Away We Go!

In less than 18 hours I will be reunited with my lovely Kristin and we will be frolicking toward THIS:

On Friday we'll be hiking up to a Monastery, and then to a brewery that evening.  On Saturday, we'll be hiking to THIS majesty:

It's going to be EPIC! 

I promise many beautiful pictures and I'm suspecting some stories of hilarity upon my return. Have a beautiful week lovelies!!

Scarf Madness and Bavaria!

What a crazy couple of weeks!  I've been slammed with orders (yay!), including my biggest order to date, and this one-woman assembly line has been working overtime to get everything finished and shipped before my oh-so-fabulous Kristin gets here! In exactly one week, we will be on a plane to Munich and on our journey to the magical land of Garmisch in Bavaria.  If you've never heard of it, it looks like this:

I know.  I can't freaking wait.  It also happens to be Oktoberfest next weekend, but being that Kristin and I both hate crowds very deeply, you'll probably catch us skimming the outskirts before running screaming into the beauty and solitude of the Bavarian Alps.

Noooooooo....

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS.....

After we depart Germany, we'll be headed to Edinburgh, Scotland, and then to Glasgow, Scotland for 4th row seats at Fleetwood Mac! Wheeeeee!! Legendary it will be.

Meanwhile, my lovely husband purchased a VPN Router and I once again have been reunited with my beloved Pandora stations.  I am currently obsessed with this amazing woman, and the deliciousness that her Pandora station produces.

Where the Magic Happens

Today I'm going to give you a little tour around my studio!  When we moved here, we were very fortunate to be assigned to a 3-bedroom house despite our not having children.  Especially because houses in England tend to be much smaller than in America! We started out with my studio in the smallest room, our bedroom in the middle sized room, and the spare bed/man cave in the largest room.

Within a few months, my wonderful hubby sacrificed his man cave and we moved my studio into the largest room, our bedroom into the smallest, and the spare room into the middle.  Within about another month, my new sewing machine, backdrop stand and lighting arrived and my studio overflowed into the medium room as well.

It can still be a bit cramped and I run into things often, but I am very grateful to have two spare rooms to work with!

This is the office area.  This is where I do all printing, writing of Thank You notes, filling out customs forms, replying to emails...all those fun admin tidbits.  The desk belonged to my Gram, and I treasure it dearly! I whitewashed and sealed it to match my decor.  The map is lovingly marked with every location that I have shipped orders to, and the Groogrux King print is a limited edition copy from Dave Matthews Band at the Gorge 2009 <3

This is one of my stretcher frames - the smaller of the two, where I do single pillows and the heavier fabric scarves.  Above the stretcher is my cherished Mae Chevrette print as a constant reminder to Live the Dream.  Those drawers are chock full of dyes, fabric pens, guttas, and other little bits and bobs for creating!

This is my larger stretcher frame, where I do pairs of pillows, silk scarves and the curtain panels.  I keep my Christmas lights up year-round because they make me happy and add a lovely cozy ambiance to the room :)

This is the painting section, closet that also serves as a little inspiration board, and the GHD where I sculpt these luscious abs of steel...
The easel is the latest addition to the room, and oh how I love it.  It has made my life much easier and looks much more beautiful than the previous one as a bonus.

This is my beautiful fur baby, who just LOVES rolling on my drop sheets all day long. Isn't he such a baby bear cub? :)

This is my file cabinet - a much downsized version than our previous home in Phoenix.  That thing was an enormous beast.  I found this little gem for $10 on the local yard sale site and decoupaged it with a bunch of old French books I had laying around.  Its much prettier now :)

I love this clock! You can find a delicious clock similar to this one over at The Big Clock Store on Etsy! They have all sorts of them :)

This is over in the medium sized room where I have started to take over what semblance of a man cave my hubby has left.  Note the giant Beatles poster and drawers of madness to the left.  I cropped out the basketball and football jerseys...
This is where all the sewing of the pillows, labels and soon-to-be released skirts and headwraps takes place.  On the opposite wall is the photography backdrop and lighting, ironing station and dress form.  Also, the guest futon that my husband uses for stowing all of his clean laundry.  I have spared you of that sight.

