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Blue Daisy Studio, Port Alberni, BC (2026)

10/26/2024

pillows for the miniature beds, designed and stitched and ready for sewing together.

10/25/2024

are so darn cute! The full size in the background shows the scale.

12/25/2022

December 25 – Wishing everyone a merry Christmas from my house to yours. Keep on creating! Art is life.

The Pink Confections collection is my latest. The collection part kinda got away on me, so many patterns! I love the colors in this one. I might make a quilt from these myself. There are plenty of them that are not Christmassy that can be used all year through. Happy Holidays!

See the collection here, or link in bio for my Spoonflower shop:
https://www.spoonflower.com/collections/631214-pink-confections-by-bluedaisystudio

12/24/2022

December 24 – Here comes Santa Claus...the one who has the biggest, giving heart of them all. On this Christmas eve I am reminded of my own heart. a) that I have one, grateful it's still beating at almost 60 and b) that I have one that knows love, joy, wholeness and brokenness and generosity. For these, I am me. Uniquely me. Sometimes I ask why, knowing there is no answer, just because. Maybe that's all I need to know and that I am loved and I love. I have always lived by the value of being wholly oneself. You are unique. You are beautiful just the way you are.

May this Christmas bring you a heart full of joy, a smile on your face and some eggnog in your hand.

These lace heart patterns were digitally recreated from pen sketches I have drawn. To celebrate Valentines day or any day with your special loved ones, home décor products and fabrics for your sewing projects available at:
https://www.spoonflower.com/collections/535700-for-my-valentine-2022-by-bluedaisystudio

12/23/2022

December 23 - I love to write poems. I just sit with pen and paper and it always amazes me what comes out when you try to put into some kind of ordered verse an idea, a thought in your head. I have written poems for years, sometimes a lot, sometimes just one that pours my heart out in words I find hard to speak. They have been about love, of course, and life's questions and challenges and wishes and dreams, and also a funny one about my friend's dog's neutering. How Towser Toughnuts became Towser No-nuts. Some poems are about the changing of the seasons and the things I love about each, and holidays:

Winter snows and cardinals,
Are not our west coast ways.
The rain and fog and stellar jays,
Fill our gloomy days.

Days of sun and sky so blue,
Are few and far between.
The moon, the stars are hardly seen,
Except on summer’s eve.

Christmas comes amidst the puddles.
The cold seeps through your sweater.
We decorate with tiny lights,
To brighten wintry weather.

A smile or two from all of you,
Would make my Christmas great!
Such blessings are the best of gifts,
While merrying we make!

Happy holidays everyone!

Deco Leaf pattern is a digital design from a hand drawn sketch. Available in blue, green and neutral tones as home décor products or fabrics and wallpapers for your DIY projects at: (or see link in bio for my Spoonflower shop)
https://www.spoonflower.com/collections/374200-deco-leaf-by-bluedaisystudio

12/22/2022

December 22 – Funny thing, last year I was stuck at home because I didn't have a shovel and the wet, slippery snow meant I couldn't get out of my steep driveway. Then it warmed up and rained it all away, as it will do here within a day or two, so I didn't bother buying a shovel. Then it snowed again and stayed cold. It didn't melt away for a while. When it finally did I bought a shovel, mumbling under my breath that I probably wouldn't need it now. I was right.

Now this year, this week has been challenging! It doesn't snow often here, but when it does it is wet and heavy, not the light, fluffy stuff on my Aunt's farm in Alberta. It snowed this past Sunday night, about 4 inches with more to come the next day so I shovelled and salted my steep driveway to keep up. Monday night it snowed again, even more this time, about 6 inches. Well! I have to say, 6 inches is a lot more volume and a lot more work than 4 inches. Where do you put it all when the driveway is walled in on both sides by hills, fences and retaining walls? It has to be lifted up and out onto the banks, that's where. It was exhausting. I was drenched in sweat and not cold in the least in -7C temperatures.

