Wednesday 8/27 at 3PM ( new york time) there will be a few little birds and a postcard set in my etsy shop.
new in the shop
I’ve just added a few new cake toppers to my shop – more coming soon.
*sorry- sold out but lots more coming soon*
tiny tophat production
Right on.
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coming soon
I’m working on lots of things, including several new cake toppers and they will be available beginning next week. There will also be some little birds, a camp wapameo postcard set and at least one woebegone.
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camp wapameo (for birds)
A group of little birds attended Camp Wapameo on the shores of beautiful Echo Lake in Rhode Island (thanks bettyann) over the July 4th holiday. The weather was disappointing and I suffered unimaginable insults from insects ( and vice versa I suppose), got poison ivy, accidentally rolled in goose poop repeatedly and had a fabulous time. You can see some of the highlights below (click the pictures for a larger view). The campers are ( from left to right): rex, finn, minter, liney, ashley, jane, betsy, flora, and georgie. 
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birds on vacation
They’re having a camping adventure and it’s been ridiculously well documented – more pictures when we get back.
birds and preserves
My sister becky puts things up and she surprised me with a box of her homemade preserves this week. Besides the strawberry and rhubarb orange in the photo there is also a lime raisin chutney that I already put too big a dent in to photograph. They are all unimaginably delicious. Enjoy the holiday, there will be new little birds available shortly after and I’m thinking about maybe bringing back the daily bird for a little while. You can join the mailing list for updates or just check back here.
dishes and brushes and things
I thought they looked pretty this morning.
My mural is finished and installed at a soon to be open restaurant called Home (20 Cornelia St. between Bleecker and West 4th). If you’re in the West Village you can go say hello to the peaceful goats and have a glass of wine. Here it is being installed.
And the previous day being inspected by the willet before getting packed up to go.
landscape
I’m painting a landscape mural this week working from pictures I took last week upstate at Olana and Clermont. I recomend visiting both, even though it was hot as balls I had a fabulous time. Here is some of the scarey looking underpainting.
This is the first 3 feet or so. The entire painting will be about 8 feet long and 30 inches high. When it’s done and installed I’ll let you know where. Here is the same section with the first of many color layers and a few details begun including some peaceful goats sketched in.
I haven’t painted anything in a long time and I’m way, out of practice and slow. Starting anything, especially large-ish projects and most especially painting, always makes me unreasonably anxious. This one gave me hives. I’m very happy in the middle of things but don’t care so much for the beginning or end.
Annette.
She is a springtime jolly and she went to Cog and Pearl here in Brooklyn yesterday with some other little birds.
serious sailors
On an excursion in Prospect Park.
sails and wobblers
Sails for a new boat and a couple merry wobblers.
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