DIY Contest

Design Sponge is having a DIY contest and I sent my entry in today. It's this box here that I made but the sides are all on hinges so it opens up completely. I think it is great because I can store all of my jewelry in it, but it looks like a piece of art, not a jewelry box. The inside has anti tarnish strips to protect my jewelry. It was so fun to make. I love working with a drill, I feel so powerful!

4 Treasuries

Wow! I'm featured in 4 different treasury lists on Etsy. That's the most ever for me! Here is one that I think is especially cute. My little man Wilford already made it into a treasury:) Thanks JulyBooks!yippee, one of them made it to the front page. My evil eyed bird was in it!

Meet Wilford

This is Wilford the kindly Ol' grandpa bird. He sits on his porch drinking coca cola from the bottle and smokes a pipe. All the townspeople know him. If you listen long enough you will realize that he has great insight into this world. He may seem heartless at times, but he always tells you the truth. He would never let you down.

I think he looks like Wilford Brimley so that's how he got the name. I've been having so much fun lately drawing up nutty characters that I decided to make one of them into a necklace. I'll have to post some pictures of my other characters. I do have the angst ridden teenage chickadee with a mohawk and wallet chain:)

I am available to do custom orders if you have an idea for me. I think this would be so fun for an illustrator to have your work on a necklace. I can take almost anything and translate it for a pendant.

Shameless Plug

Ok, I promise this will be the last of my shameless plugs for a while (unless something really huge happens) but I wanted to post the article from the Storque (Etsy newsletter) about my meeting with Beth and Christina. I had a chance to sit down to coffee with Beth (VP of Operations) and Christina (Marketing) of Etsy earlier this month. Nina from NinaGibsonDesigns was there also. We were able to share what we love about Etsy and what we would love to see on Etsy. Everyone was so nice and it was great to meet the actual people behind the screen. Visit Nina's shop also. Her jewelry is great!

The Process

I just finished this custom order that I received. It was so fun to work on. My customer's husband is a helicopter pilot and she emailed me photos of his helicopter. From the photos I came up with this drawing. I then created a stamp from the drawing (sorry, no pic). And then, presto.....the necklace.

Wow! What a day!

Yesterday was a fantastic day! I was featured on two really great blogs.

The first one is my most favorite blog in the whole world! Design Sponge. Grace featured the pictures of my studio update (corner of my living room). Here it is. What an honor to be featured on a blog that is so inspiring to me. I've got some chairs to reupholster, so maybe I'll be submitting those some day.

The second one is a great blog about independant artists calledThe Indie Path. They feature a couple independant artists a week and do interviews with them. Here's mine.

Welcome to anyone who has found me through these two wonderful blogs. I hope to get to know you!

Past Life/ Current Life

We went to the zoo this weekend. I'm pretty sure I knew her in a past life. Maybe we were part of the same knitting circle. Aren't gorillas amazing creatures. I know that our DNA is more similar to chimpanzees, but gorillas just seem so human.

The Lovebirds

So maybe in a past life I was knitting with Evelyn the gorilla, but in this life I'm learning to bake. And today I learned that in the step "pour batter into a well greased pan" the "well greased pan" was fairly important. I was rushing and forgot to grease the pan because James was eating all of the batter. Oh well, it still tastes good.