Up for grabs..............

I have been busily fliting around my studio this week working on projects for my home and for YOU too! I will definatley be sharing photos soon!!! stay tuned for that.

In the meantime I have a few "unclaimed" items that were excited to be shipped out and then the buyer never came through. They are yearning for a home! (*snicker*)

These are the LAST and only ones of these Women's Capri DIY kits. Snatch them up before they are gone for GOOD!

Description:

Get that fun and trendy look of my "Shaggy Mosaic jeans" all yourself with my new DIY kits for WOMEN! This kit will create a pair of shorts/capris in that decoupage or mosaic look.

You will recieve:Enough pre-cut fabrics to cover an adult pair of shorts or capris. Larger fun shapes, bright colors and eye catching patterns make this combination a must have this summer!

Most of the work has been done for you! You just need to supply the shorts, know some basic sewing skills and have a sewing machine! don't wait - get started today! You too can achieve this fun look!

**This set can be purchased for use on full length jeans too but the design will not extend as far up each pant leg.

SO up for grabs I have 2 women's capri DIY kits - Summer Sol Themed - as pictured below. Each kit is $13.99 plus shipping in the USA.

AND I have 2 Women's Capri DIY kits - special order - similiar to my most popular Women's jeans combination - Autumn Belle. (updated - SOLD! this kit is gone)

DIY kit fabrics

Similar fabrics used here....

*step by step instructions on the technique plus tips, tricks and extra ideas can be purchased seperately and sent with your DIY kit for an extra $7.00

HOW TO ORDER:

1.Email me asap - brassymeg@gmail.com

2. Please include in your email - the name of the DIY kits you would like, quantity, and if you'd like first class or Priority mail shipping - USA only. (I only have 2 of each kit available (4 total) and then they are gone!)

3. Also, please include your paypal address and if you would like instructions included (extra $7.00). I will then send you an invoice. Your invoice needs to be paid within 24 hours of reciept please. I will then ship out your purchse within 1 business day as well.

First come first serve

Thank you! I look forward to shipping these out to YOU!

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New York: a case of gold trees and beer saloons.

I love fireworks, especially the glittery kind that turn into gold weeping willow trees as they slowly fade. I parked myself on  a little stoop in Williamsburg and let them restore some new york excitement and energy back into my days.

And an entry from my great great grandmother Ella shows she also experienced some New York excitement when she visited here before she boarded her ship to Europe.

New York April 15th 1880

"Our host, Mr. Weston, insisted on taking us sightseeing and I certainly never enjoyed an afternoon and evening more. We first went to the Equitable Insurance building, took the elevator to the 8th floor and then climbed away up to the very top where we got a fine view of the city and surroundings. Then we went to the very end of the finest elevated railway in the city- up to Long Bridge through which water is conducted from the Croton River to the city- back to the museum at the entrance of Central Park. Central Park in beautiful- every turn in the walks gives one a pleasant surprise. Last night we had the rare treat of hearing Edwin Booth in Hamlet. The memory of our visit with Mr. Weston will be one of the happiest I have to take away. New York is the busiest, noisiest city I ever saw, bad odors and lager beer saloons prevail in the business part. Broadway is literally thronged with people all the time but the streets are laid out quite regularly and we saw many magnificent buildings. The city seems perfect piles mountains high of buildings. One is constantly besieged to buy in passing the stores and markets."
Sunday is my birthday, so i'm headed away for a few days to decompress from decompressing. But it's a comfort to know the city will be the same as I left it, Broadway is still too darn packed with people and the side walks can still smell wretchedly.

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Imagination.......

I guess my daughter has been influenced just a bit by all that I do in my studio. (ha ha) She was playing with a friend the other day and they wanted to play "design studio". Raiding my fabric drawers and with very minimal cutting allowed - just alot of pins and imagination - they draped, measured and folded fabric over my child size dress form and created a few dresses. Just too cute! They were both so proud that they actually created a few clothing items!

I hope your summer has had a little imagination in it as well!

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MacBook Pro With Quad Screens

We had to post this video to give thanks to the crew over at mostlygeek.com. We absolutely love it and we are definitely "Geeking Out!" Be sure to turn up the volume when you watch it and try not to sing along...we dare you.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVYAycUKG4Q


For complete access to the article posted by mostlygeek.com, please follow the link below.

http://www.mostlygeek.com/2008/06/22/multiscreen-macbook-pro/

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the chick, the egg or the scrambled egg?

Baffled but hungry for brunch none the less.

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ale and quail

After the annual ale and quail society meeting that takes place at elmwood every year.......
one can peruse the family's ancient collection of bibles to beg forgiveness for their gluttony.

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Members of the fern family

Potted a new plant today, a maidenhair fern. I love their delicate little leaves and how they flutter with the slightest movement. I've always been smitten by ferns, I think i get it from my mother. Ferns in all forms- live ferns, fern illustrations, pressed ferns (as displayed in the museum of natural history).


I can relate to the Victorians who coined the term pteridomania defined as a madness, craze, or strong fancy, for ferns.

My great great grandmother Ella, a botany student, surely studied ferns in the Wellesley greenhouses and drew them in her botanical sketchbook, perhaps inspired by this popular book.

Wellesley College Sept 22th 1878

"Nellie and I went over to the gardens where the fall flowers are just in their prime. I think the display fully equaled anything I've ever seen there in the spring....Yesterday we began our first painting or rather first drawing lesson. I'm about discouraged. She gave me a branch of maple leaves which were fearful to draw and the wind kept on blowing them every which way."


Wellesley College Sept 13th 1878

"Nellie and I washed this PM. Had a long letter from Minnie. I've got my studies all arranged but presume they won't stay so for long. It is dreadfully hard for me to study after being out so long and the weather is fearful, hot and damp, so everything sticks."

Wellesley College Oct 16th 1878

"Miss Howard announced this morning that Wellesley College has been awarded a silver medal at the Paris Exposition- the highest award to any female college. A hundred dollars has been raised for the purchase of a large and fine collection of seashells. They were collected, many of them at great expense, by a lady in Cambridge- circumstances forced her to sell them and the ladies of C. have contributed 400 dollars and will give them to any institution which will give 100- I hope we shall get them. The chemistry examin. was splendid last night. I only had one mistake on my paper and Miss Hallowell complimented my botany sketchbook very highly."

Wellesley College Oct 27th 1878

"Miss Nelson said this morning that she would be going to dine next Saturday at the Parker House with four prominent biologists- Ha! Ha! All gentleman.


Oh friends- the journal entries go on and on. She has now decided to move to South Africa to teach and is touring Europe before she settles into her post.

Stay tuned. She meets a boy and sparks fly....

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