AND a special offer for all CJane readers. For the next week only, CJane readers get a FREE CARD of choice when they mention CJane in their order.
It is very fitting that we start this party with Sarah Jane Studios. She is the designer behind that beautiful CJane Soiree invitation that I just can't stop staring at. Her ability to make words and ideas into something visual is, well, amazing.
Sarah Jane is an artist and mother of 3 small children. She loves to create designs that remind us of childhood. Her shop was created in an effort to create art that she wasn't seeing in the stores. Her work reflects the vintage storybook feel, but with fresh color and modern design. You can buy her children's wall art and paper goods directly through her etsy shop. Sarah jane also has a career in illustrating children's books, and has illustrated the book FULL OF LIFE and is currently illustrating the children's picture book CHRISTMAS GOODNIGHT which will release in Fall 2011. You can also follow her on her blog where she documents her life as a wife and mother of 3.
CJane will also receive $50 dollars in Shop Credit to Sarah Jane Studios.
Required Entry:
Visit Sarah Jane Studios and tell me what print makes you nostalgic for your childhood days.
Extra Entries: Want more chances to win? Leave additional comments telling me if you do any or all of the following.
Become a follower of Family Volley (click "follow" in the top left hand corner of the page)
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Leave me a question on Dear Family Volley.
A winner will be chosen at random. Comments will close at midnight on Wednesday April 7.
All gifts to CJane and giveaways have been generously donated by each company or business. I have not personally received any product, or compensation of any sort for any of the giveaways or gifts.
Definitely the girl reading! Oh my, what a lovely print! And how much it reminds me of my childhood...and makes me long for the days I could sit w/ a book all day again. :-)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful prints over at Sarah Jane! I need the Little artist print for my middle daughter, who loves to color and draw and create. And I also need the read with me pink.blond for my oldest daughter, who is just learning to read. And for my baby, the just stay little girl print. Love these!
ReplyDeleteI can't figure out how to become a follower--does subscribing to your RSS feed work? :)
ReplyDeleteThe "I love my Brother" totally reminds me of me and my little brother and our childhood snuggle time.
ReplyDeleteI love love love the print "this much"! so fun!
ReplyDeleteI follow FV.
ReplyDeleteThe paper dolls- I used to play with those for hours with my sisters.
ReplyDeleteI've admired her work for a long time. The print featured in this post is perfect for my boy. Then again, so is the one with the giraffe and the little boy.
ReplyDeleteFor sure the paper dolls!!!
ReplyDelete"Hello bird" reminds me of my childhood love of birds, of pet parakeets and cockatiels and rescued bluejays and adopted doves and the jaunty robins singing at my window.
ReplyDeleteThe three bears revisited--girl chairs - that reminds me of my grandparent's house!! Love it. :D
ReplyDeleteI like "Mon Petit Lapin" in green. It reminds me of the velveteen rabbit and makes me wistful.
ReplyDeleteI follow Family Volley
ReplyDeletei like Le Balloon print- not necessarily a memory from my childhood, but a current happening in our house. my little guy is obsessed with balloons!
ReplyDelete"Summer Tea Party" is so sweet!
ReplyDeleteThese are so adorable!
ReplyDeleteI have always wanted a cute family tree--hers is so much better than the one I tried to draw myself when I was little...
ReplyDelete"June's White Dandelion" WOW! I love illustrations with a vintage look. These are beautiful. My daughter will be as beautiful as June someday!
ReplyDeleteThe "Three Bears Revisited--Girls chairs" makes me nostalgic. I loved the 3 bears!!! :) and the chairs are oooober cute!!
ReplyDeletei follow family volley
ReplyDeleteI love the "tea party" prints and the monthly prints-- "april showers" and "may flowers". So darling.
ReplyDeleteRead with me green, love it!
ReplyDelete"Snuggle Me" brought a tear to my eye. Love it!
ReplyDeleteI love the "Just Right" image from the three bears!
ReplyDelete"Summer Tea Party" reminds me of my grandparents's backyard and all the time my sisters and I spent imagining there.
