A number of years ago I started painting my favorite recipes as gifts for friends——salad dressings, soups, my mother’s spicy guacamole recipe. I love painting vegetable portraits, capturing their colorful, quirky beauty in my unique style of watercolor painting. Then I remembered my grandmother’s fabulous flour sack tea towels and, in a moment of you-got-your-peanut-butter-in-my-chocolate inspiration, my business was born.

Flour sack fabric is 100% cotton but also has a special weave that makes it almost miraculously absorbent. It is luscious and practical, hence my passion for it. I wrote six or seven factories for samples before finding the real McCoy.

The process: once I finish designing and painting each image, I take it and the towels to my local screen printer who specializes in the four-color process. This process makes it look and feel like I’ve painted directly onto the towels.

Tea towels, a.k.a. dish towels, are a necessity. Everyone needs them. My tea towels’ deluxe flour sack fabric and vibrant colors make them feel like an indulgence.

I am also currently obsessed with Pinterest, so if you too are pinterested, feel free to take a gander: http://www.pinterest.com/SydneyCdeBaca/boards/.