Butterfly in Blue....

She's a little smaller than my orange monarch one, but still a nice big size!

The Rising Candle Cupcake

Grad Invites...

I have some classy looking invites for the adults, that include my son's picture, but for his friends - something a little less formal and a little more fun. Attached to the ring is a Shrinky Dink that has his school, "class of 2008", and the phrase, "Now I'm like really smart and stuff!" He doesn't plan on using an envelope for these tag invites.

Earth Day - April 22

This is my first venture into recycled papers. They don't have a huge selection of colors available yet, so the silver paper on the front is not recycled - everything else is...

Double click on the pics for better viewing.

More Reduced-in-Size Items!

I've reduced my pattern for takout boxes to be useful as party favors. My son will be graduating in a month and so party-planning for me is in full swing!

Retro 1970s...

The first crafts I ever sold were plant hangars. I supplied a florist on consignment when I was just eleven years old. Look closely because this one is made for dolls at 1:6 scale. And, of course, there's paper involved because that's what I do! Each leaf is handpainted, scored, and sealed with polyurethane.

It's a Very Small World

These miniature daisies are destined for the front of a Mother's Day card. It took me most of a morning to make these six dollhouse-sized daisies, but there's something rewarding about knowing you made everything from scratch instead of buying them from a store.

Custom Work...

... for a person running their first race ever....

Parade Preparation!

Washington DC is having their Cherry Blossom Parade and these guys at Fort MacNair were practicing hard! Hubby and I took the day off and spent the perfectly weathered day eating lunch outside and browsing the American Portrait Museum, among other things.

Happy Easter!

These are my kid's creations...

Mother's Day Push...

Etsygreetings is starting their Mother's Day promotions and so the drive for cards for mom is on...

Calorie Free!

10 little fortune cookie birthday wishes in a takeout box. Very customizable!

This Ship has sailed...

Computer-printed versus Stamped

They came out surprisingly alike!

Working on a Tag Design

I am in need of two stamps, one of which I placed on etsy's alchemy. It will be a simple unobtrusive one for the back of my cards. This one is a preliminary mockup of a design I would use to tag my items for a craft fair/store....

Fun with Circle Templates!

I love drawing cogs! In this case they wound up as a woodburned cover for a small, square, hand bound journal...

Where to advertise...

2. http://www.craigslist.com3. http://www.myspace.com/etsy4. http://www.cracker.com.au5. http://www.cmather.com6. http://www.stumbleupon.com7. http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl8. http://froogle.google.com/9. http://www.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx10. http://www.dmoz.org/add.html11. http://www.ecom.yahoo.com/dir/submit/intro/12. http://www.adwords.google.com/13. http://seocompany.ca/directory/free-web-directories.html14. http://www.blogger.com/start15. http://www.flickr.com/ (please see http://www.etsy.com/forums_topic.php?thread_id=18481&page_id=1 first).16. http://www.freecraftfair.com/link_exchange.html17. http://www.freecraftfair.com/categories.html18. http://kijiji.com19. http://community.livejournal.com/etsy_lj/20. http://UniversityChic.com/promotions21. http://etsy.com/forums_topic.php?thread_id=780922. http://boingboing.net/suggest.html23. http://australia.tribe.net/local?guess=true24. http://bobbiisdesignsndeals.com/Art/gallery2/main.php25. http://clickthru.com26. http://www.43things.com/things/view/7012827. http://linktiles.com/28. http://craftersbuzz.com/29. http://www.stylehive.com/30. http://www.stylefeeder.com/31. http://digg.com/32. http://www.adsbay.com/33. http://www.bust.com/34. http://www.comcast.net/35. http://www.comcast.net/comcast.html36. http://www.oodle.com/37. http://www.expo.live.com/38. http://www.robotlaundry.com/index.php39. http://www.linkreferral.com/adwel.pl40. http://www.bloglines.com/41. http://www.linkedin.com/42. http://www.abwa.org/43. http://www.ryze.com/44. http://fogster.com/45. http://craftersbuzz.com/46. http://www.thisnext.com/47. http://del.icio.us/48. http://www.linktiles.com/49. http://www.backpage.com/50. http://www.bobbiisdesignsndeals.com/51. http://www.popbitch.com52. http://www.barefootbusiness.com53. http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7742497 (a listing on Etsy for a space in an Etsy promo book)54. http://www.facebook.com55. http://www.indiepublic.com56. http://www.designstolove.com57. http://www.eons.com58. http://www.boutiquecafe.com59. http://www.myartplot.com


Now, I can't attest to most of these, as I found this list on Etsy and they are not from my research....

Looking Forward to Summer....

...by returning to the past. This is one of my 2007 designs, newly remade. I will have it for sale once I take better pics in the morning light. This pic doesn't show that the white paper is textured, the red wings sparkle, and the letters are glittery.

Sunrise and Sunset...

created just by reversing the order of the fabrics....

My All-time Favorite Etsy Thread!

If you want to know anything about anything etsy, check out this thread!

http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5453881

The OP did an amazing job putting all this info together....