valentine's day!!

As you all know... my birthday is the day after valentine's day, which is why I think I've always loved valentine's day as a holiday. It's like a two day holiday for love and me, or love OF me!! I'm not one of those unfortunate people who have their birthdays near Christmas and end up getting "joint" presents- one present. For me growing up, I had heart-themed parties: heart-shaped cakes and red plates and pink and red hearted napkins- what could be better for a little girl? And now- well maybe it hasn't changed much- just the quality of chocolate has gotten better!! The saddest birthday in my adult life was one where I took the day off of work (as I usually do), but no one else did, so I spent the day by myself. But to make things happy for me I decorated the whole house in cut out paper hearts and crepe paper streamers!! It turned out happy after all. So Happy Valentine's Everybody-and Happy My Birthday to you too!!!

From Martha Stewart February 2005

I think these little potholders are adorable- I would like to think that I will make them.... we'll see. Also look at that little strawberry pincusion, isn't that the cutest!

stuffed and smelly

These images may look familiar.... I used my silkscreens and blockprints and printed them on muslin, sewed them up then stuffed them with batting and lavender. I think they would make cute tags for a package-you can write on the back- and then they could be used as a sachet to make your clothes smell good. I plan to make many more, and print matching wrapping paper. I think it would be so cute all wrapped up together... I put individual pictures of each one on my flickr site, if you are interested.

congratulations to Katie

My friend from high school just had her first baby, a boy!- she sent me a picture of the nursery. She has a blockprint hanging that she bought from me. I think it looks quite nice! It's neat to think that her baby's memories will include images that I created- does that make sense?