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Finally got a few more things up in my Etsy shop, Recycle Rabbit!
Sewing this kind of stuff is really a hobby. I like doing it as a change from drawing. I’m hoping to have more time for sewing now that it’s Fall (more or less) and I can actually stand to be in my upstairs sewing room (which gets to be 100 degrees in the summer). Hope I’ll have a little time, too!
This is fun…some of my handmade bird dolls are currently featured in the magazine Sew Hip UK, a British sewing magazine, in the Print and Pattern section. My thanks to Bowie of Print and Pattern fame for making this happen. I love how this looks; I would be inclined to buy everything on these pages!
By EtsyStalker today!
One of my little balsam house sachets is up there now. What a nice job they do at, um, stalking. And curating collections!
Thanks, guys!
Check out this fun new blog called Flora and Fauna Handmade!
Stephanie at Tefi Designs featured my etsy shop there recently:
Thanks so much, Stephanie!
Wow- I am a lucky girl today!
Apparently one of the Etsy treasuries I was in made it to the much-sought-after Front Page:
This great collection was put together by TinyViolet, who also happens to make the most adorable dolls.
Thanks Amy!
And this morning, I am honored to be featured in PenguinandFish’s blog!
Visit Alyssa’s Etsy shop for fabulous plushies with personality!
Really guys…thank you so much for the crafty love. Right back at you!
If you love your Etsy, and I know I do, then maybe you like to make treasuries. This is a way for you, a regular person, to pick and choose items you like and make a lovely arrangement, often with a theme of some kind. Etsy calls it “curating”, as if you are hanging your own exhibit in a museum.
The idea is that it isn’t for self-promotion (so you don’t put your own items in it), but to celebrate the awesomeness of others. Hundreds of these lists are made all the time, and if you’re really lucky, they choose your list to be on the glorious Front Page.
Well, lucky me…I have recently had TWO lists chosen for the Front Page!
The first one was oatmeal themed:
Seriously delicious stuff…At least 8 items sold from that treasury!
And I have one up right now, with a Scottish/ tartan theme:
OH, how I love plaid, Scotland, and Scottish stuff. I definitely made this treasury for my own plaid-obsessed purposes, so I am rightly surprised that it made it to the front page, and that (yay!) other people love tartan too!
On the theme of Etsy, I have been back at the sewing table lately, where my massive vault of vintage fabrics and trims have been calling me. I put together these little birds:
These are available in my Etsy shop, Recycle Rabbit.
Seriously, I have no clue whether anyone but me likes anything in my Etsy shop (OK, some do), but I just get on jags where I simply MUST sew or make something, and ideas take me over until I make them. It seems to be a necessity that I shake up my own artistic landscape every so often.
SO, having sewed, now I can get back to my illustration and design jobs, and feel good about it.
Which I had better do.
Really.
Huzzah! Some of my little birdhouse ornaments are on Etsy’s homepage today…thanks to CuriosityKilled’s fab treasury-making prowess! Thanks to CK, and everyone who’s followed the link!
Here’s what the birdhouses look like up close:
Thanks to Amy for noticing that one of my Scrap Shacks is on Etsy’s home page today!
Thanks also to GirlSavage for making the house-themed Treasury list, and to all of you who have followed the link and left a trail of luv!
After finishing a big batch of artwork, I like to kick back and unwind with some heavy-duty crafting. Don’t you?
Well, that’s what I have been doing the last few days- taking a crafting break. Doing this periodically keeps me enthused for other kinds of art.
So, I added a new Scrap Shack to my village- here’s The Hope Library!
This was inspired by my hometown library, but doesn’t look a darn thing like it. It’s an “homage”, I guess.
Here are the four shacks I have made so far:
All can be seen in my Etsy shop, Recycle Rabbit.
I have also recently come into possesion of hundreds (maybe even thousands) of discarded designer fabric samples, courtesy of my Uncle Larry. He seemed to think that I would come up with something to do with them all. Touché! He knows me too well.
I designed some little velcro purses with vinyl stitched details (some of the fabric samples were vinyl).
Fun, fun, fun! I do like getting to combine all the different fabrics into something cohesive.
These are available now in my etsy shop, too.
Etsy is a blast- if you haven’t gotten hooked on it yet, check it out.
Very addictive.
Don’t say i didn’t warn you!
My springtime fabrics were just sitting there, looking all springy.
So I sewed up a new batch of PillowStrations.
Visit them at Recycle Rabbit!