Posts from — November 2007

Holly and Jingles have shown up on Plush Yous blog. It looks like they all arrived safely. I’m always so nervous when I mail work out. I go crazy at the post office paying extra for insurance and confirmation of delivery. I worry till they get to their destination. Better safe than sorry I guess.
Again these are for sale at Schmancy in Seattle.

I finally got a store up and running on Etsy. It only took me 9 months since I signed up for it. I’ve had a few people inquire about work for sale. I don’t have a lot of work laying around and I don’t specifically make plush to sell online. I’m super with work for shows I just can’t find time to make more. Though I’d love to, I wish there were two of me. I just happened to have a few older pieces(1.5 yrs old) in my studio that I’m willing to part with. My shelves are getting crowded and I think these guys need a new home. I’ll try and upload new work to Etsy whenever I can. I’ll definitely sell any work that doesn’t sell at gallery shows when I get them back. When I have new work to sell I’ll make a post here to let people know. I created a link to the right on my blog for easy access.

Mmmmmm……gelatinous canned cranberry sauce!!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

I’ve been working on these elf heads on plaques for about 2 weeks now. These guys will be available at Schmancy in Seattle. They will be in the mail this afternoon. I was working like crazy this last weekend to get them done so I wouldn’t have to worry about anything over the Thanksgiving weekend. It will be nice to take a little break. Which is good and bad. Good because it forces me to take a break from my sewing machine, bad because I’ll be thinking about everything I could be working on. However I might get to finish the scarf I started about 3 months ago.
So each elf has a little story about their demise. Here’s Holy Jolly’s story (red headed elf) and Cinnamon’s story (blue elf)

Holly Jolly

Holly Jolly loved the donuts,
Powdered, glazed and fried.
She loved to eat them up until
She choked on one and died.

Cinnamon

Cinnamon had the most red head of hair,
And his cheeks, pink and rosy it’s true.
On the ice he would play
‘Till the day it gave way,
And now he’s a pale shade of blue.

Check them out if you’re in the area : )

Yeah! Thanks to everyone who voted for Jack in the Nightmare catagory for the Holiday Softies Award over at Softies Central. There was a lot of great work and I feel honored.

I’ve been very busy working on four pieces right now and that is why I haven’t posted much in the last week. I want to finish them all before I show you what I’ve been working on. That way I can explain it all at once. So hopefully by the weekend I can get some good pics and make a post.

I’ve also been cleaning up my studio and have a few older plush pieces laying around that never sold and need a home. I think I’m going to open up an etsy account and try and sell them. I’ve had a few emails from people asking if I sold any of my work. Look for this in the next week or two. I’ll make a post about it when I have it all set up.

I tend to get bored with my website about once a year and decide to change the look of it. Yesterday was that day. It’s not drastically different but I did add a column to the right that will post any upcoming events and what not. I decided to change my header and colors here as well so that everything is cohesive in look. So same content, new look. Enjoy!

So the fun thing people like to do is to send out their plushies on an ad campaign. It’s a lot of fun seeing what people will post. You can check mine and everyone elses at the Softies Flickr group. You can check mine out at my Flickr account. More to come.

Awesome!! Jack is nominated for the Holiday Softie Awards
in the Nightmare Before Christmas Catagory. For those who don’t know that catagory means creepy/cute for the holidays – Halloween and Christmas. Please vote for Jack here. You can vote through noon on Tuesday Nov. 13th. He would greatly appreciate it!!!

I thought I’d share some pics of our Halloween decorations. This is our favorite holiday and we do a lot of decorating. Every year we add a little more. We hope to one day have the whole front yard filled with tombstones. They are super simple to make. I just used blue insullation board and glued three pieces together to get the thickness I wanted. To cut them and make all the detail I used a heated exacto knife. An awesome tool. Wear a mask when you do this. The fumes from cutting the foam is a little nasty. Can’t be good. I also used caulk to fill in seams and add texture then I just painted them with acrylic paint. Due to being pregnant I was unable to make any tombstones this year. I hope to be able to do 2 or 3 next year. I also plan on making a headless horseman out of my dress form for next year. The kids love it and this is the first year we ha d a few cars driving by. It will only get begger from here!!

The pumpkins are the styrafoam kind attatched to pvc pipe painted black. I just tied gauze and rope around them to make them a little creepier. The fencing is just the cheap stuff you can get at the hardware store.
Time to start planning for next year. Only 364 days left!!