{"id":2437,"date":"2015-10-07T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2015-10-07T11:49:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T18:49:23","slug":"on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/07\/on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"On the road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi hi. \u00a0I’ve been away!
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Pippin hit the road to go to the Destination Dallas Needlework market. \u00a0This market is set up in individual suites on a few floors of one hotel, and I really enjoyed seeing the differences from the big January market that we were at in the Phoenix convention centre. \u00a0I’m brand new at this market thing and I think it’s really cool to have\u00a0both formats.\u00a0 There was a door to decorate for this one.<\/p>\n

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And a window!<\/p>\n

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My favourite setting up part is when Jill or Mary hand me the polka dots. \u00a0I love those polka dots. \u00a0There’s a zen groove to getting those things in just the right spot. \u00a0Jill and Mary are very good at letting me get on with that very important task while they figure out the stuff like, I don’t know, how\u00a0to organize\u00a0the stock, setting up the credit card system. \u00a0You know. \u00a0That stuff. \u00a0If they roll their eyes at me they kindly do it discreetly.<\/p>\n

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There are stars beside the new designs and some are in the What’s New part of the home page<\/a>. \u00a0I’m going to have to figure out a new way of displaying new canvases\u00a0now that I have more time to design and come out with more than one at a time! \u00a0All of the new designs are up in the different canvas designs<\/a> pages\u00a0too.<\/p>\n

Pippin is lucky enough to hang out with Silk Road Fibres straw silk, and loving colour like I do I could stand in front of them and drool a little. \u00a0Such gorgeous rich colours there.<\/p>\n

We also had Petite Sweets canvases joining the mix and getting lots of attention, but because I somehow left picture taking till the end they were already cleaned up off of the table. \u00a0Jenn! \u00a0I did still get a picture of the candy bowl there, I see.<\/p>\n

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The seats at this market were a bit comfier than the convention centre, I have to say, and at the end of the day we could shut the door and have some crackers and cheese. \u00a0Maybe a glass of wine. \u00a0Yes, a glass of wine. \u00a0And some wonderful dinners after we had time to collect ourselves a bit. \u00a0Mary and I were staying at another hotel nearby, and we had high drama and sketchy adventures every night there but one, so it was nice to fortify a bit before we headed back into that!<\/p>\n

It was another great market and this was our first experience with cash and carry, so I smile writing this knowing that canvases purchased there\u00a0are already back and for sale\u00a0in shops all over. \u00a0It was so great to \u00a0meet up with shop owners who already sell Pippin, and new shops selling us for the first time.<\/p>\n

I flew back through Toronto to meet up with my eldest and my youngest. \u00a0After plane, train, and subway I was so happy to get to his apartment in the sky and cuddle up under a blanket with a made-for-me latte. \u00a0It didn’t have a little fancy heart in the foam but I think it was still made with love.<\/p>\n

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Before flying to Dallas I had been buried at my desk finishing up designs for next January. \u00a0Lots! \u00a0So it was nice to have a few days to uncoil in Toronto. \u00a0We walked tons checking out some universities and the Royal Ontario Museum and I got myself off to the Art Gallery to reconnect with the Group of Seven paintings there. \u00a0Happy sigh. \u00a0All of that walking was offset by marathon “Bones” watching on Netflix.<\/p>\n

I crossed paths with this guy outside a ceramics show. \u00a0 Love his stripes! \u00a0Is it pretentious to think that he’d fit into the Pippin fold happily?<\/p>\n

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I love my watery view at home but am mesmerized by this view too.<\/p>\n

So funny visiting a grown up kid. \u00a0And the other is getting up there too. \u00a0(And the other other, my middlest, is off traveling through Asia again so that’s why he was not in on this one.)<\/p>\n

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Now I’m home and have been taking a last run at a few designs that were giving me trouble before heading off. \u00a0They’ll be joining the rest heading off to the painters for January market and then I can start thinking about all of those new sketches I started in Toronto! \u00a0A sweet life I’m thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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