12/12/2013

Shopping Cart

Look around your creative space. What stands out to you? Is it something you’ve made, purchased, or has been handed down through the generations? There are many ways that makes an item fabulous to you. Each week we showcase a “fabulous feature” from one of our Where Women Create friends. This week it is easy to see why Staci finds this re-purposed shopping cart fabulous.

Staci Potter
The Potter’s Place
http://www.thepotters-place.com
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“Not only is it adorable, but it holds so much. It helps to keep my paper organized and easy to flip through. I found this shopping cart at the junk yard then I cleaned it up and brought it in my craft room. Here is my post, http://www.thepotters-place.com/2013/03/craft-room.html“

*** We would love to feature your favorite item in your studio, craft room, office, or work space. Email with the following items:

High-quality image of your item
Web address to link to
Name
Brief reason of why that item is your favorite

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11/19/2013

Where Women Create Quilters: Their Quilts, Their Studios, Their Stories

Have you heard about WWC Press’ new publication, “Where Women Create Quilters: Their Quilts, Their Studios, Their Stories” with access to more than 80 online quilt patterns?

Hear their stories, see their studios and favorite quilts, and learn how to make beautiful quilts of your own. Quilters, Their Quilts, Their Studios, Their Stories connects you with thirty of the top quilters in the industry, so you can learn the craft from the best.

This book includes beautiful photography of thirty quilting studios and spotlights the most important aspects of the world of quilting, including cutting tables, fabric and supply storage, quilt display treatments, and more. You’ll also discover each quilter’s personal story of their journey with quilting, along with their favorite personally-designed quilt patterns or their favorite pattern.

You can pick up your copy of Quilters on WWC Press.

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01/30/2013

Pieography: Where Pie Meets Biography

WWC Press and the Where Women family of magazines are excited to announce the newest Where Women Cook book, Pieography: Where Pie Meets Biography. Pieography hits shelves on February 1st, 2013 and is full of inspirational stories and delicious pie recipes. Now you can have your pie (book) and eat it too.

You will be amazed at what you can create when you get your copy of Pieography. Don’t forget to reserve your book today.

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01/16/2013

Introducing Flea Market Style Weddings Magazine

Jo is pleased to share with you the latest project from her friend Ki Nassauer. Ki, the executive editor of Flea Market Style (FMS) magazine, has just released the very first issue of her latest venture: Flea Market Style Weddings. Jo and Ki have a long history of creative ventures and look forward to future collaborations. You may know Ki through her work with the Junk Bonanza; you can learn more about her at kinassauer.com.

The inaugural 144-page magazine is packed with great ideas and DIY inspiration for all aspects of the perfect wedding. Flea Market Style Weddings includes: ideas on shopping vintage, getting dressed, styling and decorating your wedding, the perfect venues, invitation ideas, flowers, and rich resource lists. The issue also includes features on 6 wonderfully inventive weddings.

Flea Market Style Weddings magazine is a bounty of creativity, perfect for the creative geniuses who love Where Women Create. The magazine is starting to arrive on newsstands and at book, grocery, and drugstores as well as big box retailers. You can read more about the new magazine and pre-order a copy (the button is located on the sidebar) at http://fleamarketstylemag.blogspot.com.

introducing flean market style weddings magazine

Flea Market Style Weddings Magazine Giveaway

FMS would love to give away a copy of the new Weddings magazine to one of our Where Women Create readers. Entering is easy. Leave a comment on this post with your favorite thing about weddings.

***Winner will be chosen at random on 1/30/13. Comment with a valid name and email address so if selected as the winner you can be contacted.

We invite you to be social with our friends at Flea Market Style:

Facebook
Twitter

Image Credits:

CLOSE UP COUPLE and cake
Rebecca Fishman and Thomas Beatty: Photos by www.lovenancyneil.com

KISSING COUPLE ON GRASS and barn scene
Clare and Tom Hoelderle: Photographer: jefflovesjessica.com

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01/12/2013

Peacock Park Design Autograph Signing by Jo Packham

On Saturday, January 12th, 2013 Jo Packham will be signing autographs at Peacock Park Design.

It’s a great chance to meet Jo! She would love to see you there.

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01/01/2013

Happy New Year

“I would like to end 2012 with a most sincere, from the bottom of my heart, “Thank You” to everyone who has supported the women featured on the pages of our publications … whether through working with or being part of all that we do, subscribing to or buying the magazines, following and/ or featuring us on social media, purchasing our hard-bound publications, or telling “your world” about who we are.

As I say over and over again, “Without all of you, there would be no us”. Which is why I am sincerely and eternally grateful for all of you and each of you. I consider you friends, I think of us as a family so large that we have created a community, and I am honored to be a very small part of all that YOU do.

