I want a whole week packed into each 24-hour turn of the earth. I

..."with heavy doses of leisure time interwoven with thrilling bouts of hard, creative labor. I want to live in a secret garden with ten years of solitude and hang out at a street fair raging with conviviality. I want to sing with angels and romp with devils in between walking the dog, exercising at the gym, and chatting to perfectly ordinary people. I want enough money to fill a swimming pool, and I want to live like theres no such thing as money."

This was my horoscope today. I thought it was spot on! After a night in the studio glazing, the work never stops.

Today I sent out Michelle's Bouquet with two brooches, for mother and mother-in-law.

I enjoyed working with these deep rich colors. Bold choices for a fun colorful day!

Views of the Roundabout! I am really enjoying watching this process. all of a sudden a four lane road has a huge circle in the middle. Button anyone? I also really enjoyed seeing a table full of pots ready to be glazed. It is like christmas!

Stroll, Stroll, Stroll!!!!!!!!!!

The Button Florist and The Hairy Potter will be in the top floor of the Phil Mechanic Building.

Come say hi and check out our display mode studio. ( if you mention that you read my blog, I will give you a special suprise!)

xoxxo C

Summertime and the living is easy and colorful

Unexpected Buttons that are beautiful and brightly Vintage!

Before and After (removed from cards and washed)

Tis the Season of Potlucks, Cook-outs, Studio Parties (On the Verge), Weddings, and any other reason to get together and have a good time!

Heather, Dave, and I dancing it up at Phil Mechanic Studios (PMS) for On the Verge opening. The Guitar guy was all wireless! He was in the street singing and playing. Crazy.

Devin and Chris got married at the Farm and what a fun party it was!

They have really dug into the Round-about project here in the River Arts District. Traffic is tying to get the hang of it, but we love it here at the PMS. Now there is not that daunting 4 lanes of speeding traffic to cross, and we feel more connected to the rest of the District!

Getting ready for the STROLL!!!!!

went to Greensboro on Friday, lots of button love in greensboro. Thinking about going back.....

xoxoC

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