Magenta Rose Design

Thanks so much to Liz at Once Upon a Chair for sharing her awesome creations using my book fabric from Spoonflower 🩷📚📖

A customer order who loves Magenta Rose Design bookish designs as much as I do!! 📚📚📚
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Fabulous work by Liz at Once Upon a Chair using my book fabric from Spoonflower

This made me smile 😊 Simpler times back then! Funny job, being a “knocker-upper!” but so important! 🤣

East London's "knocker-uppers" paid to shoot peas at windows to wake up over sleepers so they didn't lose their jobs.

Mary Smith, a famous knocker-upper in London's East End, shot dried peas out of a pea shooter instead of a pole. She charged a sixpence a week for her pea-shooting service.

Some knocker-uppers simply banged on doors to wake up their customers, but they found that by doing this they were also waking up their customer's neighbours for free.

Mary Smith's pea shooting method solved this problem, as they tap of peas on the window was loud enough to wake up the clients without disturbing anyone else on the street.

She became one of the most beloved characters in the East End in the 1930s, with her nearest competition being a knocker-upper three miles away who used a fishing rod to tap on the windows.

She was so loved, that she had her own children's book written and named after her.

There's something about seeing the first butterfly of the year, isn't there? A few weeks ago I saw some and here's my Butterfly and bug or moth and bee collection at Spoonflower. https://www.spoonflower.com/collections/706732-bugs-moths-butterflies-bees-by-magentarosedesigns These designs are on fabric and wallpaper (plus more) and the black one is my entry in the Spoonflower design challenge this week. Thanks in advance if you vote for me! Lots of new designs coming soon!

Kind of 😂

https://www.spoonflower.com/contest_voters_temp/new?contest_id=690&fbclid=PAAaYNPTng3qLC3r5ZPNWUd9dmYnREZGLvz1T4CoMBPqSa7XHNieU0Ryi_1Mo is the link of you want to vote for your favourites at Spoonflower this week. These mermaids are my challenge entry at Spoonflower (partnered with East Fork Pottery ) and I’m so happy to take up the limited palette challenge because I love their new glaze colors piglet and butter! 🐷 🧈
I chose to draw mermaids because I was dreaming of the sea 🌊 ( we love the beach and swimming, or just walking when it's cold and watching the rough waves. Betsy does not like to swim, she loves to run on the powdery white sand at Sandbanks when it's out of season 🏊‍♀️ 🏊 🏝!)

I love the limited palette with the addition of Blue ridge ( another glaze from East Fork) and a brown inspired by the trim of their pottery. I also used black and white.

Do you like mermaids? If you like mine,Thanks so much if you vote for my design. ☺️

Ah, yes… sadly. 🌷

I suppose the secret is to roll with it, whatever happens 🤷‍♀️😅

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At last! 👌😅 Who’s with me? This Sunday!

I couldn’t resist 😆

Such a beautiful idea! 💡💖

FLOWER BUTTERFLY WINGS 🦋- so precious 🥰

https://woodlarkblog.com/diy-flower-butterfly-wings

Wow 🤩 Nothing so strange as real life sometimes 😅 Love that the blackbird is having a ride.

Strangest Uber ever ... 😂

A Red Winged Blackbird having a free ride on an Osprey’s broomstick.

📸 Jocelyn Anderson Photography

Thanks so much for featuring my scallop design and inspiring my new collection. 🥰https://www.spoonflower.com/collections/687609-soft-tranquility-calm-seascape-scallops-by-magentarosedesigns

Happy International Womens Day! Sometimes we've got to get out of our own way (if we are sabotaging ourselves) and sometimes we've got to step out of the path of someone (however well meaning) who may be limiting us. Either way, recognizing it is the first step on the path to change. but decide to