If you’re a book-loving parent, there’s a chance that you’ve seen the same Instagram reel that the algorithm feeds me throughout the holiday season for two years now: a mom who paints ornaments featuring the cover of her child’s favorite picture book of the year. If you want to try making it for yourself, butContinue reading “How to Make a Picture Book Ornament”
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Four Designs, Three Chalkboards, Two Languages, One Verse, and One Strange Crush
I was thrilled to create three different versions of Joshua’s most famous line in chalkboard form recently! Two different friends asked for it for their homes or for their family members. For each piece, I drafted 5-8 different designs, then we worked together to narrow down the best one that fit both of our styles.
DIY Chalkboard Canvas in 6 Easy Steps
In the winter of 2012, I was in my second year of living alone–my family and fiance were 300 miles away in Dallas while I was working in Lubbock–and at the height of a stressful year of wedding planning. By that time, I had learned to love living alone, but I still craved time withContinue reading “DIY Chalkboard Canvas in 6 Easy Steps”
NLD x Swapna 