Do you want to hang around my place for awhile?

These Jamie Shelman prints are gorgeous, no? I'm picturing them in my kitchen, bringing light + color to the dreary days of January. They would make the perfect Christmas gift, or birthday gift(but my birthday is in May, much too late for January brightening). Maybe a Thanksgiving gift or some other random, surprise day where you give lovely gifts!

p.s. I'm on a sugar hiatus until the new year, except for holidays, of course. They only problem is that I keep trying to come up with holidays or reason for celebration so I can eat cookies + truffles + ice cream. I'm thinking the random, surprise day where you give(or receive!) lovely gifts would be the perfect time to celebrate with sugary sweet foods.

p.p.s. Speaking of sugary sweet, I made these snickerdoodles today, absolutely divine! And Sela can't for the life of her remember how to say 'snickerdoodle'....sneakerpoodles, puddlesqueaks, snideypups, kickerdoods...hilarious, my friends, hilarious.

Jamie Shelman's prints seen on Mrs. French's lovely blog, Bliss.

Not Peter Pan and Wendy, not even Captain Hook

tiger lily + smee(a really really chubby smee).

Sela's costume was my VERY FIRST sewing project. I kept asking my teacher(who is 84! and so awesome) if I could just make a pillowcase instead. She said no, and I'm so glad she did! It feels satisfying to create something with my hands, especially after spending hours pouring over projects on a computer. A tangible finished project is a good good thing.

I hope you all had a wonderful + happy Halloween!

ps check out these Crocodile + Captain Hook cuties on Brooke's blog, Inchmark.