Palais Designs

Fall Line at Fresh Baked Goods

nobody@vox.com(Palais) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:22:10 -0800

Here are four examples of my fall line, which is available at Fresh Baked Goods in Kensington Market (Toronto). Each piece is unique: the fabric leaves that I've appliqued on each shirt are different, as are the buttons. These short sleeved shir...

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Because of Camp...

nobody@vox.com(Palais) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:12:24 -0800

I used a combination of silk screening and embroidery for these t-shirts that I made as retirement gifts for my past camp directors, Topaz and Zoic. The phrase I used on the shirts is one that I used in a video that was made of staff and alum...

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My First Quilt

nobody@vox.com(Palais) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:04:00 -0800

One of my dear camp friends had a baby at the end of August. I started this little quilt for her baby while she was still pregnant and managed to finish it 3 weeks after the baby was born. Not too bad, for me! I've never made a quilt before, so ...

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Stamp It

nobody@vox.com(Palais) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:53:29 -0800

While on mini-vacation this past June, my sweet guy purchased a stamp set for me that I fell head over heels for in a little shop in Montreal. The set has a number of birds laced with some appropriate plants/leaves/shrubbery. Last month I put the...

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Green Pea Necklace

nobody@vox.com(Palais) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:08:16 -0700

I have this great red bead necklace that I found at a second hand store in Uxbridge a few years ago. Besides the perma-old lady perfume smell it has, it's a really cool necklace; the beads are large and I love its length. However, I found that, a...

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Piglet & Pooh

nobody@vox.com(Palais) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:53:14 -0700

Friends of mine got married a few weeks ago and the bride had me embroider two hankies (his and hers) with this image of Piglet and Pooh on them. This one is my mock up; the actual end results are almost exactly the same, but with the names of th...

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Ottoman Empire

nobody@vox.com(Palais) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:42:30 -0700

My roomies and I are growing up. It's true, we are. We're doing home improvements (and by that I mean, cosmetic changes. We don't use any tools more than those that help us hang things on walls). It started with re-doing the downstairs bathroom...

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Patches

nobody@vox.com(Palais) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:49:37 -0700

I handmade these patches for the adorable 2 year olds I take care of once a week. Their mom talked about how, with twins, the girls often have the same clothing, so it's nice to find ways to make them a little different. Enter, the patches. I go...

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Tie One On

nobody@vox.com(Palais) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:39:34 -0800

Oops! In my last blog I said that the wine glasses were my last Christmas gift post. I was wrong. I missed posting these lovely ties! I bought these vintage ties at a couple different stores in Kensington Market. One store in particular, Courage...

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Birds of a feather drink wine

nobody@vox.com(Palais) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:07:16 -0800

Here are the final Christmas gift pieces! It only took me 2 months to post all my handmade Christmas gifts! Eee... So every single person I made gifts for also got one of these wine glasses. I went out and bought a few colours of Testor's Enamel...

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