While my Shopify store @PenJarProductions is closed I’m watching how technology is changing fashion and décor. Here’s what it would take for me to start selling my custom-designed pillows and totes again. Sources: • Unmade • Looop Recycling • Akqa
Why my Shopify store is still closed
Originally published in March 2021 in Blog
Pen Jar Productions is featured in the Toronto Star
Originally published in December 2019 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Gifts, Toronto Illustrators
A little dance around my drawing desk! A year and a half into my illustration biz and I have my first serious piece of earned media, as the PR folks like to call “press.” Thank you, writer and artist, Mary Vallis (@maryvallis @canadianstitchery). This means a lot. I will be tabling tonight and tomorrow […]
A cure for homesickness
Originally published in July 2019 in Blog, Illustration, Pen Jar Productions, Toronto Illustrators
Process Junkie
Originally published in March 2019 in Blog, Surface Design, Toronto Illustrators
7 things my customers taught me in 2018
Originally published in December 2018 in Blog, Gift Ideas, Illustration, Pen Jar Productions, Toronto Illustrators
Last summer, the initial delight I felt in seeing my sketchbook drawings on a digital pillow template inspired a new design business in 2018 called Pen Jar Productions. Now my quirky line drawings are on totes, tees, scarves, and, coming next month, enamel pins! (In these politically-charged times, more of us are wearing our values […]
Communicating your value as a visual storyteller
Originally published in September 2018 in Blog
I first published this post back in August when Gini Dietrich and her team asked me to be a guest contributor at SpinSucks.com. Spin Sucks (the website and the book) is a fantastic resource for up-to-date information and advice on current issues and trends surrounding marketing, communication, social media, entrepreneurship, search engine optimization, and advertising. Not […]
