Trees and little boys

After Dunwoody, I got to hang out with two of my favorite boys in the whole wide world.

(my nephew is of course in this category also)

The goal was to turn Ian's room into a forest of trees! And in 3 days, I think Holly and I did an amazing job of creating a (Not Real but imaginary) as Ian had to keep telling me, forest!

Benjamin (Jamin) spilled the red paint on his head and had to have an emergency bath.

Ian is 3 and likes puzzles and strawberries and helping mom!

FIRST: there were white/primed walls that Holly had so wonderfully already prep-ed!

so, we started with a green rolling hill background that ended with yellow on top

NEXT: we worked on some truncks, a little cluster of three tall trees, a funny red bubbly button flower-ish tree, a big (almost reminded me of a baobab tree)

THEN: there were the leaves! and leaves! I have heard that Ian loves his trees and enjoys sitting and looking at them as well as showing them off to every visitor to the house.

Recently, I have been getting ready!

Ready for:

The Studio Stroll

3/maybe 4 wedding orders

a feature in the Rocky Mountain Bridal Magazine

Shows every weekend in July

5 shows in Boston (june, july, august, september, and october)

I am also really excited about new improvements in my little studio!

Chris is back and it has been interesting getting used to sharing a studio again, but I love how we can get stuff done!

New Hanging baskets- for sorting felt pieces

New light on the loft

I love this view! ( things like my recently painted display case and sorted felt make me smile)

IT IS ALL ABOUT THE LITTLE THINGS!

XOXOX C

Dunwoody and Fun

DUNWOODY!

Mother's Day weekend 2010

This past Saturday I got up at 3:30 am to drive to Dunwoody for the Dunwoody Art Festival.

Thankfully, my oldest and dearest friend Holly lives near Atlanta and helped me with the show. We had alot of fun and felt pampered when we walked into the very modern W Hotel!

Probably the biggest show I have ever participated in! There were supposed to be 30,000 people in attendance! My little tent looked kind of silly with its brown amateur-ness next to the sea of white professional EZ-UPs. But with some water jugs and tent stakes from my neighbor, we managed to not get blown away!

Highlights of the show:

meeting my neighbors (from Wilmigton!)

trading pottery for jewelry!

handing out lots of studio stroll guides!

After the show I got to go to Holly's house and hang out with her two adorable sons. (more on that soon) I am taking a little break from the shows, but getting ready for the Studio Stroll!!!!
xoxoxoC

The Handmade market and MORE!!!!!!

Spring is here

and the Button Flowers are in Full Bloom

The old-timey soda fountain in Hendersonville.

Mikes on Main Street - "Old Justus Pharmacy" est 1882

Great milkshakes!

Friday is the opening of the RDA or now RADA members show in Hendersonville. Yesterday we made a little day trip/lunch date to take the work over there to the Hendersonville arts council.


This past Saturday was the Handmade Market and what fun!

I got up at 5 am to drive down to Raleigh. I really enjoyed all the craftieness. The Handmaidens did a great job organizing and what a great steady flow of people all day! Raleigh folks really seemed to enjoy the brooches and headbands, more to come!!!!!!

Getting ready for Dunwoody. Going crazy! My friend Rachel came over today to help sort some buttons. I thank her so much! I think I might go ahead and just dye a batch of every color in the rainbow!

xoxo C

Mountains to Mountains

Last Thursday we set out on an adventure!

ASHEVILLE TO DENVER

Button Flowers, and me and jessie in the Bug!

Bubbles, Sequins, and Temporary Tatoos were in the activities bag!

We headed to Kansas City to see my family.

My nephew is crawling and oh so cute!

My Nani gave us a stuffed artichoke for the Road!

The Rocky Mountain Bridal show was on Sunday and I met lots of great folks, I was in theGreen Bride Section, sandwiched inbetween two fabulous eco-friendly wedding dress designers.

My flowers were used in the fashion show, and I even got an order for an orthodontics office!

The Rocky mountains are beautiful, huge, majestic, and very powerful.

The whole time we were there, I was reminded of Tibet!

Thank you Family, George, and Josh for giving us places to stay along the way.

Thank you Jessie for keeping me company and

Thank you Starbucks and Tom for guidance and caffeine.

Now time to get ready for Raleigh and Atlanta!!!!! Crazy springtime.

xoxoxo

C

New Old Studio

Views from my new loft workspace.....

Toot in her bed!

The Stairway to heaven

My nicely protected Seedpod collection

The River District in Spring Bloom

Working like crazy for upcoming shows!

Catch The Button Florist at these shows

Come join us for the spring 2010 Handmade Market on Saturday May 1st from 11 am until 5 pm at Marbles Kids Museum (201 E. Hargett St.) in downtown Raleigh.

and

Dunwoody Art Festival

Mother's Day Weekend

Saturday, May 8, 10AM - 7PM

Sunday, May 9, 12:30PM - 6PM

On the Picturesque Stretch of Chamblee Dunwoody Road Between Mt. Vernon Road and Dunwoody Village Parkway

BUTTONS

BUTTONS

BUTTONS!

xoxo-C

The New Studio Part I

  

As of March 1, 2009.  The adventure of the new studio began. These are some photos along the way.  The first two pictures were taken after the FIRST loft was built.  Ryan and Chris built it entirely out of free recycled wood gathered from WWC. The next picture was taken after Ryan and his father built the SECOND loft.  This loft was constructed using recycled metal pieces from the scrap yard. Then we have the KILN. This past monday, Chris and I picked up his new SKUTT kiln.  It has now been fired once and is ready to go. Yesterday I started actually making work in the studio. Our space is lovely, I am so excited about what is to come. All the amazing work that we now have the ability to make.