Mother's Day Sale

Mother's Day Sale 2016

30% off Entire Order!!!  

Enter: MOTHERSDAY16

Now through May 9th.

Check out My Shop for more Original Art!!!

Deep Winter Sale!!!

 

Am Celebrating the deep dark days of Winter this year by having a storewide sale... hop on over to my Big Cartel Shop and check it out!  Use the code "Hibernation" when checking out! 

Tis the Season!

Queen Anne's Lace No. 2 
Encaustic Painting
4x4x2 inches

I've been loading artwork into my Big Cartel Shop today, so far I have photographed and loaded six items.  I think for me the hardest part about listing my artwork is not that it'll go live with someone else, or that people will pay the price I'm asking for my original art, it's describing it so that you understand what I have created.

Then again I could be over thinking all of this, it wouldn't be the first time.

I'm glad I took the time to rephotograph my artwork, after reading a recent article in Professional Artist Magazine "Less is More: Choosing Photos for your Marketing Efforts" (page 32 Dec2014/Jan2015 issue) it was well worth the effort.  And I still have a ton more to learn about good photography,

Cyber Monday Sale ~ Bird Lovers

Queen Anne's Crows No. 2

Digitally Printed Silk Fabric, on Painted Timtex, Machine Stitched.

 

Gifts for your Favorite Bird Lovers

 

I loaded my shop last night with some of my favorite bird pieces, I will be adding more later today!

Studio Rag

The colors are a deep camel and pale yellow, the yellow doesn't show up well in this image due to the poor lighting in my office.  Natural dyes on cotton.

French Pearl Cotton - Yummy!

Stopped by my favorite haunt today, JB Knacker in Gilbert, Iowa, and found five beautiful skeins of vintage french pearl cotton!

Some of the thread has some foxing but should come out with a gentle washing. 

Shop Rags

I have started giving John fat quarters whenever he stains or paints a new frame for me, the marks that are left behind are quite interesting and definately have some potential.

My shop rags aren't so bad either, these need a little bit more abuse and they will be ready for stitching.

Now to just find some time to paint and dye fabric.

Embroidery Collage Kits

A quart of fun in various monochromatic color choices.  I will have more photos in the shop of each colorway, each bag contains some fun items, embroidery thread and pearl cotton, jumbo beads, found objects, and fabric, plus a one white fat quarter of cotton fabric.

Downsizing and Shop Update

Been working in the studio today, going through supplies and have decided to downsize, I'll be listing more silk bundles, silk fiber packets, wool bundles, etc. tomorrow in the shop! The need to downsize has more with the need to focus and so long the extras are hanging out the desire to dye more fabric and fibers becomes diminished! 

Upcoming dye pots for this weekend include walnuts, curly dock, and indigo, and I can't wait.

Curly or sour dock, I have three beautiful stands in the yard right now, all parts are usable including the roots.

New Shop

I opened a new shop page on my website!  I have to admit I was slow to set up another shopping cart but after last weekends fiasco of not being able to get tech helpfor my BigCartel shop, tech help apparently is available ONLY during M-F and ONLY from 9-5 eastern time, I caved.

New Shop

I opened up a new shop yesterday with Big Cartel, and am love love loving the simplicity of the service they offer from set up to purchase!  You can check out my new digs here http://www.prairiefibers.bigcartel.com/   It'll take me a bit to get all of the inventory loaded.

Natural Dyed Silk Velvet Fabrics

Silk Velvet Fabric now available in my shop

New Harvest Banner

New banner for my etsy shop kbaxterpackwood

Wool Batts

I've been busy this afternoon making more wool batts, will do a big reveal on Monday of some new goodies I've made for the shop. I really love this colorway it's called "Taffy" , it reminds me of the treats we could only get during the summer months as kids.