Lorilei's Palette: the News from Painters Bluff ~ the newsletter

In This Issue:

1. Valentine's Day Shipping Special
2. New Designs at Artist at Work
3. New Styles and Colors
4. Painters Bluff Blog
5. Coming Soon...

Only a few days remain before Valentine's Day arrives. Whether you love the Big V Day or hate it, you'll find something fun to give or get at Lorilei's Artist at Work. And from now through February 14, there's free basic shipping for most orders $50 or more. Use the coupon code VDAYSHIP when you check out.

Link: http://www.cafepress.com/lorilei/6860

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New Designs at Artist at Work

* Pro-Valentines -
"I Love You With All My Heart"
"How Do I Love You?" (for more mature Valentines)

* Anti-Valentines -
"Out of Order"
"Valentine Blues"

* Animals -
"Would You Please Be Sirius"
"Penguins On Ice!"
"Who's Your Crawdaddy?"

* For Fun -
"The Pickle Conspiracy"
"You're Not the Boss of Me"
"In a Handbasket"
"The Artist at Work Shop"

Link: http://www.cafepress.com/lorilei/2406220

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New Styles and Colors

Recently added products include more dark t-shirts! In addition to the classic black unisex tee, we now offer a ladies-cut black t-shirt, long-sleeved uni-sex tees in navy and black, long-sleeved ladies-cut tees in cocoa brown and black, and short-sleeved uni-sex tees in cardinal red, military green, and navy blue.

A stylish long-sleeved white tee for ladies has also arrived. These classy tees look very nice worn to work or school.
Our fleecy pullover sweatshirts (hooded and crew-neck) are now offered in both ash grey and white, ready to keep you cozy until the days become long and warm.

Link: http://www.cafepress.com/lorilei/2368201

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Painters Bluff Blog

Our intrepid assistant and fashion model P.L. lives in the quaint little village of Painters Bluff. (A view of the town square can be seen in the header at the top of the shop.) You can now read about small town life at Lorilei's new blog, PaintersBluff.com. P.L. has agreed to add her perspective from time to time. This journal joins our other shop-related work, Lorilei's Tees & other artistic endeavors, which chronicles Lorilei's designs of interest, sales specials, and related arty ideas. Remember to bookmark these blogs, or add them to your Google or Yahoo pages with Feedburner.

Link: http://paintersbluff.com

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Coming Soon...

Dark T-Shirts: Red, Royal, Brown, Charcoal
Light T-Shirts: Natural, Light-Blue
Women's Dark T-Shirts: True Red, Teal, Violet
Women's Light T-Shirts: Light Yellow, Light Blue, Light Pink
Women's V-Neck Tshirt: White
Women's Dark V-Neck Tshirts: Black, Heather Grey

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Thanks for reading the newsletter for Artist at Work, the shop for gifts for your Inner Child.

Let's all get Sirius for a moment....

One thing P.L. and I share is a love for J.K. Rowling's novels.

What starts out as a fun kid's story, a kind of magical "Leave It to Beaver Goes to Boarding School," turns into something more. More intricate. More compelling. More heartrending. With each successive year at the fantastical castle, it becomes more apparent that it may not end, "and they lived happily ever after."

The characters become our family. We adore both Ron and Hermione. And Harry is part of us, our soul and our spirit. We see the world through his eyes.

Likewise, we suffer their emotional ups and downs. The last three books have sent P.L. into rounds of ecstactic joy and grief. I will try not to spoil the story plots for anyone who has not read them.



"Rosebud."


Sorry -- I couldn't resist. (See the movie "Citizen Kane" for clarification.)

One of P.L.'s favorite characters is the lovable Sirius Black. The black sheep in a family steeped in Pureblood tradition, Sirius was Harry's father's best friend from childhood. At school, he became a Gryffindor instead of a Slytherin, a fact which disturbed his parents, but delights the reader.

As an adult, Sirius was falsely blamed for horrible crimes he did not commit. Without granting him his right to a trial, a Ministry of Magic official banished him to Azkaban, the wizarding prison. For twelve years, he lived stranded somewhere on a rock in the North Sea, imprisoned in a cell with bars, by the creatures who kept watch, the spectral Dementors.

After an amazing escape, he was finally reunited with his godson, Harry, but was forced to remain in hiding. The only way he could hide was by using his Animagus talents to transform into a huge black dog.

Though Harry's Patronus is a silver stag (his Animagus father's animal alter-ego), our guardian protector is a great black dog with intelligent eyes. Loyal, brave, loving, he will be there for us at all costs.


(Does this big fella deserve a hug, or what?)

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Valentine's Day Promotion ~ Super Shipping Savings

Buying a Valentine's Day t-shirt for someone you love? Or maybe a snuggly sweatshirt, or a ceramic tiled-adorned wooden keepsake box. With so many nice gifts from which to choose, it's nice to know that there's a shipping special to make it even easier to give gifts from Artist at Work.

From January 14 through February 14, 2007: Free Super Saver Shipping on orders over $50 (before tax and shipping)
Coupon code: VDAYSHIP

Just copy and paste the coupon code when you check out. Don't forget to check our other shops, since this code is valid for purchases in any of them. Hurry! There's only one month until Valentine's Day is here. Have you chosen gifts for your loved one yet?

Valentine Blues

Ah, young love.

You've heard the saying, "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Regardless of the eternal truth of that sentiment, we know young P.L. thinks it's a lot of hooey.

When you're young, a lot of the wisdom of the world sounds like something that only applies to someone else. That is so wrong!
Sure, the cutest boy in your class has been sitting next to you on the bus, and behind you in history class, all year. He even laughed at your jokes.

But then he asked that spoiled brat Deidre to the school Valentine's dance. And he thinks you should be pleased about it! What does he think you are, one of the guys? -- Oh, that's right. He has pretty much thought that, ever since you rubbed his nose in the dirt after school in the second grade, when he called you a sissy.

But that was so long ago....
Time will pass, and this will, too. But for now, it just really, really... stinks.

Love stinks. It's definitely for the birds.



















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