full of mistakes

More tags!

Can you tell that I have quite a bit of these tags in my office? Another idea for them...

Fall colors

I have been loving orange the last couple years. Very much. Fall, naturally, is a favorite season, the leaves turning orange (in Eastern states, of course, not in San Francisco), pumpkins, oranges and Halloween.

This is my orange corner in the house. I just found the wooden chickens at the Alameda Flea Market a couple weeks ago...

The Illustration

I have purchased this frame a long time ago but haven't been able to find the perfect illustration in a while. It is going to be for our new baby girl's room and I had been looking and looking. This past Sunday we went to the Alameda flea market, which is always a joy and I have found this Vogue pattern from 1953. I am not sure if it is going to fit the frame okay, but I will try as I love it. It is a mom with two sweet little girls... 

I wonder who was/were doing these illustrations...

The card box

While I am not printing any new products due to my approaching break* (maternity leave), I am finding new ways to package older prints into new products. So fun... I had extras of these note cards that I had printed for my envelope tags and decided to do a card set with them. Added one of my favorite finds from the Alameda Flea market, the vintage drug store price label, and voila!

More tools from the kitchen

These funny spoons really do exist. One came with an olive platter and the other came with a spice rack. They have weird proportions and look great together!

Basket

Another drawing from a while ago. It seems like I had a LOT of time. So many lines and details...

 

I also have a photo of it with my other favorite wire basket from the house. They are both from the Alameda Flea Market. One has sanddollars from Ocean Beach in it and the other has wooden eggs, also from the flea market.

Tools

Recently, I have been trying to cook more at home. Having a little kid, I think it is even more important to eat healthy, eat real food. It is fun to see her munching on sauteed broccoli or stews that I sometimes think are too spicy (I can not eat spicy). Naturally, being around kitchen tools, these watercolors were inspired. Unfortunately, I could not get a good scan of them. They look like vintage drawings from Da Vinci or something!

Thiebaud

It was really fun to do this, to go through your brain to figure out what might be your favorite - or at least one of your favorites - piece of public art...

 

This painting below is not the one I chose for the Examiner piece, but I like this one a lot, too... Wayne Thiebaud is really one of my favorite painters of our times.

*Sale*

Small Square Design Etsy store is having an inventory sale. Isn't this little creature so cute?

So sweet

A few weeks ago, I had the sweetest visitor from Japan. Yoko was visiting from Tokyo, just had acquired a nice letterpress and wanted to start printing her own designs. She wanted to learn about the design process, how letterpress works, strategies for business, etc... It was so fun to tell her about everything I have learned. It feels like I have just started Small Square Design, but I realized that the past three years have been quite a learning experience for me. I had a lot to say!

Good luck to Yoko! Her blog is also so fun with all the photos she has taken in San Francisco.