May “our new year” be one of beauty, balance, accomplishments, laughter, happiness, triumph, dreams, good luck, far away places, self-expression, love, and one that we shall remember with a grateful heart all the days of our lives.

With great humility, respect, appreciation, and much love

Me” ~Jo Packham

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12/25/2012

Merry Christmas

May your day of Christmas celebration be one of joy and sharing.

“It is with a grateful heart that I give to you my happiest and most sincere of holiday wishes.” ~Jo Packham

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11/29/2012

Fabulous Feature :

Fabulous Feature: Vintage Card File

Re-purposing storage has to be one of my favorite things. It is always amazing to see what people do with old suitcases or shelves. That is why this week feature of a vintage card file turned into a photograph holder is truly fabulous. What secrets, smiles, and wonder does it hold?

Fabulous Feature: Vintage Card File

Image/Quote Credit:
Heather Alexander
HA! Designs
www.artbyheather.etsy.com

“My favorite item in my studio is my vintage card file full of old photos. I love to rescue old photos and imagine what the story is behind them. I use them in my cards to bring smiles to all who receive them. Discarded photos have history and meaning and this filing cabinet is filled with families and stories and humor and love!”

***We would love to feature your favorite item in your studio, craft room, office, or workspace. Email wherewomencreatesm @ gmail.com with the following items:

High Quality Image of your item
Web address to link to
Name
Brief reason of why that item is your favorite.

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11/22/2012

Happy Thanksgiving

From the Where Women Create Family to you and your family!
May your day be blessed with love, family, and friends.

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11/21/2012

Feature :

Jo’s Favorite Things: Creative Fan Artwork

Have you ever wondered what Jo Packham’s favorite things are? Well your wait is over. Each week we are going to feature some of her favorite things. It’s like taking a peek into the mind of a creative genius. The inside of the Where Women Create offices is as magical as you would expect and I have always wondered where Jo gets her inspiration from and what she loves. I am excited to see and share some of her favorite things with you and me.

Jo’s Favorite Things: Creative Fan Artwork

Artwork- www.creativefan.com

“Don’t let life carry you away!”- Jo Packham

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11/19/2012

Feature :

Where Women Create Sneak Peek: Carol Hicks Bolton

The Winter (Nov/Dec/Jan 2013) issue of Where Women Create Magazine is the one you have been waiting for. Featuring some of the most amazing and inspiring people in the industry. We are offering you a sneak peak inside the pages of the magazine (that hit newstands November 1st) that will inspire you for years to come. This week we are giving you a glimpse of the grand Carol Hicks Bolton.

Where Women Create Sneak Peek: Carol Hicks Bolton

Carol Hicks Bolton
www.carolhicksbolton.com

“Carol Hicks Bolton is a well-established, even iconic creator, designer, and innovator. She and her husband, Tim, have pioneered pathways of ingenuity in the realm of home furnishings. Tim and Carol, alongside their children, Mac and Agusta, are currently manifesting their unique and characteristically surpising and invent designs, works, and creations in their 15,000-square-foot store – Carol Hicks Bolton Antiquities Labratoire de Design in Fredericksburg, Texas.” (quoted from Carol’s feature in Where Women Create magazine)

Image Credits:
Amy Boland
http://www.amyboland.com

Read all about about Carol Hicks Bolton in the Nov/Dec/Jan 2013 issue of Where Women Create Magazine. Click here to subscribe or purchase Where Women Create Magazine.

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11/15/2012

Fabulous Feature :

Fabulous Feature: Turquoise Bowl and Flower Frogs

Many of us are in the grips of winter. All the beautiful colors of spring, summer, and fall are starting to disappear and our landscapes are very bare. That is one of the reasons this week’s fabulous feature makes me smile. The items that Christine chose, like her turquoise water bowl, are so bright and cheery. It was just the splash of color I needed this week.

Fabulous Feature: Turquoise Bowl and Brushes and Frogs

“I have two items in my studio that are my favorite. It’s hard for me to choose between my turquoise water bowl that I bought at a thrift store for 25 cents. Its holds my brushes in the folds while I’m working.”

“I also love my heavy old flower frogs ( also found at thrift/antique shops ) that store my brushes and tools that are so nice to have nearby while painting. ”

Images/Quotes Provided By
Christine Young
http://christinecreate.com/
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***We would love to feature your favorite item in your studio, craft room, office, or workspace. Email wherewomencreatesm @ gmail.com with the following items:

High Quality Image of your item
Web address to link to
Name
Brief reason of why that item is your favorite.

