day can't get the imagery out of my head.

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W. Yeats

The innocence of children, their dreams and destinies, inspire me. And as an adult I feel ever responsible for recognizing their offerings to the world and making sure they are seen for what they truly are. And not getting so caught up in my 'busy' and 'responsible' world, that I miss the magic of what they are truly offering.

This next print was shown in my last release of prints, but it never ended up in the shop for some technical reasons.

It's there now....a perfect reminder of where (for us coastal people) we'd all love to be more often.

Enjoy! There are a few more coming that will trickle in this week and maybe next. I'm balancing the house reno and holiday seasons at home, as well as new fabric line stuff and book stuff...so prints will squeeze in a bit at a time.  If you are following me on FB or Instagram, you've been getting glimpses as to what's coming next. See you soon!

OH! And please don't forget about the HUGE CLEARANCE sale going on right now too! Only 1 more month to get all paper goods, and then they will be discontinued Dec. 2oth! So hurry if you want to catch them.

BOTH PRINTS FOR SALE HERE & HERE. 

Getting inspired.

We're making progress on the kids' rooms. Well, I should say Kenneth is (and a pretty awesome sidekick!). He's been installing the floors, and I'm more than a tad bit excited to have it all done! I've been trying to decide between comfy carpet and hardwood for quite some time, and we opted with the wood for a few reasons. I love the cleanliness of wood floors, I love colorful accent rugs, but really, I'm allergic to dust. And it makes winter so much more bearable without all that carpet in the bedrooms.

We are going  with a white washed bamboo floors....super bright and light (I can hear the opposition now!)  But the bamboo is incredibly durable, and after a good year of weighing out the pros and cons to having nearly white floors in the kids' rooms, the pro's won out big time. When we bought the house, one of the main buying points is that it had wonderful natural light, and I want to bring that out as much as I can. Happy, happy and bright. Good for the soul.

But while we are waiting to finish up, I thought I'd show you some pictures that are inspiring me right now. I've been using Pinterest to collect my inspiration photos (keeps me so organized and ready to make decisions on what I want to make/look for as we are putting the rooms together).

Here's a few of my favorites. You can see more here.

We have 2 rooms that we are redoing, and currently the idea is to have all 3 in one room. I'll let you know how that ends up going...but since we've had to squash them all in one space for the past couple weeks as we've been painting and flooring, they are just loving being all together! And I love it too.

Stay Tuned!!

PS: Do you have Pinterest Boards with Kids Spaces? I'd love to see your boards! Link up in the comments if you do!

New lovely sponsors

A very warm welcome to some new sponsors here on the blog! Saturdays are going to be posts dedicated to my lovely friends, and I encourage you to visit them and all the lovely goodness they offer. Creativity, handmade, fabric and lovely things abound! There is more of them to come, so stay tuned for giveaways, and more!

For more information on how you can be a sponsor, you can email me here. 

Have a lovely weekend!

Coming back soon.

Hello! I've been absentee...but really for no good reason, other than, I needed a break.

Life has been super full this week. Just the normal stuff really. But honestly, what's kept me away has just been writers block. Creative blah-ness. Empty head and ideas. It happens enough to me that I know I just need to step away, and let the creative part of me just step out, float away, and drift back down again.  Does that ever happen to you? All the sudden you find yourself not feeling a creative bone in your body? I used to freak out about that kinda thing, especially when I was under the pressure of work deadlines. But I don't really fret any more, cause I know it's going to come back. It's like a little balloon that floats away and just needs to drift off for a while so it can come back fresh and ready to go.

I've got lots to share with you next week, but this week (and still today) I've been letting myself focus on all the other things that don't require my creativity. It's been a bit strange, but I'm used to it by now to know that it will come back when it needs to.

Have a lovely weekend! New prints (including this one!) will be in the shop next week too...many of the ones that you've requested....and so I'll be looking forward to that next week!

PS: I found some really great little bits of inspiration on how to get out of a creative rut. HERE | HERE | HERE. Great stuff, ya?

Paint.

We've moved around a lot, and I'm familiar with the truth that painting a room can transform it completely.

Which is why it's silly that I waited this long after moving in to our house to repaint the kids rooms. Mostly because I'm an all or nothing kinda gal, and since the floors need to go as well, I figured we'd just wait till we could do it all at once. Or maybe because the kid's room color was the LEAST offensive of them all (no joke!) and compared to the ketchup red master with mustard chair rails, the eggplant purple living room, regular purple dining and avocado green foyer, the bedrooms seems mild.

Here's a close preview:

The previous color was a completely dismal brown. Not a nice chocolate brown, but a nasty light sucking brown. This shot was taken at night, but believe me. Even in the day it was depressing. I never liked to go in there except for when lights were out and kids needed cuddling. But that's ok, cause that is the only time the kids were in there too:)

We are going bright white. And wow. What a change.

It also means I finally have a good place in the house to take photos as well. Funny how a room with such wonderful natural light was off limits due to the paint color stealing it all.

Before church, I stole some more before's and afters.

And a special before and after, from MR. TOOTHLESS (his new official name).

Do you love his tie? He insisted on it outside of the collar. I love this boy.

I'm going to keep you posted on the progress. We're putting in white washed wood floors this week, and then onto painting some furniture, building some wall display boxes and deciding which rugs work out best (on 75% clearance I might add...don't you love those finds?)

Stay tuned for more! I've been waiting to redo their space for a VERY long time. In fact, the last time I deliberately repainted and redid a space for them was I think when I was pregnant 8 years ago. This will be a fun journey!

Meet some new lovely shops

A very warm welcome to some new sponsors here on the blog! Saturdays are going to be posts dedicated to my lovely friends, and I encourage you to visit them and all the lovely goodness they offer. Creativity, handmade, fabric and lovely things abound! There is more of them to come, so stay tuned for giveaways, and more!

For more information on how you can be a sponsor, you can email me here. 

Have a lovely weekend!

show me color

It's right about now, every year, that I find myself saying, "Slow down! Stop! Freeze!" Wait. No. Not freeze. That will come soon enough.

Think about this: of all the seasons, I think this one is when you can really witness daily change and turnover. Every season comes in with it's own personality, but Fall is when I literally find myself saying "How orange are you today little tree?"

It's pretty much magic, isn't it? I'm stopping to look today. What is your favorite way to capture Autumn? Of all the seasons, this one never lasts as long as I want it to.

Have a LOVELY weekend everyone!!

xo

sarah

Clearing the shelves.

So, today is kind of a big deal. I have 61 more days until the shop will no longer carry paper goods! No more Iron-on embroidery patterns, folded cards, holiday tags, bookplates or journals.

*But to clarify: I WILL be keeping all Art prints, PDFS and jewelry. Everything else is clearing out.

This has been a hard decision (as I was having grand plans to add to this list of lovely things!) But, after a long (very long!) hard think, I've come to terms with the fact that at this time in my life right now, I want to spend more time with my creative self than my manager self. Lots of product=less time to be creative and come up with amazing and genius art all the time (truth) and I want to spend more time with my children and less time infront of a computer (more truth).

And since more things can't exist in a space that's already full, I'm clearing out.

So, as of today, all paper good items that will be gone by Dec. 20th are on clearance, and will be until they are all sold out! So stock up, cause I don't have plans to bring them back any time soon!

It feels good to clear out, but do take care of them! It's sad to see them go.

Thanks for all your support! It's exciting to make changes and move forward. I've got a good feeling about all this.

Happy sale shopping!