Living in a fishing community, a buoy is really an every day siting. It wasn't until last summer (my first summer on Main Street with the Shop) that I realized how taken people were with them. I was doing buoy designs sometimes on a daily basis! I had many requests for custom buoy colors/designs to be handpainted on many of my textiles. This was the birth of the Buoy Bag. This winter was the development of a buoy replica bag and yes, painted with buoy colors/designs. So now we have the Buoy Tote and the Buoy Bag. Whether they were customized for a Lobsterman's Wife (that seemed to be the trend) or for vacationing tourists who wanted a little piece of Maine to take back with them, they seemed to become part of my design porfolio. I see alot of buoys in my future!
