Holiday Gift Guide

Fluffy Flowers was nice enough to include me in her Holiday Gift Guide. This is a wonderful list of Etsy shops she has bought from throughout the year. A great resource if you are going to buy handmade for the holidays this year! Thank you!

First Craft Show

I participated in my first craft show this weekend -- the Indie Craft Experience Holiday Spectacular in Atlanta. It was a great time and went better than I would have thought. Having never done a craft show before, I really didn't know what to expect how or my work would be received. I got a lot of positive feedback, and found that the journals I have been printing on were the biggest hit of all.

I didn't have a lot of time to take pictures, as I was alone for part of the day and busy for most of it -- lots of people around -- but I have some of the event space, which is a very cool artists space made from an old industrial building, and my setup. I think I need to get some shelving for my displays next time, but this worked well for the first time.

Here is a second picture of the setup, notice the fine hand-painted sign! My husband does hand painted signs among lots of other things like pinstriping and airbrush work in the larger Papa Studios enterprise.



Here's the space, and a shot of the overall table:








I wanted to do more "reporting" and talk about some people I met during the show but I was kind of overwhelmed with talking to people and manning the booth. Next show I hope to do more!

Business Cards & Postcards

Here is a business card I just finished for myself in preparation for next week's craft show. The text was printed using a polymer plate, and the men are from some vintage letterpress items I picked up on eBay. No idea who the men are except that they came from Minnesota, and there were at least fifty of them! I've found it to be a challenge when I have been printing linocuts, and then I switch to printing with the polymer plates or the halftone plates like these. When I print linocuts I am trying to get as much ink as possible on those wide surfaces, and then I have to concentrate on getting just the right amount with the polymer or halftone plates.

Speaking of the contrast between polymer plates and linocuts, I also finished a promotional postcard for the show based on my earlier "resolve" design. Here it is:

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!

Resolve

As promised, here are some pictures of my latest print. It's a linocut on soft non-mounted linoleum that I printed by hand. I wanted to try another tattoo art piece to see if it could also be translated into a print. This is currently printed on two different notebooks and is available in my Etsy shop.

Goofy Golf

I will have some new prints to post tomorrow, but in the meantime I leave you with some images from a vacation I took last week to Florida. This is a Goofy Golf Course in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. We played both courses and this was one of the highlights of the week! Way better than the modern mini golf courses with fake volcanoes, mountains, and no personality.

Georgia Street Team Online Trunk Show

My Etsy shop is participating in the Georgia Street Team Online Trunk Show from October 12-15th. Make a purchase from the shop and receive a free note card.



Also check out all the other participating shops in the Georgia Street Team for other great deals.