Archive for the 'In my studio' Category

Getting out of the stone age

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

3rd March, 10

Years ago, I talking waaaaaaaay before Smitten Kitten was born, I shared this house with 2 artists.  Love’em to death but they treated the space more like a gallery (with a revolving roster of art exhibitions) rather than a home.
Back then it was not unusual to find a TV playing cartoons in the [...]

Welcome to the jungle!

Monday, January 11th, 2010

11th January, 10
My brain’s been busy busy lately, coming up with new products for 2010.  I wanted to spend some time revamping and designing some new jewelry and accessories for our Spring line and so far I’ve been having WAY too much fun playing around and brainstorming.
I thought I’d show you a sneaky peak from [...]

Pardon my post (craft show) partum

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

5th January, 10
Happy new year everyone!  And my apologies for not writing sooner.  To be honest I haven’t felt very motivated to write the last couple weeks.  Actually I haven’t been motivated to do much for the last little while, though funny enough I’ve been supa busy.  How does that figure??  Year end burnout maybe?  [...]

New Product!

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

5th August, 09
Hey kiddies!  Sorry I haven’t had much time to chit chat.  Our big trade show’s LESS than a week away and I’m busy busy getting everything ready.  We did have an August long weekend and I did absolutely nothing but work work work all three days.  Totally worth it though!  I LOVE these [...]

Am I illustrating yet?

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

28th July, 09

Eek!  Our big wholesale show is less than 2 weeks away!  And even though the products I designed for the New York Stationery Show last May would technically be considered “new product” for this show, I can’t help but go for the gold and design some new-new products for this show as well.   [...]

Custom Work

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

9th July, 09
Did I ever tell you guys that I do custom work?  I just finished off a custom order for a customer who had asked me to create 7 wedding brooches from her grandmother’s wedding gown, as gifts to their grand children.

In case you didn’t know, these unique brooches are not made exclusively for [...]