Vacation Inspiration

Woo! I'm back with some new patterns! Kevin and I recently travelled to Costa Rica for a nice vacation. It was so beautiful! The plants and animals were my favorite thing about it. 

I set a goal a whiiile back to make more patterns and attempt to create a collection of patterns that sort of fit together. So I finally get to check that off the list with the first one.  I think they would make some fun, summery fabrics. 

Maybe I'll get really motivated and post them to Spoonflower! We bought ourselves a new camera for the trip (so many sloth photos, awww). But here is a totally random selection of photos we took that I used for inspiration:

Webbed Feet & Pumpkins

As I mentioned yesterday, we decided to take this lovely weekend to go pick some pumpkins. Kevin and I are pretty particular about our pumpkins so he covered a lot of ground before picking his. I spent more time playing with Instagram and taking some pretty photos.

Which reminded me of this picture of seagull tracks I took at the beach a few weeks ago. The shape of the tracks and the texture of the sand was really inspiring. Most of my patterns recently have started with a particular shape so this was a good jumping off point for me.

I kept running with the same color theme from yesterday. 

So between the successful pumpkin patch picking and some fun graphic prints, it was a pretty great weekend. How was yours?

End of Summer

I don't like to admit that summer is really really over. This weekend will usher in October and I can't even pretend that's summer like I can September. We spent this past weekend with our lovely friends at the Dogfish Dash in Rehobeth Beach, Delaware.

During the weekend when we weren't running or sampling the fine craft brews, we spent our time meandering up and down the boardwalk and kicking sand around on the beach. The weather was sort of foggy and chilly, but it was still really relaxing and beautiful.

On our last morning we took a walk on the sand to chase birds, survey GIANT dead horseshoe crabs (no joke, one was as large as a dinner plate), and say goodbye to summer.

Thanks for the excellent weekend Team :o) Now I'm working on catching up with the Declaration of You, my grad school project and some bird footprint-inspired doodles for later this week.