Marty Mania

My son Marty is a musician....

He is also very funny.....

He has his own band LLOVE and he plays all around Providence Rhode Island and writes for indie arts ri

There's Sophie, our beloved terror...I mean terrior....Marty changes his hair color weekly...

Anyway, Marty also writes songs and re mixes other bands songs and collaborates on songs and music with other people...like Richard Griffin of Splatter Disco fame

here's the music....

I told you he was funny....

So,guess what????



Kan Ye West put Marty's songs on his blog....and he has had 1650 hits and counting on the my space page of his friend who he collaborated with....HIP HIP HOORAY !!!!!Go Marty Go! xoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxooooooooooooooooooooooo

I'll drink to that ( avec Paul)

oi vey....xo

YUM

I was going through my saved photos and these looked good....I forget where I got them, but here are a few food links that I like....http://tartelette.blogspot.com/ http://blue_moon.typepad.com/.....and http://www.nordljus.co.uk/ chow (get it? hahaha)

New header....new pursuits...

The Lighthouse School kids taught me how to needle felt.....Here is a wee bluebird and some acorns on a branch that I felted....

here' s Erin....their teacher and who's idea it was for the acorns......

The cat I felted bet the bunnies that I felted that they couldn't pick up the branch.....

The bunnies won the bet!

Here's the crew, the pig that Suzanne knit me for my birthday,the bluebird, my felted piggy, corgi, bunny 1, cat, bunny 2 and a ducky that Erin knit, all trying to eat my cookies! Thank you, Lighthouse School!

Here is a vase that I designed for a licensing venture that didn't pan out....but I got to keep the samples that they had made in China.

And here is a votive.... I had fun learning about licensing, but on the fence as to if I want to pursue it...we'll see! xo

Scandinavian blogs I like

So pretty and inspirational! I found these through Allsorts
...some of the photos were taken by Mari Eriksson....another beautiful site....enjoy!

minlillaveranda

Jennyshemochharmoni

moderncountry

Lottens

Have a great day....xo

Sow and Grow

Here's a nice book that came into the Bookstore, and I love it!It's by Tina Davis, who also wrote " Look and Cook" and "See and Sew"...I have yet to get my hands on those, but I will! You can see some of the inside pages as you scroll down....

When I was looking for the book images,I discovered a new Blog that I love! Check out her web site....here...and go to her blog ....here....and her wonderful and reasonably priced shop.....here!.. I love the knitted sombreros....

Thanks, Susan!

Russian Textile Design

I got the book! Here are some inside shots....

very controlled paisley designs.....

Tiny wonder flowers....alot of the designs are on red backgrounds....or.....

Pink! My favorite color....It also has a great history of textile design and merchants....big men dresses in floral quilts...nice to see!...Author Susan Meller has a web site called "The Design Library" . She is also co- author of "Textile Designs" with Joost Elffers ( the guy that writes those big fat astrology/relationship books that everyone who comes in the Bookstore looks at but dosen't buy and the food books that kids love...who whould have known?) You can get the book here....

Cheerio! xo

Studio update

Here are some new photos of the Studio....it's getting full! I found the adorable rose dress at the local thrift shop and I am going to have some more children's cloths made for the shop, hopefully by my talented studio-mate, Bernadette. Does she have a blog yet? NO....hmmmmm

A view of the mermaid wall mirror that I just finished.....

and on the walls, more and more original works of art....

you can see the shelves reflected in the mirror...

here is a wall sconce I painted... I am going to use this design in one of my fabrics. It was inspired by Josef Frank...

and here is a framed print from my upcoming 2010 Nantucket Mermaid Calender....Here is a link, and have a wonderful day! xo

Children's nook

I'm creating a little Children's nook for the shop. Here are some clock faces that I will turn into clocks...."les fleurs"....

"Circus"....

and "the dancer"... here's a link....

Textile designing

By now everybody has heard about Spoonflower....the site that prints your very own designs onto 100% cotton fabric...It's time to get cracking! I already have some designs that I'd like to print here, and my new blogger friend, Tamar, has a wonderful Auntie who's wonderful book I have just ordered for myself here. If you search around her site, she has some of it's contents posted, but I forget which month I saw it in! Here are three more posts I did about textiles...Here and here...and here

An old design I did on a pine box with pen and colored pencils....I'll re- do it and see what I come up with for fabric....

I love this color combo and I really would like a smeg someday! Happy designing! xo