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11/14/2012

Feature :

Jo’s Favorite Things: Michele Meister Sketch

Artist- Michele Meister

“Hang on … no matter how high you may go!”- Jo Packham

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11/12/2012

Feature :

Where Women Create Sneak Peek: Sandra Evertson

The Winter (Nov/Dec/Jan 2013) issue of Where Women Create Magazine is the one you have been waiting for. Featuring some of the most amazing and inspiring people in the industry. We are offering you a sneak peak inside the pages of the magazine (that hit newstands November 1st) that will inspire you for years to come. This week we are taking you inside the imagination of Sandra Evertson.

Where Women Create Sneak Peek: Sandra Evertson

Sandra Evertson
www.sandraevertson.blogspot.com

“Once upon a time, there was a shy, imaginative little girl, a bit of a mud lark who loved collecting and making things … she spent her early childhood on a rustic ranch surrounded by animal friends and discovering the natural wonders earth had to offer, oftentimes creating beloved treasures from her gatherings.” … (quoted from Sandra’s feature in Where Women Create Magazine)

Read all about about Sandra Evertson in the Nov/Dec/Jan 2013 issue of Where Women Create Magazine. Click here to subscribe or purchase.

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11/08/2012

Fabulous Feature :

Fabulous Feature: Art Caddy and Paint Palette

Sometimes we forget that the most useful things can also be beautiful in their own way. That is why I was inspired to share Beverly’s art caddy and paint palette as this week’s Fabulous Feature. They each have a very distinct use and also beauty. How can you not find joy in the rainbow of colors and sea of supplies?

Fabulous Feature: Art Caddy and Paint Palette

“My art caddy is an antique! What once carried tools for a farm, now neatly contains my art supplies…brushes, scissors, colored-pencils, tape, and assorted other accessories. I do a lot of plein-air painting in my garden, so with my caddy I can pick up and go where-ever my muse takes me. The ability to sketch and paint with my subject in front of me gives my watercolors an energy that is like no other.”

“My palette is wide enough that I can mix any color nature provides right on the spot. Art is about being in the moment!”

Images/Quote’s Provided By
Beverly Dyer
www.artprescription.com
www.beverlydyer.com

***We would love to feature your favorite item in your studio, craft room, office, or workspace. Email wherewomencreatesm @ gmail.com with the following items:

High Quality Image of your item
Web address to link to
Name
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11/07/2012

Feature :

Jo’s Favorite Things: Amy Cutler Painting

Painting by Amy Cutler

“This is exactly how I feel some days … no paddle, no water, and a boat with a hole in it that I think I look great in!”- Jo Packham

Don’t we all need a great looking boat?

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11/05/2012

Feature :

Where Women Create Sneak Peek: Kelly Rae Roberts

The Winter (Nov/Dec/Jan 2013) issue of Where Women Create Magazine is the one you have been waiting for. Featuring some of the most amazing and inspiring people in the industry. We are offering you a sneak peak inside the pages of the magazine (that hit newstands November 1st) that will inspire you for years to come. Our first feature is on the lovely Kelly Rae Roberts.

Where Women Create Sneak Peek: Kelly Rae Roberts

Kelly Rae Roberts
www.kellyraeroberts.com

“Kelly Rae Roberts is a ‘possibilatarian’ – she believes that possibility is born in the moments when we really listen to what is calling us in our lives. She followed her calling from a full-time job in social work to becoming a successful, working artist. Her mixed-media paintings are sold online; and her gift, home decor, and stationery collections are sold in store internationally.”… (Quoted from Kelly’s feature in Where Women Create Magazine.)

Photo/Image credit:
Tiffany Kirchner
www.thefancyfarmgirlphotography.com

Read all about about Kelly Rae Roberts in the Nov/Dec/Jan 2013 issue of Where Women Create Magazine. Click here to subscribe or purchase.

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10/31/2012

Feature :

Jo’s Favorite Things: Edgar Degas Quote

I can see why this is one of Jo’s favorite things. It gives me tingles when I read it.

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10/26/2012

Celina Mancurti Un Dolce Mini Collection Giveaway

The Celina Mancurti Un Dolce Mini Collection Giveaway is just waiting below.

Today I have the great honor to introduce you to the fabulous world of Celina Mancurti and her amazing line of products. A little about Celina from her website:

“Celina is an Argentinean born textile designer living in the U.S.A. Following her passion for textiles, she decided to work on her own linen collection that reflects her lifestyle. She tells her story through her beloved screen printing, the unique designs, eco-friendly fabrics and notions”

Celina has created a fabulous new mini collection called “Un Dolce” inspired by Breast Cancer Awareness Month and all the survivors and supporters out there. Celina’s will be donating $1 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation from each order placed through her Etsy shop during the month of October.

