Vintage glassine

I hope you all had a fun, long weekend and thank you to all the people that left a message on the giveaway post! There is another week to submit your entry and I see a busy week head of me getting ready for the event. I'm going through every shelf in the studio and basement to organize and I found a lot of glassine envelopes, I saved this summer, that used to store the stamps for the big order. They are all sort of sizes and shapes, with old calligraphy, pencil marks and catalogue numbers. They seem part of the history as well as the vintage stamps, so I sort them into packages of 30 envelopes and made them available in the shop and the upcoming holidays shows!

Giveaway

While I'm learning how to use Instagram and having fun, I would like to announce a giveaway. Because not all of you that follows my blog live in the Boston area, I would like to do a giveaway to extend my thank you, for our first year studio anniversary, to all the readers that won't be able to come. It's a thank you gift that I will mail the week of December 5th to the winner. Please leave a comment and I'll send anywhere in the world a 2012 Calendar, a wood spool of chartreuse ribbon and some vintage stamps for your holiday wrapping. Thank you for all of your constant support, I wish you could all come to celebrate with us!

Save the date

Sorry the lack of posts in the last week, but I'm working hard on holidays orders and getting ready for the upcoming events in December. The season will start with our studio anniversary party on December 3rd. Right after, on Sunday the 4th, I will be at Jill Bent's house in Cambridge for a holiday sale with other vendors. On December 10th and 11th, Union Park Street in South End~Boston will be busy with several of us vendors, both at Michelle Willey for the annual Paper and Fabric and at Gracie Finn. More details will follow, but for now, I leave you with Susy's invitations for the event and I hope to see some of you soon!

Studio Carta first year!

It is official! We are having a studio anniversary celebration on Saturday, December 3rd, from 12 to 5 pm. Everyone is invited, please stop by if you are from the Boston area or like to come from far. Espresso and treats will be served. It has been a busy year, full of excitement, hard work and long, quite hours spent in this sunny studio in Brookline. Studio Carta won't exist without your support and inspiration, please come, I would love to celebrate with you all!

Oliver Jeffers illustrations

It's no surprise I love children books. And yesterday when my boy brought home a book from the school library, I was completely fascinated with this story and illustrations by Oliver Jeffers. I had to read more about his work and I found out he recently moved to Brooklyn. Looking at his illustrations and hand-writing made my day!

Pikku Ribbons

...freshly silkscreen printed just arrived on my desk. And soon available again in the shop and at holidays trunk shows. Also at Pikku beautiful shop.

Amanda McCavour

I saw something amazing today, found via Bookhou (one of my favorite morning reads), work by Amanda McCavour. I was even more impressed when I read her Artist Statement and realized she only use thread and a sewing machine!

In my work, I use a sewing machine to create thread drawings and installations by sewing into a fabric that dissolves in water. This fabric makes it possible for me to build up the thread by sewing repeatedly into my drawn images so that when the fabric is dissolved, the image can hold together without a base. These thread images appear as though they would be easily unraveled and seemingly on the verge of falling apart, despite the works actual raveled strength.
I am interested in the vulnerability of thread, its ability to unravel, and its strength when it is sewn together. I am interested in the connections between process and materials and the way that they relate to images and spaces. Tracing actions and environments through a process of repetition, translation and dissolving, I hope to trace absence. My work is a process of making as a way of tracing and preserving things that are gone, or slowly falling apart.