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some elfing gifts over the past few years I have enjoyed making for friends and loved ones 🦄 2022: paintings done on canvas. 2024: hand painted & beaded secondhand dresses. 2025: pottery, bug-themed glassware, & earrings made with shells I’ve collected 🧚🏼

Next year…… tbd 🐝🐇🧚🏻‍♀️🧌🐉

been a busy elf 🎄

I hope to see you Sunday for my elf workshop grand opening (waterline brewing 12-4) I’ll have special special things like hand painted hats, greeting cards, canvas flags, mini and medium originals, and a whole bunch of prints 🎄🎁

If you’re free Friday night, come see the holiday exhibition at :)

my most recent commission ☁️ makes me feel serene, just how I felt as I painted it. I I am always open to suggestions by the client; in this case, she wanted more blues 🦋 and I love it!

The Cove, 2025 • 24x30” acrylic on canvas

After a few months of quiet burnout, I left a colorful island feeling inspired 🐬🐢🌺🐠🦜 I’m happy in the vivid studio today.

working on paper, cloth, canvas with new methods. Excited to beads and thread… mainly just excited to be excited :)

works in their forever spaces 🪽

It’s hard to express how deeply grateful I am for you. Your support isn’t just support—It’s the reason I get to keep painting like I do. You’ve made this dream real for me.

I remember when I made my very first customer 6 and a half years ago. Every chapter since then has reminded me of the beauty that unfolds when people believe in your work.

My once-a-year sale is now live: 20% off originals, prints, and commissions. Each piece takes weeks of careful work, by hand, which makes a large sale like this rare for me.

Thank you for standing with independent artists—for standing with me.

Use code 2025SALE at checkout through next Monday, the 30th. Giveaway winner announced Tuesday at noon. Shipping nationwide!

Calendar friends: your mailed code can be stacked with this sale. (Double the fun!) 💅💅💅💅

Let me know if you need anything or there are disturbances on my website!

Thicket, 2025 • acrylic on panel, available for purchase directly through my website (link on story & bio).

I’m continuing to crawl toward more mysticism and unrealistic proportions, wanting to merge my own memories into my fantasy world-building—something I’ve enjoyed participating in since I was little. Lately, I’ve been enjoying painting on panel and the different approach it offers my practice. The paint behaves much differently on it than it does on cloth or canvas, picking up more texture and feel—perfect for a moment in the thicket!

As the end of 2025 approaches, I’m beginning to understand how much The Race To Grow Up series meant to me… and how much I need to continue exploring it in new ways throughout this next year.

P.S. — If you live in Wilmington or Charlotte and are interested in this piece, I will refund the $60 shipping fee upon delivery! I deliver paintings for free. I can also help you hang them if you need!

little things mean a lot