I know other places got a lot more than that, and all you easterners are laughing, but this has not been my experience. I'm missing my condo about now. My shoulders and hands hurting and stiff the next day. I see how others have suffered heart attacks shovelling snow.

This snowflake pattern is from hand painted snowflakes in acrylics. They've been isolated off the Blue Snowflake Christmas Ornaments and arranged like falling snow. To me they look more organic than my hand drawn versions and are my favorite.
Snowy table linens and fabrics for your own sewing projects available at: (or see link in bio for Spoonflower)
https://www.spoonflower.com/collections/549371-snowflakes-by-bluedaisystudio

12/21/2022

December 21 – My friend Bob once said, “I'll see you in the Spring when I get through the mattress.” Today Spring is closer, the days begin to get longer and aren't a sure sign Spring has arrived? Their frothy pink brightens our sidewalks in May, here in a shade of blue for us fans.

Every Spring I'm out with my camera trying to get the best shot of cherry blossoms. Close up, or farther away, a branch, a detail, I never get tired of it. I think photography is a way for me to sit with something beautiful and really see it, not just in passing and taking in the big picture, but also in the details. With my camera I can focus in on the small things, view it from all angles and truly see all its beautiful parts as well as the whole. It turns just another pretty view into an experience.

This cherry blossom pattern is from some blossoms I painted in pink acrylics and used photoshop to simplify them. Designed in blues, pinks, greens and purple colorways in large and small patterns with coordinating pinstripes and ginghams.
Home décor products, fabrics and wallpapers to bring Spring to your home are available at: (or see link bio)
https://www.spoonflower.com/collections/380513-cherry-blossoms-by-bluedaisystudio

12/20/2022

December 20 – Nothing like gingham to make me think of picnics in summer or winter. Yep, winter too. Even if it's standing up with a cup of hot chocolate in your right hand and a cookie in your left, stepping from one snowbooted foot to the other to keep warm. I look out my window and it seems so dismal outside I don't want to go but I always remember my father's advice. He once said that as long as you dress properly for warmth and dryness, you can be out in any weather. That stuck with me, the wimpy one, who was always cold. I've learned over the years what 'dressing properly' means for me to keep warm and dry. How many layers do you wear in the winter? Nothing like wool for warmth, though, isn't it? That I've also learned. Spend the money and get the soft non-itchy stuff. It's worth every penny, especially when it comes to socks. Wool is the best in a cooler, humid environment.

This blue gingham pattern as well as golds, reds and greens coordinate perfectly with my Christmas Holly designs for your winter holiday table linens, trims or even a flask carrier or picnic basket liner.
Table linens, fabrics and wallpapers available at: (or see link in bio for my Spoonflower shop)
https://www.spoonflower.com/collections/549372-holly-berries-by-bluedaisystudio

12/19/2022

December 19 – The time for huckleberries always sneaks up on me. I'll be out walking near some woods and spy those delicious, tiny red berries on their roadside bushes. Joy! I've climbed nefarious troughs, hills, ditches to get to them, to taste their tiny tidbits of sourish vitamin C fresh off the branch. I'll admit my ink drawing in this pattern does not resemble the actual way they grow, but it reminded me of them, reminded me of happy times and the name stuck. We do, however, have a shrub of some kind that grows wild here that does have clumps of red berries like the drawing, but the leaves are larger and I'm not sure what the name of that one is. Sometimes the imagination takes us places we can't explain, maybe a little of this, a little of that.

I used to complain about our drab, endless gray days of winter until I spent two years in Saudi Arabia under an unrelenting sun and came to appreciate it. I look out my window now and the trees are even dull in their green and I remind myself that that means all is as it should be. Everything needs a rest sometime. They are, however, getting ready for Spring's outburst of new green and cones and some with flowers and seeds. They are allowing the winter's wind to clean out branches that have withered much like we brush our hair. They are using the strength they gained in last summer's growth to withstand whatever may come, some with heavy, wet snows much like we pile up firewood and preserve food to keep us over the winter, they keep themselves too.

