On Saturday I’ll be at Rock & Shop in Durham, NC from 12-5! There will be 100+ designers and crafters selling their wares, not to mention food trucks, live music, and beer. I can’t imagine a better way to finish up (or, uh, start) your holiday shopping. At the last minute and just for fun, I had some fabric printed with four of my patterns at Spoonflower, and then had them sewn into tea towels! Today we’re busy ironing, ribbon-tying, and tag-hanging. These are limited edition, so come on down to the market to get yours! I’m looking into options so we can hopefully add these to the online shop at some point. We’ll also have the full selection of our everyday and holiday notecards on sale, as well as our invitation book to flip through (the online shop will be closed on Saturday, but will be back on Sunday). Also pictured above… a sneak peek of my collection of new Valentine’s Day Invitations, launching on Paperless Post soon! Yes, I was working on Valentine’s Day this week.
Tonight, be sure to stop by Golden Belt, which is an old textile mill turned live-work-shop-eat space (and where I moved my studio this fall). Golden Belt has an entire building dedicated to artist studios, and the artists have been super busy getting ready for tonight’s 12×12 show. Each participating artist created 12 original 12×12″ works of art, all of which will be sold for $200, with part of the proceeds benefiting The Center for Child & Family Health. Above, some artwork found in Chapel Hill this week — wall tessellations by Leigh Suggs at the Ackland Museum Store and a close-up of Lauren Salazar’s installation at the Hanes Art Center.
And lastly, a few close-ups of our home. The mobile is a new addition to our sunroom, and we finally hung more pictures on the walls (the one on the left is in our retro seafoam-tiled bathroom). It’s hard to believe we’ve been in our house for over a year! We’ve done lots of improvements — small things to most people probably, but big things to us, and are slowly collecting furniture and artwork we love. The house to-do list is never-ending! But, I’m learning to accept that most projects can’t get done in a weekend, and maybe next year I’ll have more courage to share our attempts at improvement on Mint! There’s something nice about the year coming to an end, isn’t there? Fresh starts, new projects… onward and upward.
