Still Time To Shop!

Some nifty gift ideas over at Brainstorm Studio! Leave a comment when you check out saying you came by way of this blog, and I'll include a beautiful mandala card with your purchase!

Baby It's Cold Outside!

My daughter Kaitlyn and my son-in-law Cory agreed to model for me on Monday morning before hopping in their car and heading back up the coast to their home on Little Cranberry Island. They are such good sports, and so photogenic!

There are new shirts, bags, pins, and table linens in Lisbeth's Etsy shop - come on over and do a little holiday shopping!

Get in Line!

Big End of Summer sale going on over in our Etsy shop!

Come check it out!

A New Table Quilt

This is my most recent table quilt, made with Lisbeth's Cornflower Mandala fabric! Love this orange and blue combination...

I am having alot of fun mixing these Spoonflower fabrics with some vintage fabrics from my stash, and with some brand new cotton prints, like the pretty black flowered fabric shown here. My excitement over the colors on the fabric store shelf equals the excitement I feel looking at a box full of new pastels!

Fun with Color

A new table runner now for sale over at Brainstorm Studio...

And something else in the works...

On the Table: Matisse and Miller

Matisse

Miller

Matisse

Miller

Matisse

Miller

Matisse

Miller

(and when I say Miller, I mean three of us: Martha, Kaitlyn, and Lisbeth!)

Half the fun of creating these new table linens for Lisbeth's Etsy shop is setting up the still life for the photo shoot! I ordered several more yards of quilting cotton from Spoonflower yesterday, with plans to make (among other things) a patchwork quilt using Lisbeth's colorful mandalas! Stay tuned!

Many More Mandalas...

Nine new framed mandalas are for sale in Lisbeth's Etsy shop: Frog Queen, Glad Giants, Lobster Moon, Flaming Oak, Bat Song, Four of Acorns, Fish and Wishbones, Beach Rose and Bleeding Hearts, and Candlelight. All on soft shades of earth toned archival colored paper.

The 10th one is not for sale....

Mother and Daughter
This one's mine! Happy weekend, everyone!

Fabricating

I've been up to my knees in snowflakes - paper ones and real ones! Here are some of my daughter Lisbeth's shirts, hanging in the big pine tree out back and on the clothesline, waiting to be photographed, yesterday and today. Today was not a day for fingerless gloves - we have a wicked wind chill happening here in Maine, and I nearly got frostbite taking these pics!!! Lisbeth's shop is doing well! We've had 22 sales already! I am so pleased, and so is Lisbeth.

And look what came in the mail this afternoon! My two fabric swatches from Spoonflower! These are designs that I sent in about a week ago. I am very excited! Infinite fabric possibilities!! I just sent in single mandalas for these sample swatches, but Spoonflower can do repeats and patterns - I can make layers of them in photoshop with some opaque and some transparent - they can over lap - I can take fragments of the mandalas and play with those - I can play with scale....agh! So many ideas!!!! But to start, I like the single image. This will make great throw pillows, table napkins, QUILT SQUARES! Imagine a quilt made with all different Lisbeth mandalas, in all different colors!!!!! Or, in a more subtle monochromatic color scheme! Ahhhhh, fun times ahead...