Winter and summer

I'm rather fond of pink and coral lately. This week I continue working on Holiday 2015 stuff as well as continuing my pattern design quest, so what we get is snowdrifts and lemonade.

Gift tags from my Holiday 2015 collection

Summer & citrus pattern on Spoonflower

Christmas in June

I mentioned earlier that I was going to try to get some Christmas cards done early this year, and so here are a couple more. The snowball fight is adapted from an earlier sketchbook, found here. Happy Holidays! Stay tuned for more...

Kitty snowball fight greeting card for Christmas 2015

Christmas wrapping paper 

Floor of the forest

Here's my latest spoonflower contest design. And the theme is... hedgehogs! I once wished to have a pet hedgehog, but found it was against the law in my locale, alas!

Lords and ladies of the forest floor

Hedghogs, frogs & chipmunks, etc. in Umber

Wash, rinse, repeat

Hairstyles of the 40s, the finished painting. I'm nothing if not an obsessor over the minutiae of life...

Hairstyles of the 40s | Stephanie Birdsong

The sketchbook version

Books I read in New York pt.2

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I finally get around to making a larger illustration out of this little piece I did in my journal last year celebrating the joys of reading.

Books I read during New York summers

Sketchbook. Me and Trixie and a good book. NYC

Florian decides to take the day off

Florian takes a day off ! by stephanie birdsong

This week's Spoonflower design: sandcastles

I made this painted spot pattern back in May to use in a soon-to-be abandoned crustacean-themed plate design I was working on. Let's try it again here, integrated with sketches of some memories of summer days at Nag's Head, Myrtle Beach & Virginia Beach. Maybe I should have included a bologna sandwich on wonder bread, since I have this weirdly vivid memory of carrying one such delicacy, wrapped neatly in wax paper, down to the beach at Nag's Head when I was a kid.