Ashley Mackenzie (ashmackenzie.com)

Don’t remix, transform and distribute Schinako’s art.

Looking in the Mirror by George Tsui

Des gens (plutôt meufs mais ça dépend, je leur ai pas demandé) à poils. Pour les trouver beaux là, là et là aussi.

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Few would argue if we said that pets are an endless source of joy and happiness in our lives. Therefore, there is no surprise people are trying to immortalize them in every way possible. This Aussie painter, Vanessa Stockard, found the best way to do that by sneaking her three adorable cats, Kevin The Kittin, his mom Fluff Ferstenberg and the head of the adorable fluff family, Satan, into her paintings. Stockard’s process includes pieces developed without visual reference but rather from memory. These narratives incorporate domestic pets such as cats and dogs, juxtaposing the anthropomorphic nature of these animals are given by society, she infuses the personification of virtue and vice into the everyday canine and feline status quo. Cats with their fluffy comical exteriors yet instinctual urge to kill and a tendency to be cruel to their prey, dogs with their providence of happiness and friendship flung back to Churchill’s metaphor for depression. Despite this not-so -cheerful description of her works, Stockard manages to make her art somehow quirky and very enjoyable!

Well it has been like the inside of a tornado around here. Let me tell you. But here some new and exciting things happening at Colonial Patterns! New Pattern Books!!! We have an older set of pattern books that we are working on revamping and making better. So we have 12 new books out right now. These books work just like our regular Aunt Martha's patterns (one color iron-on transfer), but there are just more in this booklet than what comes in the standard envelope sized Aunt Martha's pattern. #400 Kitchen Designs #401 European Delight #402 Flowers and Butterflies #403 Fruits and Veggies #404 Farm Living #405 A Holiday for Every Season #406 The Great Outdoors #407 Sunbonnet Days #408 Clever Kitties #409 Playful Puppies #410 Fanciful Flowers #411 The Four Seasons Hope you like all the new books! They are 8.5" x 11" and have beautiful full color covers to them now. If you look at them on our website, there are examples of some of the designs stitched up for each book. Happy Stitching! Brooke