Two Custom Orders!

Just a few pics today - Just finished two more custom orders! First on is for Etsy buyer, kbstew, for her daughter and some adorable stockpiled gifties! How to you think they turned out?

Second is a work in progress for my friend, Lisa! She commissioned me to make some BookWormz for all the lovely ladies in her family! This one really allowed me to get creative - here's what she was looking for:

1 - Vinje - my sister is very artistic works with kids teaching them art and sells her art around the Western Slope of CO.

2 - Anja - my niece is going to school in OR she is going in to the social service fields. She is big in to photography and animal rights.

3 - Hilary - my other niece loves skulls and the whole tagging (graffiti) subculture

4 - Julie - my sister in law she is a nurse in the birthing unit. Very athletic and outdoorsy. She loves India and is devoted to her four kids, 1 granddaughter and of course her husband :)

5 - Danielle - my niece is very into pop culture, love to read people watch Extra that sort of stuff. She has a daughter and is going back to school to get her teaching degree. She is also dyslexic but really puts effort in to being sure to read and self improvement

6 - Chrissy - my great niece is 8. Not sure what else to say

7 - Tanya - my niece in law is a nanny. she is from WY and is very nice. I of course know less about her then the rest. she likes dogs. stay away from kid stuff.

Here is what I've come up with so far. Can you match the BookWorm to the personality? Thanks!

Lets Open a Package Together!

Got this sweet lil package from Old Fashioned But Good, and I really thought you would enjoy opening it with me. Ready? Here goes! No peeking!! :)

How fun was that? I hope you enjoyed opening my package with me!! ;) Isn't this packaging just adorable? And I honestly can't bring myself to take the ring off. I'm looking at it right now, which is why my backspace key is getting a big workout today (typos)...

I've Been Featured!! Woo Hoo!!

Cute Valentine's day post from Blogger The Cutest Shops Online featuring my Valentine BookWorm ! Click HERE for the post! Thanks,AliciaRose22!!

Funny and Unique Find!!

While perusing Etsy yesterday, I was lucky enough to stumble across this AMAZING shop - dippylulu. Her shop literally made me laugh out loud! Now, I am not normally one who appreciates bathroom humor (I blame my Grandma Sue - she wouldn't let us say "fart" in the house haha), but dippylulu's products combine wit, literature and an acceptable amount of bathroom hilarity to allow me to properly enjoy this facet of humor... I'm rather proud of myself. :) Her Literary Lites seemed the most appropriate item to feature, since many of my friends tell me the only time they have to read is in the bathroom! I love that these lil gold-tipped matches are even designed to look like books. Too clever.

I had the fortunate opportunity to interview dippylulu, and here are her answers!
1. What inspired you to create the Literary Lites? It's a bit of a boring answer, really. I design books for a living and Etsy is my spare time fun shop so when I did come up with the idea I was baffled as to why it took so long. It seemed obvious to join the two together.
2. Do you sell on Etsy full-time? No. See above.
3. Tell us the craziest thing you've ever done. I left home at 16 and lived in a squat. That was crazy. And stupid.
4. What is your favorite ETSY shop (besides your own)? MincingMockingBird. I want his babies.

Check out dippylulu's shop above - honestly one of the funniest things I've seen on ETSY. :)

Missing the Beach

I'm loving the book I'm reading now - In the Woods, by Tana French. Two nights ago, while I was actively shirking all of my duties, I read a passage that made me long for the beach : WARNING - the next paragraph is a transcript of that paragraph - but it doesn't give anything away in the plot.

"We dumped our stuff at Cassie's and went for a walk on the beach. I love Sandymount strand. It's pretty enough on the rare summery afternoons, brochure-blue sky and all the girls in camisoles and red shoulders, but for some reason I love it most of all on your bog-standard Irish days, when wind blows rain-spatter in your face and everything blurs into elusive, Puritan half-tones: gray-white clouds, gray-green sea off on the horion, great sweep of bleached-fawn sand edged with a scatter of broken shells, wide abstract curves of dull silver where the tide is coming in unevenly."

Doesn't that make you long for a misty, beachy morning??? So that got me thinking about vacation (when is my next? Only time will tell), which got me thinking about my shop, which of course led to thinking about BookWormz, which lead me to create THIS! I love this one. Hope you do too! Any thoughts?

A Sweet Treat!

I've been running down to the mailbox every day ever since I ordered the item I got today! I'm like a little girl, pigtails, Rainbow Bright shirt and all! Except that I drink more wine than a little girl... ANYWAY - I got a SWEET surprise!






Etsy shop Polka Dot Candle Shoppe (check out her blog HERE)sent me an INCREDIBLE smelling set of 6 Votive candles. I chose her Butter Rum Cappuccino Highly Scented Votive Candles, which, in hindsight, was a huge mistake since all I could think about all night is Butter Rum Cappuccino. Honestly, I have NEVER smelled such an incredibly realistic and delicious scent from a candle. Come to think of it, I've never actually smelled such a delicious scent in real life... :) My husband and I compulsively sniffed them all night (I actually licked it, because I was REALLY hoping it would taste as good as it smelled. Unfortunately, it didn't). Please don't tell anyone I know about that last part.

YAY - my first FEATURE!

AND - it's by an awesome Etsy seller, Adorkable1! She's a Blogger, too, and can be found by clicking HERE for her blog and HERE for her Etsy shop! Anyway, she tells you a lil about me in this post... so CLICK HERE if you'd like to ch ch check it out! :) Thanks, Adorkable!

BTW - I'm totally lusting after this piece that she keeps taunting me with. Wouldn't it look so cute with a spring dress??? I need it. :)