Watching PBS. I happened upon the most amazing show. A real life Gosford Park. A truthful Manor House. A series - Windsor Castle - A Royal Year. Jobs I never even imagined. (A Castle Flagman - his job is to raise the flag when the queen arrives at Windsor and takes it down when she leaves.) People who take their job so seriously. And do it serving the queen. It is so foreign and amazing to me. Like: A man whose job it is to light all the fires in the castle. The men who take care of the furniture - dusting and repairing. I wish I had started writing down their titles as I watched, long titles for amazing and specific jobs. Inspiring.

(this was an accidental collaboration with Johanna - she left some partial canvas behind and I painted this lady over it.)

The paintings for friday are back.
I know that you have missed them terribly.
I took some time off for the holidays, not like Lisa who has been amazing at getting her drawing-a-day’s done. They are so lovely if you haven’t seen them yet. After I took time off, I changed positions at work, got slammed with Fashion Week and tried to sew my little hands out for the Love4Sale event last weekend.
Which couldn’t have been a better introduction to fairs. The women that surrounded me where amazing.

Across from me was Jane (one of my trade friends) and Karla of Slope Suds. Delicious products. Really tasty items.
On my right was two wonderful ladies - Alice & Kristin- with jewelry (only Kristin has a website that is up).
On my left was the lovely Kristen Aronsson.
Her shoes.
Amazing.
Plus she had these amazing bags that felt like butter.
And the equally lovely Angie with her simple and bold jewelry, whom I traded with but she doesn’t have a website. (hopefully yet)

I was lucky enough to make a couple of trades.
I LOVE trades.
I am able to get things for myself that I would normally never buy.
I would love, but not ever allow myself to buy.
Firstly I got an amazing skirt from Kathy the brains behind the event. Her son picked out one of the inside out penguins and I got this lovely skirt.

People started showing up late in the afternoon and the wonderfuly talented Aurora put me into the black. What a truely amazing and talented countess.
Then as the sale winded down (it never really winded up - threat of a blizzard can do that).
The trades started to fly. And I snapped up two more.
First was with the hilarious Jane of Foxy & Winston. She got one of the sad-eyed little penguins (she named him Percival) and I got some great notecards. Lovely lovely.

Then I traded with Angie a beautiful coral necklace from her new line.

Oh goodness. She doesn’t have a website but I think she’ll be at Renegade in Brooklyn this year. Angie brought home Gordon & Sid (see the previous post).

I have quite a few left and wondered if people were interested in buying them. I’ll put up photos up soon. Send me an email if you’d like to be notified when that happens. wendyATgreengirlartDOTcom.
Have a great weekend.

…this was a trade for a lovely necklace from the sale - more on that later…

There is art talk flying around the internet. Mav had an amazing three-part discussion about what is art and Lisa started asking about talent. I am sort of interested in people’s brain process.

I have realized that process for me is sort of long term (relativity). I let an idea germinate in the recesses of my brain. Every once in a while it’ll sort of pop up to the surface and then I think on it a bit, but then I consciously push it back to this little soil area in my brain. But then it just unfurls. Does anyone else have that? Do that?

The flip side is that when I am busy, like I have been with all the work at work and with all the softies I needed done. Those ideas didn’t pop up at all.

Now I have some things percolating with softie ideas. Ideas that played out in a completely different way than when I planted them in the soil. It excites me to put an idea in my little greenhouse and see how it plays out.

So how about you?
Do ideas come at you?
Do you search out the ideas?
What things inspire you?

Well I think technically it can’t be called a blizzard because the winds weren’t quite fast enough.
The snow is deep and white.
For now.

Love 4 Sale was amazing. Sales were slow, but the people were amazing (I will share later). I am still processing the fact that I don’t have to sew madly for a while.

The snow (aka the blizzard) isn’t supposed to start until after four pm today, which means you can still stop by and see the Love 4 Sale show at the Old Stone House. The place is soooo so cute. Warm and lovely inside. You can take the R or F train to 9th street & 4th avenue in Brooklyn. You’ll be warm and cozy and you’ll have a nice treat before the snow hits tonight. You can cuddle up with one of my softies tomorrow when the snow is impassible.

My cages turned into baskets and I am almost done with the finishing touches. But there is going to be so many amazing things there!! Jewelry, Clothes, Chocolate, Paper goods, fancy knickers…and I am sure there is more, but not everyone was setting up last night.