good long while

right around the corner

Well, I have a busy couple of weeks ahead of me. I'm hoping to work, work, work up until the Sunday Best Sale in Portland, OR on November 28th and 29th. I can't believe how soon it's coming up!

Here is the mailer for the sale. If you click on the image you'll be able to read all of the text. Also, there is a lot more info on the blog if you're curious - including a bunch of vendor profiles (which is personally my favorite part to read).

There is a really great group of artist participating this year. To be honest I'm just as excited to shop as I am to sell. I plan to make a big dent in my holiday gift list.

I hope you'll drop by if you're in Portland that weekend.

an idea

 

I like the idea of these candlesticks on this runner.

an experiment

Earlier this week I needed a little bag to stick a couple small gifts in for a friend. I went to my pile of random printed linen pieces and whipped up this simple little number. I like the idea of the packaging being part of the gift. I hope to make a small batch of these for the shop in the coming weeks.

an update

 

 

This weekend I worked on printing my horizon design in the metallic gold ink. I love that combination and for a moment I almost printed everything I could with these gold stripes. But restraint prevailed and I decided to only print on the two linen colors that I thought looked the very best - natural and smoke (a lovely new color!).

There are two colors of napkins, a runner that I love (sadly it didn't photograph as well as I hoped) and by popular demand placemats. 

I hope to do updates every week or two until the holidays. I will be adding more placemat styles as I go.

That's the update!

featured seller

More than you ever wanted to know about me here.

Thanks etsy!

looking to the days ahead...

I think that I might be the last to admit that summer is over and fall is here (ahh, it's still hard to write that!). It's been cold and rainy the last few days and we've been using our new wood stove. I guess I can't ignore the evidence any longer. So long summer, looking forward to seeing you again next year.

One thing that I'm quite excited about with the onset of autumn is that my very favorite holiday sale in Portland, OR is right around the corner. I've been participating in the Sunday Best Holiday Sale since day one. This sale is actually what motivated me to start screen printing on linen four years ago. I wanted to hang out with some of Portland's best crafters and artists so I came up with my printing plan.

The blog is just starting up again for this year. Lots of info is already there, along with photos and profiles from last year. And I'm certain a lot more info will be posted in the coming weeks.

The picture above is of me and Julie from last year.

oak tea towel

I just stuck a few more tea towels in the shop including this new oak tea towel.

monday

Hello! Not much to say today. But you can find a short interview with me here.

mini sale

Remember me? I'm still here. I've been tied up with the non-blogging part of my life and my presence here might be a little spotty for a while. But hopefully not too spotty.

I just put a few of my tea towels on sale in the shop. I made a small change to how I sew my tea towels a little while ago and now I'm ready to say good-bye to the few members of the old guard that are still in the studio.

Speaking of sales, save 30% on letterpress goods at Studio Olivine by typing  "birthday" when checking out. More info here.

in the shop

Table runners are now in the shop. I made a handful of different lengths. I'll be curious to find out what sizes people are interested in.

It was kind of a quiet week for me here on the blog. Hopefully I'll have more to say next week!