ReplyDeleteAddie & Ella play tea party..my lil blondies will love this in their room :o) sweet prints..also love Oh Happy Day.
ReplyDelete"Goodnight, Friend" for sure
ReplyDeletei have a friend who would LOVE the elephant illustrations. they are so adorable
ReplyDelete"Storytime" is the one for me.
ReplyDeleteRead with me pink makes me remember the days of reading all day long as a child. Not so easy to do now that I have 4 children.
ReplyDeleteI love "Le Balloon" but I cannot WAIT for her retro line.
ReplyDeleteand I am a follower!
ReplyDeleteI love "This Much"!
ReplyDeleteApril Showers reminded me the most of my childhood. I think it reminds me of Holly Hobby!
ReplyDeleteI am a blog follower as well
ReplyDeleteAll of her stuff is SO GORGEOUS but I love the tea party post cards them most. Being an only child I had A LOT of tea parties with my dolls.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely, Read With Me - love it!
ReplyDeleteI also follow you on Twitter
ReplyDelete"Grace" reminds me of my daughter... such beautiful work!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite nostalgic print is april showers
ReplyDeleteI follow family Volley
ReplyDeleteLove "This Much"!
ReplyDeleteLittle Visitor, because really it sums up my love for all God's creatures which started in childhood :)
ReplyDeleteI love Sarah Jane's work!
ReplyDeleteThe print that makes me nostalgic is OH Happy Day-Fine art print!
I love the April Showers print. I always did love this time of year.
ReplyDeleteI love "Read With Me" in Green. I love to read, and so do my little toddlers, and this would be awesome to have in my kids' room.
ReplyDeleteThe card with the dress on the hanger reminds me of happy days playing with paper dolls. Great site.
ReplyDeleteShawn
The "read with me" prints are so my childhood - it is all I did!! Love her work :)
ReplyDeleteThe elephants and giraffe prints remind me of childhood because, as a family, we held annual memberships to the zoo. We went often and my parents had many prints of wild animals in our home.
ReplyDeleteI'm following Family Volley!
ReplyDeleteI follow Sarah Jane on Twitter
ReplyDeleteI have always loved the Read with Me print.
ReplyDeleteThe girl looking out the window at the bird--reminds me of bird watching with my Nanny and Poppy!
ReplyDeleteI love the family trees!
ReplyDelete"April" from Her Month By Month reminds me of my youth :-)
ReplyDeleteJust Stay Little girl print. My youth...my little girl's youth. Time flies....
ReplyDeletestorytime is my favorite...love it.
ReplyDeleteSarah Jane is actually already all over my daughter's nursery, but I'd love to add one of her personalized family trees to it!
ReplyDeletethe little girl reading was totally me back in the day - now three little hooligans hardly let me sit still. :)
ReplyDeletebess
Oh, the "Read with Me" print definitely feels like my childhood.
ReplyDeleteI love Grace and the family trees. Grace would be perfect for my daughter's wall, and it has Mummy's love of geisha. :)
ReplyDeleteThe paper dolls--my sister and I used to dress them up when we were little.
ReplyDeletei subscribe to family volley!
ReplyDeletebess
The "Just Stay Little" card is my favorite. Our babies grow up too quickly...
ReplyDeleteI have always loved the "tea party" print. It reminds me of my own childhood.
ReplyDeleteLittle Artist. I was always drawing every white page I found.
ReplyDeleteHow have I never discovered this artist? Oh my...I MUST have the "J'aime ma maman" elephants. MUST.
ReplyDeleteThe Love You giraffes are precious, and the little girl at the tea party takes me back to my youth.
ReplyDelete"Oh Happy Day" and "This Much" both make me want to be 7 years old again, pulling my red wagon and playing with sidewalk chalk.
ReplyDeleteI love those paper dolls. I played with paper dolls all the time when I was a child.
ReplyDelete-FringeGirl
"Read With Me - Green" brings back memories. I'm still often found glued to a favorite story. A close friend just had her first baby girl last week - this would make the most meaningful present!
ReplyDeleteOh Happy Day would have to be my favorite. It reminds me of preschool where we had weekly parades.
