Holiday Studio Hours

Well, I'm ready to rock the Holidays...(pun intended...yuk yuk)
For all of your paperweight and doorstop needs.......
I like this Mermaid gal.....
Mermaids and a pirate.....
even more!

Here is a butterfly transfer that I painted around......
Another Mermaid.....

I'm well stocked ...I'll be participating in the Christmas Stroll Craft Show at Preservation Hall on Friday, December4..... 1-7 and Saturday, December 5..... 9 am til 5 pm....
And the Studio is open on 4 Fair Street....right in town....10 to 5 through out the Holiday Season...

So stop by and say hello! :):)

Birds of a feather

I love these bird prints...Both Jeffrey and I love to watch the birds in our yard and in the garden... These bird prints are inspiring me to paint more birds....

The two prints that you see here are done by Mati Rose

and you can get them here....

I love the colors!

And these next two were painted by Geninne...she has a beautiful blog and etsy shop! You can purchase them here....
Have a lovely day!:)

I love Illustration and I love book covers....these are Polish book covers....found here

One of my favorite blogs....A Journey Round My Skull




Illustrations from a Polish children's book....found here


The Studio is open for the holiday season....stop by and say hello! :):)

New Items in the Etsy shop

A sachet doll.....her body is stuffed with lavender flowers!

Pretty dress...antique lace.....red shoes......

delicate rambling hair...

so pretty!

A mermaid ornament made out of ceramic.....

ready to hang.....

and finally, a whale ornament....

swimming merrily past a row of Christmas Trees.....Happy Holidays Everyone! xo

Festival of Wreaths

Every year, The Nantucket Historical Association has people from the Island make wreaths to auction off and raise money for their Children's activities that they have all summer. Here is my wreath this year.....I had to whip it up as I just got back from my travels on Wednesday, and it had to be done by Saturday....Here is the Pirate......


The Mermaid......


The Ship.......

The Whale.............

The Fisherman.......


And The Lightship Basket.....Let the bidding begin!!!!

More New York New York...

Ok...here we go! The first place I visited is Left Bank Books
It's right around the corner from where we stay in the Village. I found a treasure, as I usually do in a bookstore....Saul Steinberg..."The Art Of Living"....

Here's the cover without the dust jacket.....I got a copy with the dust jacket but it's too big to scan on my computer....I got these images from Austin Kleon's sites...Thanks, Austin!

Awsome....The inside price says $3.50...that was in 1947....I won't tell you what I paid for it, but I think I got a good deal no matter how much it cost! Go and check out Left Bank Books at 304 West 4th Street (near Bank Street) in NYC....212-924-5638.....

Then off to Kinokuniya Bookstore on 1073 Ave. of Americas, between 40 and 41 street. I walked my buns off in NYC....luckily we had great weather!

I wanted to buy all of the embroidery, knitting and Zakka books, but there will be another time....like when I learn to knit maybe...Instead, I bought these two Japanese fabric design books....designs from 1946 to 1959.....just picture after picture....yum....

Here are some scans....(My computer crashed before I left for Cape Breton, so I am still backing it up and I'm using a site that I'm not too familiar with.)

I will post more beautiful designs after Thanksgiving as Marty- nerd- boy will fix my laptop....so stay tuned for that......

Here's the inside of the Bookstore.....photos by http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ and http://www.yelp.com/ via Tiffany T....Thanks, all!

Do you see all of the books over yonder? Those are all Japanese craft books....

magazines,origami paper, craft supplies, stickers.....I spent 1 1/2 hours here (2 floors)

Then off to Books of Wonder on 18 west 18th Street...next to Friedman's and Paper Presentation....

Books of Wonder is all about Children's books.......

and mosey over to the left of the store.....a wee cafe...

with ladybug covered chairs.....and....

YUMMY NESS!!!! At the Cupcake Cafe

Talk about a captive audience......

What shall I choose?

How about this nice cake......

Too bad....somebody's special Birthday cake......

I'll settle for a rose cupcake...see how they package it to go? In an upside down coffee cup!

I snuck it out at Paper Icon and took a picture on their pretty paper.....

That was fun!

I took my cupcake over a few blocks (still on 18th street)....and ate it here at Old Town Bar

I always stop here when I'm in the city on 18th street.....and I washed it down with a pint of Guinness....

Ahhhh....another great day! :)