Hello! My name is Sharilyn, and together I live with my guy and our sweet girl + new baby boy on top of a mountain just outside of Vancouver, Canada.
Long ago, I began a my own little company called lovelydesign. After many years (with a little luck and a lot of work) my own creations enabled me to make a small living doing what I love to do. But these days I am both a full-time mama and maker, and so I am creating my goods only infrequently.
I keep this blog as a record of all sorts of things which I'd like to try to keep with me for always.
We’re doing a family challenge for the month of February that I thought
others might like to join in on. We’re designating it Do Something Brave
Month, an...
Have you heard of Uppercase Magazine? Dubbed as "a magazine for the creative and the curious", I have been purchasing individual issues locally at Assemble a...
Three photos for this Thursday: * cheese straws were made and loved several times these holidays- I once posted the recipe here. They're a bit like cheesy, p...
image source: graygoosie on flickr
We talked about the 'Fundamentals of Thrifting' on Monday. This post is all
about the nitty gritty details. The funny l...
Oh my! What a fantastic read! I devoured this book in only a couple of
days. It has everything I always look for in a story.
First of all, the author is a ...
A month of letters and snail mail - in attempt to better my cursive (I’m a
capital printer with small i’s), to find moments in which to gather
thoughts an...
THANK YOU for all kind and nice comments about Anna‘s and mine porcelain in
the last post. You made us feel uplifted and strengthened in such a good
way. W...
Hey there friends. I know! I haven't posted since last year!! Gah! But luckily last year was just a month ago, right? :P I've been a busy bee, working on ton...
[image: bottles from the object & totem shop]
[image: bottles from the object & totem shop]
[image: bottles from the object & totem shop]
Here are some bott...
In my studio (oh those words make me smile!), I have been doing lots of
different things this past month… but not really finishing much of
anything. I have...
Paul was saying that he felt like these first few weeks of Truly's life are a sort of reprieve given that she came a few weeks early. She is easing us into n...
That last potholder grew out of a need for mindfulness in my life. This
one, on the other hand, was sewn out of jealously. If you follow the lovely
Kayanna...
I'm putting together a Valentine project to do with 3 year olds-2nd graders. I had the idea to make butterflies from coffee filters and clothes pins, which t...
Every Valentine's Day, my sweet, twanging, Southern grandmother used to recite
to me:
"Up the Hickory, Down the Pine,
Won't you be my Valentine?"
As...
This weekend we'll be at attending the annual New Year's parade. And we're
making classic lanterns for the house.
There a many good tutorials online to ...
Need a wintertime pick-me-up? Let me suggest this dazzling concoction: a
bright and sunny soda featuring freshly muddled kumquats and pink
peppercorn syrup...
Two beautiful ladies that work at our shop have been preparing an
affordable and scrumptious Winter Veggie Box program that our lucky patrons
can registe...
I'm off to Alt Design Summit in the morning! I hear it's freezing in Salt
Lake, so I'm digging out all my cold weather clothes and saying goodbye to
my f...
Henri turned 7 yesterday. We gathered a few of his friends who were also holidaying down our way. With siblings this resulted in a casual treehouse party for...
Just in case you haven’t seen that yet….a sweet song for this eve. We are
cozied up at home, most likely destined for bed before the ball drops. :)
Happy N...
merry christmas! however you are spending the day, i hope you are having as
much fun as this monkey........ (i'm so glad he survived the trip home from
h...
PHOTOGRAPH BY KIMI KOLBA Just in case you're looking for some holiday packaging inspiration Joke and I are posting our fun ideas over on SHIMTOKK. We are hon...
When Ilia was a few weeks old, Pete asked, and said it so casually from the
couch where he was reading after dinner, "Do you miss our old life?" . . .
cont...