Can you do a shrimp baby card?

Recently my rep emailed me with a request from Calipso cards asking if I could design a shrimp baby card.  Now if you follow trends you know that sea life like octopuses and squids are gaining popularity but a shrimp? I said I would give it a go although I had no clue what I would do. So I went to Google and looked at shrimp images...and I made the connection...I could curve them like a heart and put the baby in the middle. So once I had the design in mind actually doing the artwork was a snap. The design was well received and when I showed it to my colleague DB Dowd he said “Damn you made the shrimps look like a male and a female...now that is something. So here is the card with my new ladybug card.

My New Fabric Line Is Now in the Stores

When I first started working with my rep Sheila Meehan, she asked me what type of products I would like to see my artwork on. One of the first things that came to mind was fabric. My grandmother taught me to sew when I was 12...thank you Grandma Helen....I fell in love with sewing and have been making all sorts of things with fabric since then. Right now I like to make quilts and plushes. I love to just buy fabric for the beautiful patterns and colors...of course like all sewers and quilters I  have drawers of fabric just waiting for me to use. My favorite fabric is always Marimekko...if only it did not cost so much.

When Sheila told me that the fabric company Timeless Treasures was interested in me and my artwork for fabric my heart skipped a beat...could I be the next Amy Butler, one of my idols? I have met Amy Butler, in fact I got to sit next to her at a dinner last year. Both of us participated in Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion Workshop Weekend May 2010...I was a craft instructor and she was a speaker.
She is just the nicest person and I am so happy to have met her.

So here it is my first fabric line. It is called Flutter. I am so proud of it and just tickled pink to have a line of fabric. I want to give a huge thanks to my rep Sheila and Alice, Ruby, Emily and Celeste at Timeless Treasure for believing in me and my work and for making my artwork come alive on fabric.  My friend Joyce loves to look at my name on the selvage...she thinks it is so cool!

I do not know where you can buy the fabric in St. Louis...not sure if any stores carry it but you can get it online from Timeless Treasures. Here is the link:

http://www.ttfabrics.com/index.shtml

So go out and make me a star.

 

I’m back and I am tired

I have been a hermit lately getting ready for the NYC Stationary Show/Surtex. I got all of my new work off to Sheila my rep on Thursday and I am now back at my desk. Wish I could show you all the work I have done. You can go on Print and Pattern for a little sneak peak!

printpattern.blogspot.com/search?q=linda+solovic

A lot has happened in April and May. My daughter picked her college.

New friends joined me in the studio.

Hazel

Henrietta. They are 8 week old sisters.




We let my daughter get a kitten who is adorable and has a BIG Personality. Sophie is slowly tolerating him. Oh and his name is Dexter although I call him Dexy Boy.














Next Post.....my fabric is OUT and online. Check back tomorrow.

Mustache and beard trend needs to be over

Got an email from Etsy this morning showing trendy items for sale on their site and I must share these with you. For those of you not in the know....mustaches appear on everything now, cups, dishes, towels, sheets, stationary and cards...you name the product, it has probably had a mustache design on it ....and beards are becoming hotter also. But as far as I am concerned this trend has gone a little too far.

Okay so it is fun for the young to perk up a dull day







Please do not let me see this on anyone I know and that includes you Elliot even if it would be a joke.

This is frightening and seems it would end up a gooey mess








Looks like a shag rug on a 3 year old face

Artichoke Annie’s

My friend Joyce and I went on a little Sunday adventure during my spring break from Wash U. I love Joyce because the same absurd things in life that make her laugh make me laugh. Here are the things that we found hilarious at the Artichoke Annie Antique Mall on Highway 70 in Millersburg MO near Columbia MO.

This dealer had a musical theme going

Not the least bit obvious

In what universe does asparagus and cookies go together?

Just like a real baby

Really wants to make you buy the product

Women are left to die


















My biggest fear....my artwork for sale in a flea market

Who knew a parakeet was smart enough to graduate with a cute hat....I need some small hats for my gerbils

for my sister who loved Popin Fresh...human sized no less

Joyce loves these weird portraits...just goes to show men had mullets all through time

Where have I been?

The last post I was going to send got eaten by blogger. I had taken an hour to write it....I have a lot of problems getting the text and the pictures to work without big gaps of space between the images and the text. So I threw up my hands and said that is it....I am going to tumblr. But after many unsuccessful trys to get a tumblr template to look like a site that says Linda I gave up on that also....I wanted colored text...you all know how I am adverse to black type and we could not find any template that would let me do colored text. So Gary says we need to find someone to design it for me that can write code.....so I am back to blogger. Gary did post my owl ornaments on my site recently. 
So my new posts are going to mostly images with little words...Gary says everyone just wants to see images anyway so hopefully I will be blogging more in the next weeks.
So here goes. We have a new kid in our house Mr. Dexter, my daughter’s new kitten. It lives in her room, is very cute and bouncy. Miss Sophie, our 12 year old cat, watches him through a plexiglass window in a piece of cardboard Gary made for the door. Miss Sophie has not welcomed him with open arms...she has not killed him yet but when she does see him she sounds like she will.
So here is Dexter and Miss Sophie.

New Owl Ornaments for Raz