WTWW 2010 ArtBra Calendar on Sale Now!

The WTWW 2010 ArtBra Calendar

On Sale for the next few days at 20% off!

Regular $14 Now $11.20

www.artbra.org or www.ribbonsmyth.com

Now is the time to order your calendars and save! These calendars make great Christmas gifts for your loved ones and friends and they are now on sale. And the net proceeds from the calendars will be donated to Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, PA for the mobile mammography van.

I just spent time at the hospital last week learning more about how the calendar donations will help this special program. The mammography van is one of the few in the US that has digital mammography. The van serves the homeless in shelters and the underserved in Philadelphia and in eight New Jersey counties. All the women that operate the mobile van program are in fear that the program will be cancelled due to the fact this is a service that Fox Chase offers women and is not a money-maker for the hospital. The North East is a heavily-populated area and the Fox Chase Cancer Center Mobile Van is the only one operating in such a huge area.

My personal thanks to each of you that have ordered calendars. Due to you, we were fortunate to print a second calendar edition. When they are gone, we will not be printing more.

I will be unavailable for a few days in December and the office will be closed. Please order now, if you can! Thank you!

Blog Give-Away for November ~ArtBra Calendars!

2010 ArtBra Calendar Designers

This is a photo of designers that create ArtBras and blocks for the crazy quilts featured in the 2010 ArtBra Calendar. We rarely can manage to be together at one time. To me, the ArtBra designers are indeed "Earth Angels". They made this year's calendar a reality with only two weeks notice to create their beautiful ArtBras. Here we are at an ArtBra Exhibition, signing calendars. Left to Right - Laurel Mazziotti, Julie Yonge, Stephanie Novatski, Barbara Blankenship, Leonie Hartley-Hoover, Brenda Adams Wilson, and Vickie Adams Brown.

Stephanie Novatski is our webmaster for the ArtBra site and I am grateful for her help!

The ArtBra calendar can be purchased at www.artbra.org or www.ribbonsmyth.com

This year's calendar proceeds will be donated to Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, PA

Sign-up here for our blog give-away. We will be giving away three 2010 WTWW ArtBra Calendars November 29th. Sign up for the blog give-away by simply leaving a note, if just to say "Hi" and be sure to leave your email address. If we do not have your email address, your entry is void.

Blog Winners! - Chanel's Lapels detail shot

Our latest Blog winners are: Cathy Kizerian, Janet Chan and Grace Wong. We have been making gift bags for blog winners and we need your addresses! Thank you for signing up!

Next blog give-away will be announced November 29th

The photo in this post is a detail shot of an ArtBra I designed called "Chanel's Lapels". The story with the ArtBra is a tribute to Coco Chanel!

Dress it up Challenge - Please Vote!

This is a Dress-It-Up Challenge Dress submitted by Debra Bopp.

Please vote by simply leaving a note, even if to say "Hi" and your note counts as one vote. The votes will be tallied November 28th and announced on November 29th. We have two entries and both are adorable.

The Challenge kit included RibbonSmyth copyrighted pattern, a wooden hanger, five pieces of fabric, yard of wire-edge ribbon, purple satin butterflies, sequins, beads, silk ribbon and floss. The kit components could have additional elements added within the design.

Thank you for voting!

Dress it up Challenge - Please Vote!

We have two entries for our Dress-It-Up Challenge. We shipped over 30 kits and the two women that completed the challenge are both winners!

Their designs are adorable. The prizes are a $100 Gift Box for first place and a $50 Gift Box for second place. And your vote will award the prizes!

Please make a comment, even to say Hi! for one of these adorable dresses and the tally will be taken the week-end of November 28th and announced November 29th. Thank you for voting!

This dress is designed by Rengin Yazitas of Istanbul, Turkey.

She used the components from the Challenge kit and added additional

elements.

Labor Day Sale at Ribbonsmyth 20% Off

Everything is on Sale ~ 20% off Labor Day Savings!
We are feeling fall in the air here at the farm, and that means what will we begin to create for holiday gifts! I have a Christmas Tree Crazy Quilt Skirt that I so hope gets stitched in time for my Mother's tree! I can see it in elegant shades of burgundy and gold velvets with one of the fringe trims that I've saved for a special piece. Now where to find the time to make this a real gift and not just a vision!

So gather a few ribbons and vintage images for those holiday gift "visions"!

Featured is one of my Altoid tins that I created with a vintage image on a base of doupioni fabric and edged with 7mm silk ribbon French knots and hand-dyed Venice motif. The pattern is available and features a little velvet pincushion on the inside. I finished this piece by adding little legs to my tuffet case. To easily embellish the sides of the tin, I glued rococo lace around the tin.

In November, please catch my article featuring a variety of my embellished tins in the November issue of CQ Mag.

Your are Invited to the WTWW ArtBra Exhibit

If you have a chance, we hope you will check out the WTWW ArtBra
Exhibition at Byers' Choice during the month of October.

The exhibit will feature 35 ArtBras and three crazy quilts and ArtBra designers will be attending the exhibit the week-end of October 2nd

To purchase WTWW 2010 ArtBra calendars, they will begin to ship the last week of September and can be purchased through www.ribbonsmyth.com

Calendars will sell for $14 and the proceeds will be donated to Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, PA