Word & Plant

We’re here at the Chapel Hill Farmers Market until noon! We only come once a month (until we hit the holiday markets) and I don’t sell online, so don’t miss your chance if you’re local! 💚

Sometimes I just really love my job. 👩🏽‍🌾
🌸 Like now when it feels like everything is in bloom or berry or even just full, voluptuous leaf!
💚 Stop by the Chapel Hill Farmers Market Saturday morning to see one of my favorite batches of Ecoprinted clothing in person and maybe treat yourself or a special someone to some farm-grown botanical magic!
🌻 If that wasn’t enough to tempt you out, market customers get raffle tickets from any vendor where they spend $5+! Two winners will get $50 in market tokens to spend at future markets!
🌺 See you there!

Some of you who have known me on here for 6 years or so might remember the time I rolled up to a bar soap making class out in the woods (1 hour from my home and supplies) and was in the middle of making a batch of soap with the students when I realized I had brought the wrong kind of lye…the one used for LIQUID soap making! I guess one big ol’ SNAFU every 5-6 years isn’t too bad of a record, but ugh!

Well, this time, I was so organized, ahead of the game even— showered, dressed, all materials and supplies packed, fresh flowers and leaves harvested and ready to go and I was on-track to get to the class venue an hour early to setup in a state of utter relaxation and calm…

Only to learn that I had the time WRONG! Like..2 HOURS wrong and the students were waiting for me (and some had already left)! Cold sweat doesn’t even begin to describe it!

A huge thank you to the folks who were able to wait and create their beautiful colorants and a bigger apology to those who weren’t able to!

⏰If you’re planning on joining me for a workshop later this summer, please rest assured that I have now triple checked my calendar to make sure I’ve recorded to times correctly!

💚 And check out these ridiculously gorgeous prints from the students in our class at the Chatham Arts Center in Pittsboro! If you haven’t been to the Arts Center yet, definitely check out the catalog!! I pretty much want to take every class and workshop being taught- ha!

Whew! As usual- late to the post! 🤣 Had an amazing time at festival last weekend (and promptly got taken down by a nasty cold, hence the late post)!

I was so happy to see some local friends and make new ones + meet new creative folks like the wonderful Etoile ! I was being my usual geeky self, gushing about my flower pounding on wood projects and how I’ve been waiting impatiently for my first suitable dye flowers to bloom. A few decided to show their pretty pink faces last weekend and I had some beautiful maple pocket flower press plates (thank you, ) mordanted and ready to go! Just LOOK at that wood burning magic Etoile shared with me! I’m excited to try again (no hard nibs this time)! But in the meantime, lots of flower pounding on wood happening here now that the flowers are arriving!

Hope everyone who adopted some of my Ecoprinted goodies or dried flower creations enjoys them and loves wrapping themselves in flowers! 🌸

Comin’ your way, Bull City!

🌿I’m so so excited to be collaborating with the stupendous in Durham to bring a make ‘n’ take workshop on MAY 31!
💚 Is it…a wooden journal? A sketchbook? A magical woodland book of spells?
✨Yes, yes, and yes!
🌸 Annnddddd… a flower press!

🌿This one’s been living in my head for a while and I can’t wait to share with you all! Some of my favorite things about this beauty are:
💚 Beautiful hardwood front and back covers
💚 Clothed in farm-grown botanicals (I bring the pressed botanicals, you bring the vision!)
💚 Natural cork fabric spine
💚 Beautiful metal hardware from my bagmaking stash
💚 And oodles of pages of high quality blotter paper and chipboard for all your flower pressing fun!
💚 I’m also including a couple of pages of watercolor paper and bringing some fun watercolor pens for folks to make their own personalized cover page! 🎨
🌿 And, psssstttttt- it’s a BINDER! So you really can use it in any way that works for you!

✍🏽Sign-up on my website! (You know where to find the link! 😘)

I’m always a little behind on posts, but I’ve been SO excited to share more about the Community Indigo Project I’ve been guiding for several months- Stories In Blue!

I knew I wanted a “permanent” place for a big, happy indigo vat at our little farm and for that to be a place that folks could come, gather, dye AND learn how indigo is truly a part of all of our shared heritage! That permanent indigo vat home is still being built, but in the meantime, we’re moving forward with the community art magic! Art waits for no one!

This reel shows some of the joy and fun we made at our free Community Indigo Dyeing event on April 12! Each community member got to dye TWO squares of fabric- one to take home and one to leave with me to be sewn into a community quilt!

Stay tuned to see some of the indigo fun we had at four Chatham County, NC public schools where over 125 kids were able to contribute their beautiful art to the quilt and also take home a square of their very own. And hug an art teacher (with consent, of course!)! What a beautiful blessing to the world our art teachers are!!

We’ve just begun sewing-up the quilt and our own local treasure, has so kindly offered her mad quilting skills to quilt it up for us! Thank you, Bea!! 🙏🏽

A HUGE thank you to all the volunteers, community members, and art teachers who have been the real ARTISTS in this project and whose creativity, excitement and joy have been bringing me so much joy. 🥹 I can’t wait for all the folks involved to be able to enjoy the finished quilt and know it’s truly been an all-hands community art project!

Stories in Blue: A Community Indigo Project is commissioned by the Chatham Arts Council and funded in part by a grant from the Chatham Arts Council, with support from Chatham County. Additional support provided by Chatham County Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources (Chatham Arts Center) and Chatham County Schools.

Come see us at the til 12 noon! 🌸 Edible flower “burladamas” (our play on kokedamas), everlasting flower bud vases with native flowers in bloom now (can you tell what’s there? 😍) and, as ever, our signature dried flower goodies featuring our small farm-grown blooms!

More Ecoprinted and naturally dyed textiles coming soon! Waiting for my beautiful 2026 blooms and leaves! I hope you’ll love seeing how different they look than the autumn-made textiles as even leaves from the same plants will have completely different colors and textures in the spring and then in the summer! Not to mention the seasonal variety of flowers! Stay tuned 💚