Studio Life

In Lithuania, my husband’s grandparents have the most wonderful, weightless, incarnation-of-joy, farm dog in the entire world.  His name is Sharikas, and even though I am admittedly not a dog person, seeing him bouncing through the dried grass and herding hens that are bigger than he is breaks my heart from happiness. However, he moves so fast that I can

We’ve been working with a lot of new patterns recently in the studio, so I kept my eyes peeled for inspiration while we were in Lithuania a few weeks ago.  This particular shop window in the Vilnius old town displayed some patterns that remind me of old French tapestries and others that look like they originated in the 80s –

Spring has sprung in Austin.  Every time I pass a Wysteria tree, I am instantly 9 years old. When I was growing up in West Texas, we had a wysteria bush in our front yard.  It was very low to the ground, so each spring, when it put on its purple-only frock (no leaves until later), my sister and I

The California office is now back from Lithuania and enjoying the flower-perfumed air of Berkeley.  It was still chilly over the Easter weekend up there, but it was fun to be able to see the countryside in its pre-verdant state.  Lots of puddles!  I will post more about the trip in the coming weeks, but first, here’s a glimpse from

We recently discovered a paint-your-own-pottery studio here in Berkeley’s “Potter’s Ghetto.”  Brushstrokes is a great place to go on a rainy day – or in our case, a Monday evening, when it’s pretty quiet and they waive the studio fee if you bring contributions to the Alameda County Food Bank.  The delayed gratification of painting a piece in dusty un-revealed