Pretty yarns, pretty tea cup, pretty Chilwich mat. Lovely greens for you today.

Friday: Letterpress Cards by Suzy Ultman

Wow! Chronicle Books has made a whole Noonie site! See Sarajo’s beautiful illustrations here.

Wednesday: Lovely greens

LogoMyWay is running a contest to re-design the BP logo.

Here are the guidelines. The contest ends Sunday, June 27th.

“The design community and the general public will vote on the winner of the redesign of the NEW BP LOGO.

Top Three Things to Communicate Through [the] Logo Design:

#1 Oil spill disaster – Toxic
#2 Death of wildlife
#3 Incompetence

Our Target Audience:
The world

Be creative and make sure your logo has a strong brand for BP.”

Here are some entries:

Monday: Chronicle’s Noonie website

Friday: BP Logo Re-design contest

A little necklace I made recently of briolette stones. One of these shots is my friend’s necklace she got from her daughter from Tiffany’s. Can you guess which one? It’s kinda obvious because the Tiffany briolettes are cut perfectly. My stones are from ebay and etsy on the cheap. My friend says she likes mine better. But that just shows you what a lovely person she is because I know she is just saying that.

Wednesday: Susy Pilgrim Waters’s Summer Soiree

The colors are getting brighter but we still have soft lavenders from the astilbe and lace hydrangea.

Monday: Quiz: Is it a Lilla necklace or a Tiffany’s necklace?

Adolie writes:

“Hi Lilla,

two bits of good news this month
I’m in Sweet illustrations – Monsa edition
a beautiful group art book with amazing artists
(i have 7 pages)

and i’m in SMALL mag summer 2010 issue
I make 4 kids fashion illustrations for this issue

Here are the photos ;)

My best

Monday: Quiz: Is it a Lilla necklace or a Tiffany’s necklace?

Here’s a sign I designed for our wonderful local children’s preschool. Thought you’d like to see it and the very cool 3-D effect they were able to do.

Friday: Adolie’s featured in two magazines

Lisa Congdon writes us:

“hi ladies,
i wanted to show you a book that I am part of that is up for pre-order on Amazon. it’s a book of projects for the home; i did some collaged plates.

my kitchen plate wall is what is on the cover, along with one of my collaged plates (the green plate).”

Click here to pre-order the book on Amazon.

Wednesday: Lilla’s Arlington Children’s Center sign

Click here to read Part I of Xenia’s trip with Aid to Artisans to El Salvador.

Xenia continues:
“Here are some finished samples. These ornaments also make up part of a mobile.

Tabletop Trees.

Cheeseboards.

More cheeseboard handles.

Village Candlesticks.

Bird Ornaments

…and many more.
The collection Jill and I designed will be available through Aid to Artisans. Anyone interested should contact Iris Huezo at iris_huezo@aidtoartisans.org

All-in-all this was just about my ideal creative experience. I was able to work with a new material, have a complete workshop at my disposal, collaborate with a great designer, and meet new people. And all in a beautiful setting with perfect weather.

Michelle Esmeralda (on the right) and friend posing on some work in progress.

I only wish that I had had more time to absorb the local style and develop a collection based on Fernando Llort’s original images. You can see his influence all over the village, on lamp posts, walls and houses.

He is also well known for designing the facade of the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador.

Hopefully, I will have a chance to go back some day and work again with the people of La Palma. So long El Salvador!

The national tree of El Salvador: El Balsamo Y Maquilishuat

….and now, four months later I have just been asked to develop another collection for the La Palma artisans! Sadly, I won’t be traveling to El Salvador this time, but I am really happy to have this chance to build on the previous collection and to do something in the ‘La Palma’ style.”

Wednesday: Lilla’s Arlington Children’s Center sign