The Dog Days

Hi friends!

Hope you all are doing wonderful in these early days August...the dog days of summer as I like to call them. Can you believe this summer is in the home stretch already? I don't even want to think about that yet...I love the season change to fall but not ready to say good bye to summer anytime soon. Still want to enjoy these last weeks before our girls go back to preschool and pumpkins and cool weather are in the forecast. What are some special experiences that you've had this summer?

For us, it's been time to collect ourselves and refresh. The spring was so very busy that my soul definitely needed some down time to ponder and my brain to de-frag. It's also been so nice not being on a schedule.  Our days have been filled with play dates with friends, parks and pools, ice cream cones, painting and drawing on the kitchen table, birthday parties, a visit to the in-laws and got to go to the beautiful Gibb Gardens for the first time outside of Atlanta. We were lucky enough to take a week vacation down to Hilton Head, SC earlier this summer. Just the four of us this time. Loved the days of biking around the island, beach and being pool side. So thankful for that time together and the memories that were made. This summer has been such a reprieve. Here are a couple shots from our trip.

  

BTW, thank you to everyone who voted for my fabric design, "Citrus Umbrellas" in the Spoonflower design challenge the other week. My design came in 16th out 403 entries. I felt good about that and am going to keep on, keepin' on trying my hand at fabric. It's been fun to be apart of a contest and good for me to practice more with surface pattern design as it is so very different from greeting card design.  Speaking of greeting card design...here are some samples of a couple of my new birthday cards that will be available in Recycled Paper Greetings retailers to be on the look out for...

"Book Birthday Cake" Copyright Tamara Brown/Tamagrams 2013.
All Rights Reserved.

"Sprinkle Text" Copyright Tamara Brown/Tamagrams 2013.
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"Movie Set Birthday" Copyright Tamara Brown/Tamagrams 2013.
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Lastly, I wanted to share with you a personal project that came together this week. I've been itching to re-do the bathroom that our girls use. I decided to take the plunge and design a shower curtain (this is a first for me) since I couldn't seem to find what I was looking in stores. I wanted to make the bathroom fun, bright and happy for our girls to grow with while also be versatile for grown ups since guests share the bathroom. Neat to see the idea that was in my head for our home really on a shower curtain now! I felt like a kid ripping open a package with excitement after it was delivered at the doorstep.

Copyright Tamara Brown/Tamagrams 2013. All Rights Reserved.

Copyright Tamara Brown/Tamagrams 2013. All Rights Reserved.

Thanks for stopping by and wishing you all an amazing August!
Blessings,
Tamara