Sweetbriar Sisters

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5 Tips on Taking Photos for Your Creative Business

I'm the first to admit I am no photographer.  I have, however, been running creative online businesses for the past 6 years.  While I wish I could take a perfect photo, I can't wait around for my photography skills to be perfected before I put them to use.  Photos are kind of an important part of the whole online business thing! It's amazing how much trial and error (and a whole lot of internet ... View Post

Figure Drawing

Today was my last final- hooray!  What a long semester.  I've been in a figure drawing class which I have completely loved.   We worked with nude models, which I thoroughly approve of for academic work (until this class all I knew about working with nude models was what is shown on TV shows.  They always make the atmosphere look super inappropriate.  Real life classes are not like that.  At all.). ... View Post

Painting II Final

School is finally over!  This semester has probably been the hardest of my life- I've been so sick the entire time.  I still loved my classes though, and am so glad to have taken them.  My painting class did a study of styles of post impressionism works for our final.  We took one photo and interpreted it three ways.  I've really loved studying the more modern painting approaches, I feel like I've ... View Post

Samples!

So, I know that sewing samples for stores that carry my patterns will get old fast.  But right now everything is just so exciting! ... View Post

Pattern Covers are Here!

Our long awaited (well, we waited a little over a week- but it felt like a long time!) pattern cover order was delivered this morning!   ... View Post