Tuesday Dec 22, 2009 — A Merry Holiday to you!
A Merry Holiday! A Happy Solstice to you, my friends!
Thank you for your words and wishes and your purchases this year.
I send you grand love and cheer at this tender time.
My Christmas card to you is a little drawing of Willis Wigglesworth Garbanzo Bean Gregg in boots and Holly and, just to show you where inspiration comes from, I send you Willis himself.
(He symbolizes things to come!)
What was it Eloise said?
Here's to ~
Springles and sprangles and sprinkles of fun!
Chirps!
Patience
Tuesday Dec 15, 2009 — Beautiful Visions of the Natural World
Ms Brewster,
Yesterday I had the great luck to find your ornaments at Best of the Beach on Nantucket. I have to say they are truly the most adorable, creative ornaments I have ever seen. I absolutely love your work and would like to share a little story with you.
This year my parents and aunt will be spending the holidays with me on Nantucket. My grandmother, Rosamond passed away 8 years ago. She absolutely loved chickadees. When I ever spied the chickadee ornament I knew I needed one for both my Mum and aunt. As I was looking at the ornament thinking about my Nana my phone started ringing. I was a little irritated until I saw who was calling. My other grandmother, who I am extremely close to. I told her about the adorable ornaments, but because of the interruption I had stopped looking at the ornament until I got home later. I couldn't wait to show it to my husband and pulled one out of the box. When I noticed the rose garland around the chickadees neck I got tears in my eyes. Everyone called my Nana Rose. You couldn't have designed a more perfect ornament to represent my grandmother. I can assure you that these ornaments will be absolutely treasured in my family the rest of our lives. Thank you so much for your beautiful visions of the natural world all around us. Your green fairy of hope will be my tree topper this year. I look forward to collecting your ornaments throughout the years. In me you have definitely found a lifelong customer.
I will be anxiously awaiting an upload of the ornaments on your website so I can keep up with your work.
I hope you have a wonderful holiday and a fabulous and successful 2010.
Sincerely,
Stacey
Wednesday Dec 2, 2009 — Your cards, family, Holland
I am so overwhelmed with pleasure, glee, respect and sadness as I round out looking all over your wonderful, happy site. I was tempted to explore finding you when I saw your adorable penguin and pig pieces in the Neiman-Marcus Christmas catalog. Krinkles! My all time totally infatuating favorites! Just so fun and sweet coming from such an inspired, sweet person.
I am so sad to hear of your loss of Holland, your gorgeous child and brother. I lost my 50 year old and 45 year old brothers six years ago and you termed it perfectly; I miss them desperately. I remain so lost and lonely without them as they were so much sweeter and kinder than I will ever be.
We lost a 32 year old niece after she waged a ten year battle with Stage 4 non-Hodgkins. She loved pigs and I always thing of her anytime I see one.
God is blessing you, Patience, especially for following your heart in your work. The "experts" do not always know what will work. Often we are our own best judges.
Hugs to you and your family. Thank you for your precious, funny, endearing, whimsical art which is just my perfect cup of tea.
Frani
Wife, Mother of four, grandmother of almost three, fabric artist, seamstress, etc
Tuesday Nov 17, 2009 — Patience is in Where Women Create!
Some birds get Nervous in November.
I have been one of them.
Imagine having a wonderful editor of a magazine you totally respect say she is coming to your house.
Grab your broom and your bucket of suds!
Then imagine getting through the interview and photography.
Now imagine that was June and the pictures will come out in November! You have all that time to be nervous, to anticipate. You try to have faith in the editor.
A few days before the November release, the magazine arrived right on my birthday! I sat down and read it cover to cover. It took me hours because it is so chock full of interesting women making beautiful things in really wonderful spaces.
Whew! Sigh. Breathe.
The magazine is Where Women Create and I now see what a turkey I was. Of course I could trust Jo Peckham to do her fabulous work! Thank you, thank you Jo! I had to subscribe because each edition in this first year has been jam packed so you can crawl into intriguing corners and boxes, tins and jars, sift through an artist’s bag of tricks; their snippets and buttons, tinsels and trinkets, pebbles, feathers, sprinkles, spangles and beads. So great!
