BLOG GIVE AWAY ANNOUNCED!!!

So hey all, I said a little something about a blog giveaway a few times in my most recent entries. Well, it's finally here!

The main problem was trying to figure out what to do as the "game" or drawing. The answer came when my wonderfully talented friend Starr finished designing me my very own logo. I have been thinking a lot about the branding of my business and after reading the gem of a book The Handmade Marketplace by Kari Chapin, I really realized that I needed to have a cohesive logo and branding going on. It is so wonderful to have made so many great friends and connections through college and my other life experiences that I now know a wide range of talented people in various different media. Well Starr makes these really adorable My Little Pony buttons from her illustrations and because she knows me pretty darn well and has an excellent talent for making all things whimsical and pretty much amazing, this is what she came up with for me.

What you need to do to be entered into the drawing is to visit Starr's shop on etsy here and then leave a comment on this blog entry to let me know what it is that Starr <3's. She says so several times at the top of her blog and in her banner, so it shouldn't be too tricky. :D Also I would love to hear what you think of the new logo and banners that will soon be popping up in place of my current ones. I'm absolutely enamored with them. :D You have until Saturday the 24th of April to enter and then I will be drawing randomly from all who have left a comment. For the prize you will receive one of my brand new cosmic poppy pendants in the color of your choice. You can view an example of one here.

Plus, you should definitely take a gander at all the adorably wonderful things Starr has to offer in her shop. She's pretty darn fantastic if you asked me.

Thanks everybody! have a great week!

my mum is the coolest!

So I have really been trying to hone the professional look and branding of my work, tags, biz cards, and most importantly now, my booth display and design. After purchasing my EZ Up, I have been a bit low on the extra cash flow and my mom being the generous mom that she is, got all sneaky like and got me a really nice booth banner all custom designed on etsy by seller zigahelen. She let the cat out of the bag Sunday for a reason I'll explain in a moment but check it out!!

It is a really nice vinyl and came with hanging attachment thingy's and the photos look so beautiful on it! I'm gonna look like such a pro! I mean... I am a pro, right? I was going to get some more photos of my work blown up to hang in my booth but this is waaaay better AND weatherproof. :D

In the next post: Why mom let the cat out of the bag AND the official announcement of how to be in the running for my blog giveaway!! :D 

forget rest

sundays are for disc golfing

photos of new stuff!

 I finally got around to taking some photos of a few of my new favorite creations of late. I plan on actually making something out of these yarns, I'm just not sure what yet. :D 

First up was the yarn from my first installment of  Lush Club batts from Sara of lushmommy. This fiber was sooooo gorgeous to begin with, it was hard to not end up with something amazing as a final product. Her club batts come with all kinds of fun little add in bits and/or extra fibers to spin in. For this one she made some little loomed flowers out of vintage colored raffia. Too Cute!

The next yarn is made from my small fiber splurge out of tax money from Faun of handsandnotions. This yarn was made from some of her rag bag batts that are part of her Under the Bigtop collection I believe. They were so much fun to look at before spinning, I was almost afraid they would lose some of their fun-ness if I spun em. Well I did it anyway because I just couldn't help myself. :D 

 

I really dig the shot above. :D 

 

and finally, here is a sneak peek shot at some of my new hand dyed batts that I will hopefully be posting tomorrow. 

Happy Easter!

my favorite smell

the first real rain of spring is happening right now.
absolute beauty

it was a very good mail day...

the mailbox wasn't empty (have you ever noticed how that is almost as disappointing as getting bills?...almost,) no junk mail (at least none addressed to me,) and absolutely no bills. Quite the contrary actually. A small check and not one, but TWO packages.

The first package was an adorable little bag from ravelry. Last October at the Fiber Expo in Ann Arbor a woman came in my booth with the most adorable bag with cartoony depictions of several different fiber bearing animals. Too cute! I of course had to ask about it and came to find that it came from ravelry. How did I miss this pure cuteness? Because it is constantly out of stock apparently. Well the ravelbot let me know last Friday that they were available again so I jumped right on it. I'm sooooo very happy it came today! 

 (image is from ravelry's website and you can purchase this adorable bag here)

The second package was particularly excited because I hadn't realized that it was already getting to be that time of the month for me to receive my Lush Club batts from my friend Sara at lushmommy. Sara has such an amazing eye for color and makes the most gorgeous fiber batts and dyed fibers. Anyhow, I joined her batt club and this was my second installment of fabulousness from her. I'll post a picture later before I spin up the absolutely dreamy batt. 

Now I'm off to find some dinner and possibly play some disc golf with the hubs. Life is good. :D