I just finished sending out the free members-only desktop treats for September!

This month members of Club Marmalade Moon receive three minimalist buttons designed in the sleek iPhonica style. These graphics can be used for any personal, non-commercial project and there are many possibilities. You can make navigational buttons for your blog or website or create your own icons for a very clean and minimalist look, combining elements with Gluestick for Mac OS X. Consonance Software offers a free trial of Gluestick on their web site if you want to give it a spin.

Being a Mac enthusiast, I am not sure what kind of applications there are out there for this kind of image editing on Windows? I’d be interested to hear if any of you have some applications to suggest for Windows users!?

There is also a September desktop calendar version of the popular desktop picture with Nasturtiums.

Tags: seasonal, nature, summer, floral, desktop calendar, gui, customise, buttons, graphics

I am excited to announce that the popular desktop wallpaper Floating on Nasturtiums has been re-released!

Hot, orange and red blossoms with crisp lily-pad foilage. Now updated to include some larger monitor sizes that weren’t around when I originally created the desktop picture.

So head on over to the Freebies section to pick this fiery gardener’s delight, Nasturtiums, for your desktop!

Tags: seasonal, nature, summer, floral

Today the August Issue of the Marmalade Monthly is released. This month members of Club Marmalade Moon are in for a fluttering of butterflies as the collection of Picnic Pals expands!

This month’s issue is packed with exclusive desktop goodies. There are butterfly avatars to customize your forums or social networks, your computer log in, or to use as an image for any personal project where you find use for them. A pale yellow Brimstone, a lime green Brimstone and a Common Blue Butterfly.

There is a pre-release of three butterfly computer icons that I plan to release to the public later on this month.

And finally there is a members-only desktop wallpaper with butterflies on a blue summer’s sky!

Join the Club for limited edition desktop art and get your butterfly desktop art too!

Tags: seasonal, nature, summer, bug, Mac OS X, Windows, Vista, social networking, instant messenger, forum, Twitter

According to a Swedish legend, there was a cobbler who each year put up a sign that said "Closed Between Bird Cherry and Lilac".

And this is indeed an enchanting time of year! Beautiful and intoxicating early summer. When veils of green leaves open on the bare branches. The heady scents of blossoms. Fresh shades of greens and bird song.

Every year I keep thinking that I really ought to do what the cobbler did! Hang up a sign on the door and take a few weeks off to indulge in this time of sheer beauty. And every year it turns out to be a busy time of year!

I had to do something about it so last week I spent the day walking all over Djurgården in Stockholm. I was dizzy with summer! Lunch in the fruit orchard at Rosendals Trädgård under clouds of cherry blossom was almost too much to take in. Breathtaking.

Back in the studio I worked on this desktop picture with an orchard with cherry trees in bloom which originally was inspired by a letter from Japan. But that is a different story! Trying to give the image this almost ethereal feeling I had in the orchard... And perhaps a bit of a story book quality!

Now you can customise your desktop with Cherry Orchard wallpaper. Available in several sizes and variations for different types of monitors and set ups. There are fullscreen, widescreen, iPhone and iPod Touch versions so pick a good one!

Tags: seasonal, floral, summer, spring, nature, Japanese, Scandinavian

In time for Valentine's Day, this desktop picture with rose petals has been remastered for large monitors and for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

For a digital romance, or for a longing for deep summer, the heady scent of roses, the velvet petals.

Dress up your desktop in pretty petals over in the freebies section. Because desktop geeks have feelings too!

Tags: Valentine's Day, summer, seasonal, nature