In our office, Rebecca Dalton is always thinking about you. She reminds me that you might want a copy of this magazine. She was so clever as to buy some extras. She also asked me to sign them, thought you might like that. Now she is putting them up on the web store.
I am looking forward to visiting my family home in Massachusetts, visiting my abundant relatives, (and the wild turkeys) in Plymouth. I wish you a fabulous Thanksgiving. I am so thankful to be able to go home, thankful for gathering around a table full of siblings and their offspring. Here’s to a steamy plate of winter squash, Brussels sprouts, parsnips, caramelized onions and mashed potato.
And here is to you!
Cheers and chirps. Gobble gobble,
Patience
November 2009
Wednesday Nov 11, 2009 — Santa Ornaments!
Hi Patience,
I really enjoyed reading about you, and your wonderful
creative talents, in [the new magazine] Where Women Create. I collect Santa ornaments
(better if they can stand on their own) and I loved the one you show on
pg.20. Can you tell me what the price will be? Will you have a
collection for Christmas?
My hobby is making Art Dolls and love looking through
"Art Doll Quarterly." I am 77 years old and find such a deep
fulfillment from being creative. I'm so sorry that your darling Holland was taken from
your life. I hope you felt God's arms around you during that difficult
time. Your drawings bring joy to so many people. I can't imagine
having your creative talents. You are blessed.
A new fan in Gilbert,
AZ,
Delores
Monday Oct 5, 2009 — News from Patience!
(Please click on the image to the right) Dear Birds,
As I am working on 2010 cards, it dawns on me that I never wrote to tell you about our new mid year cards nor our new Samplers of everyday cards...(you get a box of 10 to have on hand for different occasions.. and at a savings.. you get two cards for free!)
I always wanted to offer this type of assortment.
Look up my anti-gravity invention on a new birthday card. It features a machine that helps lift and fix body parts that are dangling. I want to own such a machine.
My new ornaments have arrived in the stores!
There are some, however that are floating down the flooded muddy streets of Manila. Please send your good thoughts to the people of the Philippines and Indonesia who are under siege by monsoons. tsunamis and earth quakes, disasters on par with Katrina in loss and devastation. We are hoping for nature to offer them some peace and time to allow for healing and restoration and repair.
I am working on several surprises for 2010... new journals, linens, silver pendants, bracelets, purses and framed art!
Fall colors are emerging drenched in lake effect wetness inherent to this region. Time to pull out the storm windows, light a fire to welcome Halloween spooks and then settle into the season of thankfulness.
This brings me to tell you how grateful I am for you wonderful ones who still put a stamp on your musings, messages and wishes. And thank you to those of you who have followed me from Krinkles past to today. I hope you will see the new pieces and feel and see "la difference"! Thank you too for your contributions to the Leukemia Lymphoma Society research through donations and your purchases of the 2009 LLS Ornament - the Green Fairy of Hope.
Oh! Yes! Please look up the wonderful magazine called Where Women Create. Editor and new friend Jo Packham visited in June so that she could create an article on yours truly for the November issue. It should be available soon.
Cheers and Chirps,
Patience
10 02 09
Wednesday Sep 30, 2009 — Re: All in the Partner
Dear Mike
and Vivyanne,
Thank you
so much for your note. I am glad
to hear your thoughts. I am happy you liked and pondered so deeply, the
card you found. I always
hope to offer an idea and my emotions without crowding out a viewers
interpretation, thoughts or emotions. It amazes
me that, at times, people will read my exact thoughts.
Other
times, the same drawing will make one person laugh while the person standing
next to him, cries...
I love the
small moments in life, a brief glance, a look in the eye, a gesture that
might be fleeting but might speak to us, remain with us for a long long time.
It takes me
a while to complete my drawings. Over the days or weeks that I work on them, I
listen to the little voices, or the souls of the beings I am working on.
This was
the story of an unlikely couple, oblivious to genus and species, even though
their pairing might have caught an onlooker off guard.I tried to
catch a second that revealed their devotion, the joy and delight they found in
each other.
