Tag: sammyk

  • The Randomness of Some Days

    You know when you start your day feverishly looking for a pair of your kids shoes that seem to have magically evaporated and not only do you not find them, but you wind up finding yourself randomly seated at your sewing machine, making not one but two window valances to replace the hideous window treatments…

  • First Day of School: WOOT!

    Well, today was the first day back to school here and for our household anyway, it was a total success! No tears, no grumbling, no sour anything of any kind! Only joy and eagerness to see friends and get straight into that wonderful classroom. So much so, in fact, that I only managed to get…

  • Print & Pattern Kids: Hot Off the Press!!

    Lookie, lookie what’s out in bookstores right now! Debuting this month, Bowie Style has released Print & Pattern’s latest edition of wonderful surface design, this time showcasing kid-centric artwork! Oh, why am I mentioning all this? I’m so glad you asked… Eh-hem. Why, because I’m profiled in this sweet compilation, alongside the likes of Orla…

  • My New Wallpaper Line Debuts!

    Can I get a woot woot!? I’m v-e-r-y  e-x-c-i-t-e-d to share with you my brand spanking new wallpaper line, debuting this week at Chasing Paper! If you don’t know about this great company, go check them out pronto and while you’re there, look for my Book Worm collection. There’s both a color and a black…

  • Customer Appreciation: United Love Curtains!

    Want a quick way to spruce up a room? Aside from a good coat of paint, here’s another budget-friendly way to make a new fun space to enjoy. Sara used some of my Mexico Springtime: United Love fabric to dress up some curtains… How cute is that?!?!?! What a fun DIY project! Go check out Sara’s…

  • Back-to-School: Nap Mat Tutorial

    It’s just about that time, folks! Time to buy gobs of school supplies and get that brain ready to absorb as much juicy knowledge as possible. And in between all that, any kid knows that good sleep is a must. Enter the Nap Mat, the perfect back-to-school cuddly quilt to make your little child very…

  • WIP Glimpse

    Here’s a tiny glimpse of something I’ve been working on recently! A pretty epic undertaking that kept ballooning…getting bigger and bigger with more detail and more detail… It was a lot of work but totally fun to make; I’ll show you it in it’s finished form once it’s ready! 🙂

  • Sprucing Up a Chair

    I’m much better about making things and getting projects done for other people. Somehow if it’s for myself, it takes ages, even when it’s a simple thing. For a few months now I’ve been perching on the seat of my studio chair which consisted of an unattractive slab of egg crate foam loosely skating around…

  • Road Trip America!

    I went completely overboard on a recent design. The task? Illustrating the theme of of “Highways and Byways”. My solution was to research and depict at least one roadside attraction or monument for each state in the contiguous USA.  And that slowly ballooned into a giant task. I was off and running with my research…

  • Multiple Versions

    When I’m thinking about a theme to morph into a textile pattern, I usually stick with my first idea. That’s often best because I can all too easily come up with multiple concepts or styles to illustrate a subject (a good and a bad thing sometimes). Although only one of those ideas will typically see…