USA Work Trip / / Boston Marina

Today I wanted to share with you some more photographs from recent USA work trip. After visiting the New England Aquarium, I walked along the waterfront & stumbled across some truly amazing colours & textures at the boating marina. I must have spent at least an hour documenting all the imperfections & beauty.

Enjoy! Love Rachael x

USA Work Trip / / Boston Aquarium

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I wanted to share with you a selection of images from my Boston trip. I was lucky enough to squeeze in a full day of sight seeing (on foot) & crammed in so much of the beautiful city. There's nothing better than spontaneously exploring a new place when you have no appointments, time constraints & you can just go where you please. I had such a fun day & managed to visit the wonderful New England Aquarium. There's something truly inspiring about sea life, I've become a huge fan ever since my snorkelling adventures on my recent honeymoon.

(You may also like to read about my meet up with The Lilla Rogers Studio & my sunny visit to a Pumpkin Patch).

Boston Visit / / Lilla Rogers Studio

Happy Monday everyone, I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I'm back from my USA work trip & catching up on things here at the studio. I've a camera crammed full of inspiring imagery to edit & share with you from my sunny visit to Boston & Baltimore.

My trip started with a meet up with the inspiring Lilla Rogers Studio (this was actually the first time I had met Lilla, other than via Skype!). I flew into Boston on the Friday evening & spent the whole of Saturday hanging out with Lilla, we started our morning by chatting about art & design, went on a lovely walk, caught up on ideas & shared our personal experiences from teaching an online e-course. We then went for a lovely lunch in pretty Arlington to then return to the studio where I spent the rest of the day blissfully drawing away. I had such a chilled afternoon & my day was topped off by going out for a yummy meal with Lilla & her friends. I continued creating art on the Sunday & helped Lilla review some of the brilliant design work submitted for her Make Art That Sells e-course. I then spent a fun afternoon with Susan McCabe (one of Lilla's fab agents), we visited Harvard Square, roamed the inspiring streets in Cambridge & managed to watch some of the Regatta on the Charles River.

I caught up with the studio ladies again on the Tuesday evening when Susan kindly hosted a dinner party at her home for myself & the local LRS artists. I was fortunate enough to also meet the talented Alison Cole, Susan Pilgrim Waters & Ann Boyajian & my other fab agent Jennifer Nelson. We had such a brilliant evening it was so nice to meet everyone.

Before I flew out to Baltimore I attended a fun studio meeting where I also got to meet more of the brilliant LRS team; Julia & Patty. It really was a great opportunity to bounce ideas around & chat about our goals & plans for my creative future & design label. I was sad to leave as I enjoyed every minute of my time with them!

Stay tuned as I have lots more imagery to share with you from my Boston visit including my #ABSPD alumni meet up, lots of fun sight seeing & my catch up with Smart Creative Women.

From L to R: Alison Cole, Susan Pilgrim Waters, me & Ann Boyajian

Happy Halloween / / Pumpkin Patch

Happy Halloween everyone! I'm back from my USA work trip with a camera crammed full of inspirational goodness, there are so many fun photos to edit & share with you... but for now here are a few Halloween & Autumnal images from my visit to a Pumpkin Patch in the sunny county of Baltimore.

I had so much fun & was lucky enough to have to the talented Rebecca Bradley show me the sights!