Not just for booze-hounds anymore, the Stork Club is also known as a group of friends who are all pregnant together at the same time. They meet at Starbucks (and pretend not to drink coffee), chat about their aches and pains and go to the bathroom every 20 minutes… In Read more…
In honor of my fans who quilt AND as a tribute to the excellent quilt exhibit currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, I wanted to play a little with deco motifs and traditional wedding ring quilts… Enjoy!
That’s right, you just can’t keep a good deco design down… One of the fun things about playing with a deco element is the versatility of the patterns. Here, I took a simple scroll motif and played with the spacing. In the red design repeat, I stretched long connecting lines Read more…
Spring on the East Coast is finally in full bloom… As I walked the red-brick and iron-railed streets of Boston today, kids were playing on fresh, green baseball diamonds, gardeners were busy with watering hoses, a pair of cleaning women walked in their shirt-sleeves with baskets of supplies without fear Read more…
The U.S., or, more correctly, Herbert Hoover acting as Secretary of Commerce, declined to participate in the 1925 Paris Exposition that defined Art Deco. Why? American advertisers were not modern! In fact, they were still relying on text to sell their wares, when most of Europe had moved to images Read more…
April showers bring May flowers… and sometimes babies! If you are headed to another baby shower and looking to personalize a gift, it might be a fun time to consider printing your own design on fabric and creating a few re-usable bags like the kind we get at make-up counters. Read more…