glorious, delicious, happy colors

as seen on the March 17th blog post from sis boom

and

look at the background

yes, you got it,

a custom board done by

moi

mrr design.

Big news on the mrr design front in April

Swatches from Sonia Delaunay

"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday."

Pearl S. Buck

Top of the morning to you

Swatch above is from Jennifer Paganelli's new line

Honey Child

I was struck by all the geometric patterns that I am seeing this spring

and then I saw the historic designs from Sonia Delaunay

(see top of blog and below)

on Style Court's blog

[Variation on Design 1355, Designed by Sonia Delaunay (French, born Russia, 1885–1979)

France, 1934, Gouache on paper, Private collection © L & M SERVICES B.V. The Hague 20100623
Photo: © private collection]

This exhibit

Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay

opens tomorrow at the Cooper-Hewitt in NYC

click here too

Do you recognize the lamp shade fabric?

It is my friend Jennifer's design -

Jennifer of Sis Boom fame.

Featured in the Adore Home, British edition

You might remember my Autumn 2010 line.

Jennifer's fabrics always find their way on to my frames

see the below

Sis Boom collection called Poodle

this design is called Marnie

(just like me)

see my blog post about this here

Just last week I saw this rug in Connecticut Cottages and Gardens

February issue

(the blue and green design below)

and to my delight I discovered it was a Sis Boom design

This is a whole new direction for Jennifer.

Love it

Way to Go Jennifer

Fit for a queen...we all should feel like a princess or a queen

another wonderful fabric for Autumn 2010 collection

Do I dare put myself in the royalty frame?

I think not; but dear miss is perfect as a little princess.

This new frame reminded me of the

fun bicycle ringer on the

fancy fat tire bicycle

that I posted about here

which I saw on SlimPaley.com here

AND it reminds me of another new

frame for the Autumn 2010 collection

remember the bike and basket full of fabrics above

so a nice combo - bike, flowers, crown

new frames - bike, flowers, crown

perfect for any princess or queen

Perfect image for today

muggy, rainy and Monday.

Back from my marathon trip to DC area.

Great show at Landon School

Exhausted though.

Found this image at True Up

"Melimba & Beccabury are Melissa Snyder Wood and Rebecca Snyder, a two-sister design team whose debut fabric collection Rainy Days and Mondays was recently released by Riley Blake Designs."

two days of fun

summer-like temps

back to work

latest batch of fabrics

another goodie package

so tidy

Just got word that I have been invited to participate

in the

Azalea Garden Festival

in Bethesda, Maryland

April 30, May 1 & 2

Excited

The Spring 2010 spring fabrics

are arriving daily.

I am very excited.

Gotta get the studio back in shape.

It is still a little chilly and damp.

May have to buy another space heater or two

or bring the whole operation inside the house.

Remember the studio also contains the automobiles...

Have you noticed a theme
graphic stripes

flowers

dots

bubbles

buttons

bubbles

bubbles and stripes
stars and stripes

ditto

and more stripes

I couldn't contain myself
I know
too many fabrics

bee's knees

fruit is good for you
plants in snow

blue and white beauty

a V&A reproduction

due from England

later in March

yup - fabric imitating graph paper

this is for a new project

and I love these big, bold

graphic stripes

do you have a favorite?

Serendiptity

Today, the Writer's Almanac from NPR

had a wonderful piece on

serendipity

here it is....and here too

It was on this day in 1754 that the word "serendipity" was first coined. It's defined by Merriam-Webster as "the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for." It was recently listed by a U.K. translation company as one of the English language's 10 most difficult words to translate. Other words to make their list include plenipotentiary, gobbledegook, poppycock, whimsy, spam, and kitsch.

"Serendipity" was first used by parliament member and writer Horace Walpole in a letter that he wrote to an English friend who was spending time in Italy. In the letter to his friend written on this day in 1754, Walpole wrote that he came up with the word after a fairy tale he once read, called "The Three Princes of Serendip," explaining, "as their Highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of." The three princes of Serendip hail from modern-day Sri Lanka. "Serendip" is the Persian word for the island nation off the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka.

The invention of many wonderful things have been attributed to "serendipity," including Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Charles Goodyear's vulcanization of rubber, inkjet printers, Silly Putty, the Slinky, and chocolate chip cookies.

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin after he left for vacation without disinfecting some of his petri dishes filled with bacteria cultures; when he got back to his lab, he found that the penicillium mold had killed the bacteria.

Viagra had been developed to treat hypertension an

d angina pectoris; it didn't do such a good job at these things, researchers found during the first phase of clinical trials, but it was good for something else.

The principles of radioactivity, X-rays, and infrared radiation were all found when researchers were looking for something else.

Julius Comroe said, "Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter."

Wiktionary lists serendipity's antonyms as "Murphy's law" and "perfect storm."

Last night as I was reading my latest Harper's Bazaar,

I was amused

by these adverts by ghd

To fully appreciate the ads I will repeat the copy which is hard to read:

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, you're quite debonair

Now you've straightened and curled that long flowing hair

Your locks would appeal to many a suitor

So why not find someone who's taller and cuter?"

then,

"Cinderella's a beauty, her hair all a-curl

No need of a prince for this stunning young girl

She's saying goodbye to glass slippers forever

And running away with a bloke dressed in leather."

and finally:

"Little Red Riding Hood, neither timid nor shy

Whilst straightening her locks, a wolf she did spy

But far from fainting or running a fever

She started to laugh and pulled out a cleaver."

Call me crazy

but I was excessively diverted

and then

I had an e-mail about a new collection

from

Heather Ross

(one of my favorite fabric designers)

and who should appear

but Rapunzel

in her designs

Serendipity