Thank You cards

I made these thank you notes for a friend's bridal shower.

I'm rather proud of the design, mostly because they turned out better than I thought they would. The flowers are from an old calendar, and the "Thank You" is stamped onto vellum left over from my own wedding two years ago. :-)

What do we think? Should I make more for selling?

I'm on another blog!

Quick shout-out to LilBrigid of Grey Eye Designs -- she has a great list of Mother's Day gift suggestions on her blog, featuring yours truly and a slew of other great Oklahoma Etsy sellers! Thanks, Brigid!

Quick Update...

OK, things have been busy around here, so means a lack of blogging. But here's a quick update on some projects I've worked on lately that I'm pretty proud of.

House cane:

My friend has been using a cane for the past... quite a while, and it looks like she will continue to use a cane for a while longer. Well, seeing as she also watches House and is completely awesome, we decided she needed flames on her cane. So I pulled out the fingernail polish and went to work. I think I did a pretty good job, considering I'm not really an artist at all.


Birthday guestbook/journal:

This is the book journal I made to be used as a guestbook at my grandma's 80th birthday party last weekend. People didn't use up very many pages, so I'm hoping someone gathers a bunch of the pictures that people took at the party and pastes them in there.


Also, craft show this weekend -- well, as I said before, it's actually a car show. But it'll be great fun. I mean, the Army's bringing a rock climbing wall. How can you say no to that?

Andrews Park in Norman. North of the public library. This Saturday. 10am-5pm. Be there.

Local Craft Fair Smashing Success

This is what the headline in the Norman Transcript would have said... if a reporter from the Transcript had come out to see us. Oh well.


Here I am at my booth, lookin' hip and crafty thanks to my new glasses. (Those are RaggedyPageant's dolls on the wall to the right.)


Claudia, lookin' sweet


JD also has a photo of me with a camera in front of my face. Fun times!


Katie showed up to be supportive and to model my Record Bowls/Hats.

A good time was had by all. There were about 12 Etsy sellers present. We gave out nearly 100 Etsy goodie bags. We met some other Etsy sellers who didn't know about the OK Street Team, and some other awesome people who didn't know about Etsy, but who certainly do now!

We're already looking forward to our next fair -- the 89er Day Car Show at Andrews Park in Norman. Don't let the name fool you -- besides cars there will be crafts, food, music, and games! At least 6 Oklahoma Etsy sellers will be there hawking their wares. More info to come...

Craft Fair

I'll be selling at another craft fair this weekend! It's the same Spring Cleveland County show I did last year, except this time, there will be upwards of 10 Etsy sellers there hawking their wares! I myself will be sharing a booth with 2 other sellers (RaggedyPageant/VintageGardenKnits and Jemellia). Other sellers who will be there:

ClaudiasBurningInk
JDStar
AScrappyDesign
LilBrigid
StoryBeader

What can you expect from me? Record bowls, book journals, board game coasters, some awesome new pouches, and cute new push pin sets, among other things. So come on out and see us!


Oh, I almost forgot -- if my sweet face isn't enough to get you to show, we'll be handing out sweet Etsy goodie bags!

My Super Self

A friend has started a series of blog posts about the SuperHero incarnations of herself and some friends, and hey -- I'm one of them!

You can find the first installment here, and the second installment (where I show up) here.

Good times!

Oh, and here is a mock-up of what I probably look like in the story:

(Created at this awesome website)

Everyone needs to know about this

Just a quick post to tell you to go here when you have a spare afternoon. AWESOME.

Also check out the site's amazing gallery.

The grass is always greener...

Or so the saying goes. Well, in our case, it is actually, literally true.


Ya see that? Yeah. Our lawn is on the left. Our landlords are great. They're very conscientious about the property -- they fix things promptly and keep things up so that they don't get run down. This includes taking care of the lawn, which is great in the summer when we don't have to mow our own lawn. However, it also means that they spray. They spray to kill the "weeds". And whoever owns the property on the other side of our fence isn't quite so conscientious. But look how much prettier the lawn looks!

Now, let me just look here and see how the word "weed" is defined...

Ah yes, here we are:
"1. a. A plant considered undesirable, unattractive, or troublesome, especially one growing where it is not wanted, as in a garden."

Hmm. Kind of a toublesome definition, isn't it? It's not really a definition at all! It's a license to write your own definition.

Well my definition of a pretty lawn is one in which things are growing. But what do I know? I'm just a hippie.



In other news, while making Norman's birthday cake on Thursday, I got cake batter on the ceiling. Cool, huh?

A Day in the Life...

"What the heck does she do all day?" some of you may ask. Well, that's none of your business.

But I'll tell you anyway. (Hooray, grace!) For example, yesterday, I painted a cardboard cake box pink so I can put donuts in it on Saturday so I can pretend that I live in Twin Peaks, WA.


Then I attended a free Arbor Day picnic on campus.
Thumbs up on the coleslaw and potato salad. Thumbs way, way down on the "hamburger patty", which I removed from the bun after two bites and replaced with the coleslaw. Mmmm...


Free food, mediocre jazz ensemble, and a (no doubt) sappy speech that I didn't stick around for.


Then I went to a sale at the Geology College library and bought 12 funky elevation (or something) maps for $3. The librarian was very nice to me. Apparently no one ever buys the maps when they try to sell them.


Then I arrived home to find that, after an 18 month or so absence, Alchemy is back on Etsy! Oh, happy day! This is pretty much the best feature ever featured on a website. You should go check it out.

Then I did chores (including laundry).

Then I made a lasagna which I neglected to take a picture of. Now the leftovers are in the freezer. Sorry.
I used the cheese I made by leaving raw milk out at room temperature for a few days (see my previous post on this subject). It was amazingly tasty. As this website says,

"What you see is the milk solids called curds and and the liquid called whey. That's right, like in the nursery rhyme. And she was eating them, so they must be OK."

So true.

Then I called my mother.

Then I worked on some crafts in progress.


Yes, other things happened over the course of the day, but these are the highlights. Aren't you sorry you asked?

Dinosaurs are Sooooo Coooool...

Today I was itching to create, so I made this:




It reminds me of Ross Gellar. It used to be a really long, really weird nightgown/sweatshirt/sleeper thing. It wasn't mine, so that only leaves one other person who could have owned this before I turned it into a tote bag... (cough*Norman*cough) I envision it holding crayons and a coloring book, or children's books from the library. Guess I'll be holding on to this one for a while.

I also made something edible, but I can't show it to you until the person I made it for sees it in person. :-)