If you’re like me, you dabble in creative pursuits… but only as far as your budget allows. You enjoy making pretty things… but you don’t have unlimited resources Honestly… I don’t either. For all my fellow budget buddies, I’m going to do my best to […]

Before, oh, February of this year, I never once thought about a family crest. I don’t have a large, historic, or proud-of-our-roots family. I can’t spin any (true) tales about naughty great-great-great Aunt Edna or boast about the exploits of One-Eyed Grandpa Harry from the […]

Surface Pattern Designers spend hours sketching, scanning, digitizing, assembling, recoloring, varying, and arranging motifs into patterns. These patterns often lend themselves to other patterns and become collections. These collections are (hopefully) sold to companies who use them on real products that real people like you […]