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  • Silent Studio : Noisy Blog

    ByHeather Bailey

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    I'm sitting at my new desk with my toes nestled in a cream shag rug.
    It's my first full day working from the new studio.  We still have a
    lot of painting and decorating to do before this place feels like home,
    but the shag rug is a cozy start — along with my green, crocheted,
    doily coaster.  

    — Which reminds me that I need to park a camera up here if my photos are to match up with my chit-chat now and again. Here are a few Nicey Jane pillows and a full-size Nicey Jane quilt. Recognize the settee, updated & reupholstered in a french-gray velveteen? —


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    The hardest thing to get used to is the glorious quiet.  Who knew quiet could be so distracting.

    My studio at home is smack-dab in the middle of the house, with two
    wide, arched entrances and no doors.  I'm used to Isaac's music and
    loud-talk from the other room, dogs barking at the front door, Dora the
    Explorer calling out from the family room and Charlotte playing at my
    elbows. Oh, and four phones and a fax machine ringing intermittently.

    Charlotte will still play at my elbows here, as she should.  She has
    discovered a 'cave' at the back of my display dress form.  She rounds
    up my three sock-doll bats and lets her imagination trot along.  The beefy warehouse shelving makes for fabulous bunk beds too, I'm told.  For turtles, elephants, bats, and little children. 

    The rest of the happy rackity-clackity will stay put at home.  I'll still be there most of the time to enjoy it.

    Gotta run.  My mom is on her way over for a lunch date.

  • Red & White All Over

    ByHeather Bailey

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    I'm so ready for Christmas songs, twinkle lights, gingerbread
    cookies — the whole shbang. I have looked forward to the holidays all
    year.  Our last Christmas
    was pretty hectic and tiring with Isaac in the hospital and whatnot. 
    This year we are all drinking an appropriate amount of water, to say
    the least.

    I've been working my tail off to wrap up my first stationery release
    (Inviting Company, Jan 2009), to get new patterns to the printer, and
    to prepare for my new fabric collection, Nicey Jane™. 
    I'm so thankful these projects hit in November and not in precious,
    chilly December.  Despite the hubbub, I channeled some of my holiday
    excitement into designing a fun stack of holiday gift tags as a present for our customers this year.  A set of these tags will be sent out with every order placed in the month of December.  And they are DANG
    cute.  My favorite is perhaps the holly berry design at the bottom-left
    of the photo above, or the reindeer.  There are other great holiday discounts and freebies right now at HeatherBaileyStore.com as well.  Click here to take a look.

    Part of my holiday plan is to blog more.  My goodness, where have I
    been?  That's right, under a heavy stack of deadlines.  With new
    patterns on the horizon and plenty of holiday projects in the works, I
    have lots to share, including several sewing projects that have had to
    stay under wraps the last two months.  Ah, what a relief.

    First up is Miss Nicey Jane (next post) — can – not – wait!