New Switch plate decal sticker

I get allot of orders for light switch plates and now I have something new. It's a decal sticker to put over your existing switch plate. It's made out of poly woven fabric that you can wipe clean. It's removable with no sticky residue and repositionable.  You could change them for a seasonal look for the holidays or just a change in décor. There will be allot more decals in my shop soon.  Endless fun with decals and art!

Botanical Sketchbook art on fabric

New Botanical fabric design with flowers collected from my garden for fabric, wallpaper, decals  and gift wrap found in my spoonflower shop http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/4518623 .  Always some new finds to press, endless experimenting.

 

Favorite Delphinium Blue Skies

I have sooooooo many favorites and yes they are usually blue, my favorite color!  This is Blue Sky Delphinium with a little rain from the evening before. I love getting two blooming's out of them but you really have to keep after the slugs and they love a good rich soil and fertilizer. Gorgeous Right! I have a close-up of one of the blossoms in my Spoonflower Fabric shop, here's the link directly to it:
http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/3444654   I designed it for a pillow panel and just received the fabric so I can make a sofa pillow for my new blue décor.  When it's done I'll post a pic.

Chocolate Cosmos astrosanguineus

Chocolate Cosmos astrosanguineus is another of my favorite perennials and beautiful pressed too. It's hardy zones 8-9 so I do protect them in my zone 7 garden with some evergreen bows during winter. They like partial to full sun and grows up to prox 18" tall. It blooms summer through autumn and is herbaceous (meaning all the foliage dies down for winter) and will come up again in spring. This photo has the morning due on them but they usually have a velvety appearance of reddish brown to blackish and scented with chocolate and it really does smell like chocolate, who wouldn't like that.

Blue Poppy

Well lets start out 2015 with the beautiful Blue Poppy, my all time favorite flower. I found this one and a whole garden patch of these during my trip to Scotland last year, what a treat. Actually my husband spotted them and knew they were my favorite.   So many things going on that I have not posted since last year in March, wow! I have plans to add pressed flower projects to my blog along with the gardening tips and photos. I plan to add more digital downloads in my Etsy shop so you can make the pressed flower projects that I make yourself along with instructions to show you how. I am already looking forward to spring in January like I always do.  We get teased with some warm weather days in January so it's not unusual to find me out in the garden and mowing the lawn even though winter has really just begun. It's time to make plans for the garden with the seed catalogs in hand and dreaming of something new for the garden. 

Candelabra Primrose

Candelabra Primrose , one of my favorite shade
perennials.  They come in shades of pink, yellow
orange and lavender and have whorls of flowers
on a 18" stem, so cool. 

Art for Aizle Restaurant in Edinburgh, Scotland

My art above is a cotton/linen fabric that you can frame or use with

canvas stretcher bars to frame.  These are pressed flower silhouettes

with a natural linen background. Coming soon to my Spoonflower

fabric website. You can see other fabric, wallpaper, decals and gift

wrap if you click on the Spoonflower link on the right.  I am proud

to say this art will be in my step daughter and son-in-laws new restaurant

called Aizle opening this spring in Edinburgh, Scotland.  We are going to

see them soon, I can't wait, I have never been to Europe. You can check out

 their website at: http://www.aizle.co.uk/

Pressed flowers on fabric

 

Here are some of my new fabric on Spoonflower, click the link to the right on the side bar to see much more, near 100 designs now.  This is endless fun, some pressed flowers are turn graphic and some are natural and print perfectly onto fabric, wallpaper, decals and gift wrap.  Hope you will stop by.

Back again finally

I have been so busy with working and with my Etsy site and now with a new site for fabric, wallpaper, gift wrap and decals.  I love fabric and I'm having fun building my new site with spoonflower.com .   You can find my page at:  spoonflower.com/profiles/mypetalpress 

In the garden in mid November I still have a few roses blooming, penstemon blooming and some fall color still going on.  I love living on this side of the mountains, here we are in November and still the garden has a few flowers and the ground is workable.  I still have plants in pots I have bought over summer that need to get planted but I keep putting it off still.  Leaves to rake and plants to cut back. Winter is just around the corner so I better get busy.  I even have a few blooms on my ceonothus California lilac.  Finally done at the nursery so now I can concentrate on my Etsy website for the holidays and my new fabric designs.  Also, news is next year my pressed fall leaves I sell on Etsy for Thanksgiving table décor will be featured in Better Homes and Gardens Midwest edition magazine next fall for 2014, can't wait to see what they have done with their photo shoot that is happening tomorrow.  

Old Fashioned Annual Salpiglossis sinuata "Painted Tongue"

Salpiglossis sinuata is an easy old fashioned annual also called Painted Tongue. It's 12-18" high and likes full sun and comes in all the jewel tones.  It looks velvety and interesting veining, one of my favorite annuals, got to have them every year somewhere in the garden or in pots.

Cleome spinosa "Spider Flower"

 

Ceome spinosa is an old fashion favorite annual of mine I like to add to the garden every year. It likes full sun here in the Pacific Northwest but will tolerate some shade in hotter regions. It's about 3-4' tall and in my front yard, people have stopped to say it's their favorite.  Also called Spider Flower.


 

Unknown Day Lily, Anyone?

Hemerocallis , common name Day lily. Well I thought I had the name of this one but it was marked wrong so the only one closest I have found on my search is possibly "El Desperado" but it doesn't have the burgundy edge on the outside of the petals.  Anyone???  It is gorgeous in my garden though.
So much to do at this time of year and I realize I have not posted since April, OMG where has the time gone.