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<\/a><\/p>\nI started out 2015 by doing my prototypes for the 2015 ornaments for West Elm and went to Brooklyn to deliver them. Any excuse to go to NYC! And in October I designed the next line for 2016. It has been really exciting that they have continued my line of ornaments.<\/p>\n
I traveled a LOT this year. Some of the trips were awesomely fun, others ended up being very stressful- so I guess I’ll be testing out more of the traveling this year, right?! I went to New York City and\/or Brooklyn 5 times in 2015! I saw Mr. Finch<\/a>! I went to Puerto Rico<\/a> for some snow relief, Philadelphia for the Sweet Paul Makerie<\/a> Retreat, an I’d-go-back-in-a-minute week in Portland Oregon<\/a>, and Chicago. This year I will be heading out to LA in April for Craftcation<\/a>.<\/p>\n I taught a few classes- Tiny Worlds in January, and Ornaments in July (in Portland) and December in Cambridge.<\/p>\n We had that horrible winter <\/a>and I am hoping to never see anything like that again.<\/p>\n I published 5 ornament patterns<\/a> and I have so many more that I want to make, so hopefully, more patterns this year! I also had 2 free ornament patterns in the Sweet Paul Holiday<\/a> issue and I saw a few super cute ones that people had made and posted on Instagram.<\/p>\n I was part of the 6 weeks of Softies over on Sew Mama Sew<\/a>. I was interviewed by Abby with my friend Salley<\/a>. And I was honored to be a featured artist in Susan’s book<\/a>.<\/p>\n What I most obviously didn’t do were any shows. No deadlines and packing up and setting up booths and spending days interacting with customers. I think I needed a year off but I don’t want to leave them completely behind. The shows I was doing weren’t really working for me and what I really need to do is find the right show(s) instead of none.<\/p>\n Onward into the New Year! I don’t have a vision of what I want to focus on this year but not making myself crazy is still a good goal for me. I really want to get to some more of the things on my endless to-do list and to feel like I am doing fresh things and not rehashing old ideas.<\/p>\n I am currently very busy working on a group of foxes for a window display for Gather Here<\/a> in Cambridge. Pictures starting tomorrow, I hope!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I didn’t get as many dolls finished in 2015 as 2014 and there are many reasons. At the end of 2014 I decided that my resolution for the New Year would be to try to get to the end of … Continue reading