Blooms, Buds and Babies

On the work desk this week - blooms and more blooms. The first shot is of a batch of special order zinnias. Every time time I look at them the word POW! comes into my head - they are so bright and comic-book-looking to me. I wouldn't normally work with this color palette and have been very much enjoying the new color combos. They need to be stitched of course to call them done.

But these lovelies are done. These are for an order going out next week. I am in love with the white, orange, turquoise one in the center (fruit loops anyone?)



And last but in no way least - my best friend Susan is expecting! And her shower is tomorrow. I have just finished the favors for the occasion - a little pot with seeds and a little plug of soil to plant - these were wrapped in the green fabric, tied with yellow ribbons and I added a little daffodil. The little card has growing instructions on the back. Springy! And easy and I hope everyone likes them!

May everyone have a wonderful Easter weekend!

Flutter-by Butterfly

I am so very excited about this.

I started creating wall art/mixed-media pieces for my shows and shops and I am really excited to start adding some to the web shops! The first one is the Butterfly Fairy.

I think that this would look so cute hanging in a little girl's room. Because it is always the wonderful people that buy my work that give me the best ideas - this is where the idea for the framed pieces came from. I had a wonderful customer very excitedly show me a shadow box frame of several of my ornaments that she had created to display them. I loved it. Another customer had taken a fairy pin and framed it for a baby shower gift - brilliant! So here they are all stitched up and assembled and ready for your wall!

More to come in the Etsy and Dawanda shops soon!

Spring Things

Though it is a very dark and dreary, lamps-on-all-day sort of day, there is an assortment of springy things on the studio table.

A batch of the little flower pins for an order:

Miniature flower pots freshly painted:

Even stamping tags has a spring theme to it:

Who's ready for spring!?

Pea Soup Studio Tour

I love LOVE getting sneak peaks into other artists' studios. How people work is so fascinating to me. So, I thought it would be fun to share my own studio with all of you.

Here is a close-up of my little tackle box of bits and buttons. . . No, you aren't seeing things - there are drawers labeled "Smarty Pants" and "Jingles" and "Candy Canes" I love my job.

Here is a shot of my work table that runs the length of the "L" shaped studio. There's orders of framed pieces, tooth fairies and my color chart hanging out here.

Here we have the short side of the "L" where all the actual making takes place. It is pretty spiffy in this shot (as spiffy as it gets!)

Hope that you enjoyed the mini-studio tour! Back to work for me!