Studio Life

Before the Easter bunny arrives on Sunday, we thought you might like to see one more painted egg, and this one is served to you on fabric. We are delighted that Ellen’s Lithuanian Easter Egg pattern was just voted as one of the top ten winners at Spoonflower!  Lithuanian Easter eggs are similar to the Pysanky-style eggs you have seen

With Easter right around the corner, we thought you might like to borrow this place card idea for your festive holiday table. Since our kitchen recently looked like it was a Ukrainian egg-making factory, I decided to make place-card-eggs for a book club meeting that was held at our house. I love my book club, and when it’s my turn

Just in case you are trying to think of a new way to display your Easter eggs this year, how about this? Our family has been making these Ukrainian-Art-Craft-Whatever eggs for years, so they have added up and we can’t bring ourselves to toss a single one. This year, when I started to put them in their display tray, Neville,

You might have noticed that our blogging has been a little bit sparce lately.  Here are the reasons:  (1) Cathy received a sewing machine from Santa and is learning to sew during her blogging hours. More on that later.  (2) Ellen’s blogging time has been filled recently with a move to a location around the corner from Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto.

This sweet bundle of nap-worthy flannel is fresh off the presses this week!  Little Forest flannel for David Textiles under the CathyLoo brand should be hitting stores soon, and there are already a few bundles here on the Etsy site. It’s fabric season here in the studio and we’re loving every minute of it.  These forest daisies remind me of