From the category archives:

2008

Merry Christmas Everyone

Merry Christmas from my family to yours
xoxo

RIP Cat McGandy – June 1991 to December 2008

Cat McGandy AKA Aloka became ill last week. We thought she would pull through by the weekend. Last night she took a turn for the worse and passed away earlier today.
My friends gave her to me as High School graduation gift in June of 1991. She was the runt of a litter of kitties from [...]

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Artist Tip #21 – How I created children’s paper scrap packs for Christmas gifts

Last night I assembled three paper scrap packs for my nieces; ages three, six and eight.
If you are like me you have many many paper scraps, oops prints and papers that are too small to use. I cut down a larger sheet of cardboard with teddy bears printed on it which now doubles as the [...]

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Review – Epson R2880 Printer

A few weeks ago I got an Epson R2880 printer. Ever since, learning to operate this fascinating piece of equipment has ensued…

Set Up
After a false start first using *metal saw horses to make a table with, I purchased a folding plastic/metal table from Canadian Tire for $39.95. If you buy this printer you will need [...]

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Massive Giveaway at Modish – You can win my art

You can enter here to win everything pictured above.
My Winter Tree is part of the giveaway.

Cheers All!

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Packaging 101 and how it’s related to 4000 Etsy hearts, feedback, cupcakes and being sick.

I glanced at my hearts on Etsy tonight and there were 4000 of them! It is also the first time I surpassed sales numbers per ratio of hearts. It used to be that every 500 hearts I made 50 sales. Well, I am at 470 sales.
Momentum rocks!
And each and every order gets packaged with extra [...]

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Etsy Elves in Indonesia are Helping Me Package this Christmas

Yesterday this email from Christopher Dewan of The Urban Sherpa arrived. He had found me about a week ago via Gawker Artists and proceeded to add me as a friend on Facebook and I in turn added him.
He bought Do You Love Me from the shop yesterday. I emailed him saying thank you and that [...]

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Two New Sets to Introduce to the Mini Greeting Card Line

Beautiful Florals… no.1

Beautiful Florals… no.2

Photographing these itsy bitsy greeting cards was no easy task. If I breathed to hard, looked at them the wrong way or simply touched them they fell over like dominoes.
Each Greeting card set includes:
•8 cards (2 of each flower card)
•8 white envelopes
•8 seals (colours may vary)
Greeting card size – 1 3/8″ [...]

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An apple edition makes 4

Amelia (Apple Edition)
Her 3 siblings.

And in other news…
…pooped
picked up pilot pen
drew on pretty petaled paper

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The Rust Chronicles

My friend Candice has a new blog up.

Immediately, you”ll be sucked into her journey and love affair with all things metal, rusted and shiny! Go and read her introductory post In the Beginning.
You can also follow her on Twitter and view her galleries on Flickr.
Cheers!

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It arrived! New printer, the Epson R2880

And it is so pretty just sitting in the box.

Me – It arrived!
Missy the grey cat – MEOW!
McGandy the orange Cat – Meow!
Me – Isn’t it cool! (Trying to hold back tears and jumping up and down while the delivery guy is still there waiting for my signature at the front door)
Missy – Meow. Can [...]

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X-Weighted

The veil slips over her face
and she enters the nether regions of her mind
Honesty seeps out
it has no where to hide.
In an attempt to…
a struggle ensues
the world watches
she ducks just one to many punches
and the weight
becomes more than
she
can
bare.
You can read more of my poetry here.

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My art is featured in Canada’s Style at Home magazine

If you live in Canada or have access to Canadian magazines go and pick up the December issue of Style at Home magazine and flip to page 59. My art is featured within the Shopping Etc section under the Sites We Love Column.
Best of All, Style at Home tried Etsy’s shop local feature and found [...]

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Holiday Shipping Deadlines – for real and they are approaching fast!

*Domestic (Canada): December 15th, 2008
*United Sates: December 1st, 2008
*International: November 28th, 2008
Hi all!
Just a note to say that the above are the shipping deadlines for ordering art from my shop if you want your order to arrive in time for Christmas. And sadly, postal delays that are beyond my control do happen even when I [...]

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Studio Expansion Photos

Recently, the family and I decided it would be a good idea to move my bedroom out of the studio. For a whole evening we laboured moving furniture around on the second floor of the house. The result is that both my bedroom and studio have their own separate rooms.

The disorganization of my brain is [...]

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Brain. Fingers. Emotion. Computer?

I feel so sad right now. My emotions have run away with the circus.
My family is away. A very close friend, whom I love, is leaving tomorrow and I’m sitting here feeling sorry for myself. And words do not express how frustrating it is that my computer is so freaking slow.
No, the computer is [...]

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Monday’s list – stats, features and missing friends

All orders are shipping out on time
Milton the Fish made the Friday Finds Fish List!
Very close friend leaves to build snow bridges for four to five months in Northern Manitoba on Wednesday morning so companies can get their precious oil out while the marshland ground is frozen and accessible
Do you love me featured [...]

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Custom Design work for Crochet Freeform Artist Sara Aires

Very recently I was contacted by Sara Aires of Portugal to redo her Etsy shop banner. And again my illustrations and her free-form crochet art meshed as well as Star of the East’s jewelry and my artwork did. She found me from Esther and Estella’s blog post about the work I had completed for them [...]

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