http://www.maryengelbreit.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:54:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As promised, here is the scoop on some of what will be available THIS Christmas--  A lot of wonderful new things (along with the wonderful old things) from Katherine’s Collection, taken right out of the pages of my Night Before Christmas book. Here are just a few:   A few of these are BIG ... http://www.maryengelbreit.com/archives/2420 We have a new license with one of my all-time favorite companies, Bethany Lowe, and I am very excited to show you what’s coming out in the spring! These things were just shown at the gift show in Atlanta, but we wanted to make sure that all you store owners ... http://www.maryengelbreit.com/archives/2379 This week we're featuring a guest speaker here on the Engelblog: Jan, the administrative assistant for ME Studios. Enjoy! The year before I went to work for Mary, I was her very excited, and “biggest fan” standing in line with my ME tin at the Saint Louis Galleria, waiting for her ... http://www.maryengelbreit.com/archives/2371 I’ve been working on the new 2012 calendar lately-- so many great quotes, so little time. One of my favorite parts of getting ready to do a new calendar is looking for the quotes. Of course, the internet makes this much easier, but I still like finding obscure quotation books ... http://www.maryengelbreit.com/archives/2365 long time ago, I used to embroider all the time. It was such a great thing to take on car trips or to pick up when I didn’t have enough time to start a drawing but felt like doing something creative. I used to embroider work shirts and jeans for ... http://www.maryengelbreit.com/archives/2353 It’s been a busy summer so far. We celebrated my birthday here at the studio with a fantastic chocolate cake that was so good we all had to leave early so we could go home and lie down for a while. Jan had decorated the table with little paper crown confetti ... http://www.maryengelbreit.com/archives/2328 Here’s a little something you might be interested in. I’m doing a bunch of new Easter/spring cards for Papyrus-Recycled Greetings, which will be available this coming spring. I had the idea for one of them during one of our staff meetings in which we were discussing how many cards we ... http://www.maryengelbreit.com/archives/2309 We have lots of good news here at the ol’ studio.  First of all, we hired the wonderful and completely charming Amy Medhurst as our new Director of Licensing and Marketing.  The first time we all met her we felt like she had been here forever.  She fit right in, ... http://www.maryengelbreit.com/archives/2304 I just finished inking in all the drawings for “The Nutcracker.” I had so much fun doing these illustrations, which is strange because I absolutely did not want to do this story. I had seen the ballet and had taken Mikayla to see it when she was younger and we ... http://www.maryengelbreit.com/archives/2281 As promised, here are a BUNCH of more photos of some great people and projects from the MEHC Workshop this past weekend. I especially love all the cool nametags that everyone came up with! I want to thank all of our wonderful panelists, instructors, sponsors and everyone who came. It was ... http://www.maryengelbreit.com/archives/2272