The Craft Begins

Hey guys!

I’m revamping and updating my little shop a bit.  I don’t have too much so far but I’m excited to see where it takes me.  Here’s some pictures of my first items:

I’ve been going through a bunch of personal stuff lately, so I’m sorry if my posting hasn’t been the most up-to-date.  One thing that’s made me happy?  Having fresh flowers around all of the time. It’s pretty nice when you can just get them out of your yard.

What makes you happy when you’re having a hard time?

Hello everyone!

I’m sorry that I’ve disappeared for a few months.  Been working on the house a lot and everything’s been really crazy.  My computer died, and it took them a month to replace it.  All of my files may or may not have disappeared, but it’s ok!  I’ve got a new computer and lots of blogging material so we should be good to go!

I want to say thanks to everyone who has sent me emails or texts or etsy messages or what have you over the last few months – it’s really touching to know that there are people out there who care!  It really means the world to me.

Also, I did a little bit of a redesign (as it’s almost been an official year since I started the blog!) so please let me know what you think.

I’ll leave you with a picture that I’m recently enamored with.

How is everyone else doing?  I feel like I’ve been gone forever!

Now that I finally have a phone that takes decent pictures (hello, droid) I’m amazed by how often I break it out to take pictures of things that I run across everyday.  Here are my favorites for the week.

My grandparents live in kind of an ag town, so the best part about spring is most definitely THE CHICKS.  I wish that I could have held just one.  I’ve been thinking about getting chickens, and I was seriously tempted to get some chicks and take them home with me.  I also aw this fabulous mercedes – like Omar’s classy uncle.  I started putting together some centerpieces for the Brazilian benefit we’re throwing this weekend – lots and lots of gold spray paint – and then I found this chair that I feel like I must have.  We’ll see how it fits in with the rest of the house.

Hope you’re all having a good week!  I’m going to continue to be a bad blogger because work is kicking my butt this week but I’ll get back to a decent posting schedule soon I hope!

I’ll be signing off from the blog world for a week or so.  Closing on the house in a few days, and on top of that I’m moving by myself, so there’s a lot of work ahead of me.  I’ll still probably be hanging around on twitter, so I’ll see you there.  Wish me luck and see you soon, with lots of pretty new pictures and updates!

Hello all of my virtual friends.  It’s come time that we meet in person.  For those of you who live in the Denver area, at least.

OK so it’s a totally lame flyer but if you would like to come join us for breakfast, please do!  It would be even more awesome if you would let me know if you’re planning on coming so we can try to get a reservation, as that place fills up fast.

I look forward to meeting you!

Also, I’ve started a little tumblr blog to share some of my film photos that I’ve taken over the years. You can find it here if you’re interested.

Please excuse the terrible pictures…but I have exciting news!  I (well, almost) bought a house!  We close next week!

I’m excited to be able to share all of the renovation work with you as well – I promise, no boring posts about hanging drywall, but more before-and-afters and fun stuff like that.

This is what it looks like with the current residents in it.

I’m going to be asking you guys for lots of opinions and advice, so get ready!

(oh, and if you want to see all of the terrible pictures, click here!)

I was working on this website yesterday and was so proud of it I wanted to show you guys.  Not sure how the client feels about it but alas, I like it!

It’s a website for an after-school language enrichment program, so I thought that it would be cool to do all of the elements out of “construction paper”.

Let me know what you think!

I got all of my animals finished!

You can see the whole set, as well as download your favorite (for free) here.

I went to a friend’s house last night in order to help her sort through some of her grandmother’s stuff.  Little did I know that by sort through, she meant, give me a pillowcase full of costume jewelry.

I felt a little embarrassed leaving her house with that much gold – I kind of felt like a pirate!  I’m looking forward to wearing a lot of it, but then a lot of it is going to get pulled apart and turned into something else.

I love my friends.

Sometimes, I get really bored when I’m sitting in front of the computer, and I end up doing silly things.  Like animals in polka dots.

I’m thinking that if I do the whole alphabet, it might make a cute little book.  Mostly, I just love polka dots.  So be it.

Valerie did a little interview with me about the process of how I create my inspiration boards – head over to her blog for answers!

And yes, I actually cut pictures out of magazines and paste them together.  I think better in analog!

Thanks so much to everyone who entered!  It was super nice hearing your comments.  I’m glad that you all like the inspiration boards as much as I like making them.

I picked two winners, because I felt like spreading the love.  One grand prize and one slightly smaller (but no less awesome) prize.  Here are your comment numbers and the winner’s favorite inspiration boards!

I’ll share what the prizes are and how they coordinated with the color board after the winners have received their prizes.  Thanks again for entering!

A friend of mine lent me a book a month or two ago, and I felt bad about being so late in returning it.  So, as a way of saying thanks (and helping out in future book-lending endeavors) I created a set of custom bookplates that I sent along for the ride.

And then of course, I had to make some for myself as well.  I have this pretty textured antique paper that I printed them on, and I’m really enjoying the way that they turned out.  Time for a shameless promotion – I’ll have them available in my shop, if you’re interested in personalizing some for yourself or a fellow reader.