Children’s Painted Furniture February 17, 2007

I really love painting for children. I market a children’s line of painted furniture and accessories. I find that designing for children to be really enjoyable and fun. I thought I would upload a few of my children’s painted furniture lines. I sell these through online e-stores. More information as to who carries these lines can be viewed here- E-Stores.

Thanks for veiwing and have a great weekend!

“Royal Princess ” Children’s line

“Garden Girl” Children’s Line

“My Little Cowboy” Children’s Line

Painted Screens January 21, 2007

Good morning! I will be posting some of my painted screens today. These are always fun to paint. They are like portable murals. Thanks for looking!
Trompe L’Oeil painted Screen

                    Hand Painted Screen

Painted Canvas Valances January 21, 2007

Hi! I thought I would share one of my projects for a client. This project was for a painted canvas valance, one of four that I did for this particular client. I was fortunate and contacted by a book publisher who asked to use this particular painted valance in their new sewing book. The book is titled “The Step by Step Sewing Course” published by Reader’s Digest. Here is a link from Amazon-book

I have also included the painted valance on my painting wall. I am frequently contacted for these valances and offer custom designs for the clients.

The first photo shown is the canvas valance stapled to my painting wall. I stretch the canvas and staple it into place, measure, then paint. I will then carefully take the canvas down and trim, hem, add pocket and add any trim. These are really a great alternative to traditional window valances!

This second photo is of the completed valance

This last photo is the of the photo used in the sewing book!

William Morris January 20, 2007

I thought I would talk about design and some of the designers that have influenced my work and that I love. One is William Morris. Designer, Craftsman, Writer and Socialist – was born at Elm House, Walthamstow, on 24th March 1834. Below is a smaple of his work

Strawberry Thief Chintz

Designed by William Morris (1834-1896) for Morris & Company, 1883.
Pairs of birds feature in a number of Morris’s most popular patterns from the later 1870s onwards. Sometimes they are exotic and Near-Eastern in inspiration, as in some of the carpets or in the Peacock and Dragon woven wool fabric, but often – as here – Morris drew on his own deep knowledge of British birds, observed in the garden or hedgerow. Since Strawberry Thief was Morris’s first chintz to combine indigo-discharge dyeing and block-printing with red and yellow, he closely supervised its initial production at Merton Abbey in May 1883.