On a Snowy Thursday in March

I am having a hard time getting my mind around two things. One that it is the last day of the month of March. And two, that it has been snowing on and off for two days. . . Springtime?!

The cold and gray weather has me inside at the work table (so that is a good thing) and on the table, as always, is an assortment of work . . . flowers, butterflies, fairies, mushrooms - very spring-like and very bright. Just the thing for a snowy day! Here are some snapshots -

Bits that will become flowers -

This may seem very random, but I just made some teeth for some hard-working tooth fairies and was aghast at how real they looked . . . too real. . . .

Yikes, so, to remedy this? How everything is remedy in Pea Soup World - a little blush and a smiley face . . . much better!

On the table - Monday Edition

I thought it would be fun to give you a little glimpse in to the Pea Soup studio work table - I always have lots of different projects going on at once - right now it's mostly orders that I am working on. I have the tiniest of tiny fairies that will eventually become a small framed piece -

And these little hearts go with the fairies -

And another framed piece features a little jolly juggling jester - of course and no jester is complete with a bit of blush for rosy cheeks!

And five pretty birds all finished and in a row!

Bunnies . . . and my assistants . . .

There are lots and lots of bunnies that have been hopping around on my work desk lately. Most of them are off to their new homes. I saved a few for the web shops and will be adding them periodically. Here is a little batch of oldies but goodies bunnies that I have been making for some time (in some sort of variation.)

Along with bunnies - there have been lots and lots of lots of things on the Pea Soup work table - I don't even know where to begin! Luckily I have these little ones to help me with all those tiny stitches . . .

Who?

Sorry.

I couldn't resist the title of the post. And I cannot resist the owls. I know, I am probably way past the style trend on this one, but with almost everything else - I am oblivious to these things anyway. I love owls. I have always loved owls. When thinking about this post (owl post . . . ) I thought about all of the the things that I own that are owl related. My favorite being my necklaces . . .

The one above and this one below are vintage purchased on Etsy.

The last one - I want to say Charlotte Russe for about $6!

Then there is this guy - made of pine cones - I think he's suppose to be a Christmas ornament but NO he lives in my kitchen year-round.

And there's more - so it's no wonder that I would eventually get around to making some owls. I did some owl patches a few years back and sort of taking from that design, I did these pins:

Totally fun to make and with the other new designs for this year (including the trees from yesterday's post) and some that you haven't seen yet - gnomes, mushrooms and the like - they all sort of feel right together and make a nice new batch of designs. Look for these in the Etsy and DaWanda shops too!

Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall

I am not sure when inspiration struck with this one. I do remember thinking how brilliant a concept it was but not really going to far into the thoughts of actually executing the inspired plan. So the concept is this - one pin of a tree trunk and four interchangeable tree tops - one for each season. (The eight-year old Nicole is screaming with delight!)

And so I set about creating the designs - with the hopes that my buyers would scream right along with the eight-year-old Nicole about how incredible it is - the designs themselves came very easy - snowflakes for winter, little budding flowers and pink buttons for spring, summer, maybe my favorite with a pretty little bird and of course fall . . .

Now for the hard part - how would this work? How could I make them interchangeable and yet sturdy that someone wouldn't be walking down the street and realize they are wearing a naked tree trunk where a tree top used to be. I went with a snap AND a little Velcro - a little Velcro does wonders doesn't?

And I do love it and this is definitely one of those "keep one for myself" sort of items. I am also stitching up some stand alone trees (not interchangeable) because I think those are really sweet to. In fact I am putting a summer in the Etsy shop and a spring in the Dawanda shop very soon.

Flutter-by

I have been making these little butterflies for a quite awhile. While making a few for an order, I realized that I haven't really ever done any other color combinations other than these three. These were inspired by a vintage fabric bedspread that I had as a little one. Here is the first of the new color combinations:

Its a pretty sort of rose and white color scheme and I love it. So very much that extra for the shops. Here is one if you love it too!

Spring?

Could it be? Could the season be turning??? Today has certainly been making me think that this may be the case. Lots of green and yellow and pink felt scraps on the floor of the studio and these little blooms for an order that went out today. (Thank you Blendo Past and Present - that is the name of the shop where these are going.)

In case it isn't as spring-y where you are, perhaps these colors will brighten things up a bit??

Dreamy

I have returned from my adventures!!! The Buyers Market Show in Philly was WONDERFUL (a dream, if you will.) As always, it was wonderful to meet so many great people and to catch up with all of the great friends that I only get to see in real life at this show. Many many MANY thanks to the wonderful shops and galleries that placed orders with me. Pea Soup studio production is in full swing!!!! Here is a little peak at my newly redesigned booth - oh how I love it so!!

So it has been a lot of organizing and getting things back together but I am slowly but surely there - we had a sunny day today (yay!) and I was looking at a little stack of words that I made for a show last fall and thought that they should go into the web shops as they are looking quite sad lying in the studio when they would really love to be up on the wall in a sweet little nursery somewhere - so here is the first one available in the Etsy shop:

Here is a little close up:

The word itself is made of wood, I painted it white and added the little "stitches" and of course the little teeny tiny fairies snuggled up on the letters! There are more to come - stay tuned.