…and Lilla shares her journey from artist to agent in this issue of the magazine, reprinted from her book I Just Like to Make Things (Quarry).

Order the magazine here:  http://stampington.com/Where-Women-Create-Business-Spring-2014

Lilla sketching vintage floral pins

Lilla playing with paint and collage on masonite

Surtex was fantastic. So much fun; so great for business.

Here’s our booth, all seats taken with a line waiting to see books. It went on like this for most of the three days. That’s Susan M on the upper right showing Suzy Ultman’s portfolio.

Here’s Mike Lowery. He came up from Atlanta and brought his students with him. He’s making Julia and Susan laugh.

More books and stuff.

Another shot of our booths with very focused art directors. That’s the teNeues folks in the middle. Check out Suzy Ultman’s stufftie hanging on the wall. It’s brown with the heart in the middle. Too cute.

Here he is big:

Carolyn Gavin and my mom in front of the booths. Land of Nod and Grace Bonney of design*sponge blog are at our booths, too. How fantastic. My mom was an amazing business person and incredible artist, ahead of her time. She’s 84 and came out from the end of the North Fork of Long Island with my sister to see us. It made my day.

Jamie of Land of Nod and Susan McCabe having fun. I gave Jamie the award (verbally) for best scarf of show.

Thought you’d like to see the books and some of the samples and give-aways. On the right was a baby and juvi compilation I made for the show.

There’s Julia and Susan and a bit of the beautiful Grace Bonney of design*sponge. All I’m going to tell you is that Grace and I had a fascinating discussion about something we want to do together. Trust me; it’s going to be fabulous.

A picture of Helen Dardik’s picture about taking pictures.

Susan M and Allison Cole. Susan was showing someone Allison’s bag which Allison made herself. Probably Susan was showing a manufacturer and wanted to get them to make these bags.

Kristin of Chronicle. We love her. We had some REALLY good ideas for something. It ties into the Grace Bonney/design*sponge thing. I hope I’m tantalizing you.

Here’s a picture of Kristin taking a picture of Suzy Ultman’s doll.

Here’s a point in the show where we had Chronicle, Crate & Barrel, and another group at our booth. How amazing was that? We were kinda blown away.

One great thing was that we got to meet the wonderful reps, Chrystal Falcioni of Magnet and Frank Sturges. Here’s our Susan and Frank. Was great to talk shop.

Here’s Susan’s family. Check out her cute boys. They are fun, cool kids. Check out all the books on the table for clients to see. That’s probably my water bottle on the left. I was allowed to leave it on the table if I was sure to keep the cap on. We had no coffee spills. Amazing. Aren’t the banners beautiful?

Here’s Susan Farrington (on right) and Carolyn Gavin of Ecojot. We went out to dinner at a South African restaurant one night. Carolyn is from South Africa and now lives in Toronto.

It was great fun.

Wednesday: Recent work by Trina Dalziel

We’re so excited to exhibit at Printsource NY in January. And look what they are sending around, with our very own Carolyn Gavin of Ecojot as the featured artist on their announcement. Can you visit us? We’re taking appointments from art directors. Contact us to schedule an appointment to see work at the show. (Sorry, we can’t make appointments with artists even though we’d love to meet you. We’ll be so dang busy we really can’t view portfolios at the show.)

Tomorrow: Jessica Allen’s new birthday card.

Jillian just created this piece and it’s available for licensing. We have gotten a huge amount of licenses with alphabet images, so I’m sure this will be snapped up.

As usual, the queen of editorial work, Diane Bigda, delivers. In God we Trust? Burning credit cards, the eagle has fallen. Just because it’s a serious topic doesn’t mean the art can’t be beautiful. Amazing texture, mature line quality, and gravitas. Art directors: Diane did this piece as a personal work and it is currently available as stock. Contact us.