ReplyDeleteI'm following Family Volley
ReplyDeleteI love all the prints at Sarah Jane Studios, specially the "Oh Happy Day Fine Art Print"
ReplyDelete"Read with Me" makes me remember my childhood days fondly. :) Thank you.
ReplyDeleteRead with me - but all of them make me smile.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the bebe cjane!!! I really love the "mon petit lapin" print. I didn't have a little bunny, but I did have a favorite bear aptly named "Teddy" that I had with me almost every moment of my childhood.
ReplyDeleteThe Little Artist in pink reminds me how I spent many afternoons. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThe dress-up party reminds me of dress up parties with my sister and cousins. I love it!
ReplyDeleteI follow Family Volley via Reader.
ReplyDeleteThe "Read with me, green, brown hair" reminds me of when I was little :)
ReplyDeleteThe girl reading a book with the green background. Still love to read!
ReplyDelete"Tea Party" reminds me of myself as a little girl. I grew up with three brothers and had lots of tea parties with my teddy bear!
ReplyDeleteI love "Boys at play" So cute!
ReplyDeleteI love the little girl on the "I Would Really Like To" notepad. Reaching for more!
ReplyDeletejaime mon papa is so very sweet!
ReplyDeleteI ADORE the Read With Me print. I got one for my girls a while ago and finally got it up on the wall. I like it because I was such a book nerd as a child. Hope my girlies will be, too. ;)
ReplyDeleteI love the paper dolls, brings back fabulous memories of being a young girl. I also love the "Love" cards, looks like the Velveteen Rabbit. Who doesn't love the Velveteen Rabbit?
ReplyDeleteI love the paperdolls! I used to LOVE playing with paperdolls when I was growing up...
ReplyDeleteI follow FV!
ReplyDeleteWow... super talented!!! I LOVE the snuggle me print!! So sweet!!!
ReplyDelete:)
Love, JL
momtothreebabies.blogspot.com
"Dress-up party" is my childhood! I love it!!
ReplyDeletelove the 'i love you, friend' piece. so beautiful!
ReplyDeletei follow sarah jane on twitter!
ReplyDelete@wishfulnals
I am following miss sarah jane on twitter :)
ReplyDeleteLove, JL
momtothreebabies.blogspot.com
I Love August Sound and Little Artist. They remind me of my childhood!
ReplyDeleteI am am follower of Sarah Jane! I collect Eloise Wilkin books and artwork and I may have a new favorite!!
ReplyDeleteHow can you pick just one I want them all! I like November's Friend if I had to narrow it down to one choice.
ReplyDeleteWinter Cheer... cold winter days spent in the Wisconsin woods.
ReplyDeleteIt would definitely be April Showers...makes my heart hurt just a little bit even looking at it.
ReplyDeleteWaiting. It has such a stillness that I remember from being a little kid, breathless with anticipation for the next thing to happen.
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower!
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful work! I love the Bike Reader and Family Trees ... and the Oh Happy Day parade design.
ReplyDelete@superdumb follows on Twitter
ReplyDeleteThere are so many that would be wonderful for my mom's reading room. The Just Stay Little prints and the Read with Me prints are adorable.
ReplyDeleteI love her prints. We have "read with me" and "little artist" hanging in our family room. Read with me takes me back!
ReplyDelete"Snuggle Me" is super cute!!
ReplyDeleteI love the 'read with me' print, because I always had my nose stuck in a book growing up!
ReplyDeleteLove the animal prints - especially the elephants!
ReplyDeleteI'm loving the 8 Everyday Cards and the Snow on Snow print!!
ReplyDeleteso timeless and stunning! i really like the "waiting" print.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my favorite shops! I love the "I love my sister" print. I have 2 sisters and I also have 2 daughters. Sisters are great!
ReplyDeleteSummer Tea Party!
ReplyDeleteI love the "friends" print! My and my friend would spend hours and hours on the swings! so sweet!
