new items in the shop!

phew, i feel like the past couple weeks have been busy! temporarily having a child for a week, selling at my first farmer’s market, date mornings, visiting the parents in central oregon, and even an impromptu visit from my sister. in addition, less than a week after the farmers market i was supposed to do another street fair and ended up being scheduled at my job the day of that market. but between you and me, i was relieved to find out i couldn’t do it!

i had a LOT of sewing to do in less than a week to restock for that and i could see the hours beginning to evaporate in the summer heat.

but the breather allowed me to put some of this new stock in the shop instead! i’ve already been adding some new sandwich bags and i just shot a bunch of produce bag images. i’m so excited to have had a spurt of inspiration this afternoon and figured out a new way to shoot the produce bags, which i feel like showcases them sooooo much better. i will be rolling out a couple new bags each day (most of them will be in stock and ready to ship), so keep checking back!

with the focus on sewing the last couple weeks, i had to set aside my drawing, which i was happy to pick back up again today. i am thrilled to be doing a couple custom pieces based on vintage items, as well as someone’s family silverware and i think that was just what i needed get the creative juices going! stay tuned for those starting to show up in the shop too…a couple fruits, summer vegetables, and a few herbs. a summer harvest of art, if you will.

i want to keep up the drawing more frequently than i do now and i am constantly inspired by my friend liz, who does animal doodles *almost* every day, and posts to share. while i don’t think animals would be beneficial to me, i like the idea of having a ‘program’ to follow to get me sketching more. anyone have any good ideas?

although i want to keep actively drawing and coming up with new images, part of me is sad to think what’s sold is gone. i’ve been toying with the idea of making prints of past drawings at a lesser cost. but here’s the fun part, i want to print them on the same handstained paper with the charcoal accents, so they’d still look like originals but for less! what do you think? have any past favorites that sold before you had a chance to get it for yourself? i’m still ironing out the best way to do it, but i’ll keep you all posted.

anyways, thanks for sticking with me as i got you all up to date on the shop. don’t forget to check back over the next few days as more and more new items hopefully pop up! and as school is just around the corner for many of you , i know you need to get some sandwich bags for those lunches… so be sure to use the code SUMMER10 while checking out to get 10% off anything in the shop! hurry, you’ll only have till the end of the month to use it!