polaroid box

I haven't posted anything in awhile because of my laziness. But here's something I've been up to.

My friend Bryan wanted to give his polaroid-loving friend something special for her birthday. So I made a polaroid box (fashioned after one of the designs of the old polaroid boxes) with some "polaroids" that she can slip some of her own pictures into that have the name of her blog embroidered on them. I hope she likes it!

I will be getting ready for the upcoming holiday craft fairs and will try to be more diligent about posting my work-in-progress on here.

estate sale finds...

I went to an estate sale yesterday with some of my buds and found some cool art work! I am excited to put it up on our walls.

If you like the two lower left hand series of drawings, you might like the work of Scott Campbell. He has a very similar drawing style and does some old timey illustrations as well as many other things that are super cool.

more crocheted friends...

learning to crochet

These two animals are my first attempts at crocheting. It took awhile to figure things out but now I think I understand some of the very basic stitches. However I started a new animal last night and I don't understand it. I'm stuck.

new card in the works

A new card I am working on. This is also my first attempt at using gouache.

shop update!

Whew. Finally. Done.

renegade la 2010

Hooray! It was a successful first Renegade. Thank you to everyone who was able to come visit the booth and say hi. It was so nice to see friends and meet some new people. Unfortunately I didn't have very much time to get up and walk around and take pictures of other booths, but there were some great crafts and talented people. My favorites of the booths I saw included Berkley Illustration, Chez Sucre Chez, randL, Dan Bob Thompson, Erinzam, Eri Sugimoto, Fern Works,  Flock Home, Fugu Fugu Press, I Made You A Beard, Jen Skelley, Krank Press, Love Nail Tree, Miniature Rhino, Nate Duval, Oh Hello Friend, Paper Pastries, Pie Bird Press, Planted, Rae Dunn, Rebe, Ribbit Stopit, Sycamore Street Press, The Birds and the Beasts, Thief and Bandit and Thing. I'm sure I missed a lot of vendors in my haste to get back to my booth so you should check out the complete list of vendors on Renegade's site.

Thank you to Eva of Sycamore Street Press for including my booth in her roundup of Renegade on Poppytalk. I am very honored.

I'm working on getting up all the new items you see in these pictures up in the Etsy shop for sale as soon as possible.  Keep checking back to see the bird and alphabet prints, bird card sets, wooden earrings, and possibly individual bird prints and a new version of the reusable manila (yellow) envelope.  Thank you to Malachi and my parents for helping me run the booth and to Erin Dollar of I Made You A Beard for sharing her space with me!