ReplyDeleteI love the "Storytime" print. My son looks just like that ready his books.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love the 'dinosaur print'...reminds me of my son and his love of everything that ROARS! :)
ReplyDeleteJunes White Dandelion and July's dilemma. Both remind me of my childhood days.
ReplyDeleteOh, paper dolls.. I had SO much fun with paper dolls.
ReplyDeleteI am struck by the READ WITH ME GREEN BROWN HAIR because that is the image of my little girl that is stuck in my head when I think of her childhood.....
ReplyDeleteThe artwork is beautiful! I loved them all! The one that brings immediate memories of childhood is the "Little Artist" as I have been drawing, etc. since a small child. The other print image is the one on "Surprise Kisses", "I Love You My Dear" and "I Am Yours" as I have a photo from my childhood in the 1940's of me visiting what must have been a children's zoo and I am playing with a little deer. I remember a first train ride and going all the way to Colorado (I lived in Minnesota at the time)and being motion sick - well you can see that has brought memories! :<)
ReplyDeleteBarbara Diane
"little artist, pink" is pretty much a true rendition of me as a little girl. I was always laying on the floor, propped up on my elbows, feet swinging behing me and a fresh box of crayola crayons at my side. believe it or not, I even had a squeaky little giraffe from my toddlerhood - I think they still make it, she's called "Sophie the Giraffe" and she was from France.
ReplyDeleteAll the the wagon pulling prints remind me of my wagon pulling days. Good times. Lovely prints.
ReplyDelete"Friends"...because there is nothing like a great childhood friend! And I have two daughters who have a beautiful friendship--and this print would be perfect in their room!!
ReplyDeleteGoodnight Friend! What a beautiful print for a nursery!
ReplyDeleteOh please- I'd love this!!!!
Junes White Dandelion takes me back to many summers long ago!
ReplyDeleteFollow FV!
ReplyDeleteLove the Hello Bird cardpack. so cute!
ReplyDeleteI love the "Danse Avec Moi--Spring" reminds me of my Mother who loves to speak French every now and then!
ReplyDeleteThe two little girls on the swing titled "friends." Such a reminder of all those summer days spent with friends and the simple joys of childhood!
ReplyDelete"Family Tree" or "This much", I can't explain why they touched me the most, it just did.
ReplyDeleteI love the " I love my Brother" print of dogs!
ReplyDeleteI love the 3 bears revisited bowl prints (girl or boy, since I don't have kids yet)! They are so cute! I also like the I love my mom elephants.
ReplyDeleteI follow family volley
ReplyDeleteI love the monthly prints like April Showers, May Flowers, Judy's Dilemma...so cute!
ReplyDeleteI follow vintage pearl
ReplyDeleteHer work is adorable! I love the "on parade birthday invitations"... takes me back to being a child when my birthday was about the "party" and not just a day that made me older! :)
ReplyDeleteLover her work! I love the Oh Happy Day print. too sweet.
ReplyDeleteI love "read with me pink". As a child I would beg my mom to take me to the library and then would check out as many books as I could carry. I loved being outside and would bring my books, sit under our big tree and read during my quiet time.... such fond memories.
ReplyDeleteReading was my escape from life so naturally it would be "Read with me Pink. Brown Hair"
ReplyDeleteThere are a few that I like...Jaime Papa, Junes White Dandelion, Jaime ma maman...and many more
ReplyDeletethe tea party postcards are so darling! who doesn't love a cup of tea with her best doll?
ReplyDeleteI love all of the 'three bears revisited!" Super Cute!
ReplyDeleteI am follower on twitter too!
ReplyDeleteThis much....adorable
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Read with Me in green.
ReplyDeleteLove Sarah Jane! Her Just Stay Little print has always been my favorite.
ReplyDeleteThis much brings back some memories. My mother and I had a special saying for how much we loved each other, and she continued it with my kids. LOVE IT!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the Paper Dolls Printables & School Days...I remember gingerly punching out my paper dolls & their beautiful varieties of clothes for hours of pretend play. Ahhh...simpler days!
ReplyDeleteI follow Sarah Jane on Twitter
ReplyDeleteOh the rocket launch. What fun we had in the valley behind the houses... nearly blowing ourselves up every weekend.
