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Cotton & Flax Postcard GIVEAWAY!

Cotton & Flax postcard giveaway

I’ve been feeling pretty lucky all week (it IS my birthday week, after all!), so I thought I would share some good fortune, and offer a set of 12 patterned postcards as a giveaway!

Cotton & Flax postcard giveaway

What you’ll win: a set of 12 different postcards featuring patterns from the 2013 Cotton & Flax collection. There are four different patterns on kraft, slate grey, and bright pink postcards, any of which will delight your pen pal.

How to enter: You may choose one, or any of these options for multiple entries. Complete them all to increase your chances of winning!

  1. Leave a comment on this post (if you’d like, you can mention who your favorite snail mail pen pal is!)
  2. Follow @cottonandflax on Twitter (and mention that you did in the comments here)
  3. Like Cotton & Flax on Facebook (and mention that you did in the comments here)
  4. Sign up for email updates from Cotton & Flax
  5. Share this giveaway on Twitter! Simply tweet about the contest and use the hashtag #patternedpenpal

If you already follow me on Twitter or Facebook, or if you already subscribe to the email newsletter that’s great! Just say so in a blog comment to get those bonus entries.

The giveaway ends next Friday, April 5th at 8am PST, and I’ll announce the winner on the blog shortly afterward. Good luck!

The giveaway is now closed, congratulations to our TWO winners, Iveth and elizabethspace!

Design Camp with AB Chao

design camp

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending AB Chao’s Design Camp here in LA! Design Camp is a weekend interior design workshop with decorator + stylist AB Chao. At Camp you learn everything from interior design basics to magazine-worthy styling; how to apply what you’ve learned to your own space; and insider tips on making your place a beautiful, happy place to be.

Design Camp

(AB’s photo from Design Camp NYC)

Design Camp was lots of fun, and a big motivator to put more thought into the layout and decor in our apartment. We’ve been living in our current space for over two years now, and it’s never felt quite finished, so I’ve been looking for ways to feel more at home in our apartment.

My number one lesson from Design Camp: draw a layout of your home to see the space as it really is. I love to rearrange the furniture in our house, but I would often find that things didn’t quite fit right once I’d finished moving them around. Drawing the floor plan of our apartment on graph paper helped me to visualize the different arrangements we could achieve before lugging the sofa across the apartment.

treats from design camp

(I contributed Cotton & Flax postcard sets to the goodie bags each attendee received)

AB posted a recap of LA Design Camp, in case you’re curious about attending when Design Camp visits your hometown! While my experience was a little less glamorous (since I was helping out as an intern), I learned some amazing interior design tips I’ll be applying to my own home in the weeks to come. Maybe I’ll even share some before/after photos here on the blog!

Cotton & Flax visits Sew LA

Cotton & Flax visits Sew L.A.

Sew LA is one of my favorite local fabric stores, and I’ve been visiting them a lot more often since they moved to their Atwater Village location. The shop is small, but they carry a great selection of designer fabrics, and some fun Japanese imports that feature really unique patterns and colors. They carry one of my favorite fabric designers, Naomi Ito, so it’s always a treat to see what they have in stock.

sew l.a.

sew l.a.

They offer classes, too, and their studio space in the back is pretty dreamy. The classes range from beginner (learn to use your sewing machine!) to advanced (fitting and patternmaking). I envy their giant worktables, I’d love to have a big, open workspace like that to use every day while I’m making work for Cotton & Flax.

sew l.a.

sew la

For any of you LA readers, have you been to Sew LA? Taken any classes? I’d love to hear what you made with fabric you bought there!

Cotton & Flax on Instagram

Cotton and Flax Instagrams

Are you following me on Instagram? I recently changed my user name from @erin_dollar to @cottonandflax (did the same for my Twitter name, too!). I love posting snippets from my workday, and the occasional photo of my cat, so if you like patterns and animals, you should probably follow me already!

A Luxurious, Bohemian Studio

bohemian decor

I’ve been mentally rearranging my living room a lot lately, I’m really itching for a change. I put together this little collection while I was imagining the perfect bohemian corner where I could sit and sketch out new ideas for Cotton & Flax patterns.

  1. Satellite 3 Light from Schoolhouse Electric
  2. Honeycomb Pot from Terrain
  3. Torque Stool (used as a side table) from Anthropologie
  4. Cordage Chair from Anthropologie
  5. Gold Triangle Pillow from Cotton & Flax
  6. Kasbah Wool Rug from West Elm