Hello!
The condensed version…
I am Sarah Laws, an artist/designer currently living in Boston, Massachusettes. I spent the last few years living in New York City. I also lived in Santa Barbara & Palm Springs California, and Portland Oregon (where I was born.)

I graduated with a B.A. degree in Sculpture from Portland State University. I also studied Accessory Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. I moved to NYC to work as a footwear designer for Nine West Footwear, now I am working as a kids footwear designer here in Boston.

The long version!
As an artist I find inspiration in graphical print patterns, fashion, photography, music, people and animals. I love the season changes. I love celebrations, food, and displays and collections of things. I am really inspired by the little things that make life fun. I love to take photos and I use a little Olympus Stylus Verve digital camera.

I grew up as an only child, and seriously, my favorite activity was to indulge my imagination and hang out in my room drawing, writing, singing, and playing with my dolls, animals, pen, paper, cassette recorder, and clothes. It was cool to have younger and kinda hippie’ish parents… Open your mind, eat something from the organic garden! Compost! Make rasberry wine from the berries out back! Camping, sailing & hiking were our family vacations. And perhaps coolest of all, we used to rollerskate as a family! My stepdad had a pair of size 14 blue suede skates with orange wheels, hot! We had music on all hours of the day, and it was good music that I still love to hear! We went to garage sales and thrift stores for everything. I was encouraged to make my own choices, to be independent. To be true to myself. And most importantly, to figure out what my own personal truths were. It was a simple, creative upbringing, in a really cool city (Portland.) Then I spent ages 11 - 19 growing up in Southern California, in Palm Springs. Quite the contrast! Lush green and organic to the sun-scorched and plastic-y desert of Palm Springs, where my high school was on Dinah Shore Drive and Annette Funicello dined at the Italian restaurant I worked at in High School. California inspired me a lot, exposed me to a huge, diverse, entertaining and “beautiful” world. But Portland will always be my home.

WHY IS THIS SITE CALLED FUNCUPCAKE?
Funcupcake… it’s catchy, no? It represents cutesy and tasty things, some of the happy things in life. I wanted to call the site drippy cone, but when I told a few people, and they looked at me really wierd I realized it might have some bizarre connotations, that could be somewhat controversial, so back to cutesy and tasty in the most literal sense.

I REALLY LOVE;
Dessert
Japanese cute stuff
Scandanavian design
Mexican Folk Art
My Granny’s 1950’s retro house
Good street art
Sewing & Knitting
Adobe Illustrator
Getting my hair cut
Music (don’t we all)
Modern design, but sometimes it can be a little too cold and impersonal.
Handmade stuff, but sometimes it’s just a little too unrefined and all looks the same.
Hey! Maybe the crafty, handmade world and the modern design world can merge better. Modern design can get a human touch and the handmade world can get a little spiffed up. Maybe I’ll make a contribution to that idea!

Thanks for visiting, and leave a comment and let me know you stopped by, or email me at sarah at funcupcake dot com!

xo
sarah laws