Top 5 favourite things for Summer

Like most good Pacific North Westerners as soon as the sun is out, I grab my flip flops and go the....

No 1. The Beach

I will attempt at least once a year...

No 2. Camping, but lets be honest I much prefer a cabin near the beach with a great fire pit.

Every chance I get it is...

No.3 Oysters and think Pink Wine (Try the Kumamotos from Taylor Shellfish Farms).

 

No 4. Cherries, we are starting to get Eastern Washington Cherries and we are loving them! Do you see the peep looking one? It was delicious.

one of my first illustrations in illustrator 

And finally...

No 5. Patio Dining under a deep Blue Sky, what's not to love about eating outside- especially when someone brings you a glass of rose and oysters.

looking onto the Herald building from the patio at
Rock & Rye Oyster House

What are your top summer activities?

Target design- Parker Palm Springs Chandelier.

As I am designing more I am trying to think of what my target market would like to see. A great tip I read on some business blog somewhere was "Your target market is you, with more money". So my first collection is based on that idea.

I have called it the Parker Chandelier Collection based on none other than the Parker Palm Springs Hotel's ballroom chandelier. It is where I would spend all of my time .... if I had more money... 

Just a heads up, I will no doubt talk about The Parker, Palm Springs and Jonathan Alder more in future posts.

My First.....

I just hit "Send" to the printers on my first Design order!!!!

It is not very fancy and the 'client' a family friend wanted something simple for a bridal shower invite. Her niece is into retro, red and turquoise and wants to be a 50's style housewife. The design is based on a vintage 1950's nail polish print ad  and because it is engagement season I have seen a few pictures of of pretty little painted nails and freshly bejewelled fingers flitting across my Facebook feed (shameless plug, you can follow a Scrappy Carp here to see more design projects and inspiration). 

I used all of my own artwork and even awkwardly photographed my own hand as if I was showing the world my ring.