Wrapping Paper

Gearing up for the holiday bazaar next week--here's a sneak peek of the wrapping paper.

Write Around PDX

Concepts from my WRAP presentation this week. The client selected #1, will shoot images this weekend.

Amazing Cake

I assisted my dear friend Marcella this weekend—taking photos of a gorgeous wedding cake she created. The mushroom topper is made from meringue; it looked amazingly real + cute! If you can recall the cookie self portraits from my studio open house; the graphics for this cake were created in a similar fashion, totally edible. M. is a super talented pastry chef; stay tuned for exciting collaborative projects between she and I in early 2009!

The base of the cake was quite impressive and beautiful—also made by hand by Marcella.

Tag project

I'm in the process of developing a few patterns for tag designs. I love how the final result after punching out each tag is unexpected and unique. 

With so much knitting on my mind I drew a stockinette pattern, I like the way it turned out and hope to do a ribbed pattern too.

Knit cowl

My inner hamster is running on its wheel busy making knitted goods for holiday gifts each evening and early morning. This is the first cowl I've made of the season and I'm afraid I might just keep it!

Wordstock, GO!

The Wordstock festival is this weekend, for more visit here.

This festival is a unique opportunity to visit great publishers, learn more about the local literary community, and see nationally known writers speak, all for under $10. I highly recommend it! McSweeney's will be there...

Holiday Cards!

Hurray! Holiday cards are here. Last week I visited Clare to print my cards. I designed a series of three panel cards, printed in two colors. Here's a sneak peek of two of the styles. They will be available by the end of the week here.

This style was snatched up by Powell's Books for Cooks and Gardeners—K. Rocks! They will be available at the store in packs of 5—it was exciting to get them ready for retail.