It’s A Tomato Thing

A spontaneous midweek inspiring post. Our new garden has been very bountiful this year and we have been practically buried under giant zucchinis and the heavy tomato plants have long since abandoned their fragile cages for the ground. In the twilight of the evening yesterday I harvested a few tomatoes, some with skin wrinkled from the unrelenting sun the past …

Handmade Claypots and Shojin Cooking

I fell in culinary love this past Saturday. My new love: Donabe-cooked (Japanese clay pots) Shojin Buddhist vegan food, a traditional Japanese cuisine eaten by Buddhist monks. Naoko of Toiro Kitchen and her fabulous foodie blog hosted a donabe cooking class at her awesome hilltop home in Echo Park.  One of my most treasured kitchen items of all time (next …

A Big Sur Wedding Part 3: Icing on the Cake!

Final part to the Big Sur wedding series, see the invitations here, and the table place cards here. Janine wanted a simple painted cake topper for her 6″ petit four wedding cake that she could insert into her shadow box along with her invites and table cards. I wanted to create something that was simple yet sweet that still had …

A Big Sur Wedding Part 2 : The Place Cards

Just a little something I’ve been working on while crafting the new The TreeSpace Studio website and online shop. (More details later!) The invitations were featured here in Part 1, I am now unveiling the matching table names!

Atelier Thursday: Part 3: The Bay Treasure Map

Follow up post to Part 2, the on location bay map painting here, these are the actual treasure maps sent out. Archival quality printing on gorgeous creamy Indian artisan papers, with plenty of texture and deckled edges for a whimsically authentic treasure map feel!

A Big Sur Wedding Part 1

Follow up from the set of save the dates I created a few months back here, this is the actual (digital) invitation for green queen Janine and her beau, Ken. There was a change in wedding color schemes from bright and bold sunset shades to subtle and romantic soft grays and yellows.  I really love the new color palette which …

Atelier Thursday: A Digitized Map!

In the spirit of my travel digital-only workload, I am featuring my latest map creation: a digitized DIY request for Frankie and Stephanie’s wedding in Massachusetts. They will be printing it themselves and inserting them into little favor bags for their guests -what a sweet gesture! Stephanie wanted me to create a map from her list of wedding-related venues in …

Schedule Announcements from the Studio….

Hello my dear readers! Some changes and goings-on have been brewing under the hood of the studio for awhile and now it is time to bring it to light! I will be away on a one-month travel + re-inspiring session.  There is a long list of juicy changes, inventory update and revamp to be expected during this hiatus which I …

Our little slice of heaven…

It is no secret by now that I have a lifelong love affair with trees!  Well, we now have our very own canopy tree in our (new) backyard- a lovely low hanging tree with the perfect umbrella shade and hundreds of large, golden lemons hanging like lanterns from it. Perfect! I cannot stress enough how such a simple little piece …

Atelier Tuesday : Fine Bone China?

Hello everyone, I apologize for this long silence but the studio and house move and recent visitors have thrown me off my blog schedule! I promise that there will be lots of juicy posts to come on what’s churning behind the scenes here at my new mint green studio! There is so much to share about the projects I have …