Fairytale Envy

Beautiful illustrations begging for loquacious tangled stories

Eloise on www.hidenseek.etsy.com

Laura Amiss

Laura Amiss from Amsterdam paints with textiles creating little wistful ladies brightening a rainy day here in Atlanta.

Laura quoted: "My images, are often inspired by very ordinary things that we tend not to notice after a while. I hope that the way in which I recreate them make them more than 'every day'. My two passions are textiles and illustration, I have endeavored to combine the two in my work."

sticky sweet

This wedding photographed by Our Labor of Love makes me reminisce on all the glorious weddings of my past.

Stephanie and Wil

rub a dub clean

A quick tip from a retired shoe shiner... If your leather shoes are looking dingy, dirty, icky, sticky, dusty & old just take some lotion, (hand, body, whatever) and rub the shoes with a paper towel or washcloth, and voila! -like new!

If you have a kneewalker, like my baby, or a exploratory crawler this is the best way to keep their cute shoes fresh.

AND this also works on flipflops- on the sole where your summer feet leave their mark.

Remember leather is just dried up skin, and dried up skin loves lotion.

PS, for those of you assuming that I have used my photoshop editing talents on the images, I assure you I did not, and these are Kyla's shoes before and after.

yep, I am the retired shoe shiner

suckcessful mothering

Which one of these would you say is a successful mother?

We all know that everyone measures success differently..

Is it how big your office is, how shiny is your wallet, what car you drive, how many people report to you, how many kids you have, if your kids are happy, if you are happy, how many degrees hang on your wall?

The tougher question is...if you've thought of success one way for most of your life, how do you change it into something else?

So I was talking to a friend about all of this and turning it over, I realize I don't even like the word success. If you focus on 'success' I think you are also equally obsessing over failure. I don't have an answer for changing the way a person thinks.

But my answer for which mom is successful from above is

The Lefthand Mom, she remembered to take out the meat to thaw, and put her sweater on right side out, she put gas in the car, delegated her yard care, & she has a daughter who says thank you 69% of the time, wears big girl panties, and makes her homemade shoes out of milk cartons and noodles. All before 11am

New Babies

WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE ARRIVAL

of six new fabrics to the blinkblots family

From top left ...

Zoobee Stripe in navy/red/chartreuse -this is upholstery weight silk baby!

ZingBloom in magenta/berry/golden yellow/brown/bits of green -this is Lichen Frank original, cotton twill!

Agnes Beri stripe in pink salmon/orange/khaki/ burgundy -this is the sweetest silk!

Mulholland Floral in red/cocoa/ orange/leaf green/sky blue/yellow -this is a large pattern with a wonderful nubby canvas weave

Blue Cuber Orange in pumpkin/baby blue/ khaki/brown -this is a cotton canvas

I am a Fabric Designer

I went to GA Tech wanting to be a textile designer, and came out with an industrial design degree. Well, now I can say I am a fabric designer. I am totally stoked to show you my first 3 fabric designs. The first one is called TwigTweetHop, the second is ZingBloom. Open to suggestions on what to name the bottom one. If you like, order a baby book with one, or buy some fabric, or hire me to design a pattern for you, I won't hold you back.