Indie Craft Experience Holiday Shopping Spectacular

I will be selling at my first craft fair, the Indie Craft Experience Holiday Shopping Spectacular in Atlanta this year. I went to this event last year as a shopper and was very impressed with the great mix of vendors they had. Come check out this event and support craft in Atlanta!

etsy treasury

I got an Etsy Treasury -- its called "See th USA in yr CHEVROLET"!

If you don't know what a Treasury is , from the Etsy wiki it says: Have you ever wanted to pick the Etsy home page items? Do you have the desire to choose and feature only 12 items from the list of thousands currently available for sale on Etsy? Satisfy your inner curator - the Treasury has arrived! The Treasury allows you to create a visual list of your favorite items on Etsy. You can choose to pick items in a theme (colors, animals, holidays, or whatever tickles your fancy) or you can create a wish list for the holidays or your birthday.

I picked car-related items. It was harder than you might think to find items featuring or based on cars! So far I've got some really good comments. And it's addicting - I'm already thinking about themes for my next one...

to do list

Here are some things on my spring to-do list:

• Work on some #10 size card ideas to go with some cool kraft paper envelopes I have -- see my earlier tiger post.
• Start going to the first thursday of the month craft get togethers at Young Blood Gallery.
• Print a backlog of some Christmas card designs I made last winter but didn't get to print before the holiday.
• Promote commissioned letterpress posters at the car shows this summer.

Inspiration

Here is one of the ceramic planters that I've collected. I'm thinking about using it as the basis for a print. For my next project I'd like to do another two color card, using just linoleum blocks. I was thinking about working on an owl design, but this might be better!

new etsy store

I just accomplished one of the things on my list -- to create an etsy store with the designs I have already completed. It wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. (I'll also have to post my list of things to do later on.) The new etsy store is papastudios.etsy.com. Check it out!

Here is a pic of one of the things I added, its a Moleskine journal that I printed. I used to do some book making, so I'd like to try making something similar from scratch next time, instead of buying the Moleskines.

first post

Since this is my first post, I should explain what I am trying to do with this blog. Basically I'm trying to keep myself focused on all of the letterpress, printmaking, and craft projects that I am currently doing or want to do. I'll use the blog to keep a record of my progress and that way I can keep myself honest, and also show others what i am doing. Let's see if this works!


Since I always like to see pictures on other people's blogs, here are some for the first post...


This is Dutch, my buddy. He provides moral support:







And here is a letterpress card I did using him as an inspiration. I link to think of this as the Dutch graffiti tag version -- sort of Dutch as Andre the Giant: