Cathy Penton Atelier

Sometimes I feel like the luckiest human alive working on projects big or small with other creatives {it is my absolute favourite thing}.  I met Janelle at her first tra...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2024/04/creative-musings-with-janelle-richards.html

 Years ago I dreamt of owning a stationery shop.  Cards, notebooks, journals, wrapping paper + pencils filling every inch. There is something about when design, art + paper com...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2024/03/creative-musings-katie-leamon.html

> "To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding > something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has > little to d...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2024/02/creative-musings-cindy-cavanagh.html

> I think photography touches my heart in a way no other genre does. I > found the incredibly talented Michelle Mollinga on instagram. Her > photog...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2024/01/creative-musings-michelle-mollinga.html

> "Magical" is the word that comes to mind when I think of Tania > Robinson and her business Southern Wild Co.  I can remember opening > one of�...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2023/11/creative-musings-tania-robinson.html

'Savour, penser, rever. Tout est la.' - victor hugo To know, to think, to dream. I​t's all there. My dear friend Millie, and I have always had a love for France in common {amongst many other...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2023/10/postcards-from-friend-millie-her-love.html

TINA IS A MOTHER OF THREE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, TEACHER, RENOVATOR, WOOL ENTHUSIAST AND A CREATIVE IN SO MANY DIFFERENT GENRES FROM KNITTING AND CROTCHET, TO NATURAL DYEING {...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2023/06/creative-musings-tina-rubie.html

Matthew Cox Home: Alun Callender Front cover of Ali's new book Create Lisa Mehydene Home: Michael Paul Malene Birger Home: Image Birgitta Wolfgang Bjørnvad Collage by Ali ...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2023/05/creative-musings-ali-heath.html

Several years ago, an idea came to me to do a wedding range.  It was May around my Mum and Dad's anniversary {the 3rd, they were married 49 years before my dad passed away} and the words "in ...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2023/04/wedding-hankies-custom-work.html

    >  >>  Kim is a Photographer, Filmmaker, Tech Lover and Course >>  Creator.  She is a wife, mother and mimi to Magdalena.  She is >>  an intr...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2023/04/creative-musings-kim-klassen.html

Kim Taylor is human sunshine. I can remember probably around 15 years ago seeing a blog post of hers and feeling a sense of freedom through her photography.  It was of her ch...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2023/03/creative-musings-kim-taylor.html

  >  > "There's a reason we are drawn to gazing at the ocean.  It is said > the ocean provides a clearer reflection of who we are than a...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2023/03/creative-musings-journal-we-visit-with.html

"Love of beauty is taste.  The creation of beauty is art" - ralph waldo emerson  Kasia is a Mumma, architecture student and recently opened a beautiful business called ...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2022/04/in-my-store-i-talk-to-kasia-penton-from.html

> “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you > something else is the greatest accomplishment.” - Ralph Waldo > Emerson ISN'T IT ...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2021/08/in-my-store-i-talk-with-laura-wortlock.html

  "tell me the poetry you read and the song you fall asleep with… all the art, the words, the songs that shift you. this is what I want to know. this is how my heart falls"  – b...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2021/06/in-my-store-i-talk-with-amanda-stevens.html

This is a little behind the scenes of Constellated Beauty a collaboration between artist, teacher and creative, Renee Mueller and myself.  Anyone that has followed me...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2021/06/by-hand-constellated-beauty-working.html

  "I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become" - carl jung I found this beautiful creative, Jo Olive, on Instagram after she posted a photo of some cards tha...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2021/06/in-my-store-i-talk-to-jo-olive-artist.html

 I came across Renee on instagram several years ago and fell in love with her exquisite art.  I bought a couple of her pieces to put on my wall and than earlier this year we both t...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2020/10/collaboration-renee-mueller-renee.html

Hello my friends Ness and I met through the wonderful world of blogs 14 + years ago.  She is an incredible artist, calligrapher, pottery designer + maker.  She lives in a go...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2020/09/in-my-store-i-talk-to-ness-lockyer-of.html

Hello dear friends   "You should seek to build a life that you don't feel you need to escape from.   True happiness comes when you unlock your purpose in this world".  - kristy dicker...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2020/08/creatively-made-business-course.html

I found Christiana through the wonderful world of instagram and started stocking her beautiful creations in my store. She is the founder/creator/blender of Mimosa Botanicals.  "My lov...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2020/08/in-my-store-i-talk-with-christiana.html

It was 20 plus years ago when my daughter was only little and I came across the world of stitchery through a designer by the name of Wendy Brigg.  I worked for her as a colourist, stitching ...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2020/06/stitchery-designer-where-it-all-began.html

One of my favourite things about having a store is sourcing other beautiful items to sell.  A couple of years ago I came across the most exquisite, simple, tactile ceramics an...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2020/05/in-my-store-i-talk-to-simone-nabholz-of.html

LIFE BRINGS YOU THE BEST SORTS OF GIFTS AND MILLIE IS DEFINITELY ONE OF THOSE TO ME.   She inspires me constantly, talks to me on the phone for hours {and I wouldn't say...

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A 1900's courthouse building is where I create most days. We bought the courthouse and its residence 15 years ago, with no budget so we immediately put tenants in it and it wasn't until t...

https://cathypentonatelier.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-working-studio-glimpse-into-my-atelier.html