Happy Holidays 2015

Wow...I am just looking at my all time history of this blog - so far it had over 20 000 clicks.

 Thank you everyone who is stopping by from time to time. I appreciate every reader and every single comment. 

I am happy we are such a great, creative community who loves to get inspired by each other's art. 

My goal for next year is spending more time being creative and show more of my work. 

I love what I do and I hope you do, too ! 

Happy Holidays and a very Happy and Creative New Year !

Love, Maike

Holiday wall art available for instant download here.

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 !

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 !

World Lupus Day 2015 ( and Mother's Day )

Today is World Lupus Day and my fellow designer and friend Dawn Clarkson is having a butterfly showcase over at her blog Nice and Fancy in its third year to raise awareness of Lupus disease.

"Lupus is a chronic disease which can affect anyone at any age, it is hard to diagnose and the exact causes of the condition are still unknown. Lupus, considered to be a rare disease is becoming more and more common. The butterfly is universally accepted as the symbol which represents the disease."

  

I m very happy I was able to contribute with a butterfly design and a small donation to help to create interest towards Lupus. 

Due to the great response of Dawn's call for butterfly designs she is having four posts in total today over at her blog. 

What a great success already ! 

There is even a Pinterest board where you can see all designs together.

Please take your time and check out all gorgeous butterfly designs at Nice and Fancy.

Butterfly design for World Lupus Day 2015 / copyright©Pattern Jots by Maike Thoma 2015

We also do not want to forget it is Mother's Day today...I am wishing all amazing moms out there a very Happy Mother's Day - may it be filled with joy !

Happy Mother's Day Card / copyright©Pattern Jots by Maike Thoma 2015

Happy Sunday !!!

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 !