how beautiful the breeze

days are busy here at pbp hq
i will be back with news and ramblings again soon . . .

in the mean time have you seen that my friend
kia has some wonderful new stamp sets in her store
my fav is the gossip girl one, but maybe just because of the title . . .
the bird and cloud is also pretty fabulous . . .

x

you orbit my life . . . . . . . .

and still i love you . . .

i am so enjoying making
a whole new series of little bowls
with words from my new book . . .

i find that my poetry pots
feel like home to me . . .
it is where a big part of my creative heart
resides . . .

( like i said some time ago here and here )

a f t e r . . .

after many years
two very dear friends of mine
( they feel like family really )
are changing direction,
forging a new path in their creative lives . . .

i am thinking of them everyday
as they close one door
to open another . . .

x o x o

today

some lovely visitors visited

in the studio with my fabulous thursday studio gal
we made lots of little bowls
and i stamped them with my poetry

i just read this lovely post
which i've been meaning to write a little message about here also . . .
but she beat me to it . . .
( so lovely to be sitting with my beautiful friend on those pages )

today

i thought of the poetry ( i write )
and the love letters that they are, really . . .
they are

j o u r n a l s . . .

yesterday i received the advances of the journals
paper boat press is about to release . . .

these are a long time coming,
in both the designing and creating process,
and the long term wish that one day . . .
. . . one day i'd have some journals in my range !

this range has three different cover designs
with blank pages . . .
there will be matching pencils to go with the journals also . . .

i shut my eyes in order to see
- gauguin

stripe and spot journal with red highlights and end papers . . .
designed after my love of japanese washi paper designs

fill your paper with the breathings of your heart
- wordsworth

vintage book design and labels a big influence on this one,
with the muted coffee colour background
and a beautiful green colour picked for the illustration/pattern
and end papers

wisdom begins in wonder - socrates

and clouds . . .

with text in brown and dark blue label edging and end papers

each of the labels on all three journals
are de-bossed giving a lovely little
added feel to the cover

i couldn't have got them made without the support and
encouragement of my wonderful sister
who is a print-wiz . . .

and my friend gill who did the most
fabulous of jobs helping me
with the graphic art side of things
turning my drawings and pattern ideas into reality
. . . and print ready files etc etc . . .

they will be in my stockists and on my online store as of
mid to end of september and will retail for only $19.95
( which i am thrilled about for small hardcover journals )

and i'll be sure to have them at any of the markets
i do around christmas also . . .

x

quiet and busy . . . with tea

i am just dropping in to show you a couple of snaps of studio life . . .
where,
week after week in this christmas lead up. . .
cups of tea and friendship
keep us happy in this space
as we make and create
laugh, console, listen to music,
discuss our current favourite television viewing

and generally feel like it's not really work at all . . .

( i count my blessings daily for this part of my life,
and the amazing and supportive women who
are my studio helpers and friends to boot )

. . . tea cup from my travels in england earlier in the year . . .

little houses . . . ... . .

hello there
i have found of late it is important to find
the joy in the spaces left behind

the other day
as we made another big order of kitchen tags
for our wonderful stockist
donna hay general store

it looked as though the clay left behind
hills of little houses
all in a row

landing page...

my lovely and clever friend louise from
beautiful stationery makers
loose leaf
has helped me organise a 'landing page'
as a mean-time-kinda-thing
before my new website goes live
( fingers crossed that won't be too long away )
in the mean time
we created and photographed this little still life
which i'm so thrilled with

here people can still contact me,
join my mailing list,
connect to my online store or to this, my blog

hope you like it . . .

wherever you go . . .

wherever you go
go with all your heart

- confucius

( studio table with cups of tea and hearts all around us... august 2010 )