When I sit at my desk - more often the kitchen table, because it’s bigger and I like to take up space - and work, I always have a notepad and pen or pencil next to me. I fill pages and pages with doodles while I think and work, constructing intricate shapes and lines that perfectly meld into each other and usually end up looking like they shoul...

When I sit at my desk - more often the kitchen table, because it’s bigger and I like to take up space - and work, I always have a notepad and pen or pencil next to me. I fill pages and pages with doodles while I think and work, constructing intricate shapes and lines that perfectly meld into each other and usually end up looking like they shoul...

I have always been a fan of half-timbered houses. The mixture of visible wooden beams and brick/stucco on the facade of these structures will forever feel like home - a part of Bavaria, Germany, called Franconia - to me. Some plain, some intricate, all enduring, and a testament of craftsmanship. There’s nothing quite like building something wit...

Check out the matching Half Timbered Collar here.

The Counting Stars Wrap is my second design. It is a wrap version of my first design, the Counting Stars Shawl. The shawl was a magnificent pattern to design and project to work on, and while I was knitting it, I thought there needs to be a lighter version, an elegant fingering-weight wrap with some sparkle and a repeating pattern and, of cours...

Years ago, when I quit my daytime job to take my side hustle full time as a freelance writer and business coach, I listened to the song “Counting Stars” by OneRepublic on repeat. “Lately, I’ve been, I’ve been losing sleep; dreaming about the things that we could be”… I love that song, it’s been my theme song for many life-changing events since ...