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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

On the Horizon

No, I haven't vanished from the face of the Earth. Just incredibly busy!

Last week was busy with finishing assembling 100 memorial pendants for the Blue Hill Families memorial fundraiser.


Wow!  Can you believe we sold all but 4 of them!  I plan to make 20 more for the Blue Hill Craft show in December.  A tremendous amount of work for a very special cause.

This week I am working to finish up some new holiday designs for a Holiday Open House we are hosting with Frank & Deb Brooks at their studio in the Old Middle School in Hastings this Saturday.
This the first Open House we have done without the show being a "craft or art show".  We have worked with Frank & Deb a great deal this year and we all decided it would be a great way to start the holiday shopping and spotlight both of our design lines and bring in some other handmade items & crafters as well.  We will have beautiful floral arrangements, handmade baked goods & jellies, plus lots of other great items!  Other studios in the Old Middle School will also be open for business!  The Open House runs 9-4 and we are serving yummy snacks and spiced cider (tea & coffee too!).  Hope to see you there!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Color Trends for Fall

I don't usually pay much attention to fashion forecasts for colors or style.  Living in the Midwest, by the time styles get to us they are long gone in the "fashionable" places such as New York, California, and Paris.  I do enjoy seeing what colors will be the "in" colors and I am surprised at how right those predictions can be.  I have seen this panel in several posts and emails recently:
Pantone
I went shopping at one of my very favorite stores, CJ Banks, yesterday.  I purchased clothes in these colors:


And believe it or not, they had items in most of these colors!  Now do the designers pick the colors or do they look at what everyone has made first and then say "these are the colors"?  I don't really know, but I do feel slightly fashionable at the moment!
Here are some of the items I purchased:
Find Your Fit Tee in Praline Cocoa

Lace Trim Cami in Praline Cocoa

Crochet Bolero Cardigan in Seed Pearl Beige

Trim Crochet Tee in Spirit Red

Blue Multi Strand Necklace
The reason I went into CJ Banks (all of my pictures came from cjbanks.com) was that I spilled ice tea down my shirt and had lovely brown stains on my aqua blue shirt.  This happens all of the time and I get quite a few new shirts by having to change after a meal malfunction.  Anyway, so I wore the red shirt out of the store and I love the design details and the gorgeous red color.  I also purchased the brown tee (got it on clearance for $7), a brown, a blue, and an orange lace cami (all half off) and the crochet sweater (half off with my coupon).  The necklace also had to come along because it went will almost everything I bought (30% off with coupon)!  I think I did well, now if the silly weather will cool off so I can wear the sweater!

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