Coffee Break Designs: June 2010

Monday, June 14, 2010

Visit My New Line in Housewares

Roaster Coasters handwoven coasters, aka mug mats.

Pitsachio Green and White

Red, White, and Blue

And I will be taking a couple of them in gift boxes to Swift Waters.

I'm sending a couple of sets out to the stores, so what's left will go up on Etsy. I already sold a few at GGG and the farmers' market. I'm working on more colors.

And this is a gorgeous red and white cotton/linen kitchen towel that needs to get up on Etsy already!

Slacker . . .

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Two New Enviro-friendly Scarves

My Stripe Hemp Handwoven scarf is now in the shop. It's made of cotton, but mostly handwoven of organic hemp.

This is Loud handwoven with soy silk, a byproduct of the tofu manufacturing industry. It's bright redpinkorange, but very soft. It feel like a cross between silk and a well-worn cotton.

And now for something completely different: I started teaching myself to play the guitar a few months ago. I put a link up to a couple of videos I made (in the sidebar).

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

More Photos from GGG

More photos from this weekends Gardens Galleries and Gifts event in Broad Brook, CT.

My housewares, Coffee Break Designs

Our wonderful helpers, selling cold soda and plants!

Nancy Masters and her husband love old cars and trucks. Check out Nancy's paintings.

Home staging, party planning and catering are one of the many things Donna can do for you at Master the Details Half the event was on Donna's property - gorgeous perennial gardens!

Primitives by Priscilla Clesowidi

Lola Rae Work by Michele Muska. Purses, jewelry, work with fabric - gorgeous work!

Painted silk scarves by Liena Dieck

Photography by Dot Drobney. She took these pictures!

Monday, June 7, 2010

Dodging rain, thunderstorms, and two days of tornado warnings (I'm in Connecticut, not Kansas, Toto, so two days of tornado warnings is rare, indeed.) and a great turn out for the first annual Galleries, Gardens and Gifts.