Gift Giving Like a Designer

Nothing erks me more than having to give a gift card! "Stick to the registry" everyone says. Gift giving like a designer means adding luxury, creativity and personal touches. It's my business to

A Look in My Book: The Hustle

From Mad Men 60's to the 70's "American Hustle", fall 2014 is trending on plunging "V" necklines, soft sheen luxe fabrics and swank glam.

A Look in My Book: 60’s Inspired

From Gucci, Valentino and Miu Miu to Saint Laurent. The 60's are swinging for fall 2014. A-line mini skirts, knee high boots and graphic geometric prints.

A Look in My Book: Long Yarns, Chunky Cables and Glitzy Knits

I am loving the play on proportion and longer lengths in these clingy sweaters. I just want to wrap myself up in drippy sleeves and sweepy pants by Marc Jacobs.

Sleepy Hollow Sketches and the Great Pumpkin Blaze

A curiosity for the creepy and beautiful places of the world permeates my adulthood as much as it did my fantastic childhood. The legend of Sleepy Hollow and the Johnny Depp

Sketch Journal: Paris

I've sketched on many trips; Japan, Spain and Mexico but I've never had the time to completely fill a sketchbook full of drawings. This summer in Paris and Munich, with a little help from arty friends

Painting Demo: Acrylic Media Profiling

Acrylic paint is one of the most versatile media of painterly expression. It certainly has a stigma that goes with it and oils reign supreme by comparison. However, you can get many of the same results

A Look in My Book: Mixed Media & Moody Blooms

Mixed Media & Moody Blooms

A Look in My Book: Fall’s Frothy, Flowy Dresses

Wear now with heals and wear later over boots with a (faux) fur vest.

Sketching Charles James: Beyond Fashion @ the MET

Fascinated by construction and the architecture of a garment; drape and design is one of my passions. As a designer of fashion my love of the industry never grew from a desire to wear the "right labels"

A Look in My Book: Dimensional Blooms

Dimensional Blooms

A Look in My Book: “Bauhaus Nouveau” Fall Preview

"Bauhaus Nouveau" Fall Preview

Vanity and Friends

Sketch night at Society of Illustrators is my weekly self indulgence escape. This is especially the case when there is a fashion sketch night or Bil Donovan hosts "Vanity and Friends".

Sketching Versailles

I Intended never to forget Versailles, so I sketched my way through it this summer on my trip to France. I had studied it in art school, knew all about the "Hall of Mirrors", the "Sun king" and

Paris: Pickin Bones and the Thrill of the Hunt

Call me macabre but I find beauty in creepy things, I look for the art in science, and I am fascinated with the natural world. As you've seen in past blog posts, I spend some time sketching