Beautiful Book Set!

I have been a fan of Emily Martin for several years, ever since I found her blog The Black Apple. She is an extremely talented illustrator and I love admiring her work. I purchased one of her limited edition prints of The Black Apple alphabet and was so pleased with it! If I had a gazillion dollars, I would buy so much more, but when her Oddfellow's Orphanage book set came out, I could not resist! I snatched up a listing and love it so much!

The set includes a signed copy of Ms. Martin's new book "Oddfellow's Orphanage," a bookmark, a little pin with Ollie the onion, and a signed and dated print of her Circus Parade illustration. It is my hope to one day decorate a nursery with a circus theme, and the print with this set fits perfectly with that!

You'll notice from my photo that I also bought a set of her recipe cards. They are so sweet and wonderful. I just love everything about it all!

Stuff I like right now...

1. Dogwood blooms in our front yard
2. The free phone app "Draw Something" because it's such a fun drawing game!
3. Pretzel crisps... so good with hummus!
4. New kicks

Day 25: National Craft Month

Today's craft is a little bit of relaxing knitting. I am a slow knitter, so my project may take a while to complete. My hope is to make a cute little bunny! Wish me luck! What are you working on these days?

Days 23 & 24: National Craft Month

The last two days have been pretty busy, but I was able to complete 2 more Easter eggs for the bunny dolls I made. I will be listing Cadbury and Cottontail to join Clover and Carrot in my Etsy shop pretty soon, so they needed some great accessories to go with them!

Day 22: National Craft Month

Oh dear.

I am afraid that I have fallen behind on the crafting and picture taking. Things have been a little out-of-sorts lately, and I'm still getting it together. I have tried to do something creative each day, although I didn't necessarily get to document it all.

Here are bits and pieces of some of the things I have been doing:

Turning buttons into earrings.






Making bows and pretty gift baskets.




And designing more Etsy treasuries...



...which can be found here, here, and here.

Keep calm, and craft on!

Day 14: National Craft Month

Today's craftiness was all digital. These things are more creative than crafty per se, but creative counts too, right? One thing I did was to create a new header for my Etsy shop. I used the wrapping paper background that I use for a lot of my doll photos. I think it looks fresh! What do you think?

I also built a super fun treasury of all things NEON on etsy!

Check out all the fun etsy items from the "Nice Neons" treasury here.

I listed Clover and Carrot the bunny dolls on etsy, and Carrot was featured in a treasury! So was Mya the ballerina! It's all very exciting to me. Yipee!

Day 13: National Craft Month

I'll be honest... unless you count blowing up balloons or assembling balloon weights from tissue paper and coffee mugs, I did not get to craft yesterday. Gasp! I did help to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Girl Scouts(!), but was too exhausted to craft when I got home later. Sad!

Today, I got back on the ball, and fashioned something NEON! I am loving all the neon colors trending everywhere, including the current issues of Martha Stewart Living and Oprah Magazine.


I have long had these neon felt shapes that I found at the Dollar Tree store, but never figured out what to do them. Finally, I was inspired to back them with brightly colored felt, and use them as table trivets for hot food plates! What do you think?




Now I think it's time to find some colorful jeans and spruce up my wardrobe for Spring!