Last updates from Lemon Poppy Seeds for 2014

Come by Lemon Poppy Seeds and check out the latest updates. Grab a Santa or ....

Crows Roost Prims

Maybe An Elf....

Shweet Potato Dolls N Patterns

And a Ginger or Two

Olde Thyme Market 1871

 Come by and see all the updates.... Make sure to mark your calanders for 2015 and 

Lemon Poppy Seeds

Meet A Poppy........ Renee with Crows Roost Prims

Every month Lemon Poppy Seeds Marketplace is introducing you to our of our Poppies and this month it is Renee with Crows Roost Prims.

Crows Roost Prims can be seen all over the Lemon Poppy Seeds Marketplace as well as Etsy, Prims Magazine and ePattern shoppes to name a few. Let’s get to know Renee a little bit closer.

How long have your been in business?  “Crows Roost Prims” has been in business since 2006.  Since then, I’ve been doing this full time.  I am trying to operate as a regular business—Monday thru Friday for orders:  wholesale and retail and then the weekends to make things to sell on a variety of selling places online and a local craft shop.  It doesn’t go as planned most times!

What inspires you to make your creations?  I’m inspired by many things, including family and friends.   I made my youngest nephew and his dog “Hunter & his companion”:  Spencer & Legacy Church, that were published in Prims Magazine.  I made a baseball player and name him Rudy Hiltonen, after my boyfriends father and he made the cover of Prims Magazine Summer 2012 issue (but not my name!).

I’m inspired by clouds in the sky, books and magazines and dreams—during the night and day dreaming!

My eyes play tricks on me.  When looking at pictures, I will see it as something else and will get an idea.  I look at the same picture “up close” and see that it is totally something else (aging eyes!!)

How often do you update your shoppe(s)?   I try to change my items at least twice a month.

My shoppes are Lemon Poppy Seeds  Poppy Pattern Shoppe  Poppy Halloween Shoppe

Little more from you,

I’ve been published in Stamping & Co.’s, PRIMS Magazine ever since the premier issue in 2010- (except for one).

The latest issue of Prims, Autumn 2014, my 3 Snowpeople made the cover along with my name.

I’ve been a pattern maker since 2007 and currently have over 275.  I haven’t made any new ones since 2010 but am hoping to start again in the near future.  All my epatterns have been on sale for $2 each and will be at least through the end of October.

You can find me at a variety of places.  If you “Like” by Business Facebook page and check “Get Notifications” you will be kept up to date with all my newest creations and sales.  You can also check my blog for updates.  Thank you!

Meet a Poppy...Sandi with Shweet Potato Dolls N Patterns

Every month we will be introducing you to one of our Marketplace Members. This month we would like to introduce you to Sandi with Shweet Potato Dolls N Patterns.

Shweet Potato Dolls NPatterns’s face can be seen all over Lemon Poppy Seeds Marketplace. She sells her extreme primitives in her Poppy Shoppe and not to Prims in her CountryFried Primitive shoppe.  Halloween and Christmas are two holidays she loves so she creates and adds items to them all year long. Do you like to create your own? Visit her Poppy Pattern Shoppe for ePatterns and mailed patterns.

How did you come about your business name?

When I started online my business name was Always Crafty 2.  My daughters came up with this name because I was always creating things and my two girls helped me. Later after I taught myself to sew I asked permission of Carm with Shweet Potato Designs if I could use her graphics as inspiration for my dolls and ornaments. She allowed me to also use Shweet Potato as part of my name.

How long have you been in business?

I have been in business since late 2002. I started with hand painted wares and moved into hand made dolls.

What inspires you to make your unique creations?

Many of my dolls and ornaments are inspired by graphics from Shweet Potato Designs (her new name is Shweetie Pies). Having a 3 year old granddaughter gives me a lot of inspiration for whimsy dolls, and different folks will mention something or I will read a book and it inspires me to create something new. I love to work in all styles from extreme primitives to whimsy and cute. I sew but I also paint.

How often do you update your Lemon Poppy Seeds shoppe(s)?

My main shoppe is updated on the First of every month and I try to also update on the 15^th. My other shoppes are updated as I create something new for it.

Little more from Sandi….

I found my love of art early in life. My mother and grandmother where always sewing by hand or machine. I did not learn to sew on a machine until 2003 when I picked up my daughter’s sewing machine and just played with it. I am dyslexic so most sewing patterns make no sense to me. When I discovered prims I also found a large group of women who love to share and lend a hand in any way they can. Many gals helped me via communities on line to figure out sewing. In 2011 I had 3 strokes that took away a great deal of my memories so I had to learn to sew and do other things again. I started back painting with Peg Dolls and Clothes Pins as a way to work on my motor skills and it worked. Right now my sewing machine is not working (note never let my husband clean my sewing machine again) so I decided to focus more on my hand painting. Perfect timing too, with a new granddaughter on the way in January 2015. It is never too early to start doll collections for Darla Rae and of course keep adding to Zoe Bug’s.

You will also find me the online ezine Rusty Tin Roof along with a lot of other great artist, graphic designers and host. 

Hope you will visit my shoppes. I will be adding Christmas and Halloween hand painted collections any day now.

Updates from Lemon Poppy Seeds Marketplace for Fall

It's that time of the Month again...UPDATES. Come by Lemon Poppy Seeds and see all the perfectly prim Fall goodies.

Crows Roost Prims

 While you are there if you have not joined the mailing list make sure to do so.
 This month's drawing is sponsored by Country Schoolhouse Primitives.

Check back later this week for our article with Sandi of Shweet Potato Dolls N Patterns.

2014 January Updates at Lemon Poppy Seeds

It's the first update in the Lemon Poppy Seeds Marketplace for 2015. Come see all the snowmen and hearts!

Rabbit Hollow Prims

Crows Roost Prims