I liked to
think that that devotion made them dance, lighter than air, if only in
their hearts. Even though they were essentially very different
beings, they never saw the obstacle in this, in fact, I thought that,
over time, they had begun to even look a little bit alike, (hence the arms and
legs) as many couples do.
Thank you
again for writing to me.
Patience
Wednesday Sep 30, 2009 — All in the Partner
My
husband and I want to know the REAL story behind the card
entitled “TRUE LOVE . . . It’s all in the Partner.” I gave that card to my husband on the 25th of
Sept. for our 17th Anniversary. The fish is "walking" with
the loving guiding hands of the frog. When I look at it I see that the
frog has "made or crafted" the arms and legs for her and when my
husband looks at it he sees that the fish has loved the frog soooo much, she
grew the arms and legs and is learning to walk on them. What's your meaning? I know both of our
thoughts are part of what anyone can see but is there a real story about this
card? Every time I look at it I'm overwhelmed with the love & trust
it represents. Thank you for being such
an insightful creative artist.
Best Regards,
Mike & Vivyanne
Monday Mar 16, 2009 — We Love Animals
Hi Patience.
I just wanted to write and let you know how much I
love your cards. They are treasures. I am sending the birthday card that says
"My favorite day of the year! Your birthday!" to my daughter who will be 46. I
sent a different birthday card to my younger daughter last month and she loved
it.
I purchased the cards at a favorite store of mine
"Heavenly Scent" in Fenton, Michigan.
I am so sorry to hear of Holland's death. He
sounded like a wonderful young man who enriched many lives during his short
time.
We live on 20 acres in farm country located in the
'thumb' portion of Michigan. We have llamas, chickens (we sell eggs) ducks,
geese, a peacock, dogs and cats. We love animals.
Keep up the good work and I look forward to many
more purchases of your designs.
Marsha
Tuesday Mar 3, 2009 — March 2009
(Click on the image to the right)
It is never too late to let someone know that you are thinking about them. It
might be possible to be too early, but never too late.
Write that you share
their grief, their love, their joy, their sorrow. There are no perfect
words . . . But if there is no address and you cannot speak or write . . . feel the
words and send them in the wind.
~Patience
Wednesday Dec 10, 2008 — Holiday Wishes from Patience
(please click on the image to the right) December 2008 Merry Christmas Happy Holiday
and Winter Solstice and Cheers to 2009! Our catalogue is finished & flying around the World. . .
The other is printed & patiently waiting to go . . .
chock full of cards! . . . The ink is dry . . .
the glitter is sprinkled!
2009 will bring you New Ornaments
Lots of Birthday cards . . .
Gifts of glass & paper, tin & ceramic . . .
and . . . SURPRISES!!!!
& (I hope I hope) these will bring you a little laugh
and a little sigh . . . What a year this has been for our entire planet!
. . . so from my wonderful friends in our office
& from my wonderful family & from me Wishes for Peace Health & Love Cheers,
Patience
Thursday Aug 28, 2008 — Wonderful, whimsical art
I bumped into your greeting cards display today in a
Wilmington, NC gift shop and was immediately taken with your wonderful, whimsical art
work, fresh ideas, and creative designs -- I totally ("get it") and left with a
selection of cards. My daughter and I teach yoga so your card with a young woman
in "Warrior II" pose caught my attention and will be the perfect birthday card
for AJ come October. By the way, I noted your Philadelphia connection, our
primary yoga teacher is Joan White from Philadelphia. I normally do not shop or spend time online but will visit your web site from time to time and look for your work wherever I can find
it. Thanks for sharing your story. Your gift.
Blessings,
Nancy
Friday May 30, 2008 — Exclamation Points
Hi,
I was given one of your cards
(3 exclamation points) for my
graduation from a certificate
program at BU for graphic/web
design. A career
change
for me, so it's very exciting.
I don't normally go 'gaga' for
cards,
but I love this design
and I admire your obvious talent.
I will end here
as I'm sure
you're busy, but I just wanted
to say, nice
work!!
