Our little piece of library history.

I'm pretty excited to show you our newest piece of furniture. Isn't it amazing?

It's a gorgeous, 60 drawer library card catalog! I am currently in the process of sorting my craft disaster into lots of organized drawers. The kids each get 1 drawer for themselves and they are very excited about this and keep shuffling things around to try to decide what to keep there.

I seriously smile every time I walk into our dining room now. I just had to share this lovely bit of happiness with you!

xo

andrea

Cupcakes!

Yesterday I featured some gift ideas for men. Today I thought I would show you something we have to offer in our etsy shop that's a little more girly. Cupcakes! Y U M. Here are a few things we think you might like! Great gifts for the baking enthusiast, girly girl or maybe just for yourself!





1. The Cupcake Mirror Includes organza carrying bag. $7

2. Cherry Vanilla Cupcake T-Shirt printed on Organic Alternative Apparel. $21

3. The Cupcake Tote includes 3 removable "cherry" buttons! $15

If you're in the U.S. there is still time to order in time for Christmas. We're upgrading to priority mail on all orders over $15 through 12/21! And if you're in the Madison, Wisconsin area we are happy to meet you right up until 12/24 locally to pick up orders. Happy Holidays!

Craftacular Time!!

The High Noon Holiday Craftacular is this weekend! If you're in the Madison, Wisconsin area, please please come check it out! Featuring 20 awesome vendors and free goody bags for the first 50 early birds on Saturday.

Here are the details
Saturday & Sunday November 24 & 25 from 10am-4pm
at High Noon Saloon, 701 E. Washington, Madison, WI

I created an etsy treasury to showcase some of the vendors who will be at the show. I think I found every vendor who sells on etsy and ended up adding one of my items in so I didn't duplicate. Look at all of the cool stuff that you can find at the show this weekend! Hope to see you there!

What are YOU wearing today?

Okay, I know this would work better with a picture but hey, what the heck...

Today I am wearing:
black tank top screen printed with pale pink unicorn
layered over hot pink t-shirt
Light blue and white checkered bandana screen printed in hot pink with etsy logo (wearing this as a hair wrap)
black and white owl necklace

Holy accessory overkill, batman!

I feel like I look about twelve years old. But I also feel GREAT and have decided it works.
I love that so much of my wardrobe and accessories are handmade by an array of awesome artists and crafters.
Isn't it grand?

Okay, your turn!

whoa!

Another long night of more gocco experiments at space oddities headquarters ended with the following results:

gocco:::what I learned

I am pretty new to gocco printing and burned some new screens to try printing onto fabric for the first time tonight. I am learning a lot with every new gocco project. Tonight was no exception!













Here is what I learned tonight:::

When burning screens:
*do NOT put any sort of tape behind the image you are burning. i used double sided tape to adhere several small images to a piece of paper intending to burn the screen that way. well the tape showed through the image when i burned the screen! weird.

*in my opinion for the best results, don't expose the screen for too long. i have already found that shorter time (2-3 seconds) results in a better screen than if I expose the screen longer (4-6 seconds - bad bad!)


When printing on fabric:
*use more ink than you think you need. re-ink often.
*do several tests before the real thing.
*don't give up
*the sixth times the charm!

I printed 17 tote bags and a onesie for my daughter. 12 of the bags turned out pretty darn good and 5 are well, not as good. I am not sure what to do with the poor imperfect owls! Well anyway I figure this isn't so bad for my first time. I have 3 more designs I am hoping to crank out of the gocco in the next few weeks. Wish me luck!

Awesomeness for little ones

Oh I am going to have fun shopping for my kids on Etsy.com this Christmas! Here are some the items currently on my wish list.

Stardust Soap Rockets made by Soapy Love


















Painfully funny Burt Reynolds ONESIE by SeboMunkee














Mushroom Cottage Play Set by Fantastic Toys

















Super Cute "I like Sea Monsters" shirt (this one comes in infant to adult sizes!) by Tina Seamonster

Stuff! Lots of Stuff!

I added a bunch of fun new items to my etsy shop yesterday including new cards, compacts, button and magnet sets. There will be even MORE coming in the following weeks. Check it out HERE

rave reviews.

I spend a lot of time on etsy.com and of course that means that I BUY a lot there, too. I'm going to share some recent and not-so-recent finds that I will never get tired of!

This amazing pepperminty Rosemary Mint Soap made by FuzzyBunny is the perfect wake-me-up bar soap. My husband and I have both used it like crazy and it's time for more. This is one you won't want to share! Fabulous!

Rosemary Mint Soap by fuzzybunny




















I love my wallet. It's sturdy, fits all of my stuff and I get compliments on it everywhere I go. It's made by Tinymeat, featuring artwork by AshleyG. It is easily my very favorite etsy purchase so far this year. I plan to go back for another one of TinyMeat's artist series wallets now that he is featuring images by Menta!


















You Make Me Happy wallet - AshleyG for TinyMeat