Blue Moon Atelier Journal

Newsletter

20 October 2008

Greetings!

Here's the latest news from Blue Moon Atelier:

New Products:
New licensed products are now available featuring Mary's artwork. Paper Dreams Gifts has created beautiful keepsake journals, boxed photo albums, and note pad sets - these lovely items are hand crafted in the US from exotic hand made papers. Visit the Journals catalogue page to see the current offerings. Mystic Memories introduces the Mary Layton Collection - hand-blended, Earth-friendly, vegan-friendly, and cruelty-free fragrance oils and mineral makeup! The artist's favourite scents are noted in the fragrance description - visit the Perfumes/Makeup page to view.

New Artwork:


Here is a tiny sneak peek at Mary's Hallowe'en/Samhain artwork in progress. The ink is dry and Mary has started the painting process so check the web site in a few days for the finished painting!

Faerie Magazine Drawing
See the latest issue of Faerie Magazine (Autumn 2008) for a chance to win a set of Yule cards featuring Mary's artwork. Mary's Yule Cards are one of her most popular products, and now Faerie Magazine is having a drawing for a set of the 2008 Yule Card Collection! See page 13 to learn how to enter the drawing.

Special Offer:
Newsletter e-mail subscribers receive special offers and discounts - visit http://www.marylayton.net/newsletter.php if you would like to receive the newsletter (and special offers) via email.

"Bask in the moonlight,
commune with the animals,
and dance with the faeries!"

Blue Moon Atelier - The artwork of Mary Layton
http://www.marylayton.net

I must tease (it's in my nature):

Watch this space (and/or the newsletter list, if you're on it) for some wonderful new products.  I have recently signed two new licensing contracts and will be débuting the new items on the web site soon (a hint - they're all about dreams and mysticalness)!  They'll be making their first appearance tomorrow at Eclectic By Nature in Greensboro, NC - so if you're in the area, come on by!  I'll also have some new 'bespoke' necklaces tomorrow - one of a kind embellished cameo necklaces with Swarovski crystals, and other fine enhancements.  If there are any left after the show, I'll offer them on the web site; and if not, I may have to design some more!

Strange things are afoot.  As I reported to my sister-in-law by email yesterday, my husband and I are being made to be older than we really are:

'Yesterday, whilst paying for the shopping, the checkout girl said something that sounded like 'Oh, Zen yer fae', which had me wondering 'how did she know I was an artist, and, does this mean I should be painting Buddhist Faeries?'.  As it turns out, what she said was 'Oh, it's Senior Day', which resulted in an 11 dollar discount on our groceries and much gasting of flabber as Grahams and I realized she'd pegged him for an old codger (I was certain she must have thought I was just his young nurse or something like).  And then, as if Karma thought I needed a bit of a 'don't get shirty' jab, I went to the eye doctor today for my yearly exam only to be diagnosed with Presbyopia - which doesn't mean I've got religion all of a sudden, but instead that my near vision's going a bit squirrely and I am now in need of a prescription of bi-focals!  Karma wanted even more of a laugh at my expense though - I looked up Presbyopia online and found a Wikipedia article that explains that the word is derived from the Greek 'presby' meaning 'old person'.'

My sister-in-law, found this highly amusing, as I thought she would.  However...she's not far from 40 herself, bless.

I need a lie-down.

Please, any secularists and right-thinking Christians, have a look at PZ Myers' latest blog, and send a message of support as asked:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/fight_back_against_bill_donohu.php

All this stems from PZ's post about a bloke who didn't eat a communion wafer, but popped it into his pocket and walked out with it instead.  He's gotten death threats, has been accused of a hate crime (so, it's acceptable to eat, and later poo out the Eucharist, just don't walk out of church with it?), and as PZ says, 'it's a frackin' cracker'.  I don't know why the bloke didn't consume it - maybe he's on a diet or something, but the church's over-reaction is astounding.  And now, because PZ's pointed out how idiotic that over-reaction is, he is being subject to death threats, and a campaign to have him fired from his post at the University of Minnesota.  The original post can be found here:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/its_a_goddamned_cracker.php

Newsletter

29 March 2008

Greetings!

Here's the latest news from Blue Moon Atelier:

New Artwork:

        

Mary's latest artwork includes 'Queen of Hearts', inspired (and modeled) by popular photo-stock artist Lockstock, and three Yule-themed artworks, 'Sugar Plum Faery' and - previously only available as Ellen Million Graphics exclusives - 'The Holly and The Ivy' and 'Christmas Rose'. These works can be seen in the Fantasy gallery. Also new - artwork created for the cover of a collection of short stories called "Life Flash" by Tara Ard - 'Egret Lake' is new in the Landscape gallery.

Sketches:


    

Visit the Sketches gallery for peeks at new works-in-progress!

Special Offer:

Newsletter subscribers are taking advantage of our Spring sale! Why not sign up for the Blue Moon Atelier newsletter (announcements only - we hate spam too!) - just head to the Newsletter page to subscribe, and you can receive subscriber discounts too!

"Bask in the moonlight,

commune with the animals,

and dance with the faeries!"

Blue Moon Atelier - The artwork of Mary Layton

http://www.marylayton.net