A friend gave me a birthday gift wrapped in this! Nerdy!

I started making barettes with my great grandmother’s button collection. The photo is a bit blurry but you get the point. Perhaps I will design a few more and put a couple up for sale.

I came across this nice interview with Jan from Hazelnut Cottage, from paper n’ stitch‘s blog. It’s always inspiring to hear how successful artists started up and what advice they choose to share with us…

-What advice would you give to others who are looking to start a craft business or trying to promote themselves as artists? Any tips you can share?

I think, just begin. This is always a huge one for me. Just start. Try it. If it doesn’t sell, or you grow out of the media, allow yourself to try something else, to grow, to evolve to enjoy the process of creating rather than getting all bent trying to do everything ‘right’. I struggle with this every day! I think there is something very important about the idea of work as play. Hmmm…as far as promoting goes, I am learning everything by trial and error; advertise on blogs, kindly introduce yourself and seek out blog features, create, create, create and keep putting yourself and your work out there into the world. I believe the right people will find you at the right time.

Read the rest here.

One of my favorite Phoenix designers, Jeffrey McKee, has some beautiful screen prints for sale at Haus Modern Living. He has 5 hanging right now. I felt like a sneak snapping a quick picture with my iphone. You have to check them out in person. The Thriller poster is epic!

Cute

This bag is one of the cutest I’ve seen ever. What do you all think?