My Work Featured on 2 Broke Girls, CBS

Posted on February 28, 2017

I am thrilled to share that my artwork was featured last night on the hit CBS show, 2 Broke Girls! I was truly honored when Emmy-award winning set decorator Amy Feldman contacted me and asked to license my art for the show. My pen and ink print, Newport Rhode Island, appears in Season 6, Episode 18 which aired last night on CBS.

You can purchase your own signed Newport Rhode Island print in my shop now! Each print is carefully printed on the highest quality, acid-free fine art paper, and is available as a 5×7, 8×10, 11×14, or 13×19.

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2017 Tea Towels Now Available for Purchase!

Posted on October 31, 2016

roostery-towelThey’re finally here! My “Be an Opener of Doors” tea towels are now for sale at Roostery.

I absolutely love fabric and home decor. So I wanted to try my hand at designing a tea towel, and I thoroughly enjoyed the process.

I want to thank all of you who voted for my design in Spoonflower’s tea towel design contest. With such a large number of incredible entries, I was so honored that mine finished in the top 25! You can visit Roostery.com and purchase the “Be an Opener of Doors” tea towel here.

Best wishes for 2017!

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Introducing My 2017 Tea Towel Calendar

Posted on October 20, 2016

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I am so excited that my 2017 tea towel calendar design is finished and featured in Spoonflower’s October Design Challenge!

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Be an opener of doors,” and I thought that was such a fitting motto for this new year filled with fresh possibilities. My design features a unique, hand-painted watercolor door for each month of the year. These paintings were inspired by the charming doors I have sketched and photographed around the world.

Voting opens today, so please go to Spoonflower.com and vote for my design here. And look for these tea towels available for sale soon on Roostery.com.

 

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I’ve had so much fun the last few days with this design! It started off as a pen sketch of the azalea blooms in my front yard and quickly took on a personality of its own. I love experimenting with new techniques and this is more loose and sketchy than much of my work, but it gives some nice movement and character. # azalea #surfacepatterndesign lovewhatyoudo #surfacepatterndesign #spring
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My newest pattern was inspired by my Grandmother. She taught me how to love plants and flowers. She passed away about a year ago, but my childhood is filled with very happy memories of my sister and I spending summers with her and my Grandfather. She lived in an old Victorian home just outside Philadelphia, and she always had a lovely garden that we would spend hours in. She named the house "Blackberry Manor" because she discovered that when the home was built in the late 1890s, the little street was called Blackberry Lane at the time. Butterflies were one of her favorite things, so I wanted to incorporate a few along with blackberries and flowers. #flowers #butterfly #surfacepatterndesign #memories #melissacolson
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