Spoonflower.com is a print on demand fabric site. You can upload your own designs and have them printed onto a variety of fabrics. My sister and I have been playing with designs for the last few months.

Spoonflower has a contest every week where designers submit fabrics based around a specific theme. I haven’t participated in the contests as most of my Spoonflower projects have been behind the scenes (prints and things), but this week I decided to join in the fun. The category is Surreal fruit—anyone can vote for their favorites by going here to the contest page (See right column--the left side shows the previous week's winners. I vote every week, usually for a minimum of 5 fabrics—there are always so many good ones to choose from :]).

This is my fruity fabric (there are 5 different ladies—they show up blurry in the fat quarter view):

This is my sister, Jill’s "Fruit Tarts" fabric (I love it!):

Her username is decobot on Spoonflower—I recommend checking out her designs—they are fun and some are available for sale :].



I've been working on a new batch of pin dolls, which means I am putting together accessories for them to wear and hold. I have several adorable teeny stuffed bears and bunnies I purchased from user Mimi LoLo on etsy.  The animals are pretty cute, but I like to customize doll accessories as much as I can.

I started with these plain stuffed toys:

Then I added alcohol inks and artist chalks to color the bodies and used a bit of dark acrylic paint for the muzzle and eye areas.As you can see here, the animals are quite small.

My Westie, Emma even customized one.

(I have no idea how or when she got a hold of it....sneaky.)

Join me this weekend (Saturday the 31st and Sunday the 1st) for the Olympia Fine Arts & Crafts Summer Show! The juried show is being held at the beautiful Abigail Stewart House in downtown Olympia, WA. I will be there both days along with several other local artists. There is free complimentary coffee and refreshments, plenty of free parking and a central check out station where credit cards are accepted. Support your local artists! :]

Dates & Times: Saturday, July 31st 10:30am to 5:00pm  --  Sunday, August 1st 10:30am to 4:00pm

Location: Abigail Stewart House (Olympia Women's Club); 1002 Washington Street SE; Olympia, WA 98501

Show Producer: David Kaynor (360) 493-0091

Today my two etsy shops reached a combined total of 1,001 sales. Yay! To celebrate, I will be having a nifty giveaway later this month. More on that soon. In the meantime, woohoo :].(And here is an Alice--she is sold, but I am working on a new batch of pin dolls!.)

A few weeks ago, I spent a great deal of time drawing sock monkeys, unicorns, rainbows etc... Well, finally I can show something for it! Presenting tiny doll clothing sewing kits, each with 2 dresses, 1 pair of socks, a tiny toy and extra goody bits. These are made to fit Lati Yelllow Lea renewal size bodies, tiny BJDs like Pukifee and other similarly sized dolls. I have also been developing doll sock kits with specially scaled tiny print fabrics. You can find all the kits shown in my etsy supply shop, dolldestash. (Under the Doll Clothing Kits category)

The sock monkey kit contains fabric to make all of these.

Unicorn and Rainbows kit is complete with a hobicorn!

(Hobby horse + unicorn) :]

Yay for tiny socks!

These socks are about 2 inches long--modeled by my Lati Yellow Lea, Ether.