Emerging Thoughts

So IJME’s advertiser, Emerging Thoughts, sent me this darling Dear Creatures dress last week and, YOU GUYS, so cute! It’s got a Peter Pan collars, pockets, silky fabric, and hella cute buttons....

Monster Serenade

Recently my pal Hannah started a new blog, Monster Serenade. I’ve totally fallen off the blog-reading game, but Hannah’s is one of those I still visit. Her art journaling work is so beautiful and...

Quiet Sundays

big white walls

So, it’s Friday night. I get home from work at 8:30 and we’re all sitting on Kanda’s bed talking about our day and Kanda checks Macklemore’s site. We LOVE Macklemore. We see there is a show in...

New Class! You Go Girl!

Yay, it’s finally here! My new class, You Go Girl! This class is a 20 page, PDF-only course on art journaling about identifying as a feminist. Who’s this class for? Anyone! The prompts are...

Saturdays

I used to hate Saturdays. Did you know that? Not sure why. Maybe because I was bored or because I had to work? I don’t work weekends anymore (I mean, other than for myself), so Saturdays are sort...

Classes Kara Made Sale!

I will be releasing my newest class on Thursday(!!!!), so in anticipation I’m offering a 30% off coupon to everything in the Classes Kara Made shop until then! It’s a perfect time to get Summer of...

Emerging Thoughts

IJME’s advertiser, Emerging Thoughts, is having a 20% off storewide sale for you. It’s especially for you because you get to use the code KARA for 20% off. Lauren, head mama of Emerging Thoughts is...

Polaroids By The Sea

When my grandpa gave me my grandmother’s supplies, he left me to go through her studio. While there, I came across a ziplock bag of old polaroid photos my grandma had taken. Some of them were dated...

For Hire

Need a woman-cat modeling team? Look no further. Pip and I are admittedly a little pricey, but with faces, poses, and professionalism like ours? We’re unbeatable.

Giveaway Winners

It’s been a fun giveaway month, huh? I used random.org to calculate a winner for the Indie and Chic and Sara Bergman giveaways that happened this month… And… The winner of the $30 gift certificate...

Rilo Kiley

A little bit in love with this new Rilo Kiley song. Happy weekend!

Sara Bergman Giveaway!

Happy Tuesday! I am so excited about today’s giveaway because my very favorite independent fashion designer, Sara Bergman, is giving one of her great pieces! I have this shirt and another trapeze...

Happy, happy!

Happy Easter! Hope your day is a good as Pip’s! ;)

These Women

My brilliant photographer friend Mei requested a glamour photoshoot with Stephanie, Shay, and me. She told us to bring the most gorgeous things we owned and so we spent the afternoon in Mei’s homey...

Indie and Chic

This past month’s featured advertiser is my good friend Samantha from Indie & Chic. Samantha makes darling flower jewelry, accessories, and even cute cards! Samantha is being awesome and giving...

currently

listening // same trailer different park by kacey musgraves and good kid, m.A.A.d city by kendrick lamar. watching // the west wing, scandal, and revenge. reading // breanna’s pretty blog. wanting...

Screenprinted Futura Poster

I designed (and screeprinted!) this poster for my Typography class earlier last semester. Our assignment was to research a typeface and create a screenprinted poster about the type designer and...

after the rain.

It’s been a rainy year, but I’m glad the rainbow is finally starting to shine.

Monday Brunches

Every Monday morning, Stephanie, Mei, Jason, and I meet for brunch at Byways Cafe. It’s the perfect way to start the week. We check in with each other, bitch about life, and eat a lot of breakfast...

This & That

I’ve been feeling really overwhelmed lately. I have some big projects and papers coming up for midterms. And then, of course, freelance design + life + working + everything else that somehow ends...

A Roommate Date

Though the three of us live with each other, the only time the we’re really together are our weekly grocery shopping trips to Trader Joes and an occasional 11:30pm cry-about-homework-sesh at the...

Eye Candy

Sources: 1 (Martha Rich), 2 (TipaTipa), 3 (Neil Tasker), 4 (Neoprene Dream Team), 5 (Painted Desert Rug), 6 (Time Magazine). Spring is coming and I’m thrilled ’bout it. If I could, I would make...

busy 4ever

Oh, dudes. Life. Trying to make, trying to finish, trying to show up, trying to survive, trying to take care of yourself. A lot of trying over here. Trying to let trying be enough.

a thought.

hey, i know you! installment fifteen. lyndsay wright.

Eep! Today I am so excited to introduce you to the Lyndsay. You may recognize her from the hey, i know you! feature I did on her band, Hollow Wood, in 2011. Lyndsay is incredible. Easily one of the...

Whispering Sweet Nothings + Giveaway

Shane is a blogger at Whispering Sweet Nothings and February’s featured advertiser. You can follow Shane on Twitter, Facebook, or her newsletter. She is also a jewelry maker and you can see her...

My Grandmother’s Supplies

I shared a little bit ago a glimpse at a project, an archive of my grandmother’s supplies, I was working on. Last week after too many consecutive 4 am bedtimes, I finished. Please excuse the bad...

Be A Lady

I’m trying to get caught up blogging some of my design projects from last semester, so bear with me if these get old! This piece was for my Design 1 class. We were supposed to take some sort of...

April Found Type Typeface

One of my projects for my Typography class was to create a typeface from found objects. I made this typeface, April, from handcut triangles made out of coloring in Dura Lar with Prismacolor...