Bari J.

Art After My Own Heart

Tea cups, tea pots, tea bags, tea anything is my latest obsession. I know I've said it before.

So, when I came across Kimberly Shaw Graphics, I was immediately in love. Last week Kimberly commented on my Dancer at the Tea Party bag on Flickr. This, of course, prompted me to click back to see her photos. I am so glad I did.

Kimberly is a wonderful artist who has turned that art into an incredible business. Among other beautiful items sold in her store, you'll find her paintings on greeting cards that are sold with a tea bag inside. How perfect is that???

Below is a photo that is in Kimberly's Flickr stream... here she shows us a bit of how her paintings are created which I, as someone not blessed with this particular talent, find really fascinating.

Doesn't that make you want to give watercolors a go?

Last Minute? That's My Middle Name.

Joelle Hoverson, you are my hero. Your new book, Last Minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts is my new guide to gift giving. Last minute is how I survive. Everything is last minute.

But this morning I woke up in a panic (nothing new, but none the less)... Suddenly I remembered what I forgot..."What am I going to give to the school principal? What about the teacher's aides?"The list went on and on. The more I thought about it, the more people got added to the list.

Sweet relief. I rifled through my books, quickly whipped out my new handy-dandy edition of your book and got straight to work.

I decided on sets of coasters ... 'cause they were cute. Yes. But admittedly I chose them mostly because they were in the 2 hours and under section and I could chain stitch them to save time.

Three sets of coasters and several hours later...

Whew! Done. Thank you! They're all getting coaster sets and Martha's famous egg nog recipe... (I really like that you added the suggestion of adding a recipe to the mix. Nice touch.)

Yum...

Ooooooh. This is good. I can taste it now.

I keep meaning to order one of these as a gift. Go Cake Go delivers cakes right to your door. I have to admit I gave thought to figuring out how to fed-x my own cakes, but I decided that would be far too much work. It's like when you see something lovely, and you think, "I can make that." But you never do. And, now you don't have that pretty necklace, do you??? Plus as an added bonus, delivered with your cake is an on-line party. I'm thinking this is definitely something to check out.

Cha-yum-yum! "Let them eat cake."