Oranges

Hi all. Sorry I've been scarce. I'm working on the magazines at the moment. ParasolMag will be released first, then ParasolCraft.

Anyway, happy weekend all! See you next week!

xx
Yas

Orange Blossom Download

You can download it here.

Happy Monday all!

xx
Yasmine

P.S.

Hey thanks for the super nice emails and messages from the previous post everyone. Totally appreciate it. xx

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Hi All,

As you may recall, I had an "issue" with one of my designs.  I can report that the matter has been resolved. 



Thanks to EVERYONE for your kind words and support as always! I'm very lucky to be a part of this creative community.

xoxo
Yasmine

Mini Kit: Pins & Needles

I have a new Mini Kit in the shop. It's craft themed, and you can view the full details here.

Speaking of mini kits, I'm in the process of making the free kit for February. I'm open to suggestions, by the way.

Oh, and Parasol Magazine Issue 6 is coming soon. Yay! And ParasolCraft Issue 3 comes afterwards.

xoxo
Yasmine

Raoul Dufy

I absolutely love Raoul Dufy. He's one of my favourite painters and print makers.

I chanced upon a collection of wrapping papers at a second hand bookstore and there was an entire book of it. I purchased it, of course. His patterns are beautiful, and I love his bold use of color.

Digital Shop

Hello All!

I just reopened my shop.








You don't have to wait for me to email you the files anymore! Yay! Also, you will notice, each kit is bundled by type, ie, Patterns, Brush + Icon, etc...This is because I get a LOT of requests from people asking if they could just purchase the 12x12 only, or elements only and so on. So going forward, I'm doing the shop this way. Oh, and I'm still in the process of uploading the older kits as well as new ones.

I also changed the standard license slightly. I am allowing SOME commercial use. Before I didn't allow use on blogs and websites that sold stuff. I am changing that to allow the use on commercial blogs with at the most 6000 impressions a day or less with credit to me. You can read the terms of use for full details.

I'm still working on other licenses for those inquiring about photo and design for hire projects and other such things. Those will follow later.



AAANND I made over my Parasol blog. Aside from my magazine, it will cover my larger downloads, shop news, etc...You can visit it here. APAD will still be my drawing and downloads blog--the way I initially intended it to be.

Muir Woods

Welcome to my home! This redwood tree is the entrance to my underground home.


And this is my Victor lounging on our patio log.


A moss upholstered tree trunk.


Checking the mail. Our packages are delivered by squirrels and bats. They're pretty efficient.


The back entrance to our underground home. You jump through a hole carrying an umbrella to slow you down. Then you land on a bunch of spiderwebs to soften the landing. Then you enter a series of tunnels. I don't know what the tunnels are for, but an underground home needs tunnels. But the main tunnel leads you to our living room with a skylight. Our couches and seats are giant mushrooms like the one below.




The end.

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Speaking of Muir Woods, PBS & Ken Burns have a documentary called The National Parks: America's Best Idea. It is an amazing series, and have seen it on PBS. I highly recommend purchasing the series. It makes you appreciate these treasures as well as the amazing people who made it all possible to preserve them.





Love.

Hello!

Happy Monday all! I'm guest blogging at awesome art blog PICDIT until Friday. And of course, downloads and patterns in APAD throughout the week as well. I'm currently working on my digital shop which I'll be releasing later in the week.

Anyway, I hope everyone's been having a great start to the year so far. For New Year's Eve, we went to Ocean Beach in SF and hiked the hills around it, had a nice dinner and played board games at the restaurant, and saw the fireworks in SF from a parking lot next to Hangar One.

What about you?

xx
Yas