I Forgot to Stop and Look at the Mountain I Climbed
I watched a video recently where a woman said something that stopped me in my tracks. She talked…
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The Trail Always Knows Before I Do
Something shifted recently. Not in a big, dramatic “burn everything down and start over” kind of way. More…
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When an Idea Asks to Become Something Else
Sometimes an idea doesn’t arrive as a plan. It arrives as a question. What if this became something…
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Building Wild Ridge Studio One Collection at a Time
When I first started learning surface pattern design, I thought the goal was to create more all of…
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Trail Side Post: Why I’m Bringing Back Real Mail
At some point over the last few years, mail stopped feeling personal. Now it’s mostly bills, advertisements, Amazon…
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Why I Finally Created a Patreon for Wild Ridge Studio
For a long time, I kept trying to figure out where all the “in-between” parts of my creative…
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The Story Behind Strawberry Fields: From Tiny Sketches to a Botanical Collection
It started with a simple truth: I absolutely love strawberries. There has always been something magical about them…
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Confidence Isn’t Always Loud
This morning, Milo climbed into my car. That probably doesn’t sound like much, but for Milo, it was…
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Designing a Collection Around Quietness
There’s a strange pressure online to make everything louder. Louder colors. Louder messaging. Bigger graphics. More products. More…
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Slow Fire and the Kind of Making That Slows You Down
What surprised me most was that the piece itself taught me this. I didn’t sit down intending to…
