Spring, finally some fair weather.

Custom board for Sophie

to match her

desktop memento board.

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

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Pam Scott of Catch All.

We both participated in a Christmas boutique at the

Convent of the Sacred Heart

on East 91st in NYC.

It was called Christmas from the Heart.

There is also a gigantic

Christmas Tree Sale at the school.

Each vendor contributed a percentage of her sales to

Christmas from the Heart.

Together with all the money raised at the Christmas Tree sale,

the school was able to give back to the community

through various outreach projects.

The students learned the value of giving

to those in need

as they prepared and organized the sale.

I loved everything about this boutique.

The people, the charity, the venue,

the students.

And to top it off, I am a Sacred Heart girl myself.

as are others in my family.

I remember that the organizers asked me to bring some items

for the young girls to buy.

So I made marbled pencils.

I spent many evenings

cutting and wrapping and glueing

beautiful marble paper around pencils,

and on notebooks.

I still have a few left.

Makes me smile still.

I think I charged $1 for 3 pencils.

But back to the beginning...my first show in December of 1991

at Convent of the Sacred Heart

on East 91st street, NYC

Christmas at the Heart.

I was still working

at a large NYC bank

and expecting Miss Is.

My plan was to build a business that I could operate from home

while being a mother.

It did not work out exactly that way

because I ended up working part-time for 17 years at another

big NYC bank

and running my business at the same time

while being a mother.

I was busy.

Still am.

But back to the story again...

It is boutique season again.

Next one on the docket is

Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

on December 3 and 4th

Made me smile - this e-mail from a happy customer. She bought a mrr design picture frame in beautiful Sis Boom fabric last year and says:

".... the one in my office makes me happy even on the gloomiest, most stressful day at work!"

Imagine my surprise when I opened the wrapper of the latest

World Of Interiors

Right there, smack dab in the middle is a "mood board"

chock full of images.

Just like the boards created by mrr design (aka marnie)

except that this collage is pinned on top of all the ribbons.

This photo is called Trinity collage:

"a couture mood board" by Christian Lacroix

in his 1980's studio.

Lacroix wanted to "produce out of nowhere something that not been seen for a long time: a new haute-couture house...Lacroix adopted his usual manner: graphically, 'graphomaniacally' you might say, issuing ideas, cuttings, torn-out pages and suggestions, which all contributed to a gigantic collage that summed up his idea of the place."

Why not put your ideas out there too.

Fill a gigantic "mood board"

Let the images inspire and motivate you.