The Etsy shop and the blog have been on hiatus, but we are back! I'm working with existing stock for now, but enjoying making some sales and getting to know new visitors to Etsy.
My best wishes to friends old and new during this long, cold winter. Have some soup!
I haven’t been able to blog much lately, but these little guys are cheering me up on a snowy day.
I decided it’s time to start adding things I made over the summer to the Etsy shop — before summer officially ends! This is a mixed set featuring ladybugs but also some little dragonflies (or maybe regular flies, but I think the dragon-variety sounds nicer!).
Viva, summer. Viva, ladybugs!
I have to pace my Etsy listings, since once school starts I’ll have much less time to make things and I need to start stockpiling for Christmas! But I made these last week and decided I didn’t want to wait. These were part of an indoor photo shooting day, and I’m actually happy with the way they turned out.
I’m also continuing to try out new backgrounds. In the Mini Etsy at right, the top image is one of the sets of African Print magnets that I re-shot against a picture of a stringed guitar-like instrument from Mali. For the other African-themed set in the shop, I re-shot against
a Western Civ textbook page about 17th-c. West African cultures. I also re-did the Sedona Sunset magnets (also at right in the Mini) against a map depicting 19th-c. southwestern territories. And for the Happy Sea Monster set above (still a bit too dark), I chose a couple textbook maps illustrating the Renaissance-era Voyages of Discovery. It’s endlessly convenient to have textbooks in the house, even if white balance and I are still fighting with each other, LOL.
1% of the sales price for the Star Moon Heart and Sea Monster Happy magnets (and all my Etsy sales) donated quarterly to earth-friendly nonprofits.
Orange you glad when you get a sale? I am! I sold this “Orange. Apple. Fish!” set today (left), which made my day. 
It also gives me a very happy excuse, as always after a sale, to feature the work of another Etsy seller from my Favorites. I'm crazy about these cards at the mother-daughter shop The Mum and the Rose, made from sketches (right) that “Mum” made as a student at New York City’s Art Students League in the early 1960s. You will literally have to hurry to snatch these up before I do!Image © 2008 by The Mum and the Rose.
1% of the sales price for today’s sales (and all my Etsy sales) donated quarterly to earth-friendly nonprofits.
I decided it’s time to start adding things I made over the summer to the Etsy shop — before summer officially ends! This is a mixed set featuring ladybugs but also some little dragonflies (or maybe regular flies, but I think the dragon-variety sounds nicer!).
I have to pace my Etsy listings, since once school starts I’ll have much less time to make things and I need to start stockpiling for Christmas! But I made these last week and decided I didn’t want to wait. These were part of an indoor photo shooting day, and I’m actually happy with the way they turned out.
a Western Civ textbook page about 17th-c. West African cultures. I also re-did the Sedona Sunset magnets (also at right in the Mini) against a map depicting 19th-c. southwestern territories. And for the Happy Sea Monster set above (still a bit too dark), I chose a couple textbook maps illustrating the Renaissance-era Voyages of Discovery. It’s endlessly convenient to have textbooks in the house, even if white balance and I are still fighting with each other, LOL.
Orange you glad when you get a sale? I am! I sold this “Orange. Apple. Fish!” set today (left), which made my day. 
It also gives me a very happy excuse, as always after a sale, to feature the work of another Etsy seller from my Favorites. I'm crazy about these cards at the mother-daughter shop The Mum and the Rose, made from sketches (right) that “Mum” made as a student at New York City’s Art Students League in the early 1960s. You will literally have to hurry to snatch these up before I do!
