Kristen from Carolina

I got a note via the Yahoo 360 system from Kristen asking for help identifying the stand up Santa in this portrait of Sue Jennings I took at Woodlawn. Since the default when you send a message this way is that anyone getting such a message can't reply, I'm posting my answer here so Kristen will see it.

I am not sure if she means the Santa on the far right (KS Designs) or the Santa head (Shelly Tribbey) on the pole, but here are the two websites for Kristen to browse and find the canvases.

Kristen, the right hand corner Santa you can barely see in the image most resembles the Naturalist Santa here but without the stuffed animal or the tree. Go to Gallery, then browse the Christmas and Stand Up sections plus What's New for a good look at many Kathy Schenkel designs.
http://www.kathyschenkel.com/Gallery/Christmas/13/Large-Stand-up-Santas/26.html

I think the Washington, D.C. Shelly Tribbey Santa face is a limited edition. Check with shops in the D.C. area to see if you can find it. Shelly's website has a lot of similar Santa heads and can probably point you to a place to pick up the D.C. Santa.
http://www.shellytribbey.com/christmas/santas/index.html

If Sue sees this, she'll let me know exactly who the designers and which canvases these are. By the way, the patriotic angel stand up on the left is from Mile High Princess (distributed by The Artists Collection). Here are their latest patriotic designs.
http://www.a-z-needlepoint.com/products-s/artistscoll-mhp2213.shtml

http://www.needlenookoflajolla.com/designers/artist_collection/index.html

The latest Mile High Princess canvases can be browsed here.
http://www.artistscollection.net/Artists_Collection/Design_Gallery.html

Thanks for your kind words about Blog, Kristen. Hope this is what you needed!


Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow

More Hearts, Still No Flowers

I didn't mention yesterday how I went about putting so many colors in such a small area. Basically, I choose a light color (yellow) for the background and then picked very bright (lime green) or strong (the reds) shades, usually picking two versions of a color. There's the red silk Trebizond and the red nylon Patina, for example. They are slightly different in shine and depth of color, which I thought would allow me to do two reds in a row but they'd not be too much because they'd be identical.

I tried to get enough variety (two blues, a blue teal, two reds, one orange because a lighter orange would not stand out on the yellow background, pink, two purples, three greens, etc.) so that Holi's underskirt would look like a flower bed planted in all colors of the rainbow.

Also, if you ever tried to color all the states in third grade like I did with only three colors, you know you need at least five or Kentucky will be the same color as Tennessee. In other words, you need 5 colors at least to mix so that you don't have rows where two colors touch or touch the same color on the diagonal row above or below the one you are working.

Other than that, just eyeball it and put navy where you haven't had any in a while. Very scientific, no? LOL

By the way, you might find what Kelly has written on her blog about her background color struggle interesting. Background color is important and hard!
http://kellysorts.blogspot.com/2009/03/background-choices.html

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow