Spring, finally some fair weather.

Custom board for Sophie

to match her

desktop memento board.

Hibernation is ending.

This is how I begin

when a designer asks me to quote material requirements for a memento board.

I know there is some sort of math equation that I could use,

but I am much more visual.

New shapes for memento and inspiration boards

Sunny Goode's fun new memento board above

Makes you want to forget the ho-hum square or rectangle

Why not get out your jigsaw and cut out a wonderful shape

like the mirror above?

Photo via Stylebeat - Mr Brown's booth at NYIGF

More fun new shapes

check out Sunny Goode's blog for the how-to

Ideas are percolating in my head

with all the info from the NYIGF scouts

like Marisa at Stylebeat

and my friend Robin from Seabeans Studio

Production is gearing up.

Here is a custom board.

28 x 38

Lately I have created a lot of memento boards for teenage girls.

This one belongs to my 16 year old niece.

She has it loaded up with all her memories.

Fun

Finally finished my last order and just in the nick of time.

I felt like an elf in the workshop.

Here are some happy helpers (miss is and dh).

This order made me smile as I worked.

A young girl I know will find this 24" x 48" memento board

under the tree on Christmas morning.

It was designed to display her horse show ribbons.

She will be able to hang the ribbons from any square.

No more help from Mama to arrange the ribbons.

I hope to get a photo in situ after Christmas.

Another view to give you some perspective.

Then I began my own orders

of bon-bon tea cakes,

my signature cookie,

to be sent to lots of people I know.

Another custom order...

This one made from Vineyard Vines silk fabric.

A bride and groom ordered custom VV fabric for wedding ties and tote bags for their wedding party.

The pattern is a series of arrows with names of all the places the bride and groom have lived...or something like that.

I made a memento board and before I had time to blink, there was more fabric in my mailbox for a frame. I rushed to get the board done overnight and forgot to take a picture. In the middle of the mad rush, the power in the house went out for 1.5 hours - oh my gosh - what a night - I worked by candlelight! Just like the olden days.

Custom memento board

(remember post from last week)

in situ

It looks great on the delicious chocolate wall.

Thanks again Pam for the order.

Just finished several custom memento boards

for a terrific repeat customer/friend.

Thanks Pam.

What is notable is that I made this

 memento board about 10 years ago,

and I was asked to remake it to match the renovated kitchen. 

here is the before version

large size 42" x 42"

Deconstructed and reconstructed

to the after version.

Hard to see the definition of the faux bois fabric:

maple with brown suede ribbon, but trust me, it is very cool.

You can see the detail in the frames below.

The board will hang on chocolate brown walls.  Delish.

I will post an in situ picture later.

Second part of the order was two "green/brown" boards

constructed from the recycled burlap bags with marlin twine.

Remember the post inspired by Earth Day.

Fair Trade  

Sustainable Harvest

one side of the sack

size 32" x 22"

the other side of the sack

32 x 22

I found coffee beans in the bottom of the sack.

The real deal. 

The coffee fragrance was delicous.