And last but not least, packaging!  Dog crates CAN be multipurpose :)

Someday I'll have my enormous custom studio with exposed brick and floor to ceiling windows, but for now, this does it for me!

I would love to see your studios and work spaces! Send them to me here and I will post a collection in the future!

www.emilymagone.com

It's My One Year (Etsy) Anniversary!

On September 7th of last year, I officially opened my Etsy shop for business.  I had my first order within a few hours, and it has been steadily growing since.  I noticed a few days ago that I was getting close to 100 sales in the shop, and I thought it would be really rad if I hit 100 sales on my 1-year anniversary.  But I didn't think it would actually happen.  Lo and behold, I wake up this morning to my 100th sale.  What a lovely way to celebrate! :)

Thank you, Etsy, for providing such a magnificent platform for those of us that wish to create our own paths in life.  The feeling of freedom and accomplishment compares to nothing else I have done career-wise and I am forever grateful. 

Today was also Saturday, which happens to be my favorite day of the week for creating!  It just feels like there are more hours in Saturdays... so I like to maximize them of course :) Today I finished this painting,

painted two Antelope Canyon pillows for a customer in Texas, 

 painted this custom peony pillow for a fellow overseas customer,

AND sewed up another maxi skirt prototype, which has turned out to be the best one yet.  I think the wrap style is going to be my go-to for this project.  Full, flexible, easier to stretch and paint, the list goes on.  Pictures of the result soon!

Thank you to everyone who has made this first year of love art will travel possible for me.  The customers, the followers, the supporters, the muses, the loves.  It all is just so splendiferous. It makes me feel like this (minus the two people becoming one part...you don't make me feel like that):

New Pillow Design Available Now!

So one of my fabulous customers requested a pillow that was based on this painting: 

Antelope Canyon 2 by Emily Magone

What a fabulous idea!  Here is how it turned out!  I think it's quite delicious :)

Head on over to the Etsy shop to get one of your very own! I would LOVE to see this on a grey or white sofa... :)

Inspiration and My New Home Scale!

So a long time ago I had an idea that I wanted to paint scarves with a black silhouette of a woman, and a reversed or inverted flower as her dress or skirt.  I hadn't gotten to it yet, but then today I saw this picture on my feed.  It is like my vision, but in real life. And even more beautiful than I had envisioned.  It is also fabulous inspiration for the eventual photography of the maxi skirts :) Deliciously inspired scarves coming soon!

On another joyous note, my new scale arrived today!  For those shopping for a fabulous home shipping scale, this one is the American Weigh Scales SE-50 Ship Elite Black Low Profile Shipping Scale with Backlit LCD and 110-Pound Capacity.  This scale was a great deal, was a snap to set up, and I love it because it can hold up to 110 lbs. and the reader is separate from the scale itself so any sized package can be placed on it without blocking your sight of the reader.  Click on the linked title and you can read all the necessary specs for yourself!  

For those of you considering getting a home scale in general, I highly recommend it.  It is a QUARTER of the cost to print your own shipping labels versus taking your packages to the post office and letting them do it for you.  It is a massive savings and any scale you get will pay for itself very quickly.  DOOO IIIIITT.

www.loveartwilltravel.etsy.com

A day in London AND the Alice in Wonderland prints are available!

My fabulous brother-in-law came to visit from Italy over the holiday weekend, so we went to London for the day of course! We got very lucky in the weather department, as it was a cloudless 70 degrees all day :) Rare for London. It was a fabulous day of touristy sights, tea, Borough Market deliciousness, ales and family frolicking!

On another exciting note, the "Alice" painting is now available as a canvas print as well as a paper print in my Etsy Shop!

I hope you're all having a fabulous Labor Day Weekend! And CHEERS to everyone who is at the Gorge enjoying the amazing Dave Matthews Band this weekend! I am there with you in spirit!