just a quote

Sharing a happy little quote to brighten your day....

Print

Cut

Paste

to computer or desk or mirror...

but remember

your are beautiful today and everyday!

Sunday Sketches - Snuggle

Some Sundays are just meant for sleeping in and snuggling!

We are doing that this morning!

Sharing this with Sunday Sketches

See you there, enjoy your day!

Sweet Saturdays - Summer Love

“How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet

"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh” 

― A.A. Milne

A quiet moment together. 

 We spent ours coloring and dreaming ....

now that's love....you can just feel!

Sharing this with sweet saturdays, here.

Creative Tuesdays- Gift

It's time for Creative Tuesday's. The theme this week is

GIFT

The first thing that came to mind - was imagination.

This is a quick sketch that I colored and then added to with digital color.

hope you enjoy it!

See you at Creative Tuesdays!

Sunday Sketches - The Flight

This week, the girls and I released our butterflies. Over the past week, we have watched them grow from small caterpillars into beautiful Painted Ladies. It was time to say good bye and let them go.
We carefully opened the "butterfly garden" and one by one released them into the blue sky.They circled around us as we let them fly high above us - waving good bye with their orange speckled wings. You could almost hear them whispering, "Thank You"

With graduations and the school year coming to an end, it's the time of year when we think about flying off into the future...spreading our wings and soaring....saying thank you to those that have helped us prepare for our next flight in this beautiful journey of life....Just like the butterfly! So to all of you soaring and flying this month, I say, "Enjoy the Flight!"

So, today, I am sharing this quick little sketch I did early this morning with my friends 

over at Sunday Sketches. 

See you there!

For Now....

I love this quote I found yesterday and thought it fit perfectly with my mermaid illustration.
This is another one of the prints I will be offering in my Summer Soiree Collection....launching soon!

I do love picking up a good book and being transported to another time and place...even if it's just for a moment. I have been so busy lately, I may only be able to pick up a book for 10 minutes - then it's  back to "Mommy, we need your help," 

"What's for dinner?" 

" - can you drive me here?"

Can so and so come over..." 

"Can you help with my homework...I have a test tomorrow," 

you know, everyday things little kids need! 

So for now, I will just have to take the 10 minutes

 I get and enjoy my short "reading" trips to Paris, 

California and other worlds...in the pages of a good book or blog!

Have a great day my friends! 

Creative Tuesdays - Celebration

The theme this week over at Creative Tuesday's is Celebration. 

I thought I would try to weave the theme into my new Summer Collection which I have been sharing with you all over the last week...

So, here is what I came up with!

A little mermaid celebration!

See you over at Creative Tuesdays. 

Sunday Sketches - More from The Sea....

It's been a very busy week around The Studio. I am so very excited to be working on my new summer collection. Named after my two little girls, Summer and Saylor.

 It's appropriately titled, Saylor's Summer Soiree.

Chase Your Dreams print, available, here

It's been fun working on this collection and it's definitely helped my creative energy chart new courses.

I will be introducing more print and paper goods in The Shop this week,  one of them will of course include this mermaid. Thinking she will be a print and a new bookplate!

Love You print, available here

So, today, I am sharing her with my friends over at Sunday Sketches....

Stop by and say, "Hello"

Set Sail and Chase Your Dreams...

Chase Your Dreams....

In keeping with the theme of Mermaids and Underwater this week,

 I wanted to give you a sneak peek at the new collection I have been working on....

Saylor's Summer Soiree 

 - Inspired of course by my own little mermaids....

My favorite colors for spring are soft pink, mint with a twist of tangerine....and I am so excited to  be translating them into my summer collection.

To me, these colors are happy, fresh and bright - 

Hope you have enjoyed this little peek into what's been going on here at

 Rose Hill Designs

and now,

Back to drawing board

New prints are being added daily to our Etsy shop, here

Creative Tuesdays - Underwater

The theme at Creative Tuesday's this week is Underwater....

I first shared this sketch with my friends at Sunday Sketches.

Since Sunday, I have colored her with pen and ink and have begun experimenting with digital color!

Well, we believe in Mermaids here at my house. The girls and I make up "tales" about ourselves as mermaids...and our fishy friends all living underwater out in the Atlantic, somewhere far off the coast.

I have always imagined a magical place existed underwater -

 Coral castles and treasure chests are plentiful here in our "underwater" world...

Wouldn't it be fun to explore their world?

(Maybe in a future sketch!)

See you at Creative Tuesdays!

Sunday Sketches - Life is Beautiful

Hello and Good Morning to you!

We've had the ocean on our minds here, ever since we returned from our trip to the coast last week. 

( Pictures here)

 The girls love mermaids and I was playing around with a sketch of one for Summer's room...

So, here is a the initial sketch

 - I quickly colored her digitally to share with my friends at Sunday Sketches...

 but I am thinking of  painting her in watercolor  her first,

 and then adding color digitally.

And of course, I had to add one of my most favorite quotes!

Life is beautiful

isn't it....?