it all comes back to shoes...

well, after a long time spent looking at my enormous new bag of felt, i finally ripped it open and started cutting away. for some reason, this time it felt like a big blank canvas just waiting for some paint. intimidating. maybe it's because i held off on buying new supplies for so long, that when i finally did, i had so many ideas in my head that it was all rough-and-tumble getting out of there... well the flowers won. i'll have many new ones in the shop this week. i wear big brooches often, and 1) it makes me feel like a grown up and 2) whatever sad outfit i had put together magically matches when i put a big multicolor brooch on it. amazing. shoes work like that, too.

speaking of shoes... i just finally got to look at a magazine that rick gave me for christmas... it's called metropop and it doesn't look like anything i normally read, so i can only assume he bought it because the cover features a rather nice shoe illustration. this magazine is hipper than i will ever be again, but it did have a really nice photo spread by ellen ugelstad called the shoe project. i really really love the way she just whittles people down to their faces and their shoes. pretty great. and the colors are inspiring... check it out!

new work...

in the shop now... and more coming soon!

what's going on...

i've been really busy!!!! i'm working on a bunch of new work that i am super-excited about.

another thing, which i am even more excited about... the new baltimore etsy street team! we have a great group, and we've gotten so much accomplished so far. check out the flickr site here...

go baltimore!

my first front page!!!!

i am a little excited...

thank you, renegaderooster

better late than never...

happy 2008! things are finally getting back to normal around here...
we are having a fantastically beautiful day today! i can't believe it's january, even though it seems we always get this warm spell the first week of the year. this is what we are doing today, and it will be really hard not to run right into the studio and start making spring-y looking flowers!


So much for self restraint!