Straighten Up and Fly Right!

At one time or another we've all needed to do it and we've all known someone who needed to do it ...
Straighten Up and Fly Right!
We say this a LOT at Pooh Corner... It's a great old vintage saying ... so I decided to look up the origin of it.
Really the only beginnings I can find are the little tune by the Nat King Cole Trio...  

The old saying itself was enough to inspire a new design at Flawn Ocho...

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Straighten Up and Fly Right 13" Laptop Sleeve

Straighten Up and Fly Right 13" Laptop Sleeve Totes, Cases, Carry-Alls and Such Flawn Ocho

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This zippered, 13" neoprene laptop sleeve is perfect for travel, work, and everyday use. Built-in elastic straps secure the sleeve to your screen so you can work right out of the case and keep your laptop protected at all times.

• Measures 13" x 10"
• Full printing on one side. Alternate side is black.

See more "non-portrait" tom-foolery (i.e. travel photography, bridges, barns and such...) in my retail store, Flawn Ocho... See a hodge-podge of everything when you *Like* the KCoJax Candids Facebook Page... 

The Story of the Peace Sun...

One evening shortly after I moved into the apartment currently known as "the Ocho" I had such a wild enthusiasm to paint that I couldn't contain it...  I went into my studio (it's actually a large kitchen, but 75% of it is used as a studio)

pulled out the largest canvas I had on hand and started to gather paints... My arts supplies were rather low as some things were still packed in storage following the move - but I gathered every bit of paint I could find... many of the tubes were close to empty, so I began to cut them open with a blade - shake the paint onto the canvas and keep moving until it would go no further... Aside from the fact that I'm a hippy at heart, I have no idea why I started painting the Peace Sun.  It started with the actual peace sign because I had planned another project with this canvas and had a large circle of raised decopage in the center.   After I completed the sun, I had my paint brush loaded with white to touch up the highlighting within the peace sign. When I dropped that brush - leaving a blob of white on the canvas, the words of my Jefferson School Art Teacher, Craig Rhodes echoed in my head ... "If you make a mistake just make it work..." ...and that my friends is when the bubbles and squiggly lines were created. Sometime later, my friend of 20+ years, Amy the Spirit Dancer asked me to paint a Peace Sun for her Asheville apartment....  After working tirelessly with photos of the original painting to create an "image", I now have this 

Peace Sun Rectangle Magnet

As with all of my designs, some of them evolve every so often - 

and there are still a lot of projects I  have planned for the Peace Sun... 

Hope you LOVE it!  If you know a peacenik, a beatnik, a hippy or someone who just likes to be reminded to be a peaceful and kind creature - please do feel free to share this with them - 

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