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Happy Tuesday everyone ! 

I just received my first copy of Uppercase magazine in 2016. 

You most likely know Uppercase magazine from Canada...it is a beautiful magazine for the creative and curious with so much inspiration in each issue. 

If you hold it in your hands, you instantly love feeling the paper in your hands and the smell of a freshly printed magazine. 

Issue 28 includes a beautiful black and white calendar for 2016 with literally over 365 beautiful illustrations, patterns or quotes from illustrators and designers from all over the world. 

I am one of the lucky ones who got chosen to contribute. You can find my pattern in the month of November ( my birthday month ) on the 13th .

Uppercase Magazine issue 28 calendar 2016

Lemon Mix

Today I show you my design "LemonMix" on Kess InHouse products. I originally designed it for the last blog hop I was participating in.

Beautiful decorative door mat ...

Decorative door mat "Lemon Mix"

Great pillow sham ...

Pillow sham "Lemon Mix"

Always needed in the kitchen ...

Cutting board "Lemon Mix"

I think the shower curtain is my favourite product with Kess InHouse ...

Shower curtain "Lemon Mix"

Cooking up a storm with lemons ...

Apron "Lemon Mix"

Happy Friday !

Blue Layered Circles

Today I show you my design blue "Layered Circles". It looks beautiful on many different products by Kess InHouse and due to the two colours used it is modest in appearance.

There are never enough everything bags ...

Everything bag "Layered Circles"

For my future pet ...

Pet bowl "Layered Circles"

There are also never enough throw pillows ...

Throw pillow "Layered Circles"

New bedding ...

Cotton duvet cover "Layered Circles"

I would love to have an Apple Watch with this watch strap ... one day ...

Watch strap "Layered Circles"


Happy Saturday !

Retro Hearts

Today I show you a more playful design of mine - "Retro Hearts". 

I love this one, it works for kids and adults at the same time.

There are plenty of beautiful Kess InHouse products available with this design.

Large outdoor throw pillow ...

Outdoor throw pillow "Retro Hearts"

With this artistic apron you can cook up a storm ...

Apron "Retro Hearts"

I love this dog place mat ...

Dog place mat "Retro Hearts"

I want ...

Fleece throw blanket "Retro Hearts"

Happy Friday everyone !

Floating Circles

Today I want to show you my design "Floating Circles" in pastel colours. 

It looks great on many different Kess InHouse products.

I would love to do yoga on this mat.

Yoga mat "Floating Circles"

And I can not have enough of those small everything bags...

Everything bag "Floating Circles"

Super soft ...

Memory foam bath mat "Floating Circles"

And my personal favourite ...

Shower curtain "Floating Circles"

Happy Thursday !

What is new ?

It has been three months...I am so happy to be back ! 

I hope everyone had a fabulous summer...it is still very hot over here. 

Today I want to share good news. 

I am very proud to be accepted as a new Kess artist. Kess InHouse is a uniquely innovative concept of modern home furnishings and decor ! From now on you can find a few of my designs on beautiful products from home furnishings/accessories, pet accessories to stationary. 

There are so many products you can choose from to make your living space more beautiful ! Every week I will introduce one of my designs and show it on different products, starting today with my design "Biomolecular Science".

This 80 pages lined notebook/journal you can find over here.

You can cook up a storm with this artisitic apron which you can find over here.

Water proof artwork for the bath room, you can find this shower curtain over here.

And all pet accessories are on massive sale right now...

You can find this large dog bed over here.

You can find more Kess products with my designs over here.

I am wishing everyone a very Happy Sunday and see you next week !

Quotes

The lettering from last week started something in me...I kept going and made those two Zen/Taoist quotes out of my lettering. 

You can also find them in my Etsy store for instant download. 

Zen Proverb "All You Have Is Now" design copyright©Pattern Jots by Maike Thoma 2015

Taoist Proverb " The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Step" design copyright©Pattern Jots by Maike Thoma 2015

I am off to Spring break and will be back beginning of May ! 

Enjoy the the first warm sunshine ! 

Happy Thursday !

MATS Bootcamp April

After a quiet ( and very cold ) Easter Weekend I am in full swing back into designing. 

I was very much looking forward to the new "mini" assignment for Lilla Roger's bootcamp new mini assignment for the month of April. 

It is lettering...the words "The Global Art Gathering". 

The Global Art Gathering is actually taking place in June in Brighton and I wished I could go and meet fellow designers as well as Lilla and many other fabulous speakers at the event. 

Usually if I do lettering I start designing a whole alphabet and then use any letters I need for my illustration, patterns, etc. I did the same this time but pulled out my collection of Origami papers and started cutting out the letters. Next I did some hand lettering and while putting the words together, I also used some letters I have done some time back already and mixed it all up. I am happy with the result and I might develop some quotes for my Etsy shop in this style.

Lettering cut out of Origami paper

My finished design for the "mini" assignment   copyright©Pattern Jots by Maike Thoma 2015

Happy Friday everyone !

Happy Easter !

Easter Greetings !

Happy Dance !

I have to admit I did my little happy dance a while ago, when I found out my submissions for the new Print&Pattern Geometric book were accepted and my work will actually be shown in the newest book of the fabulous Print&Pattern series by Bowie Style 

( Thank you Marie for including me ! )

The first Print&Pattern book ( the blue one ) was my first book about surface pattern design ever and I still love this one as well as the following books "Print&Pattern 2" and "Print&Pattern Kids". 

Of course it was my dream to be included into one of these books one day but I was not sure to ever achieve my dream. I remember I submitted for the kids call and I did not make it. So I tried again for the Geometric book ( which really suits my style best ) and my work was accepted. 

Hurray ! 

Amazing designers are showing their beautiful designs in this book and many of them are fellow students from the "Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design" course by Rachael Taylor and Beth Kempton.

I think this post is appropriate for the World Book Day 2015 today ! 

Who does not love a good book ? 

No matter if it is a book with lots of pictures or a good novel. 

I love books and I truly believe you can not own enough of it ( especially art books... ;) )

New book Print&Pattern Geometric by Bowie Style ( picture source )

I am on page 194 ! ( picture source )

Happy World Book Day and Happy Thursday !