Lowe House Vintage Pop Up Sale

I am very happy to announce the upcoming pop up sale I’m having with my friend John (and in conjunction with my friends Annie and Eric over at 3 Fish Studios.) We’ll have a ton of stuff for sale, and everything is priced to move (almost everything is under $20 and a lot of it [...]

Paint Job

I’m still alive, really. Just in the middle of about a million projects all the time. But I’m working on getting my schedule more organized which will *hopefully* include carving out time to come back to this space more. For now, some hastily taken before and after shots of what will be the new bedside [...]

cake topper

I was back east a few weeks ago for the wedding of one of my best friends from my art school days. It’s becoming a tradition for me to make the cake topper when my friends get married – I was particularly pleased with this one: The blue garland behind them references the paper garlands [...]

step two

screen printing goodness

Last night I “taught” a screen printing session at my bff Claire’s LDS Singles Ward’s FHE night*. It was a blast. I was a little bit worried, since Claire passed me off as a “guest expert” and the truth was it had been a few years since the last time I screen printed this way, [...]

pillows

this weekend my friend Lyssa and I turned this: into these: (like always, click on the photos to see them larger) In the process I finally learned how to sew french seams, and it turns out – they’re not that hard!

busy

this bag of fabric is going to (hopefully) become throw pillows for the beach house this weekend (and no, it’s not from Target, just in a Target bag, also, probably not all of it will actually be throw pillows, but I like to cover my bases and over buy. Also, I like to shop for [...]

beach house update I

So far we’re still on schedule with the painting – the bathroom is finished, the bedroom is mostly there, and we’ll start on the living room and dining/kitchen today. But I thought I would take a break and share this photo: On Monday we painted that niche blue (Benjamin Moore’s Summer Nights, #777) and hung [...]