Crafty Carnival

I launched a project on kickstarter!

Do you know aboutkickstarter.com?  It's an awesome website where indie artists and people with big ideas can try and get financial backing for their projects!  Well I have been dying to make more rubber stamps.  As many of you know I licensed some of my artwork to A Muse art stamps a few years ago.  It was so wonderful and fabulous seeing my drawings in rubber that I couldn't get enough.  The only thing is that they get to choose what does and doesn't get made into a stamp!  Well I've had a lot of artwork over the years that I really believed in and wanted to use, but it got passed over.  Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful for what they did pick... but now I'm hoping to get to make these decisions all by myself.... grown-up style!  LOL!  So please, take a look at my project here, and back me if you can!  If you can't, no biggee, can you spread the word?  By posting this on your facebooks or tweets, you are helping me!  I can't do this by myself.  I need my friends to help me spread the word!!!  Please help me!  :)  Thank you, and I love you!  Missy

Spring Blog Carnival is up on Craft Critique!

This is a super fun way to share springy information and inspiration!  So hop on over to this post at Craft Critique too see the great big list of all kind of wonderful Spring craftyness :)

Also, Do you know about Crafty Con?  If not, it's time to help spread the word!  You can get a blog badge and tell your friends!

To quote Amy Cluck, I kind of have a craft show hangover right now, so I'm not going to get too much done this week.  I have to make hairbows for my daughter's t-ball team, I have to catch up on some cleaning and laundry... and then next week, I should be back in business :)  My youngest has a birthday coming up, and I'm thinking about doing an outdoor Alice themed party.  well, crazy tea party themed anyway.  So I definately have to get on that too!  Talk to you sooN!!

xoxo Missy

#137. Red Clown.

#137. Red Clown., originally uploaded by hawhawjames.

This guy's flickr pics are amazing. It's crazy what he thinks of... super talented!

Indie Sacramento - show over, what's next? Etsy shop.

Indie Sacramento is over!  It was a fun show!  I really enjoyed hanging out with some old friends and meeting new friends.  I will have to update my etsy shop soon because I did really well at the show!  But I still have a lot of stuff to sell :)  xoxo  There are more pictures in my flickr!

Lots of SPRING crafting going on over here :)

Craft Critique is doing another blog carnival!  This one will be "spring" themed.  I didn't know what a blog carnival was until I googled "crafty carnival" one day, and all of these blog carnivals came up.  It was quite a happy accident, and I was pleased to know that I might get some accidental hits because "carnival" is in my blog name!  Whoot Whoot! 

Indie Sacramento is in 6 short days and here are some pictures of some springy items I'm working on:

Cute Little bunny pillows.  Made of 100% wool felt, and osnaburg (I made 5 of these :)

A tiny little 1.5" monster peeping out of a pillow pocket!

I decorated a half dozen canvas totes.  This is "fun" for me... it's easy and it's something a little different from what I usually do.

This is a mini monster tote.

And apparently, because "spring" means monster to me... LOL!  Here are some crazy girl monster cards.

Finally some cute lil girls in spring dresses.  Made with my cricut... so not totally my art, but definately altered from the original.
  
 If you didn't get enough pictures, here, you can visit my flickr for more.

Also...Bazaar Bizzare applications for Maker Faire close tomorrow!  So if you are planning on applying, do it now!  I'm not this year b/c the weekend it falls on is my daughter's birthday.  Maybe next year for me :)

Updates on Indie Sacramento, and life in general :)

I'm so excited to be kind of back in the swing of things :)  As many of you know, I've taken about a year off.  My family and I moved from Sacramento to Dixon, and we are happily settling in!  I had a really draining year.  Not necessarily in a bad way, it was more of a re-structuring.  I've figured out that with my girls being older, I just can't do what I used to do... at least not in the same amount of time.  I've had to take some of the pressure off of myself and I've said no a lot.  I thought I didn't want to craft anymore because I just couldn't keep up, but now I figured out that I HAVE to craft... it makes me HAPPY!  I just can't craft to the same degree that I used too, no biggee.  I still get to do what I love to do for myself, and I'm not missing anything :)

So Indie Sacramento is coming up next weekend, and I've been busily putting together a few of my "old favorites" for this show :)  One of them is these cute little girl cards that I made using Marvey Punches.  There's an older post here and here that tell you a little bit about how to make them if you want to give it a try yourself :)  I made a few dozen of these cards this time!

I found the cute little "heart U" stamp at Michael's in the dollar bin!  SCORE!  So perfect for these cards! 

I bought some cute Easter Baskets in the dollar section at Target to display some of my cards :)

Now here's where this post starts to get all kinds of CRAZY!!!  I decided to share pictures of my messy craft room!  There are more pictures on my flickr, and those have notes, so you can see where I want to add shelves, and where my childhood toys are and blah blah boring.  LOL!  But in my new house, we have a loft area upstairs.  It's supposed to be like a game room I think, but it's my craft room!  It's HUGE, but I don't have it laid out very well right now.  I need to make it more functional but in time... in time.

Here's a picture of my sewing room.  I started to make a bear hat out of mohair for that kewpie style doll, but never finished.  So it sits there and haunts me instead.  LOL!  My sister made that cute lil mushroom for me! LOVE IT!

And this is the living room in my new house.  So you can see I'm not a total pig.

JUST KIDDING!!!  I stole this picture for keep it simple.  HA!  I WISH!  :)