Dipping my toe in...

Garden Gate Digi-Paper Pack

So I have taken a step that I consider pretty scary (for me!)  I've signed up to do the Holiday Craft Fair at my kids' school.  I have an idea of what I'd like to offer as far as merchandise.  I know that rather than buy art, people prefer to buy art that does a double duty such as jewelry, notebooks or mirrors.  I've got less than a month to get my act together.  One thing I am mulling over is selling my digital designs somehow.  I am wondering if people would actually buy something that they couldn't take with them, only a promise that it'll be in the mail the next day? 

More free Paisley Wallpaper!

I haven't done a free wallpaper in a while.  I had to share these 4 new paisley backgrounds in the season's most popular colors:  Harvest, Frost, Plum and Teal.  For use with your desktop, Twitter, blog.  Simply right click to download and then set it to tile in whatever format you're using.  Under creative commons license. You may not resell, redistribute, or claim as your own.  I hope everybody has a Happy Thanksgiving!

Paisley of the Week! We have a Weiner!

Well it wasn't ruff choosing this week's Paisley of the Week!  This funny little paisley weiner dog plushie from Friends of Socktopus on Etsy was my page mate in a Paisley Treasury on Etsy and he made me laugh. What a charming Holiday gift he'd be for anyone who likes weiner dogs or paisley....

Friends of Soctopus doesn't just have paisley weiner dogs, but all sorts of unique hand stiched lovies and other fun fabric coolness! Be sure to like Friends of Socktopus on FB too, I did!

Wednesday Doodles in Color

Crayons.

Sharpies

Blue Pen

Paisley of the Week! Red Hot & Random.

Red Hot & Random, by Laura Stinson of Designed by Laura on Etsy is already as eyecatching as a coral snake, but it was the fun title that caught my attention.  I have said in the past that people who are searching on Etsy will not be looking for your art by title and while that's true, if you can fit it into your Etsy description, a catchy title is definitely worth a click in my opinion!  I was not disappointed.  Like mine, Laura's Etsy shop features more than one kind of product. You can find funny painted candy bowls, original artwork, Christmas ornaments, paisley of course! all sortsa stuff,  just like a regular store, I definitely enjoyed having a look around there, so will you!  Go like Laura on FB and visit her blog too!

Doodle Tuesday

Always have paisley on the brain...and a strawberry which was added by K.

Oh yeah, Halloween...

I realized now that it's been a WEEK since Halloween passed and I hadn't posted the entire finished nailpolish costume.  Sorry folks!  Here it all is.  The tights really don't have much to do with nailpolish but they matched perfectly so on they went.  Sewing on vinyl was not so difficult.  I have a walking foot and I used a jeans needle rather than buy a leather/vinyl needle and it was just fine.

R went as the UPS man courtesy of an official shirt we found at Goodwill and C went as a well-dressed-demon only his mask's not on in this picture.  A Happy Halloween was had by all and I'm currently trying not to eat all my kids' candy on the sly.

Squirrel Nut Papers

Just posted in my Etsy shop.  I'm so excited about my newest paper collection!  I wanted a little polka dot but something a little more fun and so I came up with a tiny acorn.  You can't have acorns without squirrels and there's always room for paisley.  I'm not so sure about the orange though.  What do you think?  I'm thinking about a second collection with a different color.  Blue maybe.  I am running a contest on my FB page  in which you may be able to download one of these papers for free! 

Paisley of the Week! Nostalgic Slippers

I used to have some slippers very like these beauties that I found on Buckle.  My dog ate them (yes really) and I've never found any like them since.  Alas, Buckle is out of my size so I have to keep looking. 

So it's November 1...

The finished nailpolish costume.  It worked out pretty well!  It all came down to the hat I think.

I hope everybody had a Happy Halloween!