Check out this custom frame order I finished recently...

It was ordered by a blogger friend, patricia of pve design,

for another blogger,

summer is a verb,

and look at the beautiful drawing of Alice done by patricia of pve.

Patricia captured Alice perfectly:

from the colorful ballet flats,

to the lilly dress,

hermes bangles,

& glass of vino by the seashore.

If you read summer is a verb, i think you will agree.

You should contact Patricia if you would like a beautiful sketch...

go to her website here to see more of her work.

Alice has some of my other frames

and she did a fun post on my products...

here and here

Summer is a verb was quoted recently in the NYTimes - here

Alice is ready for the revival of all things preppy,

and so is mrr design.

Just think of the fun presents you could order,

custom-made, here in America.

Contact me if you would like a special one-of-a-kind present

for someone special.

The monogrammed frames have been a HUGE HIT THIS YEAR.

Join the fun - order one today.

I have a top-notch monogrammer

one to two weeks for completion -

yes, really that fast...

the blogosphere goes round and round

Thanks to Patricia at pve design for allowing me to post her

beautiful watercolor illustrations.

I thought they would be perfect to set the tone,

 as I head out for a weekend excursion

to

 my cousin's

Island Wedding

in Maine

the little ferry only fits 5 cars at a time

the ferry isn't much bigger than this lobstah boat

There are no hotels on the island 

My Aunt's friends are all graciously opening up their homes to all the visitors

This is a charming cottage - 

I think the cottages on the island are a little bigger.

This is what I imagine BG & Sam will look like when they emerge from the 

little church

we will be so sad to leave the island paradise

if it were August, we could bring home those delicious, tiny, maine blueberries

ooh la la   

check out the new illustration for my blog

I am so excited.  I just love it.

The illustration was done by pve design

I read about Patricia last September 1oth, to be exact.

Check out the interview on All The Best.

I knew that I recognized the artistic style,

but I could not place it.

I immediately checked out her website and was intrigued by the Vermeer-like photograph.

As I read, I had my ah ha moment:

all those cards that I saved over the years from J McLaughlin

were painted by Patricia.

Soon I contacted Patricia and told her how much I liked her work 

and that I had a collection of her J McLaughlin artwork. 

I especially liked the Christmas card with the big, red, puffy couch.  

I wanted to commission her to design a mailer for my business, 

but I had a busy show season ahead and would wait until the new year.

Not many days later I participated in a boutique show at the Hackley School and noticed another boutique vender had PVE artwork as the logo for her shoe store, The Perfect Pair

what a strange coincidence - it was meant to be 

Patricia and I met at a lovely cafe in her town in January 

and talked and talked -

then I put together a folder of information that Patricia used to create 

this wonderful illustration & VOILA

My next project for the weekend is to figure out how to set the illustration

 into the blog header

I have already consulted All Things Bright and Beautiful - 

Felicity has wonderful tips for the novice blogger

but it is late and I must wait for another day