Happy Earth Day!

Our taxes are done and if I did them correctly, we'll both be getting nice little refunds back. Mine will go towards paying for our new bedding, which we're loving... and so is Suki. And Matt's will go towards his new bike that he bought on the weekend.

Happy Earth Day!

Sneak Peeks

I mailed in my One of a Kind application yesterday and just received word that it was received. Yay! Keep your fingers crossed for my friend and me, that we both get in! We'll both be novice artisans at the show then.

That's a peek at part of my booth sketch above, a combo of drawing and PhotoShopping.

I had a bit of a scare when I was on my way home from the post office, realizing that I had forgotten to include something on the application. They say that if you forget anything your application won't even be looked at, that it will just be sent back to you. Luckily I was able to retrieve the envelope before it was sent out and add what I needed. Then I got all paranoid that the stuff would fall out of the envelope because I didn't reseal it properly. And later in the evening... well, you get the picture. I can be a little neurotic at times.

I did remember to include some photos of my studio, so here's a little peek at what it's looking like these days. Matt snapped these photos for me the other night.




I just moved my old table/desk behind the sofa the other day which is great because now I can watch the tv when I'm making buttons and magnets.

Next on my to do list is taxes. But I'm hoping to get outside this weekend and enjoy the beautiful weather too. So we'll see if I'm able to finish them this weekend.

Have a great one!

A Sigh of Relief...

I was all set to do my taxes yesterday - thinking they were due next week - but then joyfully, I realized I have until the end of the month to get them in.

So, of course, I'm procrastinating now and focusing on other things...


More important things like chilling with the cats, whom I missed last week.

I think they missed me too :)

Other things I've been up to:

• applying to the this show. That deadline IS next week! Eep! I like to think of myself as someone who plans ahead, but 7.5 months ahead is a stretch for me. Wish me luck on getting in!

• getting new stock together to send to some of my retailers


• cleaning and organizing spaces
• and surfing the net, searching for the perfect new bedding set for our bed.

Yes, that's my newest obsession.

We finally watched Twilight several weeks ago and although I wasn't really impressed with the movie, I found myself loving Bella's beautiful bedding. Matt even liked it.

But rather than buy the same exact bedding for ourselves - the colour is not really to our taste, plus it looked more blue than purple in the movie, which it isn't in real life and we would have preferred - I've been on the search for something as pretty in a more appealing colour.
As usually is the case when I get something specific in my head that I really want, I can't seem to find it anywhere.

I really love these ones:
Secret Garden

Valencia Red


but we're trying to find a darker duvet cover this time round.

Right now we have white sheets and an ivory and red duvet cover from Ikea, though I think the cover was actually white and red before. A little too much information, perhaps? Well, I'm sure anyone with white sheets knows that they're not the easiest to keep clean.

The other colour combo they have for the Twilight bedding is pretty, but I'm not crazy about brown in a bedroom.


Here are a few others I found and dig, but they are either sold out, are not exactly what I'm looking for or they are from the U.K. and they don't ship internationally. What's up with that?!

Ashley Grey



I'm set on finding black bedding as pretty as the one above now though. It would be such a dramatic change for our bedroom and I think it would save us from having to paint the walls. At least for a little while.

Well, here's an early wish for a Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate!