I’m finally starting to post some holiday cards at the shoppe! There will be some more in the upcoming week, and I’m also hoping to debut a couple of other products soon… In the meantime, here’s a couple of holiday card images…(Hope you don’t start obsessively and annoyingly humming “rudolph the red nose reindeer” like I started to, when working on these images…)
A custom camera greeting card, requested by a repeat customer.. It’s modeled on my old Nikon camera- originally my dad’s, but I’ve had it since college photography classes. These days, for ease of use, I’m just using a dumb-dumb, point-and-shoot digital pocket camera, until I can get my greedy little hands on a nice digital SLR! But I’m pretty old school, and if I had my druthers, I’d stick to my old Nikon and black and white film…
We’re lying low and trying to stay warm- it’s only 60°F here today- bbrrr! (It may not sound cold to those in more northern climes, but considering it was 89°F just a few days ago, it sure feels chilly to us)!
Tonight there was an opening/reception for the phoenix design week exhibitions – here’s a couple of (bad) photos of my display:
I was pretty happy with how everything looked- I cut 5″x5″ squares of foam core, covered all of the exposed edges with white paper tape, and then mounted the cards on top. I ended up doing a lot of research on how to hang everything. Let’s just say that I can now talk at length about the various removable putties, “dots”, tapes, and other sticky fastening products available in the marketplace…
I was kind of nervous about going to the reception- since I’m fairly shy, wouldn’t know anyone there, and I work at home, ( limiting most of my conversations these days to b. (my husband), and the five chickens. Of course, you’d be surprised at the lengthy conversations I manage to have with Polka-dotty, Spotty-dotty, Sweetie, Tweetie + Brownie… All the chicken chatter must have done me some good though- since I didn’t have too much of a problem talking to people, and met some interesting folks!
Sorry it’s been a little bit since my last posting- I’ve been a little busy. I’ve got an exhibit up at the offices of Terralever, as part of Phoenix Design Week, I’m also participating in poppytalk handmade’s Indie Love marketplace, working on some illustration for the first annual Phoenix Chicken Coop Tour, trying to finish up my first mini-collection of jewelry, getting orders out the door, and working on posting my holiday cards at the shop…such as rudolph:
Obviously I need to work on the photos a bit more before I post them…
Still working on some jewelry designs- hoping to have them available soon- it’s taking me longer than I thought… Here’s a little pair of birds in gold. The hoops are about 1 cm in diameter..
Just working on finishing up a few wholesale orders- one of which ordered mostly sewn + mobile cards, such as this one:
I won’t put up any valentine cards until after the new year, but in the meantime, Ted is now up at the shops (here, here + here). It’s also pasta friday- my friend K comes over and we make various kinds of homemade pasta… today it’s just normal stuff like linguine and pappardelle, but we’ve also been working our way through ravioli, cavatelli, etc… A few photos here, if you’re interested…
A belated moment of silence for my favorite cooking magazine. Condé Nast announced on Monday that it’s shutting down Gourmet. So sad! Please join the movement to save the magazine…
