Aloha my friends! I’m spending this week at the beach, soaking up the sun and living in the present. I feel so blessed to be here, dipping my toes in the sand.
So many of us have turned our attention to fall since the kids are going back to school, that’s what we do in August. To be frank, it’s one of the things I find frustrating about this industry, how the catalogs begin to arrive, always looking to sell us something for the next season instead of embracing the one we’re in.
It’s business, I get it, but it’s left me feeling unsettled because life is to be lived in the season we’re in, not the one that is coming. Yes, autumn is lovely with its warmer hues and falling leaves, but can’t we embrace summer just a little bit more" Leafy botanical and bold florals are a trend still going strong. We’ll see more of these tropical inspired prints in summers to come since a day at the beach on a tropical island is the definition of bliss! Bold tropical prints went out of style in the 2000s because the old prints looked dingy and dated. It’s nice to see them make such a big comeback because now they’ve been reinterpreted in cleaner more modern ways.
Today I’m featuring prints from lesser known designers and their tropical inspired fabrics found on Zazzle, Minted, and Spoonflower. There are a lot of talented artists out there that deserve to be highlighted because their designs are #imho far fresher. Be...