Dog Bandannas

                         (Sadie)

Lately, I have gotten the doggy bandanna bug and have made an unbelievable amount of dog bandannas. 

Why?

Because look at how cute they are! 

                                   (Ally)

A year ago one of our fabric reps gave us a bag of last seasons sample fabric and I have been racking my brain for what to do with it since. 

Finally, I decided that some of the fabrics would look cute as dog bandannas and would be fun to sell in the store. 

So while listening to Rhys Bowen's "The Royal Spyness" series (I recommend if you like a posh female by chance detective in the early 1930s) I hashed out a ton of dog bandannas. 

I even designed my own label to add to them.

These bandannas are cool because you can slip your dog's collar through them, ending your worry about them falling off. 

The dog bandannas are available for purchase at Bloom, 724 Main Street Margaretville, N.Y.

Let's make this the bee's knees.  

Trout Tales

Last year as a benefit for the little village of Margaretville, BAM (Business Association of Margaretville) hosted a garnished trout event.

The premise of the event was that different local artists could apply to get a wooden cut out fish.  They would then decorate the fish any way they sought fit as long as it was appropriate.  The fish would be put on display all over Margaretville for the summer.  At the end of the summer, they would be actioned off and the majority of the proceeds would go to BAM to help fund the village-wide events they put on every year and the village decorations.

Last years theme was trout and I was lucky enough to be able to paint a fish.

I was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh and painted one side of my fish using him as my inspiration.

But then I got bored and couldn't possibly recreate the opposite side of the fish to be the same.

So I went in a different direction and painted it with flowers since it was going to be displayed outside of our fabric shop, Bloom.

At the end of the summer when the fish were being auctioned off, I was asked to be the Vana White of trout and help sell off the fish.

Lisa Scalf, the genius that she is, gave me a mermaid costume she had made in the '80s while she was studying at FIT to wear.

Let's make this the bee's knees.