Sincerely,
Marianne
Tuesday Apr 1, 2008 — Happy News from Patience Brewster
Dear Birds . . . I have very HAPPY HAPPY news! To get the whole story . . . please click on to "What's New" and "Our New Gifts Division." I am designing 2009 Krinkles right now which I will be manufacturing myself! I will be off to the Philipines soon to meet the painters and sculptors who work on the characters. I plan to oversee the special care taken in the whole process! This means alot of extra work for everyone, but it is very exciting to bring respect and personal service to the Krinkles that we bring to the cards at the card company.
We are celebrating by offering more Krinkles on the website store . . . Some retired and some signed, changing all the time. Also . . . check out our "Calendars" page for a sneak peek at our 2009 wall calendar . . . It is a tribute to canines and felines called "Reigning Cats & Dogs." New cards are in the works . . . almost ready . . . and there is a new paper in our future. I have finally found a nice, thick, environmentally responsible paper which we will begin printing on. Eventually we will convert all out everyday cards. That will be so nice! We have a fresh layer of spring snow here which we all hope will begin the delicious conversion into a blanket of green. We know it will happen but it gets hard to wait . . and wait . . . and wait! Happy Spring to you all,
Patience
Tuesday Jan 29, 2008 — Thank you for your light ~
Dear Patience, I was so fortunate to stumble onto your lovely cards at my favorite shop "Paper Kicks" in Hallowell, Maine. Your cards are so awesome and I can't wait for the next event or occasion to give one. Thank you Patience for your LIGHT!!! ~ Norma
Monday Jan 28, 2008 — A Huge Fan
Patience,
I'm SUCH A HUGE FAN of
your work. I love your website. Tomorrow is my birthday (1/25/08) so today I'm
treating myself to an order from your website. SUGGESTION: Please start working
on a book of your works/bio. In the fashion of a "coffee table" book;
I would eat that up. You are an amazing artist. Thank you for making my life
more fun with your artwork. If you're ever in Atlanta, I would LOVE to meet you!
~ Laura
Atlanta, GA
Monday Jan 21, 2008 — A Brand New Fan
Hello Patience,
I am a brand new fan
of your work. What caught my eye one day looking through the shelf of
cards was the image of a Potato Lady. Being one of the ladies who is not
considered "Petite" any longer, I wanted to thank you so much for the
funny/intelligent way of including a female image which was not "Barbie
doll or Fairy-shaped" in your Potato Lady example. We non-petite
ladies want to be included too . . . showing we have grace, intelligence and a
sense of humor. I am framing that card and putting in my kitchen. Thank you
Patience.
Here's hoping you can follow "Happy Trails,"
Pam
Friday Jan 11, 2008 — Brand New from Patience Brewster
Dear Birds . . .
Happy Brand New 2008 to you!
Whew! Marietta and I got the
new catalogue ready just in time! It is
ready for you! Inside are new cards, new
categories . . . some yoga influence, some meditation & some humor. I hope, I hope, I hope you will like everything!
Rebecca had a great idea . . . a Valentine sampler! It is available only here so take a peek! (Online
Exclusives) We will also be offering
some retired Valentine Krinkles . . . jeweled boxes to love bugs!
A bird suggested an Everyday mixed sampler . . . Good
idea! That will be next!
Let us know what you think of the new cards . . . especially
the new correspondence/invitations! It
was 7 below ZERO here yesterday . . . I hope you are staying warm and cozy and
staying in touch!!
I will be in Atlanta
on January 11 & 12th in the D56 Showroom . . . Maybe I will see
you there!
Cheers & Chirps,
Patience
P.S. It has been brought to our attention that I
somehow omitted EASTER on our 2008 calendar! I apologize for this and hope, if
you bought one, that you will fix our mistake by noting Easter Sunday on March
23rd. SO sorry!
Wednesday Dec 19, 2007 — Good Words and Fairy Dust
Dear Patience,
I am so happy to find your site. Your cards are
exceptional, for the illustrations too beautiful for words, and also for the
WORDS themselves! I am particularly grateful for the encouragement section.
There are times when good words and fairy dust are in very, very short supply,
and these cards communicate this with understanding and love.
Thank you,
Kathleen
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