Summer is here and so is the heat. It seems every summer for the past few years, I’ve had the sewing bug for about 2-3 weeks. It definitely has to do with the heat and not wanting to wear just t-shirts for work. Before this batch of sewing, I wore my three favorite tunics from last year every week. Now, I’ll have about seven shirts (tunics and kaftans) in summer rotation.

I painted three pieces in between my sewing projects: two coloring book samples and one acrylic marker painting. Both samples were completed with alcohol markers. Lily Pads Tangle took about 4 hours to paint. And Protea Bunches took 16+ hours to do to all the details. Both were super relaxing. The acrylic painting was inspired by a painting that my friend sent me on Wednesday morning. Then after work, I wanted to paint it so I did. It took 3 hours to complete - so inspiring!