Cats & Dogs

Part of the fun of making cards is trying out new ideas... since I know there are so many dog and cat lovers out there I figured I would give them a "wordle" try... here are the results -

Fawn & Forest (found via Designsponge!)

Such a fun find - Thanks to Designsponge (which if you've not checked out by now... get on it ... it's freaking fantastic)' s spotlight on Fawn & Forest. This pic of their home intrigued using Cork circle trivets on the wall as floating display boards on the wall.

It lead me to their online store which has been added to the list of things that make me want to have disposable income (as a prospective grad student... it's going to be a visual relationship for the moment!)


I love this owl decal










these fabric strawberries by Sian Keegan












They have a blog that even includes a recipe for minty pea pops...see it to believe it!!! A definite experiment for kids who like chocolate mint and for parents who need to sneak peas into the diet.

Eye candy and My next show

The joys of meditating with Paper is that I end up surfing the web and finding lots of fun things. I am going to assume that this will increase when I start my Masters in the fall... I excel at procrastination strategies!

So an interest site I discovered via my stats on my flickr page is FlickrLeech. You find a display of tons of amazing pictures from flickr!

http://www.flickrleech.net/

More info about it is here . Another perfect way to distract - a library of tons the eye candy for the visual junkie.



ALSO I have a sale on this Saturday June 21 - the Big on Bloor Festival

I'll be selling my cards at Bloor St. West and Crawford
from 1:00pm till 5:30 - 6:00 pm.

Things to check out

Things have been BuSy lately! I've landed my cards in two stores, got to take part in the Sassy Little Craft show, heard from the UofT that I've been accepted into the Masters program in Information Studies! Yup June's been good to me so far.

I'm still on such a learning curve with the whole blog thing and now I'm learning more about the trading links and such. So here are 3 for you to enjoy!

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My friend Benita is really creative... she not designs amazing clothes and bags from her label, House of Hsueh.

Benita also has just launched a line of cute wedge shaped toys - We Are Wedges. Her website stories are hysterically funny and Squido is my favourite.

The Wedges can be bought via her etsy store

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Jana of Serendipity Collections has an etsy store that I found while looking at all the wares in the paper categories.

I liked her big mouth card.

She also has a blog .

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Megan of Sweet Clothing Designs was the first person to contact me about my cards from just finding me online... her recycled t-shirts are so fun.

Her blog can be found here


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Sassy Little Craft Show! This Saturday night

Well, this was definitely a week where I wasn't sad about the lack of temp work because I've been busily working on my stock for the Sassy Little Spring Craft Show!

This Saturday from 7pm till 12:30 at the Victory Cafe (1 block south & east of Bathurst and Bloor on Markham)

St. Clair Art Walk Fundraiser - May 22

I've been experimenting with paper collage on canvas and it all stemmed from wanting to donate something for the St. Clair Art Walk Annual Fundraiser. I've submitted two pieces (one as a donation and the other one for the art sale).

This piece is going into the donations group.

This piece is called Forget Me Not and I've submitted it for the sale component!

oh the internet

so rather than checking my email every thirty seconds for a mini break from the data entry "paper meditation" work I have today, I figured I'd just post somethings I've found that I like.

There are festivals for everything it seems!

I was just chatting with someone at lunch and she mentioned a festival that is focused on rolling wheels of cheese down hills. Initially I thought it would be somewhere in Switzerland but of course it's the crazy brits who have the festival - http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/

They even have a countdown to the first races that are in 10 days... so if anyone is in Gloucester it would be something to check out.

new experiment

A while back, I went to the monthly stitch and bitch at the Workroom on far queen West. I came straight from work and realized that I forgotten my card stuff at home so I had arrived with a glue stick, card stock and an old magazine. I had heard so much about how paper can dull scissors so you should keep ones you use for fabric separate from anything that you use for paper. So instead of asking to borrow some, I tried out the tried and true technique of ripping paper. I don't think that i"ve done it since I was a kid... but I have to say that it turned out quite well!

Great news for my cards!

I am so very excited. I've been approached by two stores to sell my cards! It's kind of crazy especially since I have the Sassy Little Craft Show (7pm to midnight, Victory Cafe just SE of Bloor and Bathurst) on May 31st. So I'm carrying around my card stuff everywhere... just trying to squeeze it in when I can.

My cards are already at the Fresh Collective on Queen West. It's a collective of designers that I've admired for so long in Toronto!

and soon they will be in the brand spanking new store in Kitchener - Rare Funk

So that's my happy news... now on to card making till the end of the month!

Meet Audrey

This character is named after my mum. She's holding a bouquet made from dried flowers that my mum gave me. She doesn't look like my mum but she makes me think of her just the same.

Mum & Me in Barbados