Do I do flowers you ask...lol.....!!!!!

People...I get asked all the time...do i do flowers....dah...when I started to design in the early 70's flowers and pooh bear was the ticket...along with really scary birds....something about birds in needlepoint that is imposing and just plain scary...that is why I have the little cute round stylized birds in Squiggee Designs ( see top picture...my bluebird)...anything else is just creepy to me...but game birds ducks and all sorts were popular when I first started in the business...

I have painted almost every flower you can name ...in all sorts of venues...rugs...pillows...purses......small ,medium large and extra large like the three 20" sq pillows on 10st at the top of the page...what I call big A-S pillows.....something you can get your teeth into....

so when a customer, shop or just someone on crack asks me.." have you done any flowers" and I faint don't be surprised...mostly I just roll my eyes and say in in a sweet voice..." well yes I have at times"....I know now body likes a smarty pants...

Just Blooming !

The sun was shinning today and all the local flora seems to be blooming at once....like the botanical gardens I visited as a child in DC...but the difference...these flowers surround us.......Omar and Squiggee napped all afternoon while I painted school ornaments and then the evening was topped off with a call from Claire in Tyler Texas.....you know Claire...... . she is the customer/friend that wanted the little Boy Scout Gingerbread Tent......she says she is almost done and promises a picture when it is completed....we discussed the girl Scout tent and of course she had some great suggestions...such as cookies...lol...I was a girl scout for just one year and to this day I can't look at a box of girl scout cookies without my mind returning to me in third grade dragging my brothers red wagon all over Bethesda Maryland selling Girl Scout Cookies door to door...my father finally in the end took masses of them to the office to help me meet my quota....seeeee, things were rough in the olden days...now the scouts take orders...lol...anyway

Claire is an old a valuable Squigger from my early days on eBay, when Squiggee Designs started...It was the girls of Texas that first discovered Squiggee and bought tons of canvases...Texas girls will always have a special place in Squiggeeland, and Claire is a rare jewel !

She also has a great sense of humor and gets me...which is no mere feat !...I am odd....

Squiggee sends love also to Claire's Mom ... and all the other Squiggers out there stitching away xoxoxoxoxo

love,

Squiggee

Picky Picky

I can see why customers want a painted canvas rather than count from a graph in a book...OK if you are doing a small piece , but lets be real !!! most of the complicated graphs are just a horrifying task...and if the customer requires a deign from a graph to be altered...then they really do need help....I find that most graphs are too picky picky...fussy.....this lady with the head shell gear was altered to fit a space... she was square and had more shells...and her colors were softened.....she reminded me of Medusa in flower and shell form......snakes are not my thing at all...so flowers are just fine....so now the customer can sit back and relax and work her canvas....

although I thought the whole point of graphs are to save the expense of the painted canvas...

the painted canvas will never go out of fashion.....and is far more relaxing than a graph to work from......she does have the look of another world...she could reside in a Victorian formal garden....just waiting to be kissed and the spell broken...she would be released and be a whole ,tall ,slender beautiful woman ,in a shear floral print dress holding a single shell.... her long golden tresses bound only buy a blue silk ribbon...wooooooooo...too many fairy tales when I was young..!!!!