It was great! Isaac brought me chocolate cake, mom brought me chocolate cake, and Nica made me a bouquet of chocolate-rose cupcakes ala Carrie — delicious and entirely photo-worthy. (Thank you s'much!) Add to that a great birthday party put on by my sisters, Julia & Merris, and a serious spread of mexican food. I was far too busy eating chocolate and tacos to blog about it.
Other than eating cake round the clock, let's see, I've been busy batting at a variety of moving objects. Life is a pinata. One feisty, swingy pinata.
One project I'm excited to announce is my partnership with Peking Handicraft to produce several housewares collections, including aprons, dishtowels, pillows, and more. I'll post photos once samples are in hand. Right now we are aiming for several January releases.
On the pattern front, I'm introducing two new mini patterns this month. LOVE them both. One is the awesome lunch bag pattern I mentioned before and the other is a great little hat pattern — a sort of mixture between a 1920s cloche and a hippie beret. Patterns & instructions are complete; I just need to wrap up the covers.
I'm also toying with a blog theme idea; tell me your take on Sketchtember.
Doodle-loo, scribble too — whoop-di-do.

Mmmm … gorgeous cupcakes! Happy birthday!
Love Sketchtember 🙂
oh baby.. that cupcake bouquet looks “to die for”! Hope you had a great birthday!
Happy Birthday! Sketchtember sounds interesting. Like a different sketch of patterns running around in your head every day??
Sketchtember would be smashing if you show some of your doodles. Happy Birthday! Chocolate & mexican food – a perfect combination.
I absolutely LOVE your photos… on every post. Pure eye candy!
Those chocolate rose cupcakes look yummy…the photos are gorgeous 🙂
Happy Birthday, loving the pics of those cupcakes!
Happy Birthday! Those cupcakes are beautiful! I love the idea of Sketchtember!
What a perfect birthday, filled with chocolate, family, and a new partnership. Happy Birthday and Congratulations!
Sherry @ A Happy Valentine
oooo – sketchtember sounds awesome!
Happy birthday gorgeous lady ;)!
Happy Birthday! I also think it is fabulous to look forward to some housewares from you.
Happy Birthday Heather!! Looking forward to seeing you at the Creative Connection!! Chloe is totally jealous!
Wishing you a marvelous birthday and a fantastic year ahead! Love the idea of Sketchtember – go for it!
emily xo
Happy Birthday Heather, everything you do looks cute! Even hitting a pinata!
I love looking at the pics and inspiration all around your sight so if sketchtember has to do with more Heather style inspiration, I’m all for it!
Happy Birthday! Enjoy each mouthful of those cupcakes!
kudos to you and happy belated!! I just signed with Peking also for Kitchen textiles- aprons, towels etc,for my Gourmet Feathers line! nice to be in good company!
Belated happy birthday! What a fabulous cupcakes bouquet!
Sketchtember sounds perfect!
Mmm those cupcakes look soooo good! happy Birthday dear:-)
Happy Belated! Hope it was grand! =)
Happy Belated Birthday Heather – those cup cakes look so yummy! Look forward to those patterns!
Happy Belated Birthday!! and what is better than something that looks so pretty & tastes DELICIOUS!? right?!
Paige~
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Hey!
A little bit late to wish you a happy birthday…
This is an amazing cake! And the pics are great!
It’s always a pleasure to visit your blog…
;o)
that is the most awesome muffincupcakecake I have ever seen. 🙂 wow. That made me happy. 🙂 Can I steal the picture? Mygosh, I gotta make this once.
Happy belated!
Those cupcakes looks absolutely DELICIOUS!! Happy belated birthday!
YUMMY!!! I’m so jealous! I want that for my bday lol! Hehe anyway I’m glad you enjoyed it! 🙂