My nephew is adorable...

and for Christmas he had a bunch of art stuff on his wish list (mind you he's ten and a half months old...but you can never start them too young!), so obviously I had to get it for him. But no kid's art supply collection is complete without a smock. Que a trip to the craft store for a blank smock, some acrylic pain and some fabric puff paint. What did I paint on the smock you ask? His name...duh!

Merry Christmas!

For your viewing pleasure: my 2012 Christmas card!

Hand lettered and totally my style. I kind of really love them. And if you love them as much as I do, good news: you can buy them from my Etsy Shop!

(inside sentiment: May the magic of Christmas be with you the whole year through)

Christmas Wrapping

One of my favorite things to do during the holidays is wrap presents. I love to combine greens with ribbon and other Christmasy type things. So when it came time to wrap some zucchini bread and macaroons I couldn't resist. (ps, the greens may or may not have come off of my Christmas tree)

Wishing you a purrr-fect holiday

Since I took this photo of my kitty, Oliver, I knew it had to go on my Christmas card. And of course I had to write a fantastic sentiment to go along with the picture. After adding some ribbon and twine, my 2011 Christmas cards were complete!

Its Christmas Tiiiime...at the Greenhouse

I work at a local greenhouse part time, and one of my favorite times of the year to work there is during the holidays. I get to decorate wreaths and swags and put together holiday flower arrangements. These are a few shots from around the greenhouse and a few of the wreaths I put together.

Merry Christmas!

This is the Christmas card I designed this year to send out to all my friends. I wanted to do something hand-lettered and illustrative...

Creative Wrapping

I had a big box to wrap for a Christmas gift, and at about 11:00 the night before I was supposed to give the gift, I realized that the wrapping paper that I had wasn't big enough. Uh oh! Soooo, I had to do some quick thinking and pull together what I had around my house. The gift was already in a a nice white Crate and Barrel box, so I decided to see if I could find some pretty ribbon and odds and ends to put together. After topping it off with a few small branches off my Christmas tree and a couple of mini snowflake ornaments, I had a very pretty bow! And it didn't cost me anything!

Happy Holidays

A holiday card I'm working on for my company. I'm also trying to do some basic Flash stuff with it. See it animated

Hanging of the Greens

My church asked me to design a program cover for an upcoming "Hanging of the Greens" service. The service is all about the symbolism of Christmas (ie "Symbolically, the star-shaped formation of red leaves of a Poinsettia calls to mind the star which shone at that first Christmas" and "Christians took evergreens as a symbol of the everlasting life—unending life which is ours when we receive Christ as Savior and Lord.") So I wanted to do something that was a little abstract and not so literal...