Fabric: Pillows, Wraps, Silk Journals & Bookmarks

Fabric to comfort and stimulate:
Pillows and muse minders

Butterfly Pillows
$65.00 | Add To Cart

Butterflies represent change, growth, and beauty. Besides, what could be more fun than an animal that smells with its antenna and tastes with its feet?

We offer gorgeous, hand-painted silk butterfly pillows to help your imagination take flight. Tuck one behind your back while you work on your memoir.

Put one in a chair across the room to remind you that “if nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.” We’ve even put a bit of lavender and roses inside to bring you joy and success.

These pillows are designed and made for us by Troye who began painting on silk 11 years ago. We think you’ll like her philosophy as much as we know you’ll love her pillows. She says, “I believe art is not only a form of self-expression, it’s an invitation for the viewer to participate in a conversation. I’m thrilled to think of each viewer creating new meaning where I have left off.” Similarly, memoirists write for themselves but anticipate the impact on a reader who may perceive new meaning in her own life experiences.

Each lovely pillow is unique, is approximately 10″ x 12,” and is backed with black velveteen. Please let us choose for you.

Butterfly Pillow: $65
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Muse Minder Neck Wrap
$27.00 | Add To Cart

When you feel stressed and have difficulty focusing on your writing or other challenges of the day, try our Muse Minder Neck Wrap. It soothes your senses. If you microwave it, Muse Minder will warm you on chilly days. If you place it in the freezer, it can cool you on hot days. This lovely crushed velvet neck wrap’s all organic ingredients of mint, lavender, rosemary, chamomile, angelica, and hard red winter wheat berries are bound to help keep your muse nearby.

Matty began experimenting with eye pillows and neck wraps five years ago and has created a very special wrap for us. She’s been passionate about sewing since her childhood. Her mother, whom she calls “a real pioneer,” is her inspiration. Matty, the seventh child, recalls, “Mother made all the family’s clothes. She would buy a bolt of fabric; for that season everyone had outfits in the same pattern. She taught me to sew when I was just seven.” Now Matty sews beautiful and useful objects for others with the sense of love and appreciation that she learned from her mother.

We think you’ll come to rely on her Muse Minder. Its elegant, soft fabric feels good on your skin while its herbs relieve your stresses and beckon your writing muse.

Muse Minder Neck Wrap: $27 | Add To Cart

Thai Silk Writer’s Journal (Woven Pattern) | $23.00 | Add To Cart

Thai Silk Writer’s Journal (Embroidered Butterfly) | $23.00 | Add To Cart

These beautiful silk Writer’s Journals are made in Thailand to our specifications, featuring silk dyed and woven for us. Our friend, Erin, lived in California for many years. Then she decided to fulfill her lifelong dream of living abroad. She eventually decided on Thailand, residing now in the Northern city of Chiang Mai, home of Thailand’s handcraft community.

Erin visited the women you see in these pictures. She chose colors and patterns designed to bring beauty and pleasure to us each time we reach for the journal to write about our life. (Photo: Erin with Won, the woman who sewed the Writer’s Journals.)

Making silk from nurturing the silk worms, to harvesting the cocoons, to unrolling the cocoon’s silk thread, to dying the silk, to weaving is a lengthy process that requires patience – much the way that writing a memoir is a lengthy process.

The result of our memoir writing is as beautiful and special as these journals. Using a special Writer’s Journal is one way to honor our storytelling experience.

OUR Writer’s Journal comes with a standard composition book that is easily replaced at any office supply store. Just slip out your completed journal and slip in a new one. This way you can enjoy using your Thai silk cover over and over.

Tell us if you prefer a Writer’s Journal with the woven pattern or with a butterfly. All the colors are lovely and are only available from us. Please let us choose a special one for you.

Thai Silk Writer’s Journal (Woven Pattern) | $23.00 | Add To Cart
Thai Silk Writer’s Journal (Embroidered Butterfly) | $23.00 | Add To Cart

Thai Silk Bookmark (Woven Pattern) | $4.00 | Add To Cart

Thai Silk Bookmark (Embroidered Butterfly) | $4.00 | Add To Cart

We found that our Thai silk Writer’s Journals were so lovely that we couldn’t resist taking some of the fabric and turning it into these special bookmarks.

These beautiful silk bookmarks are a pleasure to see, touch, and use. When the weavers created patterns for us, we left the bookmarks unadorned so that you can appreciate the artisanship of the Thai women. When they wove plain Thai silk, we dressed them up with an embroidered butterfly. Each butterfly is individually done with colors that are complimentary to the fabric.

Let us know if you prefer a bookmark with the woven pattern or one with a butterfly. The colors are all gorgeous. Let us choose one for you.

Thai Silk Bookmark (Woven Pattern) | $4.00 | Add To Cart

Thai Silk Bookmark (Embroidered Butterfly) | $4.00 | Add To Cart