{a family trip}

Happy Friday everyone! WOW! What a crazy and fun week it has been around here. From back to school, weddings, booking our santa sessions, licensing deadlines, things have been all over the place in the studio. It seems a little crazy that just as we are getting back in to the swing of things and holding down some normal studio hours, that we just pick up and out head out on vacation. Well, call us crazy kids, 'cause thats just what we are doing. Bar Harbor, watch out, the Spotts family is invading! I used to spend a lot of time on the New England coast as a kid and my bones are just aching to get back. It's been far too long. One of the things that I am most excited about other than some good family time is spending a lot of time with my sketch book, just me and the pen and paper.  One of my favorite artists is Lowell Herrero. Now, I am not saying that any of my work is going to look nearly as good as his but I can only hope that I am just as inspired by my surroundings. 

this will be our family portrait next week. 

"cape ann"

my heart is always on cape ann! 

my sister and joke that this is us when we get older. 

 brings back memories of my summers in rockport. 

Surtex 2012

We are so excited to exhibiting at the A Fresh Bunch booth this year at Surtex.  Pattern and Design is a new way for us to think, create and market ourselves. I have to say, I loved every second of it. Well, okay maybe not every second. I am not sure that I have ever had a project that created such anxiety for me. It felt like I was back in college again and the days were ticking away to when my thesis was due. Of course, in the final hour I had a HUGE surge of inspiration and I was at the computer all hours cramming until the final second.

Thanks Jenny, Haile and the rest of the gang for all of your hard work and representing us. We are bursting at the seems to see what come from all of it! Regardless, I am already thinking of what's next and filling up the sketch pad with more pattern ideas.

(These designs were created from letters that my Grandfather wrote to me Grandmother in World War II

It represents the trains stops that he would have taken from Philadelphia to Lancaster PA and then the ranch that they finally settled into and lived happily ever after.) I can't wait to make some pillows for my kitchen out of those cows! 

Stay tuned... fingers crossed we will have lots of exiting news to share post the big Show!