ReplyDeleteApril Showers reminds me of my days as a little girl when I would stomp around in puddles in the rain
ReplyDeleteThis Much.
ReplyDeletei love her work. the april showers print makes me nostalgic for my childhood in seattle.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely the pink read with me print.
ReplyDeleteI love the april showers and the dinosaur print (because I remember when I had to look up at everyone), I was very short.
ReplyDeleteSummer tea parties. It reminds me of my family of six girls.
ReplyDeleteLovely prints.
The Oh happy day print makes me want to play follow the leader!
ReplyDeleteThe paper dolls! My sisters and I used to play paper dolls for hours!
ReplyDeleteI love the dinosaur or the giraffe print
ReplyDeleteThe tea party is sooo cute. May flowers is awesome as well... Very Talented! Love it....
ReplyDeleteJunes White Dandelion makes me remember and yearn for summer.
ReplyDeleteI love the May Flowers print!
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower! :)
ReplyDeleteThe paper dolls totally send me back to playtime with my cousin. We played with our paper dolls for hours.
ReplyDeleteSo adorable!!! I love them all. But paperdolls will always have a special place in my heart.
ReplyDeleteI love the one with the boy in the blue shirt looking at the giraffe. cute!
ReplyDeleteI love the girl reading!!
ReplyDeleteI used to love reading my brother's dinosaur book from the 1960's and the dinosaur card reminds me of it!
ReplyDeleteI love the Addie and Ella print ... with the tea party. Perfect!
ReplyDeleteI love the just stay little girl print.
ReplyDeleteThe new retro line is going to have me over the moon!
ReplyDeleteI have always loved her boys at play print, very Dick and Jane fabulous feel to it :)
Oooh, I love the personalized family tree!
ReplyDeleteSo hard to decide! I think I like the giraffe print best.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, I LOVE "April Showers"! Thanks for letting me enter.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the Three Bears Chairs print!(in the boy colors) I used to have an upholstry shop and dig all things with chairs. Thanks for the fun!
ReplyDeleteI just LOVE the family trees!
ReplyDeleteluvs, aby
I follow FV.
ReplyDeleteluvs, aby
I love the June or July print. I love all of them. angellsworth@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteFreedom. Totally makes me nostalgic for my childhood days.
ReplyDeleteThree little bears revisited - boys chairs. I love that. Maybe because I have two boys!
ReplyDelete"this much" reminds me of drawing on the walls as a child...
ReplyDeleteThe "I love my sister" pink bunny print!
ReplyDeleteJuly's dilemma. Brings me back to my summer childhood days.
ReplyDeletei love the "this much" print.
ReplyDeleteI love Freedom and This much. So precious!
ReplyDeleteThe Winter Cheer print is my favorite. It reminds me of my grandma's back yard! Oh how I wish they still lived there so my daughter could sled down the hill and get dangerously close to the trees before the drop off to the creek:)
ReplyDeleteThe three bears revisited--boy chairs
ReplyDeleteso sweet!!!!
I love Sarah's beautiful illustrations. I'm really looking forward to her retro line. I think I'd hold out for that :) Did all of the above follows!
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful, love the Heart 'love you this much'
ReplyDeleteillustrating childhood in such a beautiful way.
ReplyDeleteWhat sweet art! I absolutely love it. I love the Giraffe Print - I remember that feeling of being so small.
ReplyDeleteoh gracious. It's so, so hard to choose. Today I'm really love the "this much" post cards with the little girl drawing the heart. We used to play that game with my dad. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteI may need to go buy some of those right, now.
April Showers is adorable! Perfect addition to my daughter's room.
ReplyDeleteI follow Sarajanestudios!
ReplyDeleteI follow Family Volley!
ReplyDeleterocket launch club. it is my boy and his friends.
ReplyDeleteI love the vintage family tree!
ReplyDeleteFor an extra entry, I want you to know that I follow Family Volley! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteAddie and Ella play Teaparty - so cute.
ReplyDeleteThis Much picture is perfect!
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