I’ve added five new backgrounds to the site.

THAT IS ALL.
-Sarah

Good afternoon.

Five new backgrounds have been added to the site.

There’s a new wallpaper. It’s available in six sizes, including wide screen.
I’ve had this woman’s face on my computer for what seems like years now and I could never figure out what to do with her. The graphic is based on a photograph of a Mexican actress that I saw in a book back when I was taking Spanish classes. I have tried my best to identify her, but I’m no expert on classic Mexican cinema. After pouring over pages of old black and white photographs, all the actresses start to look alike; they all have the same hairdo and thin femme fatale eyebrows. If anyone knows who she is, please let me know.

Thanks to Google, I discovered that my wallpapers are only useful to 25% of my visitors because many people now have wide screen monitors. In an effort to keep up with the times, I’ve added a few wide screen versions of some of my older wallpapers. If anyone has any requests for a wallpaper that fits their monitor, just leave a note with your monitor size and I’ll try to get it up soon.

I’ve added 12 new icons, a few of which are below.

There’s also six new iPhone wallpapers over at my Flickr site.

Yours,
Sarah

Hiya.
I’ve just added eight new tiled backgrounds.

This week I was in a bit of a creative slump. I’ve been reading an enormous amount of design blogs lately, and maybe seeing all those other images has overwhelmed my mind with so much information that I’ve forgotten how to design for myself. Not that I’m complaining- I’ve come across some truly fantastic designers and beautiful blogs in my never-ending search for inspiration. I’m always scouring the web for that elusive little spark of imagination to occur.

I’ve only been subscribing to blogs for about a month now, ever since I finally broke down and started using Google like the rest of humanity. Maybe next I’ll have to ditch that Hotmail address I’ve had since the 8th grade. And in a decade or so more, maybe I’ll consider joining Twitter.

-Sarah

Happy Friday the 13th!

I’ve added six new background patterns today, which means that this site now features OVER 100 tiled designs!

One of the new designs is based on the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman called The Yellow Wallpaper. It’s the story of a woman who quietly goes insane after she stares at patterned wallpaper for too long. There but for the grace of God go I.

I’ve gotten more than 2,500 spam comments in the last 10 days from this blog. Spam robots totally love me.

Till later,
Sarah

I’ve added five new backgrounds:

Also a wallpaper:

One of these days I am going to figure out something productive to do with all my designs besides just post them on the internet. I feel like this website is kind of a hole-in-the wall.

Love,
Sarah

Greetings,

I’ve added four new backgrounds to the site, and they can be linked to directly.

There’s a new feature here as well- Free printable address labels. Just type in your address and you’ll instantly have your own custom labels. There’s an assortment of twelve designs, all done in red. Here’s a preview:

Please note that this label maker only works in Firefox or Internet Explorer. I tested it in Safari and Opera, but sadly it doesn’t work, and I am not sure if it works in Google Chrome because for some reason Google Chrome doesn’t have a print preview. I had to write this little tool using the very basic level of Javascript I know, so bugs were inevitable.

Till later,
Sarah

Hello.

I’ve added a new wallpaper, available in three sizes, and here is a preview:

There are five new backgrounds, as seen below:

The Gallery Hanahou show closes on the 27th, so my crazy little embroidery adventure is just about over.
For some inexplicable reason, my Price is Right embroidery went a little viral. It got a mention from BoingBoing, Pop Sugar, CRAFT, BuzzFeed, and a whole host of other blogs. It also wound up (albeit very briefly) on the front page of the Huffington Post, between pictures of Obama, Jesus, and Bono.

And with all that press, this website got more hits than a Cheech and Chong movie.

I really didn’t see that one coming.

-Sarah

Howdy!

I did a little remodeling to the site, so now I’ve got pink and gray as the main colors. Gray is the color of classiness, you know. I read an article a while ago that asked "How many graphic designers can the world need?" I decided to put a variation of that quote as the subtitle of this site.

I’ve made six new backgrounds that you can you use to decorate your website, blog, or profile. Three of them are kind of St. Patrick’s Day themed (it’s a little early, I get it, but there are not nearly enough holidays that celebrate both booze and redheads).

I experimented a bit with making 3D objects. They make a very cool effect, but I probably won’t be making too many of them in the future because my poor old computer doesn’t have the energy to handle them.

All 82 backgrounds are now available for direct linking, so when you click on any background you will see the necessary coding. Have fun!

I made another embroidery. I thought this fellow looked so dapper that he warranted his own embroidery. It’s based (loosely) on a photograph taken in 1915, so this gentleman was probably born 100 years before I was.

Ciao,
Sarah

In honor of every single girl’s least favorite holiday, I’ve added four new backgrounds done entirely in red.

There are two other new backgrounds available (in addition to the other 70) that are a little less Valentine’s themed, if you’re not in the mood to celebrate. There’s six new iPhone wallpapers available as well.

I’ve added a new section to the site that has seven new printable papers that you can use for scrapbooks, collages, origami, wrapping paper, or anything else you can possibly think of to do with pretty paper. They are high quality PDF files that can be printed on your regular inkjet printer, or can be loaded onto a USB drive and taken into a print shop. They are all free for personal use.
I just wanted to say a quick thanks to any subscribers of the RSS feed. Last month was Totally Severe’s busiest month ever, due in no small part to the fine folks at CRAFT magazine, who mentioned my embroideries on two occasions.

Don’t forget about Forget Me-Not! The above embroideries will also be for sale at the show. I am curious to find out if a market exists for hand-sewn portraits of minor television celebrities.

Yours,
Sarah

Greetings,
I’ve sent off my little embroideries to New York City, and so very soon they will be on display in a gallery on Broadway. A bit more info about the show is below, or you can visit the gallery’s website.

The great part about all this is that I get to brag that I was in a show on Broadway. Much in the same way that I brag about attending Stanford (I was there for three days being trained how to make a high school yearbook. Really, does it get any nerdier than yearbook camp?).

Here are links to the other artists participating in the show:
Aimee Ray, Apol Lejano-Massebieau, Diem Chau, Emily Eibel, Emily Katz, Heidi Kenney, Jenny Harada, Jessica Marquez, Joetta Maue, Kate Durkin, Katherine Shaughnessy, Kayte Terry, Kris Garland, Kristen Rask, Mary Yaeger, Molly Dilworth, Nicole Licht, Orly Cogan, Pamela Davis, samski*art, Shanna Fiorucci, Shannon Rankin, Vanessa Lauria, Vivienne Strauss

Anyway… I’ve added four new very bright and very eclectic backgrounds to the site, and here they are:

There are now 70 different backgrounds available. I am thinking about making some free scrapbook/craft paper with some of these designs in the future, if I can manage to keep the quality up and the file sizes down. No promises yet.

Ciao for now,
-Sarah