Huckleberry Madness was designed in single and double layer patterns in soft pastel blues, greens, pinks, purples and beiges to bring summer abundance into your home project. Coordinates include cherry blossom prints, pinstripes and ginghams.
Fabrics and Wallpapers available at: (or see link in bio for my Spoonflower shop)
https://www.spoonflower.com/collections/379678-huckleberry-madness-by-bluedaisystudio

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12/18/2022

December 18 – Yesterday I spent most of the day baking cookies and muffins. I'm trying to catch up on filling ye olde larder with goodies, so first up is to fill my cookie jar with oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. These are our favorite standby, a recipe we've tweaked to, I think, perfection. I even added some extra star spinkles on top so they'd be a little more festive this time. Yes, I do have shortbread cookies on the list, but too tiring to do more today. Next up was the carrot walnut muffins, that are more like carrot cake, with a cream cheese frosting. Dreamy! Perhaps tomorrow I will tackle more Christmassy fare.

I love it when the smells of baking permeate the house. You know, except for at the beginning when I turned the oven on, I could smell burnt pizza sauce. Drippings from our last pizza foray. My lettuce started to freeze tucked too far in the back of the frig so I pulled it out, trimmed it off and chopped it up, ready to go. Do you ever have this problem with stuff freezing in your frig? It's a new 'professional grade' frig, I don't think it should do that. I also made my own Caesar dressing. Well, it's the 'Joy of Cooking' recipe, but delicious just the same.

Aria Petals is a pattern from an acrylic painting of a leaf design. The original color was turquoise (my favorite color ever) and then digitally altered for the other colorways.
Bedding, linens and other home décor products as well as fabrics and wallpapers for your DIY projects available at: (or see link in bio for my Spoonflower shop)
https://www.spoonflower.com/collections/535375-aria-petals-botanical-leaf-by-bluedaisystudio

12/17/2022

December 17 – I'll admit it. I have Grinchy tendencies. All that decorating, all that work, digging it all out, sorting it, hanging it, then tearing it all down and putting it away later. Didn't want to this year. But I have and it's a nice pretty thing in the midst of our darker, short days. By the time it all comes down we will be past the shortest day of the year. Don't we gain about 2 minutes more sunlight every day?

I can't complain, though. So many places have so much less light than us. And so much more in the summer! I visited Norway at the end of June a few years back and had to take a video of the main street in the small town I was staying in with me saying the time in the background. We dragged our butts 'home' to bed at 3 a.m. and it was still looking like dusk/dawn outside. I suppose the darkness is just as deep now. Time for candles and fireside conversations over mulled wine. God Jul!

The Polka Dot Ornament pattern is a combination of hand painted ribbons in acrylic and a digital geometric pattern I created. A simple, yet sweet design. You can find fabrics in my Spoonflower shop (link in bio) or at:
https://www.spoonflower.com/collections/617680-christmas-tree-ornaments-blue-snowflake-by-bluedaisystudio

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12/16/2022

December 16 – Well I didn't think I'd traveled much this year, but it was easy to find so many beautiful photos for the family calendar despite not spending much time on photography, just a quick snap here and there. British Columbia is a beautiful place. It's so easy to take a photograph that you wouldn't mind looking at every day for a month!

I had a photo of maidenhair ferns that are growing in a gully near where I live, but sadly, it didn't make the cut. I have found so many different types of ferns here. I've tried transplanting some to a similar spot in my garden thinking if they grew in the wild, they shouldn't have a problem taking root and growing like wildfire, but it's been a struggle. Poor things. This spring, after hoping and wishing and helping for two years, I thought they had finally all given it up for dead but when I went to pull them out there was life! I was so happy, even if they only produced a couple of spears, a shadow of their former selves, they were beautiful miracles to me. Now I'm hoping the drought this year hasn't set them back again. Such resilience!

Fern Grotto patterns in blue and green colorways are from an acrylic painting.
Home décor bedding, pillows, curtains, table linens as well as fabrics and wallpaper available at: (or link in bio)
https://www.spoonflower.com/collections/612805-fern-grotto-by-bluedaisystudio

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