Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Jazz Oboe Player Print from Zazzle.com

Jazz Oboe Player Print from Zazzle.com

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Monday, February 07, 2011

Vintage Style Philadelphia City Hall Poster from Zazzle.com

Vintage Style Philadelphia City Hall Poster from Zazzle.com





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Jazz Fest 2011 Tshirts & Posters from New Orleans Artist

Jazz Fest 2011 Guitar Tshirts from Zazzle.com
Jazz Fest 2011 Guitar shirt
Jazz Fest 2011 Guitar by figstreetstudio
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Friday, October 15, 2010

Pirates Alley Ghost Post Cards from Fig Street Studio

Pirates Alley Ghost Post Cards from Zazzle.com

Pirates Alley Ghost postcard
Pirates Alley Ghost by figstreetstudio
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Some years ago I was at the Pirates Alley Cafe in the French Quarter doing a late night wedding. A group of people from UK were there drinking and loud. I asked them why they were there and they said they were waiting to see the ghost of Jean Lafitte as they read on the web he haunts the alley. I disagreed as the Pirate Lafitte left New Orleans area for Galveston TX never to return. He swore he was going after a rift with the Governor WCC Claiborne over his help at the Battle of New Orleans. As I was just beginning to do weddings there I related a story about a young pirate Reginald Hicks. Pirate Hicks married his sweetheart in the Alley the night before the Battle of New Orleans and went to fight. He now returns every night to seek his bride. The romantic story seemed to catch on and today many people read it on the web and ask to be married in Pirates Alley. No one has caught a picture of him so I digitally created the above postcard of the Ghost in Pirates Alley.
I am amazed that a story created over a bottle of wine late one night in the French Quarter has traveled. I hear it discussed now and then and as I am intimately aware of its origin add to it all the time. The Ghost in Pirates Alley is now a classic French Quarter tale.

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Pirate Santa T-shirt from Zazzle.com

Pirate Santa T-shirt from Zazzle.com

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Sassy Root Beer Basin St Soda T Shirt from Zazzle.com

Sassy Root Beer Basin St Soda T Shirt from Zazzle.com

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Pop Rouge, Basin St. Soda Mugs from Zazzle.com

Pop Rouge, Basin St. Soda Mugs from Zazzle.com

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Pop Rouge, Basin St Soda Co T Shirts from Zazzle.com

Pop Rouge, Basin St Soda Co T Shirts from Zazzle.com

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Basin St Soda , Local Flavors


Basin Street Soda Co. by figstreetstudio

Basin Street Soda coming in Spring. Help support a local beverage.



New Orleans is unique for its history, food, and flavors. "Southern Comfort", Cafe and bluses found on famous Bourbon St. Coffee, Cafe Aulait, Hurricanes, Hand Granades, and many more flavors were found or discovered in the French Quarter. Local beers like Dixie were a favorite for many years and now seem to be coming back. A small group of people now offer New Orleans flavors in soda. Named after the old jazz and blues found on old Basin St, the Basin Street Soda Co. plans on offering unique New Orleans flavored soda by next spring. Looking for funding and a local bottler to help get the project going. Until then you can enjoy some of the t-shirts offered for sale. Keep looking for the "Sassy Fresh" Root Beer, "Pop Rouge" and "Satsuma" Orange to come your way soon.

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Saturday, September 26, 2009

New Orleans Christmas Cards and Ornaments

Big Sale! on cards and postage click image for details. New Orleans art on Holiday Cards available from local artist.


Each year I design something new for the Holiday cards and ornaments I sell on the web. This year I tried to use the snow that fell in 2008 as help in doing the designs. I managed to get a few pictures late morning on the day of the snow and tried my best to show how the snow still clung to things in Jackson Square. Take a look at these new 2009 Holiday cards and ornaments at my stores on the web by going to the home page at http://www.figstreet.com/studio.


Below is an older snow card too.







Porcelain Christmas ornaments at this link- http://www.cafepress.com/figstreetstudio/398786



All of the cards at Zazzle allows you to add or edit the inside of the card to add names or sentiments. The above card is an older version of a local snowman.


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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

New Orleans Water Meter Tiles

Replica water meter covers in plastic available at Fig Street Studio, also ornaments, buttons, magnets, and postcards.

New Orleans famous water meter cover used as art on posters, clocks, ceramic tiles, murals, shirts,cards, invitations designed in New Orleans by local artist JK Schwehm of Fig Street Studio. Here is a link to many different products with the water meter cover- http://www.zazzle.com/figstreetstudio/meter+gifts?pg=5#products

Large New Orleans Water Meter Cover Clocks are also available-http://www.cafepress.com/figstreetstudio.435759905


The famous New Orleans water meter cover on ceramic tiles and vinyl stickers. A large ceramic tile mural can be used as table top or kitchen backsplash. See Fig Street Studio store at Cafe Press. Water Meter Cover on tiles, shirts and more.

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We can create a large Water Meter Tile Mural out of ceramic tiles for a small table top or you can use a few vinyl stickers to create a table top you seal in varnish. E-mail with questions about the many tile murals we make at Fig Street Studio.

Click on links or image for the many water meter cover gifts.

See all the tiles here- http://www.cafepress.com/figstreetstudio/397643


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Monday, June 22, 2009

Crawfish Cartoon on Shirts and Gifts


Comical crawfish on unique gifts, aprons, bibs,clocks, kids tops, shirtshttp://www.cafepress.com/figstreetstudio/596208
See many unique cajun crawfish on shirts at Fig Studio.Street

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Personalized Lobster Gifts



Add name or sentiments to large apron or t-shirt at Fig Street Studio Zazzle store on the web. More unusal gift ideas available.
Lobster Apron apron
Lobster Apron by figstreetstudio
Design custom aprons online at zazzle.com
Lobster tops or shirts for ladies, men, and kids.







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French Quarter Street Name Blue Letter Tiles and other Street Signs


Sold on the web for the past 8 years, replica blue letter street name tile, letters and numbers several designs see them and other street signs at http://www.cafepress.com/figstreetstudio/434932

Art Tiles, magnets, stickers with the individual letters and the big tile murals found in the French Quarter, black and white metal signs on old lamp posts, and the Spanish Tile Murals. All these have become icons for tourists visiting New Orleans. We have used these icons with others like the water meter cover to make art. See the links here to view them.

New Orleans has several ways it signs the streets. The famous Blue Letter Street Tiles set in the sidewalk are duplicated below seem to be the favorite.



For the history of these replica tiles and the original tiles read: http://blogofbingo.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-orleans-street-tiles.html

Ceramic measuring 4.25” x 4.25” and 1/6-inch thick. Images are applied with a polyester resin that accepts dye as part of the coating and heat set onto the ceramic. Blue Letter Tiles Link






Spanish Tile Street Name Mural Replicas


Quote about the tiles in New York Times-
"One of the most effective methods of designating streets that I have seen is that used in New Orleans. It consists of blue tiles four by six inches and three-quarter inch thick on each of which is a five-inch letter of the alphabet in white. . . . These not only present a neat appearance, but are large enough to be read without difficulty. -- Albert E. Davis of the Bronx, N.Y., in a Dec. 3, 1913, in a letter to the editor of The New York Times."

French Quarter Street Name Spanish Tile Murals are different from the French Quarter Blue Letter tiles and the metal street signs. All 3 designs are different icons of the French Quarter. All 3 designs of the street signs are duplicated in my shop.

Make your own New Orleans street sign. Edit or add text, your name, address whatever to both postcard size or vinyal stickers see my Zazzle shop, click images. Great to use for table signbs at parties.




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