Ever since Pottery Barn released their Harry Potter Christmas collection last year, I've been obsessed with slowly adding more and more HP themed items into my holiday decor. I decided to tackle a hanging banner, using felt and recycled cardboard I had sitting around my apartment.

Often when I get a half-thought creative idea, my projects usually turn out just that -- half-thoughts -- but I'm actually quite chuffed with this one!

For this project, all I used was one large stiff white felt sheet, four soft red felt sheets, scrap cardboard from recent deliveries, fabric glue, and hot glue. To start, I used the cardboard to trace out my letter patterns. I find felt difficult to fuss with, so for me starting with something a bit more sturdy allowed me to make sure I got the detail I wanted in my letters. I did my letters by hand, but printing and using them as a template could also work for this step! Below is a picture of my finished templates, complete with my irl messy kitchen island because I couldn't be bothered to clean before I started and the Grinch, because what else would I be watching in December?

And here's the final product! Like I said, for no real plan going into this, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Here's to being one step closer to my ideal Harry Potter Christmas aesthetic!

A very delayed graduation celebration (because 2020), I recently took grad photos for my friend Cassidy. From all of our shenanigans living on campus together to our newfound love of plants, I'm glad to have this one in my life!

My favorite thing to do in these sessions is to incorporate each person's personality into their photos, and for Cass that meant switching our her heels for chacos!

At the beginning of quarantine (a whole six months ago, now, if you can believe it) I began a design challenge for myself. I design all day at work, and as a creative it can be hard to pick up and continue to create for yourself after hours. 

Using briefz.biz, I limited myself to spending no more than an hour per project and set to work! Here are some of my favorites!

DAY 1

Our first evening in Savannah involved the most important aspect of the trip: food. To kill some time before we checked in, we set off toward City Market in hopes of finding something to eat. We settled on coffee and macarons from Mabel's, a coffee shop right across the square from the market.

 

Our first visit was to the Telfair's Jepson center. Opened in 2006, this museum featured an exhibit on impressionism called "Collecting Impressionism," which featured American, German, and French works of impressionist art. My favorite was a painting of the Brooklyn bridge, because even on vacation -- I can't escape Brooklyn.

"Collecting Impressionism: Telfair’s Modern Vision traces the early 20th-century footsteps of noted Telfair art advisor Gari Melchers (1860–1932) as he traveled the country and the globe identifying remarkable examples of the avant- garde art movement and giving them a permanent home in Savannah."

Our next stop, just across the street, was Telfair Academy. This museum features nineteenth and twentieth century American and European art, as well as period furniture and history about the house itself. Here we got to see the famous "Bird Girl" statue, featured on the cover of the 1994 novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.