It’s an easy cause to support when you look at all of the amazing items that Celina has for sale.

We invite you to support this wonderful cause and visit Celina online:

Website- www.mancurti.com
Etsy- www.etsy.com/shop/CelinaMancurti
Facebook- www.facebook.com/pages/celina-mancurti/329569083734943

Celina Mancurti Un Dolce Mini Collection Giveaway

Celina is offering one lucky Where Women Create reader the opportunity to win some gorgeous items from her Un Dolce Collection. Aren’t you so excited?

The winner of the Celina Mancurti Un Dolce Mini Collection Giveaway will have the option to choose from 2 yards of printed linen, flat quarters, or a set of 2 tea towels. (from the Un Dolce Collection)

***Giveaway below will be administered through Rafflecopter. Winner will be notified by email. If winner does not respond within 48 hours new winner will be chosen. Giveaway will end on 10/31/12.

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10/19/2012

Downtown Tape Giveaway

Washi tape is the newest creative craze sweeping the craft world. If you have something that is standing still; you can washi tape it. Do you currently have a stock pile of washi tape that could be considered excessive? In the world of washi there is never excess. Because you can use it on so many things. You haven’t yet discovered the wonder world of washi tape? (It’s like beautiful ribbon and tape combined into one magical roll.) Well… Either way this Downtown Tape giveaway is for you.

You haven’t heard of Downtown Tape? It’s home of the $1.99 a roll washi tape with a flat shipping rate of $2.95. I did a little research and realized for the selection and the price, Downtown tape IS the place for washi. And when you sign up for their newsletter you automatically get a free sheet of gifting tags (valued at $10). How awesome is that?

Now I know what you are thinking. What exactly am I going to do with all the fabulousness that is the washi tape from Downtown Tape? Well, no worries. I have a few ideas that will spark the creativity that is already burning inside you.

Look at this genius idea to turn simple paper clips into the cutest washi tape bookmarks. Don’t you just love it?

Simple silver clips or magnetic clips? A little Downtown tape washi tape takes them from bland to glam.

With the holidays approaching imagine all the adorable custom tags you could make with just a little washi tape? That’s a project you could involve the whole family in on.

Downtown Tape Giveaway

Downtown Tape is giving 1 lucky Where Women Create reader 10 rolls of washi tape PLUS 25 tags.
Enter below using Rafflecopter.
Contest will run for 14 days and winner will be notified via email.
Fulfillment and product provided by Downtown Tape

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10/18/2012

Fabulous Feature :

Fabulous Feature: A Few of Monica’s Favorite Things

It’s another week and another Fabulous Feature where I couldn’t just choose one item from the fabulous Monica’s submissions. Trust me when I say that I showed self constraint in only choosing three. Her vintage storage trunks, vintage portable studio, and lovely chalkboard stone were the one’s that just spoke to me. I hope you have the same feelings as I did when you see just how amazing this these items are.

Fabulous Feature: A Few of Monica’s Favorite Things

“I am a licensing artist, photographer and lover of all things creative. Unfortunately, after the sale of my property in Italy two years ago, I haven’t found a place to call home as of yet, but I’m not letting that refrain me from being creative! I don’t have a studio anymore (or let’s say, as for now!), and just work on the dining room table, crammed full with art supplies! I also have a pile of vintage trunks and suitcases, that I use as storage.

These are my favorites things at the moment:

My chalkboard stone I made, with the writing Just Keep Swimming. I have loved it in the cute movie Finding Nemo, and I always stick to it in my personal and artistic life. Storage cans, both vintage and up-cycled. Fresh posies, I always have on my worktable.”

“My vintage portable studio.”

“Vintage trunks I use to store all my crafty mess, finished artworks and such.”

Images/Quotes Courtesy of:
Monica Sabolla Gruppo
http://monicasabollagruppo.com
http://the-white-bench.blogspot.com
http://monicasabollagruppo.blogspot.com

***We would love to feature your favorite item in your studio, craft room, office, or workspace. Email wherewomencreatesm @ gmail.com with the following items:

High Quality Image of your item
Web address to link to
Name
Brief reason of why that item is your favorite.

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10/17/2012

Feature :

Jo’s Favorite Things: Ship Sculpture

Have you ever wondered what Jo Packham’s favorite things are? Well your wait is over. Each week we are going to feature some of her favorite things. It’s like taking a peek into the mind of a creative genius. The inside of the Where Women Create offices is as magical as you would expect and I have always wondered where Jo gets her inspiration from and what she loves. I am excited to see as Jo shares some of her favorite things with you and me.

