...but we are
(Above you will see the little boy doll that I made as the first "test" of the boy-version of the doll pattern. He is now the boyfriend of my favorite little Pinky).
We will return later this week!
Have a good one, my sweet applets.
I heart Fancy Flours for making this question of mine obsolete. I just got so sick of the pastel pink/yellow/green set that has been the standby of my grocery shopping since I was a teenager.
Those red/white striped ones? Mwah!
And "mwah" to Heidi, too, for tipping me off about them.
I think even the most goth person can appreciate that the warm weather brings us smoothies, and smoothies are just the best.
I had a nice, quiet week...with visiting, scribbling, and computer-work and a very-soon-approaching road trip on the horizon. I'm excited to see my mom this weekend, and to celebrate the moms of every stripe, everwhere! They all deserve a smoothie.
Happy Weekend, everyone.
xoxo
PS: There are only 4 sets left of the bookplates (I can't believe how quickly 50 packets of them went! Goodness!) so, if you had your heart set on them, you might want to hop over to the shop.
(Edit: All sold out! I will consider doing a reprint, and I can't even tell you how thrilled I am that people love bookplates so much)
This ghost is officially my favorite thing that takes up less than three square inches.
Just a few little snippets from a wee project I'm working on that I'm very excited about.
I've got my fingers in a bunch of different (metaphorical) pots of paint right now, so it's busy, busy time even when it doesn't seem it.
I'm not just making cookies, promise! Although I sincerely hope that those of you in need of cookies in your life will consider making the ones from the last post.
xo
So, this post begins with a mystery. The mystery of why I have started to receive Cottage Living magazine in the mail. I thought maybe one of the moms (mine or Josiah's) was responsible, but nope. If anyone has any theories, feel free to throw them out there.
A very wonderful thing came of this mystery, which is these cookies that I have made twice in the span of one week, because they are SO. GOOD. I think they might be too good. And where did the recipe come from? Why, Cottage Living's March 2008 issue.
Here is the recipe, if, after seeing my onslaught of cookie-making photos, you feel compelled to break out the peanut butter. I usually tamper with recipes, but didn't with this one.
Leave it be.
We had very fantastic friends over last night, and I was a little nervous (because one of them is a little bit of a picky eater). However, I made my favorite chicken dish, and then these magical-mystery cookies for desert, and I think everything was a hit.
Enjoy! I hope the beginning of the week is off to a nice start for you.
I've been playing around with making some little sculptures recently, and I thought I would show you a ghostlet (these have been making the rounds, both in my sketchbook and in plush form here) ...
I think he's saying "Oh my goodness! I'm so happy that these two reached Portland safe and sound."
Also, in the shop now are the newest prints from the images included in the last update..."Snow, Rose + Bear", "Creeping Corridor", etc.
Dinner guests tonight, and straightening up the studio to do.
See you soon!
I realized that I hadn't posted about comics very much in the last year...which doesn't mean that I haven't been reading them, per se, it's just that I have a hard time finding stuff that I like. And sometimes (as in the case of Genevieve Castree) when I find an artist I like (in this instance, in the Drawn + Quarterly showcase from 2005), it's really difficult for me to get ahold of their work.
She is a musician, also, and has released comics as well as LPs + comic sets. And her work is soooo beautiful to me, and I can't visit a comic shop without inquiring (always in vain) about it.
Her Canadian publisher had this one little book: Roulathèque Roulathèque Nicolore, in stock recently and it came in the mail a week or so ago:
And poking around the web, it looks like she currently has (or maybe just had) an exhibition in NYC of the images from her new book/record set, Tout Seul dans la Forêt en Plein Jour (which I am anxiously awaiting).
Happy Weekend!
I don't know if I've ever been so excited over a printed product for the shop. Really and truly, these so exceeded my expectations when they returned from the printers, I was in paper-nerd heaven!
The surface of each label is very lightly textured, and just so darn nice.
We're already putting ours to use around here! Josiah asked if he could have 900, and I said: "...You can have maybe 9". I've been scheming these since the freebie download at Craftsanity, and I'm so proud to offer them in my shop. They are packaged up in glassine packets, and look so very pretty that way.
They're now in ye olde shoppe, so if you're of the bookplate-ish persuasion, hop over and take a peek!
Isn't this a sweet batch? I'm getting all of the listings ready for the update, but I wanted to pop over and post a few photos of these sweet girls and their lovely silk velvet frocks.
Silk velvet is a trickster to sew with, but it was totally worth it. I want to keep all 4 of these for myself! Of course, I won't, and they'll be in the shop in just a little bit!
UPDATE: Hello my dears. That was a very crazy-fast update, as lots of the comments have said. Thank you! I hope no-one is too very down-hearted about it, because there will be more soft things in May! And who knows, maybe there will be something you like more or better? I'm already scheming up new designs and images! And there will be a new product for the shop tomorrow or Friday that I'm pretty flippin' excited about.
Thank you again, so much.
xoxo
Well, the afternoon got away from me...so this post is a little late in the day. I got caught up in finishing making up a round of (pretty awesome) new Sophie dolls, and then my new sewing machine came (!!!), and well, here I am at 8 pm.
Here, also, is a new painting I finished work on in the last few days:
All Horns and Thorns 11"x14"x2" Acrylic on canvas
Her crown is, to me, like the lace band from this post of Amy's.
Have a happy night, and I'll see you tomorrow for the update (I'll try my very best to post photos here of the new Sophies before the update goes live).
xoxo
