You're Awesome!

I really, really enjoy making these hand stamped bags for my awesome Etsy shop customer's orders. My heart goes out with every single parcel I send. Thank you so much for buying & supporting my art!

Tiny Books

Remember these tiny books? It has been too long since I've made one so I got to work this weekend and finished a whole new batch of tiny book covers. Each little cover was painted by hand and no two are alike. As soon as I finish them they'll go into my shop.

There will be tiny books of birds, flowers & butterflies :)

Market Hopping in Mexico City

Manolo & I went on a market hopping adventure looking for Ceylon cinnamon. We came back home with bags full of fresh goodies.
The markets we visited were: Mercado de San Juan, Mercado de Sonora & Mercado de la Merced. Hope you enjoy these pics as much as we enjoyed our outing.

Journal Pages

Here are the journal pages from the past two weeks and the layout I made today for the next two weeks. Hope you have a beautiful Monday!

At Dawn

I'm in completely love with the new studio Manolo built for me in our home and I could spend all day in there but at dawn... it really turns into a remarkable space with the golden light of the low sun streaming in.

Rubber Stamps!

I'm very excited to announce that I'm working on a line of stamps in collaboration with Magenta Style. Early next year you will be able to purchase rubber stamps with my artwork at select stores and directly from my shop :) I'll let you know as soon as they become available.

Etsy Shop Update

Seven brand new archival quality prints will be available at my Etsy shop tomorrow at noon :) That will make the total 70 different prints available for you to choose from.

Lilies of the Valley

New stamp I carved to decorate my shop envelopes. I love how the black ink looks on the kraft stay-flats. Hope my lovely customers like them :)

If you are interested in carving your own stamps, I wrote a book about it:

"Making An Impression" published by Lark Books.

You can also check out all the posts I've done about carving on the blog by clicking here.

Calixtlahuaca

This is the archaeological site of Calixtlahuaca. We had the whole area to ourselves yesterday morning, we only encountered three local women gathering wild capulin cherries and tejocotes. It was amazing to walk the trails from temple to temple teaming with colorful wild flowers, agaves and maize fields.

Glorious Creation

This morning we went on a short car ride to Calixtlahuaca and hiked up to the archaeological site. The whole area is really fascinating. This is a bit of what I saw. I'll post photos of the actual ruins tomorrow.