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September 17th, 2011

Thank you Guinea Pig Today!

Hi everyone! Great news — I am alive and well, (though I can’t say much for this poor blog, haha) and I’m super excited to be featured on Guinea Pig Today, a wonderful, adorable, informative site created for guinea pig lovers everywhere by the talented and so friendly Angela and her sweet guinea pig Papua! [...]

March 24th, 2010

Back in Business!

I feel a bit like I’ve been hit by a bus. But that didn’t stop me from making a new painting last night. Woot!

“Puddle Jumping” – available in the Etsy shop in 8 x 10 size (or any size you like if you want to send a message. just click the picture and you’ll be [...]

March 10th, 2010

I’m alive, I swear!

Ugh…my apologies to anyone who’s recently started following this blog and who’s been greeted by silence, haha. My poor hubby and I are sick with colds (possibly strep? eek I hope not) and I haven’t felt like doing much of anything other than compulsively checking my twitter/facebook and zoning out eating cadbury mini-eggs.

But this brought [...]

February 12th, 2010

My Very First Etsy Treasury! - A Blustery Day

Well, the day finally arrived. I scored one of the coveted Etsy Treasuries. So far, I’ve been featured in a couple of them, but this is the first time I actually snagged one in the split second the window of opportunity opened!

It will be available for the next 2 days or so. Just click the [...]

February 12th, 2010

Bloggy housekeeping

I got so excited when I designed and set up my website that I left a handful of things unfinished – fleshing out other pages on the site is one big thing I haven’t quite done yet.

But possibly even more importantly, I haven’t put together my blog roll!

I’ve been tucking away bookmark after bookmark of [...]

February 9th, 2010

3 Etsy Forum Tips for n00bz and the Internetally polite

Well good morning, my lovely readers (if there are any of you! hallooo *hears echoing in the abyss*)

Do you like my new word? Internetally? Me too. I’ve decided it means – pertaining to the Internet. This morning’s blog post is focused on the concept of keeping up appearances in a forum environment.

If you’re not already [...]

January 30th, 2010

Featured Etsy Favorite – Lali’s Little World on Etsy

I was browsing Etsy yesterday, as I so often do, picking through various collections of things and going down various crafty rabbit holes to find little treasures to add to my favorites, when I came across something completely marvelous in every way:

I think I squealed like a crazy person when I saw it.

There aren’t [...]

January 26th, 2010

My bum is on the Swedish

Remember that Tom Green song? Ahh, those were the days. If you couldn’t guess by the title, this is another post about the infamous IKEAHHHHGHH!

I somehow mustered up the sanity and stamina and went there today. For 4 hours. I intended to be in and out, had a list of what I needed. Of [...]

January 25th, 2010

It's all about the (cold) process

I love soap. It’s a fairly recent discovery of mine, brought forth by my husband who began bringing back soap from hotels for me on his business trips.

I love it. The creamy, yummy, sudsy kind. French milled, cold process, glycerin, hot process, whatever it is. It is amazing.

Here's some Ylang Ylang and Aloe Olive [...]

January 24th, 2010

To Ikea or not to Ikea

Our second bedroom in our apartment is our home office/studio, and it is in sore need of organization and design. We just moved here a couple months ago and I’ve never had a place to do my artwork that wasn’t my lap, pretty much. In our last apartment, we had a teeny sunroom that I [...]