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i like to draw

Using premium cold-pressed Italian paper, I’ve sketched and watercolored painted these notes, one by one! A relaxing process, it takes me back to the early 1990s when I was just launching my note card company. Reminded recently of my little village house, a coven of creative women sitting together to paint my cards by hand. …

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I love weddings. I’ve had the honor of designing wedding pieces for a fabulously creative bundle of brides. The goal is always the same: to capture their dreams onto paper. Or matchboxes, signature cocktails, and swag. All I need is your color palette, my pen, your story, your vision, and away we go.

Be it an idea, a scheme, a new design, collaboration, commission, dinner menu, or change in life direction, drafting is what I do. Being alive calls for constant revision and fluidity (to quote my wise son) so I trust that I’m armed and open to adventure, new vistas, new clients, and always an enticement to …

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I’m swimming in young love. Granted, I’m the furthest thing from “young” but was thrilled to have been commissioned to create custom designed wedding invitation suites for two wonderful young couples. Amazed by the detail and thoughtfulness required these days (my age is showing), I was eager to capture their every wish so that my …

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