Jo’s Favorite Things: Ship Sculpture

“I really like this sculpture … on a ship going ‘over the edge’ in a sea of words…” – Jo Packham

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10/11/2012

Fabulous Friday :

Fabulous Feature: French Desk

This week’s Fabulous Feature has me salivating just a little. The colors, the beauty, the lighting, and just everything seemed to scream to me. If a picture is worth a thousand words I think this picture is worth 10 times that. I can only imagine how gorgeous this French desk is in real life. It makes complete sense why Angelina loves how it is displayed in her sewing room. It’s breathtaking.

Fabulous Feature: French Desk

www.shoprubyjean.com
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“I thought I would share ‘ONE’ of my favorite items in my sewing room. My French desk. We were so thrilled and loved how the room turned out, but I think my French desk centered in the room really pulled everything together and sealed the vision of a vintage dress shop.”

***We would love to feature your favorite item in your studio, craft room, office, or workspace. Email wherewomencreatesm @ gmail.com with the following items:

High Quality Image of your item
Web address to link to
Name
Brief reason of why that item is your favorite.

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10/10/2012

Feature :

Jo’s Favorite Things: Painting by Martyna Zoltaszek

“Life is about balancing not only our own lives as well as everyone who fills our everyday.”- Jo Packham

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10/05/2012

Jo Packham to be Honored With Ogden City Mayor’s Award in the Arts

I am so excited to announce that our own Jo Packham is going to receive an award from Ogden City, Utah Mayor Mike Caldwell on October 11th, 2012. Jo has long been a supporter of revitalizing Ogden and of course the arts. She is being honored in the literary category; which of course makes perfect sense. Jo wanted me to share a quick note of thanks:

“I am honored to receive Mayor Caldwell’s Awards in the Arts in the Literary category. I love working on any project that could be considered “the arts” and I am proud to be recognized among the other inspiring artisans that are also being honored.

I would like to thank the Mayor and those who were on the nominating committee.”

Jo Packham to be Honored With Ogden City Mayor’s Award in the Arts

I invite you to congratulate Jo on her fabulous work and well deserved honor. Congratulations Jo!

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10/04/2012

Fabulous Feature :

Fabulous Feature: Paint and Such

It seems like I just can’t stick to one when it comes to our Fabulous Feature series. So many people have multiple things they truly love about their studios or work spaces. It really is hard to narrow it down to just one. Carol sent me over so many lovely photos I even had a hard time just choosing a couple to feature. I can understand why she loves so many things in her studio. I am excited for you to see just how fabulous her bulletin board of family photos and “hat lady” are.

“My bulletin board over my desk.”

“Mom’s hat lady.”

“I work in gouache which is an opaque water color. I mix the colors in these little plastic jars and just add water to them when I want to paint. They are very handy with the mixing info taped on the cover, I love the ease and simplicity that the plastic containers bring to my everyday work.”

“I have been licensing my work for over 25 + years and my website is www.caroleldridgedesigns.com. My new studio at home is painted the blue of the ocean, since I live in Marblehead only a few short blocks from the beach. The Captain and I own a boat and love the ocean. The town is built around a wonderful harbor which is the focal point of our activity especially in the summer months. My studio is filled with all sort of interesting collectibles, samples of my products, prototypes I have created, lots of my fabric, reference books, sketch books and a ton of photographs of my family. I have one entire wall that is a giant bulletin board where I hang my work in progress to watch it evolve. I have little treasures in groupings and vignettes all over the studio that is literally bursting with color and inspiration. “

Photo/Quote Credit

Carol Eldridge
www.caroleldridgedesigns.com
www.facebook.com/caroleldridgedesigns

***We would love to feature your favorite item in your studio, craft room, office, or workspace. Email wherewomencreatesm @ gmail.com with the following items:

High Quality Image of your item
Web address to link to
Name
Brief reason of why that item is your favorite.

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10/03/2012

Jo’s Favorite Things: Paint Brushes

Have you ever wondered what Jo Packham’s favorite things are? Well your wait is over. Each week we are going to feature a few of her favorite things. It’s like taking a peek into the mind of a creative genius. I’ve been inside the Where Women Create offices and it is as magical as you would expect. I have always wondered where Jo gets her inspiration from and what she loves. I am excited to see and share some of her favorite this with you.

Jo’s Favorite Things: Paint Brushes

“These are all the brushes that I love” -Jo Packham

I am sure you will love them too. I love how the brushes are used for work, art, display, and beauty. It’s obvious why these are just a few of Jo’s favorite things.

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